Senior SAP Functional Consultant to support a finance modernization project for a large banking client - 86072

Position Title: Functional Consultant

Line of Business: Finance

What project will this contractor be working on? Production support & Finance Modernization

Target Start Date: Immediate

Duration:12 months

Remote/Hybrid: Hybrid - 2 to 3 days in the office

Office Location: Downtown Toronto (Financial District)

Work Schedule (hours per week, start time): 37.5 Hours/week, 9-5 Monday to Friday

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES

• Analyze defects and recommend solutions/actions and/or alternatives.
• Understand business requirements
• Propose and work on technical solutions with Technology partners
• Analyze the pros/cons of a solution to propose a recommendation
• Leverage SAP functional design capabilities to recommend and/or document functional specifications to meet business needs
• Vendor management (software and service providers)
• Act as main liaison between Business and Technology
• Act as subject matter advisor for the supported business processes in collaboration with business process owners.
• Effective communication with stakeholders to manage expectations and negotiate
• Analyze changes, impacts and recommend actions and/or alternatives.
• Analyze risks/issues and recommend mitigation/actions.
• This position may have responsibility for supporting multiple concurrent projects.

Must Have Requirement:

• 8+years in project environments or equivalent work experience; including SAP experience in the banking industry
• Experience in systems development life cycle and system testing life cycle
• Knowledge of end to end system designer (process and technology), with knowledge of cloud-based applications
• SAP related knowledge (functional)
• Production support role with error handling experience is a must
• Functional understanding of upstream & downstream Non-SAP system integration
• Clear understanding of Enterprise data structure (organization structure) in S/4 HANA finance with standard & custom chart of account code blocks.
• Experience with leveraging SAP’s controls, security roles and data quality framework
• Experience in the following modules/areas is an asset:
• SAP MDG configuration, Master data modelling, Process modelling, & Work Flow configuration to support leading ledger and multi-GAAP
• GL accounting Configuration & Accounting Process (S4 Hana GL & AR) including Average daily balance (ADB), multi-ledger & multi-currency accounting

Nice to Have:

• SAP close and financial consolidation and elimination process in S4 and group reporting
• FPSL (Financial Products Subledger) - Multi-GAAP banking product subledger accounting process
• Reporting using Fiori, SAC & CDS view (S4, Group reporting, Expense ledger, etc.)
• Expense Ledger (Accounts Payables, Fixed Asset Management, Project Systems / Project accounting)
• Controlling Area (Internal orders)
• PAPM (Profitability and Performance Management)
• Banking experience is helpful