SAP FI Freelance Consultant

Engagement Type: Consultant agreement

Duration: 4 to 5 Months

Work Model: 100% Remote / Work from Home (WFH)

Time Commitment: 6 to 8 hours guaranteed per day

System Environment: SAP ECC

Experience Level: Minimum 10+ years

Role Overview

The Senior SAP FI Consultant plays a lead role in designing, mapping, implementing, and stabilizing IT solutions across our core Finance functions. This role balances project delivery and hands-on operational support: you will lead business requirement gathering, configure and test SAP ECC finance solutions, ensure regulatory validation, and deliver critical post-go-live hypercare and incident resolution.

Key Responsibilities

• Solution Design & Implementation:

o Play a lead role in designing and mapping SAP ECC Finance solutions, ensuring architectures are robust, scalable, and highly available.

o Lead efforts to analyze and translate business requirements and functional specifications into technical specifications, data flow diagrams, and data models.

o Write functional requirement documents, technical specifications, and end-to-end test scripts.

o Execute hands-on customizing/configuration and document all configuration and program changes thoroughly.

o Conduct rigorous unit, integration, and regression testing for all customizing and program changes.

• Stakeholder Collaboration & Process Alignment:

o Work closely with (key-) users, data owners, and management to understand, clarify, and fulfill finance requirements taking future organizational goals into consideration.

o Understand the overall direction, policies, and requirements of the Client's finance processes.

o Train (key-) users and business process owners on newly deployed functionalities and process changes.

• Hypercare & Production Support:

o Provide intensive post-go-live hypercare support, addressing critical defects, user queries, and operational bottlenecks.

o Maintain system integrity and ensure systems and applications remain in a validated state following the Client's IT Change Management process.

• Core Functional Scope & Integration:

o Support and configure core SAP FI modules: General Ledger (GL), Accounts Payable (AP), Accounts Receivable (AR), and Asset Accounting (AA).

o Manage and troubleshoot end-to-end Order-to-Cash (O2C) scenarios and FI-SD integration, specifically revenue postings, billing schemas, and tax determinations.

o Manage Asset Accounting integration with instruments/equipment and asset postings into finance.

o Oversee and troubleshoot tight integration points across FI-MM (P2P), FI-SD (O2C), and other related SAP modules.

Candidate Qualifications

• Experience: Minimum 10+ years of dedicated SAP Financial Accounting (FI) implementation and support experience within an SAP ECC environment.
• Functional & Technical Depth:

o Deep expertise across SAP FI (GL, AP, AR, AA) with solid working knowledge of cross-module integration (SD, MM).

o Proven capability in designing, documenting, and testing RICEFW objects alongside ABAP developers.

o Thorough understanding of compliance, validated system environments, and structured IT change management frameworks.