Senior Associate / Manager - SAP FICO, Technology Consulting

Ernst & Young Advisory Services Sdn Bhd; United States; Remote; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading consulting firm as a Senior Associate/Manager in Technology Consulting, specializing in SAP FICO. You will analyze client needs, design solutions, and lead project phases to enhance operational efficiency. This role requires significant experience in finance processes and SAP systems, with opportunities for career growth in a dynamic environment.

Qualifications

• 5-15 years of experience in Finance business process and technology.
• Experience in SAP S/4HANA & ECC FI-CO.

Responsibilities

• Analyze client business models and prepare project execution plans.
• Conduct workshops and prepare deliverables like blueprint documentation.
• Assist in unit testing and provide first-level support post go-live.

Skills

Accounts Receivable

Accounts Payable

Asset Accounting

Product Costing

Statutory reporting

Tax

Treasury

Profitability Analysis

Management Reporting

Cross functional understanding

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Senior Associate / Manager - SAP FICO, Technology Consulting

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Date: Apr 24, 2025

Requisition ID: 1602571

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EY Consulting is a fast-moving, high-growth area with huge potential. Being a member of our Consulting team means you will specialize in a particular competency - Risk, Technology Consulting, or IT Risk & Assurance. Our Technology Consulting team is focused on helping clients improve operational efficiency and security, while also reducing costs and managing risk.

The Opportunity

We’re looking for a Senior Consultant / Managerfor Technology Consulting practice to join our team with experience in SAP S/4HANA & ECC FI-CO with 5-15 years of experience with Finance business process and technology (minimally 5 years of Consulting/Professional Services background)

Key Responsibilities

Responsibilities across typical phases of an SAP project:

Analyze Phase:

• Ability to understand client business model / requirements / pain points
• Ability to understand big picture vision of the transformation program and prepare a plan to drive the day-to-day execution of the project.

Design Phase:

• Ability to explain best practices to clients.
• Ability to respectfully challenge clients and convince them on their mindset of customizing everything in SAP.
• Ability to conduct workshops across all finance processes and articulate messages extremely clearly.
• Ability to convince clients to make key design decisions (eg: one common chart of accounts OR decentralized chart of accounts)
• Ability to provide SAP or non-SAP solutions to unique problems / business scenarios based on your experience with other companies in same or other industries.
• Ability to prepare deliverables such as blueprint documentations, change impact assessment, Fit/Gap analysis, etc. and obtain sign-offs

Build Phase:

• Ability to educate clients on SAP configuration needs for them to provide SPRO values
• Ability to perform configurations in SAP
• Ability to write Functional design documents for add-on requirements in SAP. Ability to communicate with developers to build as desired.
• Ability to assist in Unit Testing and perform SIT.

Test Phase:

• Ability to write test scripts and test scenarios with co-operation of key finance business users.
• Ability to obtain sign offs for Test scripts.
• Ability to facilitate UAT.
• Ability to identify defects and liaise with developers to resolve and re-test them.

Training Phase:

• Ability to prepare easy to understand and self-explanatory training materials
• Ability to conduct mass user training (TTT / EUT). Ability to handle large crowds.
• Ability to be confident, concise, and articulate in training.

Data Migration:

• Ability to create a data strategy for master data and transactional data (eg: how should the cost centers be transformed, what happens to AR open items, etc.)
• Ability to assist business users in data cleansing and data transformation.

Deployment:

• Ability to assist and advice business users for cutover activities.

Post Go-live:

• Ability to provide 1st level support up until 1st month end close.

Skills and Attributes for Success

Must Have skills (at least 40% from the below list):

• Accounts Receivable
• Accounts Payable
• Asset Accounting
• Product Costing
• Statutory reporting
• Tax
• Treasury
• Profitability Analysis / Management Reporting
• Strong cross functional understanding with PP, MM, SD.

Good to Have skills:

• Consolidation & Elimination process and technology knowledge (eg: SAP Group reporting or others).
• FP&A - Budgeting and Forecasting process and technology knowledge (eg: SAP Analytics Cloud, BPC, or others).
• Account Reconciliations knowledge using Blackline, High Radius or others.
• Allocations knowledge using PaPM or others.
• Advanced Statutory reporting knowledge using Workiva, SAP ACR or others.

If you can demonstrate that you meet the criteria above, please contact us as soon as possible.

Please limit your CV to maximum 2 pages.

Summarized and well-articulated CV’s will be a first test in your ability to articulate your own value with succinct and sharp messaging.

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