SAP FICO Transformation Leader

REQUIRED EXPERIENCE & SKILLS

• 15+ years of SAP Finance experience with deep SAP FI/CO configuration, finance process, solution architecture and transformation leadership expertise.
• Proven leadership of at least three full lifecycle SAP programs, including responsibility from discovery and design through go-live, stabilization and transition to support.
• Demonstrable ownership of an end-to-end business transformation, not only a technical migration, with evidence of process redesign, standardization, adoption and measurable value delivery.
• Strong command of industry best practices for process manufacturing finance, including standard and actual costing, inventory valuation, production variances, settlement, profitability and close management.
• Deep domain knowledge of process manufacturing business operations, including plant accounting, batch and yield management, co-products/by-products, inventory and working-capital drivers, and their impact on financial outcomes.
• Ability to assess custom processes objectively, facilitate fit-to-standard decisions, define exception criteria and balance global consistency with statutory or business-critical localization.
• Hands-on expertise in FI-GL, AP, AR, Asset Accounting, Banking, Tax, Cost Center Accounting, Internal Orders, Product Costing, Material Ledger, Margin Analysis / CO-PA and cross-module integration.
• Experience with SAP ECC and S/4HANA Finance; exposure to Fiori, BTP, Central Finance, Group Reporting, Cloud ALM, Signavio and ServiceNow is desirable.
• Strong knowledge of transformation governance, SAP Activate, data migration, testing, cutover, organizational change management, benefits tracking and AMS operating models.
• Executive communication, consultative leadership, stakeholder management, commercial awareness, structured problem solving and the ability to lead global cross-functional teams.
• Awareness of SAP Business AI and the ability to identify governed use cases for close, reconciliation, forecasting, cash management, compliance and service operations.