Job Summary
We are seeking an experienced SAP R2R Expert with strong expertise in General Ledger (GL), Record-to-Report (R2R), SAP ECC Integration, SAP S/4HANA Central Finance (CFIN), and Finance Transformation Programs. The candidate will be responsible for leading business process workshops, defining target operating models, designing Central Finance solutions, and driving end-to-end implementation of ECC to S/4HANA Central Finance landscapes.
The ideal candidate should have hands-on experience delivering large-scale global CFIN implementations involving multiple source systems, multiple currencies, multiple charts of accounts, centralized reporting, reconciliation design, historical data loads, and enterprise finance integrations. The role requires close collaboration with business stakeholders, enterprise architects, integration teams, and offshore delivery teams to ensure successful transformation outcomes.
Key Responsibilities
Finance Transformation & R2R Leadership
- Lead and facilitate business process workshops to define future-state Record-to-Report (R2R) processes.
- Assess current finance operating models and establish standardized target-state processes.
- Drive process harmonization across legal entities, business units, and geographies.
- Collaborate with finance leadership and business stakeholders to gather requirements and define SAP Finance transformation roadmaps.
- Provide solution recommendations aligned with SAP best practices and enterprise finance objectives.
- Support end-to-end financial close, reporting, reconciliation, and governance processes.
SAP Central Finance (CFIN)
- Design, implement, and support SAP Central Finance (CFIN) solutions.
- Lead ECC to S/4HANA Central Finance integration initiatives.
- Define Central Finance architecture and deployment strategy.
- Configure and govern:
- Initial Load
- Real-Time Replication
- Delta Loads
- Key Mapping
- Value Mapping
- AIF Monitoring and Error Handling
- Execute financial data reconciliation and validation activities across source and target systems.
- Establish governance, controls, and monitoring processes for Central Finance operations.
ECC Integration & Replication
- Own integration design between SAP ECC and SAP S/4HANA Central Finance landscapes.
- Design and oversee:
- SLT Replication
- ALE/IDocs
- RFC Connectivity
- Financial Data Replication Frameworks
- Collaborate with technical and integration teams to ensure robust and scalable integration architecture.
- Drive issue resolution for replication failures, mapping issues, and reconciliation exceptions.
Data Migration & Historical Loads
- Lead historical balance migration strategies for large multinational organizations.
- Execute and govern:
- Historical Balance Loads
- Open Item Migration
- Initial Load Activities
- Delta Load Validation
- Manage complex migration scenarios involving:
- Multi-Currency Environments
- Multiple Charts of Accounts
- Multiple Source Systems (ECC, S4 HANA)
- Parallel Accounting Requirements
- Define and execute reconciliation frameworks for migration and cutover activities.
Controls, Reconciliation & Governance
- Design reconciliation templates and validation frameworks.
- Define financial controls and audit requirements across source and Central Finance systems.
- Establish monitoring and governance processes for financial data integrity.
- Develop business validation checkpoints and control mechanisms for data replication and reporting accuracy.
- Support month-end, quarter-end, and year-end financial closing activities.
Testing & Deployment
- Support SIT, UAT, Cutover, Hypercare, and Deployment activities.
- Prepare functional specifications, design documents, test scripts, and deployment plans.
- Coordinate with offshore teams to ensure timely delivery of project milestones.
Advanced Finance Transformation Capabilities
- Facilitate implementation and enablement of:
- Central Payments
- Central Credit Management
- Group Reporting
- Tax Reporting Integration
- Withholding Tax Integration
- Intercompany Reconciliation
- Financial Consolidation Reporting
- Define enterprise-wide finance governance and reporting frameworks.
- Support global finance transformation initiatives leveraging SAP S/4HANA capabilities.
Required Skills
SAP Functional Expertise
- SAP FI-General Ledger (GL)
- Record-to-Report (R2R)
- Financial Closing & Reporting
- Intercompany Accounting
- Parallel Accounting
- SAP ECC and S/4HANA Finance
- Universal Journal
- Financial Reporting & Compliance
Central Finance (CFIN)
- Central Finance Architecture
- Initial Load & Delta Load
- SLT Replication
- Key Mapping & Value Mapping
- AIF Monitoring and Error Handling
- Financial Data Reconciliation
- Historical Balance Migration
- Open Item Migration
- Expertise on following is a huge plus
- Central Payments (Application know
- Central Credit Management
- Group Reporting
- Tax Reporting Integration including Withholding Tax Integration
Integration Skills
- SAP ECC to S/4HANA Integration
- ALE/IDocs
- RFC Connectivity
- Data Migration & Reconciliation
- Enterprise Integration Design
- Multi-System Financial Data Integration
Preferred Qualifications
- 12-15+ years of SAP Finance consulting experience.
- 5+ years of hands-on SAP Central Finance implementation experience.
- Minimum 2-3 end-to-end SAP Central Finance implementations.
- Proven experience leading workshops and solution design sessions with business stakeholders.
- Strong experience in:
- Multi-Currency Environments
- Multiple Charts of Accounts (COA)
- Multi-Entity Finance Landscapes
- Global Finance Transformation Programs
- Experience implementing Central Payments, Central Credit Management, Group Reporting, Tax Reporting, and Withholding Tax integrations.
- Experience managing medium-to-high complexity SLT mapping scenarios.
