Lead SAP FICO Consultant

The consultant will combine deep hands-on AR and SAP FI expertise with functional team leadership, partnering with finance stakeholders, solution architects, technical teams, and cross-functional workstreams to deliver scalable solutions, govern quality, mentor consultants, and drive successful project outcomes.

Required Qualifications and Experience

- 10+ years of SAP consulting experience with advanced hands-on expertise in SAP FI, including SAP S/4HANA implementations, rollouts, enhancements, transformation programs, and application support.
- Demonstrated experience designing, configuring, testing, deploying, and supporting end-to-end Accounts Receivable processes as the primary functional competency.
- At least two full-cycle SAP implementation engagements covering requirements, design, configuration, testing, data migration, cutover, go-live, and hypercare.
- Strong functional knowledge of customer accounting, incoming payments, clearing, dunning, cash application, account statements, credit and collections touchpoints, reconciliation, and period-end close.
- Broad working knowledge of General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Asset Accounting, Bank Accounting, tax, and integration with SD, MM, CO, and Treasury.
- Experience preparing business process documents, functional specifications, configuration documents, test scripts, training materials, and user-facing guidance.
- Strong analytical, diagnostic, and problem-solving skills with the ability to convert business needs into clear, controlled, and supportable functional solutions.
- Effective written and verbal communication skills, stakeholder-management capability, and confidence facilitating workshops.
- Demonstrated experience leading an SAP FI functional workstream or team, including planning, estimates, task coordination, quality reviews, mentoring, and stakeholder communication.
- Experience coordinating onshore and offshore team members across multiple functional and technical workstreams.

Preferred Qualifications

- Formal SAP training or certification in SAP S/4HANA Financial Accounting.
- Experience with SAP S/4HANA transformation, upgrade, rollout, migration, or Central Finance programs.
- Exposure to SAP Fiori finance applications, SAP Cash Application, FSCM Credit Management, Collections Management, and Dispute Management.
- Experience with banking interfaces, lockbox, electronic bank statements, payment formats, data migration, and custom enhancement delivery relevant to AR.
- Understanding of SAP Activate, Agile/Scrum delivery, solution governance, global delivery models, effort estimation, roadmap definition, presales, or proposal activities.