Core Responsibilities

• Lead and oversee end-to-end SAP FICO implementation, transformation, and support projects, ensuring successful delivery within agreed timelines, scope, budget, and quality standards.
• Take ownership of SAP FICO solution design and architecture, ensuring solutions are scalable, sustainable, and aligned with business requirements and SAP best practices.
• Lead client engagements and serve as a trusted advisor to senior business stakeholders, understanding business objectives and translating them into effective SAP FICO solutions.
• Manage and coordinate SAP FICO project teams, assigning responsibilities, monitoring progress, reviewing deliverables, and ensuring successful project execution.
• Collaborate with business stakeholders, project managers, technical teams, and cross-functional SAP teams to define requirements, processes, solutions, and delivery approaches.
• Conduct comprehensive business process analysis and gap assessments to identify opportunities for process optimization and SAP-enabled transformation.
• Design, configure, and oversee SAP FICO solutions covering General Ledger (GL), Accounts Payable (AP), Accounts Receivable (AR), Asset Accounting (AA), Cost Center Accounting (CCA), Profit Center Accounting (PCA), and CO-PA (Profitability Analysis).
• Ensure seamless integration of SAP FICO with other SAP modules, including Sales and Distribution (SD), Materials Management (MM), and other relevant business processes.
• Review and validate functional designs, configurations, and technical developments to ensure alignment with business requirements and SAP standards.
• Lead system testing activities, including unit testing, integration testing, regression testing, and user acceptance testing, ensuring successful business validation and readiness for deployment.
• Provide expert guidance on SAP FICO configuration, master data, financial processes, reporting, controls, and transactional activities.
• Lead complex issue resolution and root-cause analysis, coordinating with technical teams, SAP support, and other stakeholders to ensure timely resolution.
• Oversee data migration, system conversions, upgrades, and S/4HANA transformation activities within the SAP FICO landscape.
• Mentor and develop SAP FICO consultants, providing technical and functional guidance, conducting knowledge-sharing sessions, and supporting their professional growth.
• Establish and maintain strong relationships with clients and key stakeholders, managing expectations and ensuring a high level of customer satisfaction.
• Identify opportunities for continuous improvement and drive the adoption of SAP best practices, process standardization, automation, and digital transformation.
• Lead and contribute to project governance activities, ensuring compliance with delivery methodologies, change control processes, documentation standards, and company policies.
• Support project planning, estimation, resource planning, risk identification, and delivery management for SAP FICO engagements.
• Participate in pre-sales activities, including solutioning, effort estimation, RFP/RFI responses, proposal development, solution demonstrations, workshops, and client presentations.
• Support the development of SAP FICO offerings, accelerators, methodologies, and reusable assets to enhance delivery capabilities.
• Stay up to date with SAP FICO and S/4HANA Finance innovations, emerging technologies, and industry trends, and assess their applicability to client environments.
• Ensure comprehensive project documentation, including business requirements, functional specifications, solution designs, process flows, test scenarios, training materials, and user documentation.

Skills, Knowledge & Abilities

• Strong leadership and people management skills.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Strong client-facing and consulting skills.
• Strategic thinking and business acumen.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Solution design and decision-making capabilities.
• Strong project and time management skills.
• Coaching and mentoring abilities.
• Strong negotiation and influencing skills.
• Commitment, ownership, and accountability.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and deliver under pressure.
• Self-motivated with a continuous improvement mindset.

Performance Standards

• Successful and timely delivery of SAP FICO projects.
• Quality and accuracy of SAP FICO solutions and deliverables.
• Effective business requirement analysis and solution design.
• Successful integration of SAP FICO with relevant business and SAP modules.
• Effective project governance and delivery management.
• Successful system testing and deployment.
• Client satisfaction and stakeholder management.
• Effective leadership, mentoring, and development of SAP FICO teams.
• Process optimization and continuous improvement.
• Successful management of complex SAP FICO issues and escalations.
• Effective documentation and knowledge management.
• Compliance with Atos standards, methodologies, and policies.
• Contribution to pre-sales and business development activities.
• Continuous development of SAP FICO and S/4HANA expertise.
• Effective teamwork and cross-functional collaboration.
• Professionalism, accountability, and ownership.

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Desired Candidate Profile

Experience & Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Information Systems, Computer Science, or a related field.
• Minimum of 7 years of experience in SAP FICO, with significant experience in SAP ECC and/or S/4HANA environments.
• Proven experience in leading SAP FICO implementation, transformation, or support projects from requirement gathering through deployment and post-go-live support.
• Strong expertise in SAP FICO configuration, solution design, integration, and business process optimization.
• Extensive experience across SAP FICO functionalities, including GL, AP, AR, AA, CCA, PCA, CO-PA, and financial reporting.
• Strong understanding of financial and accounting principles, financial processes, controls, reporting, consolidation, and statutory requirements.
• Proven experience in leading and mentoring SAP FICO consultants and coordinating cross-functional project teams.
• Strong experience in stakeholder and client management, including engagement with senior business and IT stakeholders.
• Experience in complex data migrations, system conversions, upgrades, and SAP S/4HANA transformation projects.
• Strong ability to analyze complex business requirements and translate them into scalable and effective SAP solutions.
• Experience in SAP integration with other modules, particularly SD, MM, and other relevant business functions.
• Strong understanding of SAP implementation methodologies, preferably SAP Activate.
• Experience in project governance, delivery management, risk management, and quality assurance.
• Strong communication, presentation, negotiation, and stakeholder management skills.
• SAP FICO certification is strongly preferred.
• Strong proficiency in SAP S/4HANA Finance is preferred.
• Experience working with global or multinational organizations is advantageous.
• Experience in pre-sales, solutioning, proposal development, and client presentations is highly desirable.
• Strong commitment to continuous learning and professional development within the SAP ecosystem.
• Demonstrated ability to work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment while managing multiple priorities and deadlines.