SAP Finance Senior Consultant (FI/CO)

Job Purpose:The SAP Finance Senior Consultant (FI/CO – S/4HANA Finance) is responsible for leading the design, implementation, configuration, and support of SAP Finance and Controlling solutions across SAP S/4HANA and ECC environments. The role ensures alignment between business requirements, financial best practices, and regulatory compliance while providing leadership across finance workstreams, managing stakeholder relationships, and delivering end-to-end finance transformation initiatives with a strong focus on localization and public sector requirements.Key Accountabilities:Lead SAP FI/CO workstreams across implementation, rollout, upgrade, and support projects.Conduct Fit-to-Standard and Fit-Gap workshops to gather business requirements and define finance solution architecture.Configure and support SAP Financial Accounting (FI) modules including General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Asset Accounting, Bank Accounting, Cash Management, and Financial Closing activities.Configure and support SAP Controlling (CO) components including Cost Center Accounting, Internal Orders, Product Costing, Profitability Analysis (CO-PA), Margin Analysis, and Profit Center Accounting.Lead SAP S/4HANA Finance solution design leveraging Universal Journal (ACDOCA), Advanced Asset Accounting, Group Reporting, and Fiori Finance Applications.Deliver localization requirements including ZATCA e-Invoicing, VAT, Withholding Tax (WHT), statutory financial reporting, and bilingual reporting requirements.Support Treasury and Cash Management solutions, including Treasury and Risk Management (TRM), Bank Communication Management (BCM), and cash forecasting processes.Support SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC) planning and financial reporting initiatives.Define integration requirements and coordinate with MM, SD, PP, HR, Payroll, Treasury, and other business streams.Prepare functional specifications, RICEFW objects, configuration documents, process flows, and testing documentation.Lead SIT, UAT, cutover, data migration, opening balance migration, and hypercare activities.Ensure compliance with IFRS, statutory regulations, public sector requirements, and internal governance standards.Support presales activities including solution design, effort estimation, demonstrations, and proposal preparation.Provide guidance, mentoring, and quality assurance to junior consultants and project team members.Engage with finance executives, controllers, treasury teams, and business stakeholders to drive successful project delivery.Minimum Qualifications:Bachelor's Degree in Accounting, Finance, Commerce, Business Administration, Information Systems, or a related discipline.SAP Certified Application Associate – SAP S/4HANA Financial Accounting and Management Accounting.Professional certifications such as CMA, CPA, CA, ACCA, or equivalent.Minimum Experience:+6 years of SAP Finance and Controlling experience.Proven delivery of full lifecycle SAP FI/CO implementations.Proven experience delivering SAP S/4HANA Finance implementations.Job-Specific Skills:SAP S/4HANA Finance.Financial Accounting (FI).General Ledger (GL).Accounts Payable (AP).Accounts Receivable (AR).Asset Accounting (AA).Bank Accounting and Cash Management.Controlling (CO).Cost Center Accounting.Internal Orders.Product Costing (CO-PC).Profitability Analysis (CO-PA) and Margin Analysis.Profit Center Accounting.Universal Journal (ACDOCA).SAP Group Reporting.SAP Treasury and Risk Management (TRM).Bank Communication Management (BCM).SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC) Planning.SAP Advanced Financial Closing (AFC).SAP Fiori Applications.SAP Migration Cockpit (LTMC).SAP Solution Manager / Cloud ALM.SAP Document and Reporting Compliance (DRC).ZATCA e-Invoicing Integration.VAT and Withholding Tax Configuration.IFRS and Financial Compliance Reporting.Government Finance Processes and Budget Control.Public Sector Fund Management and Budgeting.Data Migration, Cutover, and Hypercare Support.Cross-Module Integration with MM, SD, PP, HR, and Payroll.