SAP S4 HANA Finance Consultant

Experience:

• Minimum 5 years of relevant SAP Finance experience, including substantial hands-on configuration and delivery responsibility.
• Participation in at least one end-to-end SAP S/4HANA implementation; SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition experience is strongly preferred.
• Hands-on experience in fit-to-standard workshops, finance configuration, testing, defect resolution, migration/reconciliation, cutover and hyper care.
• Demonstrated ability to review and challenge an implementation partner's design, configuration and deliverables using evidence and SAP best practices.
• Strong understanding of financial controls, closing, statutory reporting, audit requirements and integration with upstream/downstream processes.
• Experience in multi-company or multi-business-unit environments; UAE VAT and regional finance experience are preferred. Key Accountabilities:
• Hands-on solution delivery - Participate directly in Finance discovery, fit-to-standard workshops, configuration, test preparation, defect resolution, cutover, and Hyper care; independently reproduce and analyze issues when required.
• Design Authority and vendor assurance - Serve as the company-side subject matter expert in the Design Authority / Design Community. Review and challenge the implementation partner's proposed processes, configuration, extensions, integrations, estimates, and deliverables; identify incorrect or incomplete work, recommend corrective action, and confirm designs that meet agreed requirements and SAP standards.
• Business-policy alignment and decision facilitation - When company policy or current practice conflicts with SAP standard functionality, explain the options, risks, controls, cost, and operational impact. Facilitate agreement between business process owners, IT, and the implementation partner on whether to adopt SAP standard, amend the process or policy, or approve a justified extension. Document the decision, owner, and approval; escalate unresolved matters through project governance.
• Implementation governance and quality - Validate requirements traceability, solution design documents, configuration workbooks, functional specifications, role/control design, test evidence, migration results, and readiness gates. Ensure defects and design gaps are owned and closed within agreed timelines.
• Stakeholder and partner collaboration - Act as the day-to-day functional bridge among business teams, IT, SAP and the implementation partner. Translate business needs into precise SAP decisions, prevent misunderstandings and support timely resolution of risks, dependencies and scope questions.
• Adoption, support and knowledge transfer - Support key users during testing and go live, produce usable process and configuration documentation, coach internal support teams and ensure sustainable handover after stabilization.