Senior FICO Consultant
Magnet HR Consulting Services · Hyderabad · onsite · Posted 38d ago
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About this role
Role Overview:
We are looking for a seasoned SAP FICO (Financial Accounting & Controlling) Senior Consultant to lead finance transformation projects, design enterprise-grade accounting solutions, and serve as a trusted advisor to clients.
The candidate will drive the full-cycle delivery of SAP FI and CO modules while ensuring alignment with statutory,
regulatory, and business requirements.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead end-to-end SAP FICO implementations, upgrades, and support projects across industries.
- Configure and implement core FI components: General Ledger (New GL), Accounts Payable (AP), Accounts Receivable (AR), Asset Accounting (AA), Bank Accounting, and Travel Management.
- Design and configure Controlling (CO) components: Cost Center Accounting (CCA), Profit Center Accounting (PCA), Internal Orders, Product Costing, and Profitability Analysis (CO-PA).
- Conduct fit-gap workshops, process blueprinting, and produce functional design documents.
- Integrate SAP FICO with SD, MM, HR/Payroll, PP, and PS modules.
- Design chart of accounts, financial statement versions, and fiscal year variants for global deployments.
- Manage period-end closing activities: depreciation runs, revaluation, accruals, and reconciliation.
- Implement document splitting, parallel ledgers, and multi-currency accounting.
- Support tax configuration: GST, VAT, withholding tax, and tax reporting.
- Oversee data migration of financial master data and open items using LSMW, BAPI, or Migration Cockpit.
- Coordinate with ABAP teams for custom reports, enhancements (BADIs/user exits), and interfaces.
- Drive UAT, resolve issues, and ensure successful go-live and hypercare.
- Mentor junior consultants and build internal capability.
- Maintain solution documentation, training materials, and operational runbooks.
Required Qualifications & Skills:
- 10+ years of SAP FICO functional consulting experience.
- Minimum 3 full-lifecycle SAP implementations (S/4HANA preferred).
- Deep expertise in New GL, AP, AR, Asset Accounting, and multi-ledger architecture.
- Strong Controlling background: CO-CCA, CO-PCA, CO-PA, and Product Costing.
- Hands-on S/4HANA Finance experience including Universal Journal (ACDOCA) and Central Finance.
- Experience with SAP Activate methodology and project governance.
- Working knowledge of ABAP debugging for issue resolution.
- Familiarity with financial regulations: IFRS, GAAP, GST, VAT, and local statutory reporting.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and stakeholder-management skills.
- SAP Certified Application Associate - SAP S/4HANA for Financial Accounting (preferred).
Nice-to-Have:
- Experience with SAP Group Reporting, BPC, or SAC for financial consolidation and planning.
- Exposure to SAP Treasury & Risk Management (TRM) or In-House Cash (IHC).
- Knowledge of SAP Revenue Accounting & Reporting (RAR / IFRS 15 / 16).
- Familiarity with SAP Fiori apps for Finance.
- Global rollout experience with multi-country, multi-currency deployments.
Education:
- Bachelor degree or Master degree in Finance, Accounting, Commerce, CA/CPA, or a related field.
- SAP Certification in FI / CO / S/4HANA Finance is an added advantage.
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