This role requires 8 years of SAP FI experience, including at least two full-cycle SAP S/4HANA implementations and AMS Production Support engagements. The ideal candidate will possess a strong accounting background with comprehensive knowledge of General Ledger (GL), Accounts Payable (AP), Accounts Receivable (AR), Intercompany Accounting, Month-End Close, Accruals, Fixed Assets, and Financial Reporting. The position involves continuous improvements, enhancements, production support, and incident resolution within SAP Finance landscapes.
Key Responsibilities:
- Support and enhance SAP S/4HANA Finance processes, including GL, AP, AR, Intercompany, Fixed Assets, and Financial Close activities.
- Analyze business requirements and provide scalable SAP FI solutions for new projects, enhancements, and process improvements.
- Work closely with business users during requirement gathering, solution design, testing, and deployment phases.
- Troubleshoot and resolve production issues, perform root-cause analysis, and ensure timely resolution of incidents.
- Monitor and support month-end, quarter-end, and year-end financial closing activities.
- Manage integration between SAP S/4HANA and external/source applications, ensuring accurate data flow and reconciliation.
- Analyze inbound and outbound interfaces, data mappings, validation rules, and integration job failures.
- Collaborate with technical, middleware, and external vendor teams to resolve interface and data issues.
- Participate in SIT, UAT, regression testing, and production deployment activities.
- Ensure compliance with accounting standards, audit requirements, and internal controls.
Required Skills:
- SAP S/4HANA Finance (FI) with strong expertise in General Ledger (GL), Accounts Payable (AP), Accounts Receivable (AR), Intercompany Accounting, Fixed Assets (FA), and Bank Accounting and Reconciliations.
- Strong understanding of accounting principles and financial processes.
- Experience supporting SAP integrations with external systems through APIs, middleware, IDocs, OData services, or batch interfaces.
- Ability to track data flow from source systems to SAP, perform reconciliation, and troubleshoot posting failures.
- Hands-on experience with SAP Fiori applications and S/4HANA business transactions.
- Experience in AMS/Production Support environments with incident, problem, and change management.
- Strong knowledge of month-end close, accruals, prepaid accounting, auto-clearing, and reconciliation processes.
- Strong accounting and financial process knowledge.
- Analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Production support and incident management expertise.
- Cross-functional collaboration and stakeholder management.
- Ability to work in a fast-paced global support environment.
- Ownership of critical month-end and financial reporting processes.
Qualifications:
- 8+ years of SAP FI experience with at least 2 full-cycle SAP S/4HANA implementations and AMS/Production Support engagements.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field.
Preferred Skills:
- CPA, CA, CMA, MBA Finance, or Accounting degree.
- Experience in Auto Finance, Banking, Financial Services, or Insurance domains.
- Knowledge of SAP APIs, OData services, SAP CPI/PO integration platforms.
- Experience with Agile/Scrum and Jira.
- Excellent client-facing communication and stakeholder management skills.