Senior SAP FICO / RAR / VIM Subject Matter Expert Consultant

Job Role: Senior SAP FICO / RAR / VIM Subject Matter Expert Consultant

Location: Remote

Experience: 10–15+ years

Travel: 50% mandatory

Travel expenses: Paid by the Client

Role Summary:

·      We are seeking a Senior SAP FICO / RAR / VIM Subject-Matter Expert Consultant who will design, configure, and implement core financial processes within an SAP S/4HANA environment.

·      This individual will bridge the gap between business requirements and technical solution delivery.

·      They will also support end-to-end testing, cross-functional logistics integration, and optimization using SAP Fiori dashboards and financial data migration activities such as cleansing data, value mapping, and data loads.

·      This role is essential to our deployment schedule and requires mandatory travel of 25–50%.

Responsibilities:

·      Responsible for areas of the Finance thread on the S4/program, focusing on SAP modules: VIM/Open Text, FI (Finance), CO (Controlling), and RAR (Revenue Accounting & Recognition).

·      Provide solutions and enterprise enablement for the business on FI & CO, SAP VIM, RAR in a multinational company.

·      Involved in the delivery of SAP project implementations across various regions.

·      Oversee functional and process quality of SAP throughout the implementation and improvement project life cycles.

·      Align with Client Global Business Process Standardization and corporate policies' governance.

·      Ensure compliance with statutory requirements.

·      Collaborate closely with the production support team, SAP consultants’/business analysts, and regional & global business partners and project managers.

Requirements:

·      Subject-Matter Expert for FI / CO Finance Accounting & Controlling on S4.

·      US Based, able to travel. (, , H1B)

·      RAR (Revenue Accounting and Recognition) experience, including strong on S4, is required.

·      Knowledge of VIM/Open Text on S4.

·      Excellent oral and written communication skills required (English).

·      Minimum 8+ years of hands-on SAP FICO configuration experience, with at least 3 or 4 full lifecycle S/4HANA implementations or large-scale ECC migrations.

Product costing experience.

Capable to troubleshoot and provide quality problems resolution.

Core Financial Accounting (FI)

S/4HANA General Ledger (GL): Advanced configuration of the ledger architecture, parallel accounting, multi-currency setups, document splitting, and optimization of the Universal Journal structure.

Accounts Payable (AP) & Accounts Receivable (AR): Configuration of the Business Partner (BP) concept, electronic bank statements (EBS), automatic payment programs (APP), dunning processes, and customer/vendor integrations.

Asset Accounting (AA): Implementing New Asset Accounting architecture in S/4HANA, managing asset acquisitions, complex depreciation areas, retirements, and technical clearing accounts.

Controlling & Management Accounting (CO)

Cost Center & Profit Center Accounting (CCA/PCA): Setup of master data hierarchies, cost allocations, distributions, and real-time internal reporting alignments.

Internal Orders & Product Costing (CO-PC): Configuring cost estimates, standard costing runs, material ledgers, and variance calculations.

Profitability Analysis (CO-PA): Expert knowledge of Margin Analysis (account-based CO-PA) native to S/4HANA.

Integration & Soft Skills

Cross-Module Integration: Seamless execution of data flows between FI/CO and logistics modules, specifically SAP MM (Procurement) and SAP SD (Sales).

RICEFW Development: Ability to author highly detailed functional specifications for custom reports, interfaces, conversions, enhancements, forms, and workflows, collaborating closely with ABAP developers.

S/4HANA Analytics: Utilizing SAP Fiori apps and embedded analytics for automated month-end financial close optimizations.

Methodology: Proven experience running business blueprinting workshops, conducting Gap Analysis, and executing Unit, Integration, and User Acceptance Testing (UAT).

Revenue Accounting & Reporting (RAR) — Preferred / Good-to-Have

RAR Framework: Experience implementing and configuring SAP RAR to comply with IFRS 15 / ASC 606 revenue recognition standards.

Contract Management: Hands-on experience setting up performance obligations (POB), transaction price determination, and allocation frameworks across multi-element contracts.

Inbound Processing: Managing step-by-step integrations with SD (Sales and Distribution) or external operational systems to process order and billing data into RAR.

Preferred:

·      Master’s in a computer related field is preferred.

·      Working experience in a manufacturing industry will be an added advantage.

·      Certification: SAP Certified Application Associate - SAP S/4HANA Financial Accounting is preferred but not required if equivalent project delivery experience is demonstrated.