SAP S/4 HANA Finance Application Expert

Technology, Data & Digital · Software & Web Development · Software Engineering

In short

ASSA ABLOY is seeking a SAP S/4HANA FICO Regional Application Consultant for the Americas to support and deploy financial accounting and controlling solutions. This role involves production support, leading regional rollouts, delivering enhancements, and ensuring alignment with global SAP standards and best practices in collaboration with Finance stakeholders and the Global SAP CoE.

Responsibilities

Serve as the primary SAP FICO functional consultant supporting Finance business users across the Americas region.
Act as the primary point of contact for SAP FICO production support, incident resolution, service requests, and operational stabilization activities.
Configure and support SAP FICO processes including General Ledger (GL), Accounts Payable (AP), Accounts Receivable (AR), Asset Accounting (AA), Bank Accounting, Cash Management, Electronic Bank Statement (EBS), Cost Center Accounting, Profit Center Accounting, Internal Orders, Product Costing, and Profitability Analysis (CO-PA).
Recommend standard SAP solutions aligned with global template standards while minimizing custom developments and regional deviations.
Create and maintain functional specifications for WRICEF (Workflow, Report, Interface, Conversion, Enhancement, Forms) objects.
Support configuration, system integration testing (SIT), user acceptance testing (UAT), data migration, cutover, go-live, and hypercare activities.
Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure seamless integration between Finance and other SAP modules including SD, MM, PP, EWM, and related business processes.
Support Finance master data activities including chart of accounts, cost centres, profit centres, banks, and business partners.
Investigate and resolve production incidents, service requests, and change requests in accordance with agreed service levels.
Support month-end and year-end financial closing activities by ensuring system availability and timely issue resolution.
Drive root cause analysis and reduction of recurring incidents through process improvements, knowledge sharing, and proactive support activities.
Participate in continuous improvement initiatives to enhance process efficiency, controls, and user experience.
Collaborate with the Global SAP CoE to evaluate enhancement requests, support process standardization, and ensure compliance with governance processes.

Requirements

Bachelor's Degree in Accounting, Finance, Information Technology, Business Administration, Computer Science, or a related discipline.
Minimum 5-7 years of SAP FICO consulting, support, and solution delivery experience.
Minimum 1 full lifecycle SAP ECC and/or SAP S/4HANA implementations, rollouts, or major enhancement projects.
Strong hands-on SAP FICO configuration experience covering General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Asset Accounting, Cost Centre Accounting, Profit Centre Accounting, Internal Orders, Cash Management, Electronic Bank Statement (EBS), and Financial Closing Processes.
Strong understanding of Financial Accounting and Controlling processes.
Strong integration knowledge across FI-SD (Order-to-Cash), FI-MM (Procure-to-Pay), and FI-PP (Manufacturing Costing).
Experience creating functional specifications for reports, interfaces, enhancements, workflows, forms, and conversions.
Experience with testing, data migration, cutover planning, deployment, and post-go-live support.
Experience supporting production environments, incident management, and change request delivery.
Experience working within a globally governed SAP environment utilizing standardized templates and processes.
Demonstrated ability to balance production support, continuous improvement, and rollout activities.
Proven experience driving adoption of standardized business processes across regional business units.
Working knowledge of SAP S/4HANA and SAP Fiori applications.
Strong analytical, problem-solving, stakeholder management, and communication skills.
Ability to independently manage multiple priorities, projects, and support activities in a fast-paced environment.

Desired Qualifications

SAP Certified Application Associate – Financial Accounting with SAP S/4HANA.
Experience with S/4HANA Finance implementations, rollouts, or transformation programs.
Experience with Universal Journal (ACDOCA), Document Splitting, Parallel Accounting, Group Reporting, and Central Finance.
Knowledge of SAP Fiori, Embedded Analytics, and SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP).
Experience supporting Finance processes within manufacturing, industrial products, consumer products, or distribution environments.
Familiarity with Treasury, Cash Forecasting, and Advanced Cash Management capabilities.
Basic ABAP debugging knowledge and familiarity with enhancement frameworks.
Experience working with distributed global teams and offshore delivery models.

Benefits

Office-based / Remote with occasional international travel.
Health and Safety accountability requirements apply.
Working hours primarily aligned to the US Central Time Zone (CST), with flexibility to support APAC and European business requirements on an as-needed basis.

Skills

SAP S/4HANASAP FICOGeneral LedgerAccounts PayableAccounts ReceivableAsset AccountingCost Centre AccountingProfit Centre AccountingInternal OrdersCash ManagementElectronic Bank StatementFinancial Closing ProcessesSAP FioriABAP

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