SAP R2R Expert - General Ledger (GL), ECC Integration, Central Finance (CFIN) & Enterprise Finance Transformation
Cygnus Professionals Inc.
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Job summary
Cygnus Professionals Inc. seeks an experienced SAP R2R Expert with GL, R2R, ECC integration, and Central Finance capabilities to lead large-scale transformation programs.
The role focuses on defining operating models, designing Central Finance solutions, and driving end-to-end ECC to S/4HANA CFIN implementations across multiple source systems and currencies. The candidate will collaborate with business stakeholders, enterprise architects, and offshore delivery teams to ensure successful
Qualifications
- Experience in financial close, reporting and compliance within SAP environments.
- Hands-on SAP Central Finance implementations and ECC/S4HANA integration.
- Ability to design target operating models for global finance transformations.
- Experience coordinating cross-functional and offshore delivery teams.
Responsibilities
- Lead business process workshops to define future-state R2R processes.
- Standardize target-state processes across entities and geographies.
- Define SAP Finance transformation roadmaps with stakeholders.
- Configure Central Finance architecture, data loads, and mappings.
- Oversee ECC to S/4HANA CFIN integration and governance.
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Job description
SAP R2R Expert - General Ledger (GL), ECC Integration, Central Finance (CFIN) & Enterprise Finance Transformation
Location – Fremont, CA - Onsite
Employment Type: Contract
Experience: 12-15+ Years
We are seeking an experienced SAP R2R Expert with strong expertise in General Ledger (GL), Record-to-Report (R2R), SAP ECC Integration, SAP S/4HANA Central Finance (CFIN), and Finance Transformation Programs. The candidate will be responsible for leading business process workshops, defining target operating models, designing Central Finance solutions, and driving end-to-end implementation of ECC to S/4HANA Central Finance landscapes.
The ideal candidate should have hands‑on experience delivering large-scale global CFIN implementations involving multiple source systems, multiple currencies, multiple charts of accounts, centralized reporting, reconciliation design, historical data loads, and enterprise finance integrations. The role requires close collaboration with business stakeholders, enterprise architects, integration teams, and offshore delivery teams to ensure successful transformation outcomes.
- Lead and facilitate business process workshops to define future-state Record-to-Report (R2R) processes.
- Assess current finance operating models and establish standardized target-state processes.
- Drive process harmonization across legal entities, business units, and geographies.
- Collaborate with finance leadership and business stakeholders to gather requirements and define SAP Finance transformation roadmaps.
- Provide solution recommendations aligned with SAP best practices and enterprise finance objectives.
- Support end-to-end financial close, reporting, reconciliation, and governance processes.
- Design, implement, and support SAP Central Finance (CFIN) solutions.
- Lead ECC to S/4HANA Central Finance integration initiatives.
- Define Central Finance architecture and deployment strategy.
- Configure and govern:
- Initial Load
- Real-Time Replication
- Key Mapping
- Value Mapping
- AIF Monitoring and Error Handling
- Execute financial data reconciliation and validation activities across source and target systems.
- Establish governance, controls, and monitoring processes for Central Finance operations.
- Own integration design between SAP ECC and SAP S/4HANA Central Finance landscapes.
- Design and oversee:
- SLT Replication
- ALE/IDocs
- RFC Connectivity
- Collaborate with technical and integration teams to ensure robust and scalable integration architecture.
- Drive issue resolution for replication failures, mapping issues, and reconciliation exceptions.
- Lead historical balance migration strategies for large multinational organizations.
- Execute and govern:
- Historical Balance Loads
- Open Item Migration
- Initial Load Activities
- Multiple Charts of Accounts
- Multiple Source Systems (ECC, S4 HANA)
- Parallel Accounting Requirements
- Define and execute reconciliation frameworks for migration and cutover activities.
- Design reconciliation templates and validation frameworks.
- Define financial controls and audit requirements across source and Central Finance systems.
- Establish monitoring and governance processes for financial data integrity.
- Develop business validation checkpoints and control mechanisms for data replication and reporting accuracy.
- Support month-end, quarter-end, and year-end financial closing activities.
- Support SIT, UAT, Cutover, Hypercare, and Deployment activities.
- Prepare functional specifications, design documents, test scripts, and deployment plans.
- Coordinate with offshore teams to ensure timely delivery of project milestones.
- Facilitate implementation and enablement of:
- Central Payments
- Central Credit Management
- Group Reporting
- Tax Reporting Integration
- Withholding Tax Integration
- Intercompany Reconciliation
- Define enterprise-wide finance governance and reporting frameworks.
- Financial Closing & Reporting
- SAP ECC and S/4HANA Finance
- Financial Reporting & Compliance
- AIF Monitoring and Error Handling
- Financial Data Reconciliation
- Historical Balance Migration
- Expertise on following is a huge plus
- Central Payments (Application know
- Central Credit Management
- Group Reporting
- Tax Reporting Integration including Withholding Tax Integration
- Multi-System Financial Data Integration
- 12-15+ years of SAP Finance consulting experience.
- 5+ years of hands‑on SAP Central Finance implementation experience.
- Minimum 2-3 end‑to‑end SAP Central Finance implementations.
- Proven experience leading workshops and solution design sessions with business stakeholders.
- Multiple Charts of Accounts (COA)
- Multi‑Entity Finance Landscapes
- Global Finance Transformation Programs
- Experience implementing Central Payments, Central Credit Management, Group Reporting, Tax Reporting, and Withholding Tax integrations.
- Experience managing medium‑to‑high complexity SLT mapping scenarios.
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