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As a Senior Functional Consultant, you will play a crucial role in executing and delivering a complex SAP S/4HANA transformation project from SAP ECC to SAP S/4HANA Central Finance. Your primary responsibility will be to configure the SAP S/4HANA Target System to seamlessly receive selected data migrated from the current SAP ECC and non-SAP system. Throughout the configuration build, testing, and cutover activities, you will provide expert guidance and support to clients, ensuring a smooth transition to SAP S/4HANA. Key Responsibilities: Functional and Technical Consulting: - Provide expert guidance and support in SAP S/4HANA Central Finance functionalities and processes. - Collaborate with the SAP S/4HANA Core Team to configure and customize SAP S/4HANA functionalities to meet client requirements. - Develop technical solutions and enhancements to support data migration, integration, and reporting requirements. - Design and optimize financial processes within Central Finance, focusing on areas like universal journal entry, group consolidation, and reporting. - Offer guidance and support with the S/4 HANA transformation project, including configuration, data migration, providing functional expertise, troubleshooting, and user training. Business Process Analysis and Optimization: - Work closely with finance departments to understand their processes and needs. - Analyze existing financial processes and suggest improvements to ensure alignment with business financial operations and reporting requirements. Testing, Training, and Support: - Develop and execute test plans, scenarios, and scripts to validate SAP S/4HANA configurations and functionalities. - Conduct system integration testing, user acceptance testing, and regression testing to ensure system reliability, accuracy, and performance. - Collaborate with business users to resolve issues, address concerns, and implement solutions while providing training on SAP S/4HANA Central Finance. - Offer ongoing support and troubleshooting to end-users. Integration and Data Migration: - Ensure seamless integration of Central Finance areas with other SAP modules. - Oversee data migration from SAP ECC/legacy, Non-SAP systems to SAP S/4HANA, ensuring data integrity and accuracy. - Collaborate with the Selective Data/Bluefield Migration Team on data migration activities to minimize business disruption and maximize efficiency. Reporting and Analytics: - Develop and maintain financial reports and dashboards using SAP tools. - Utilize SAP S/4HANA's embedded analytics capabilities to provide actionable insights into financial data. Stakeholder Engagement and Communication: - Act as the primary point of contact for key business and IT stakeholders, providing regular updates, progress reports, and presentations on project status and milestones. - Engage proactively with stakeholders to gather and validate requirements, address concerns, and obtain feedback throughout the migration and transformation process. - Build and maintain strong relationships with clients to ensure trust and confidence in the migration process and deliverables. Skill Requirements: - Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Business Administration, Information Technology, or related field (Master's degree preferred). - Minimum 10 years SAP consulting experience with at least 7 years in Financial Accounting (FI) and Managerial Accounting (CO). - Minimum 3 Central Finance implementations as a Lead Consultant. - Expertise in configuration and implementation of Financial Accounting (FI), Managerial Accounting (CO), and Central Finance (CFIN) with corresponding SAP Fiori applications. - Deep understanding of SAP Landscape Transformation (SLT) and SAP Application Interface Framework (AIF) as part of Central Finance. - Certification in SAP S/4HANA Central Finance. - Strong leadership, interpersonal, communication, and presentation skills. - Working knowledge of SAP Activate Roadmap for Central Finance. - Primarily remote role with occasional onsite meetings. Nice to have: - Experience or knowledge in other SAP modules and migration tools. - Prior experience with SAP RISE implementations. - Understanding of SAP Business Technology Platform applications and use cases. - Knowledge of SAP Master Data Governance and integration scenarios using MDG.,
