SAP Functional Consultant

Minimum Qualifications- Education & Prior Job Experience

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Technology, Information Systems (CIS/MIS), Engineering or related technical discipline, or equivalent experience/training
• 1+ years of experience designing, developing, and implementing large-scale solutions in production environments

Preferred Qualifications- Education & Prior Job Experience

• Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Technology, Information Systems (CIS/MIS), Engineering or related technical discipline, or equivalent experience/training
• Airline Industry experience

Skills, Licenses & Certifications

• SAP ECC to SAP S/4HANA conversion experience is required.
• Participation in at least one conversion or transformation project involving finance workstreams, from discovery and fit-to-standard workshops through design, configuration, testing, cutover, hypercare, and stabilization.
• Ability to assess custom ECC processes and configurations, identify S/4HANA simplification impacts, document gaps, and recommend standard or redesigned solutions.
• Experience preparing and validating finance data for conversion, including master data, open items, balances, asset values, reconciliation, and post-load validation.
• Knowledge of conversion readiness activities, custom-code and process remediation, cutover planning, mock conversions, defect resolution, and financial reconciliation.
• Experience with SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition through RISE with SAP is preferred, including awareness of clean-core principles and cloud operating models.
• Strong understanding of FICO integration with Materials Management, Sales and Distribution, Production Planning, Plant Maintenance, Human Resources, Treasury, Project Systems, and CO-PA.
• Experience designing and supporting interfaces between SAP Finance and third-party applications such as procurement, travel and expense, tax, payroll, banking, and reporting platforms.
• Ability to lead requirements gathering, process design, configuration, functional specifications, test planning, user acceptance testing, regression testing, training, deployment, and production support.
• Proficiency troubleshooting finance postings, period-close issues, integration failures, interfaces, batch jobs, and performance or data-quality problems.
• Ability to develop clear functional specifications, configuration documentation, process flows, test evidence, controls documentation, runbooks, and knowledge-transfer materials.
• Preferred: experience with SAP Group Reporting for consolidation and statutory or management reporting, including consolidation units, group structures, intercompany eliminations, currency translation, validation, and reporting.
• Preferred: experience with SAP Analytics Cloud Planning (SAC-P), including planning models, dimensions, data actions, allocations, forecasts, versions, stories, security, and integration with SAP S/4HANA or SAP Datasphere.
• Knowledge of SAP Fiori finance applications, embedded analytics, authorizations, segregation of duties, audit controls, change management, and Agile delivery methods is beneficial.

Language, Communication Skills, & Physical Abilities

• Ability to effectively communicate both verbally and written with all levels within the organization