We are seeking an experienced SAP FICO Functional Specialist to support and enhance our SAP Finance landscape across multiple countries and legal entities. This role will serve as the key functional point of contact for Finance users, ensuring effective SAP FICO configuration, application support, issue resolution, and continuous improvement.
Key responsibilities
- SAP FI/CO Configuration: Perform SAP FI/CO configuration and ensure the solution is aligned with business processes, SAP best practices, and agreed functional requirements.
- Incident & Problem Management: The main PIC for all Finance-related issues across all SAP Finance modules, covering both Fiori and SAP GUI, including incident resolution, issue coordination, root-cause analysis and follow-up with relevant technical teams or SAP partners.
- Change Request Management: Manage FICO change requests end-to-end by gathering Finance requirements, assessing business impact, designing SAP solutions, and coordinating testing and deployment. Define best-practice integration solutions for external transactions posted to SAP FICO, including data mapping, validation, SAP posting logic, and secure integration.
- SAP FICO Testing & UAT: Plan and support functional testing, SIT a-nd UAT activities, including test scenario preparation, defect resolution, coordination with users and obtaining business sign-off.
- Finance User Coordination: Act as the key functional point of contact for Finance users, providing guidance, resolving functional queries and ensuring effective communication between business and IT.
- Functional Specification Review: Review the functional and technical specifications prepared by ABAP developers to ensure they accurately reflect the business requirements, SAP solution design, integration requirements, configuration needs and expected outcomes
- Work closely with the SAP SD and Interface/Integration teams to investigate and resolve incidents where Finance-related issues originate from upstream transactions flowing from SD into FI. Ensure the complete end-to-end transaction flow from SD → Integration Layer → FI is properly analyzed, with clear ownership of data mapping, interfaces, posting logic and error handling. Coordinate with the relevant teams to identify root causes, resolve cross-module issues and ensure accurate and consistent financial postings in SAP.
- Training & Knowledge Transfer: Conduct SAP FICO training and knowledge-transfer sessions for Finance users, including Fiori and SAP GUI functionality. Develop user guides and training materials and provide ongoing guidance on new functionality, enhancements and process changes
- Multi-Country SAP Finance Application Support: Act as the functional PIC for SAP Finance across all legal entities and countries configured within SAP, providing end-to-end application support across the Finance modules. This includes Accounts Payable (AP), Accounts Receivable (AR), General Ledger (GL), Bank Accounting, Fixed Assets (FA), Controlling (CO), and Finance reporting
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Information Technology, Computer Science, Accounting, Finance, Business Information Systems or a related discipline
- 5–8+ years of SAP FICO functional experience, preferably with SAP S/4HANA
- Relevant SAP FICO training and certifications in S/4HANA, Fiori and SAP integration are advantageous
- Professional and strong functional knowledge of SAP S/4HANA Finance, including General Ledger (GL), Accounts Payable (AP), Accounts Receivable (AR), Bank Accounting, Asset Accounting (FA), Controlling (CO), and Finance Reporting
- Ability to analyze complex end-to-end financial transaction flows, including transactions originating from SD/MM/EWM and external systems into FI
- Ability to design standard SAP solutions before recommending custom development
- Ability to communicate complex technical matters in a way that Finance/business users and senior IT management can understand
- Strong analytical, problem-solving and decision-making skills
- Strong understanding of SAP Fiori and SAP GUI
- Understanding of SAP configuration and ability to assess configuration requirements
- Business-oriented: Understands Finance objectives and translates them into practical SAP solutions.
- Customer-focused: Takes ownership of Finance user issues and follows them through to resolution.
- Strong communication and stakeholder management: Able to engage effectively from Finance users through to IT Directors and Finance leadership.
