Functional Consultant - Finance Master Data

Key Roles and Responsibilities1. Stakeholder Collaboration & Business Engagement

• Engage in Data Quality framework and implementation discussions with business and technical teams.
• Collaborate with Finance and Accounting teams to gather process requirements and ensure accurate ERP data mapping.
• Provide detailed business requirements to BODS / LSMW teams for data loads and transformations.
• Configure and support finance-related master data in SAP FI/CO, Oracle Financials, or Workday.
• Design finance master data hierarchies for management reporting, segment reporting, intercompany accounting, and consolidation.
• Monitor exceptions for data quality rules and enhance logic where needed.
• Ensure stakeholder sign-offs are captured at critical project milestones.

2. Data Quality Rules & Standards Definition

• Define, document, and enforce data quality rules based on business, compliance, and functional requirements.
• Derive technical logic from business rules to enable development in DQ tools.
• Support the development and testing of rules within the data quality toolset.
• Review rule outputs and communicate validation results to business users.

3. Data Profiling, Cleansing & Monitoring

• Create and maintain dashboards and reports to monitor finance master data quality.
• Analyze data profiling results and identify opportunities for cleansing.
• Support the execution of the Data Quality Framework.
• Conduct root cause analysis and recommend system or process improvements.
• Perform pre-load and post-load validations as part of data cleansing exercises.

4. Finance Master Data Lifecycle Management

• Serve as the data steward for key finance master data elements:

• Chart of Accounts (GL Accounts)

• Cost Centers / Profit Centers / Internal Orders

• Company Codes / Business Units / Legal Entities

• Fixed Assets Master Data

• Manage full lifecycle of records including creation, extension, modification, blocking/deletion, and reviews.
• Ensure data requests meet standards and comply with financial controls and audit requirements.

5. ERP Projects & Data Migrations

• Lead or support finance master data workstreams in ERP implementations, upgrades, or cloud transitions.
• Define functional specs for migration and participate in mapping, transformation, cleansing, validation, and UAT.
• Execute data loads using LSMW, BDC, Workday EIBs, or other mass data tools.

• Skills & Experience Required10+ years

  of experience in SAP Finance Master Data, with deep expertise in FI/CO modules and SAP FI T-codes.
• Strong knowledge of core financial processes (GL, AP, AR, Fixed Assets, Cost Accounting).
• ERP Platform experience:

• SAP S/4HANA, ECC

  FI/CO, MDG

• SAP FC (Bison)

  ,

  SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC)

• Workday Financials

• Strong understanding of SOX compliance, audit procedures, and internal controls.
• Hands-on with tools:

  LSMW

  ,

  BDC

  ,

  BODS

  ,

  Smart Sheets

  ,

  EIB

  .
• Proficient in Excel, and familiar with

  SQL

  ,

  Power BI

  ,

  Tableau

  ,

  SAP IS

  .
• Skilled in:
• Finance master data lifecycle processes (create/change/delete)
• Data quality rule definition, documentation, and implementation
• Data profiling, cleansing, and standardization
• Pre-load and post-load validations, exception handling, reconciliation
• Functional input and support for BODS logic, mapping, and validations
• Able to use

  SE16N

  ,

  SQVI

  , and custom reports for data analysis.

Accounts Payable, Sap Finance, General Ledger, Fixed Assets (Fa), Finance Master Data, Accounts Receivable (Ar), Sap Master Data Governance (Mdg), Sap Fico