SAP Financial Lead Consultant

Zimele Technologies; Centurion; On-site; ZAR 900,000 - 1,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Zimele Technologies in Gauteng Centurion is seeking an SAP Senior Finance Consultant to design, implement, configure and support SAP S/4HANA Finance covering GL, AP, AR, FA, and related modules. You will work closely with finance, procurement, treasury, and audit stakeholders to translate requirements into SAP solutions.

As a senior consultant, you lead solution design, quality assure others, ensure accurate postings, period-end close, and compliant reporting while guiding integration with MM,

Qualifications

• Experience implementing SAP S/4HANA Finance across GL, AP, AR, and FA
• Lead workshops with finance stakeholders to gather requirements
• Strong knowledge of integration with MM, SD, IM, PS and HR modules

Responsibilities

• Lead design, configuration, and implementation of SAP Finance processes
• Ensure accurate postings, period‑end close, and compliant reporting
• Provide solution leadership and QA for other consultants
• Engage with client governance and maintain risk and issue tracking

Skills

SAP S/4HANA Finance

FI-GL & Financial Close

Accounts Payable

Accounts Receivable

Asset Accounting

Job description

At Zimele Technologies, we specialize in delivering comprehensive SAP ERP and Utilities (IS-U) solutions tailored to meet the diverse needs of organizations. Our expertise lies in maximizing the value derived from Information and Communication Technology (ICT) investments, ensuring compliance with government regulations, and providing prebuilt, internationally best-practice-aligned ERP systems. Our SAP-based solution facilitates high-quality service delivery, offering benefits such as improved customer relationship management, efficient service delivery, accurate billing, streamlined address and regional structure management, enhanced customer data management, optimized revenue collection, and improved financial management. Our Meter-to-Cash solutions prioritize fair billing and invoicing processes, minimizing rates and reducing outstanding receivables through highly flexible, automated processes. Leveraging our Meter Data Management System (MDMS) and Advanced Meter Infrastructure (AMI) services, we enable organizations to harness smart meter data for billing, troubleshooting, and energy usage analysis. As an accredited SAP partner, our AMI solutions empower seamless execution of meter-to-cash processes globally, providing intelligent metering solutions built on the SAP platform for easy integration, ultimately improving revenue collection, reducing operating costs, and enhancing customer satisfaction.

Job Summary

The SAP Senior Finance Consultant is responsible for the design, implementation, configuration, and ongoing support of SAP S/4HANA Finance solutions, covering General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Asset Accounting, Bank Accounting, and Controlling. This role involves working closely with finance, procurement, treasury, and audit stakeholders to understand financial accounting, reporting, and compliance requirements and translating these needs into effective SAP solutions integrated with Materials Management (MM), Sales and Distribution (SD), Investment Management (IM), Project System (PS), and Human Capital Management. As a senior member of the team, the Consultant provides solution leadership, quality‑assures the work of other consultants, and acts as a trusted advisor to client finance teams, ensuring accurate and timely financial postings, period‑end close, statutory and management reporting, and strong financial controls.

Key Responsibilities

Implementation and Configuration

• Conduct workshops with finance stakeholders to gather, analyse, and document requirements, and lead fit‑gap analysis against SAP S/4HANA standard functionality.
• Configure and support the following SAP Finance processes:

General Ledger and Financial Close (FI-GL)

• Configure the financial enterprise structure, including company codes, chart of accounts, fiscal year variants, ledgers, document types, posting keys, and number ranges.
• Configure and support the Universal Journal (ACDOCA), parallel ledgers and currencies, document splitting, and automatic account determination.
• Configure and support period‑end and year‑end closing activities, including accruals, foreign currency valuation, GR/IR clearing, reclassifications, and balance carry‑forward.
• Support manual and recurring journals, document parking, and journal approval workflows.

Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable

• Configure and support vendor and customer master data through Business Partner, including duplicate checks and bank detail controls.
• Configure invoice verification integration with MM, including three‑way match, payment terms, tolerances, and blocking reasons.
• Configure and support the automatic payment program, payment methods, payment media and bank file formats, down payments, and payment approvals.
• Configure and support incoming payments, clearing, dunning, credit management integration, and customer and vendor reconciliation.

Asset Accounting (FI-AA)

• Configure asset classes, depreciation areas, depreciation keys, and account determination.
• Support asset acquisition from procurement and projects, assets under construction, capitalisation, transfers, and retirements.
• Support depreciation runs, year‑end asset closing, and asset reconciliation to the general ledger.

Bank Accounting and Cash Management

• Configure house banks, bank accounts, and electronic bank statement processing.
• Support bank reconciliation, cash position, and liquidity forecasting.

Controlling and Management Reporting

• Configure and support cost centre accounting, profit centre accounting, internal orders, and allocation cycles.
• Support management reporting, budget monitoring, and variance analysis.
• Support accurate reconciliation between Financial Accounting and Controlling.

Taxation and Statutory Compliance

• Configure and support tax codes, VAT, and withholding tax, including tax reporting.
• Support statutory, regulatory, and audit reporting requirements.
• Support financial controls, segregation of duties, authorisations, and audit requirements in collaboration with security and GRC teams.

Integration with Procurement, Projects, and Investment Management

• Ensure seamless integration between Finance and MM (procure‑to‑pay), SD (order‑to‑cash), PS and IM (project and investment accounting), and payroll and human capital postings.
• Support budget, commitment, and actual cost tracking across integrated modules.

Solution Leadership and Design

• Be responsible for leading the finance solution design and ensuring that delivered solutions align with business requirements, SAP best practice, and client governance standards, by performing the following activities:
  • Own the finance solution blueprint and lead design decisions, including trade-offs, risks, and dependencies across modules.
  • Review and quality‑assure functional specifications, configuration, and test evidence prepared by other consultants.
  • Advise clients on SAP S/4HANA Finance simplifications, the Universal Journal, SAP Fiori applications, and process improvement opportunities.
  • Provide effort estimates, work plans, and status reporting for finance workstreams.
  • Engage with client project governance forums, including steering committees and change boards, and report on progress, risks, and issues.

Data Migration and Conversion

• Plan and support the migration of finance master and transactional data by performing the following activities:
  • Define data migration requirements and mapping for GL balances, open items, fixed assets, bank accounts, vendors, and customers.
  • Support data extraction, transformation, load, and validation using SAP S/4HANA migration tools.
  • Perform reconciliation of migrated data to source systems and support cutover and go