SAP FICO Consultant
Designation
SAP FICO Consultant
Budget
As Per Market Standard
Experience:
7-12 Years
Primary Skills:
SAP – FICO, FI – Core (GL/New GL/AR/AP), CO – Core (Cost Center, Internal Order), Fixed Asset
Relevant Exp.
4 Years
No. of Positions
2
Work Location(s):
Bangalore
Role & Responsibilities
✓ Managing and owning all aspects of technical development and delivery
✓ Understanding requirements and writing Functional Specification documents
✓ Should be an individual Contributor and played client facing lead role
✓ SAP Certification and Domain experience will be preferable
✓ Estimating efforts, identifying risks, and providing technical support whenever needed
✓ Demonstrating the ability to multitask and re-prioritizing responsibilities based on dynamic requirements
✓ Experience in FI integration points with other SAP modules like MM, HR, PP ,SD and PM.
✓ Leading and mentoring small-sized teams
✓ A highly motivated natural team player with stupendous communication, interpersonal and analytical skills. Skilled in delivering in a goal oriented, target driven work environment.
✓ Design, customize, configure and testing of FI/CO modules
✓ Preparation of Blue print for implementing the project.
✓ Validate the reports requirements
✓ Validate any changes in customize.
✓ Sort out day to day queries of end users.
✓ Enhancement of the SAP for end user based on requirement.
✓ Facilitate the implementation and support of SAP Financials (focus on FICO Controlling – Cost Center Accounting, Profit Center Accounting, Product Costing, Profitability Analysis, Project System, Results Analysis, Unsettled Costs, Month End Close, Overhead assessment and settlement.)
✓ Perform detailed analysis of complex business process requirements and provide appropriate system solutions; identify, interpret, validate and document customer requirements
✓ Facilitate workshops to collect business requirements
✓ Map client business requirements, processes and objectives; develops necessary product modifications to satisfy clients’ needs.
✓ Identify gaps, issues and work around solutions.
✓ Document functional designs, test cases and results.
✓ Proactively identify and propose business process and/or system enhancements
✓ Provide consulting services on both new implementations and existing support projects
✓ Act as a liaison between the business functions and the technical team.
✓ Provide ad-hoc training and user support as required
✓ Work self-directed and independently; may act as subject matter mentor to more junior members
✓ Minimum of 5 years of experience in a full cycle implementation as well as in support projects
✓ Minimum of 3 years SAP experience supporting General Ledger plus 3 or more of the following functions: Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Financial Accounting, Management Accounting, Fixed Asset Accounting, Inter-company Accounting, Project System.
Skills/Experience
Technologies
✓ Parallel Accounting/Document Splitting
✓ Profit Center and Segment Accounting
✓ Core ERP Planning and Budgeting
✓ Product Cost Controlling
✓ Profitability Analysis
✓ Project Systems Cost Controlling
✓ Investment Management
✓ Reporting Tools (Writer, Painter, Query)
✓ Integration points with other functional areas
✓ Enhancement and user-exits in areas of functional expertise
✓ S/4 HANA exposure and/or training
✓ Upgrade, Roll-out, and Implementation projects
✓ Good experience in COPA
✓ Provide solutions including how to leverage standard SAP S/4 HANA Finance functionality and how to enable requirements while maximizing the ROI.
✓ Demonstrates the ability to translate business needs into solution architecture requirements
✓ Perform root cause analysis on persistent or major problems
✓ Must be able to dive into existing code to figure out how objects need to be enhanced.
✓ Proven ability to provide technical direction for complex SAP S/4 finance system issues.
✓ Experience in SAP Rollouts
✓ Expertise in configuration and implementation of both Financial Accounting (FI) and Managerial Accounting (CO)
✓ Integration of Finance and other SAP solutions
✓ Ability to conduct complex and interactive solutioning workshops
✓ Master Data preparation
✓ Go-Live activities
✓ Configure COPA profiles according to order types to meet company needs for profitability analysis.
✓ Configure global settings for electronic bank statement define the lockbox control parameters and define the posting data.
✓ Configure new the activity types for the client in the CO-PC module.
✓ Participate actively in configuring the inconsistencies relate to FI-GL, FI-AP, and FI-AR modules.
✓ Configure FI-AP vendor groups, vendor master data, down payments, open item clearing.
✓ CO module components including Cost Centers, Internal Orders, Product Costing (including BOMs and Routings), Profitability Analysis (COPA), Manufacturing Variances and Settlements, and Profit Centers Master Data components including Material Master, Vendor Master, Customer Master, Bank Master, BOMs and Routings
✓ Taxes
✓ Digital Accounting
✓ Currencies and Exchange Rates
✓ Experience in working with interfaces with SAP
Functional Area
Product Development
Education
Bachelor’s degree in a Computer Science, or equivalent practical experience
Soft Skills
- Proficiency to handle complex and quality demanding jobs.
- Should have good Communication skills.
- Should have technical bent of mind.
- Should have problem solving, prioritizing tasks, multi-tasking abilities.
- Should be able to understand and handle tasks independently.