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%.
Willing to travel when required
up to 25-50% domestic to any of the North American Flowserve sites. (Canada, US, Mexico)
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.