Senior SAP FICO Functional Lead

Lead Consultant - SAP FICO

Chennai, India

Introduction to role:

Are you ready to make a difference in the pharmaceutical industry? As a SAP Functional Consultant, you'll be part of a dynamic team at one of the world's leading pharmaceutical companies, headquartered in the United Kingdom and operating in over 100 countries. You'll play a crucial role in a large SAP support and maintenance project, managing multiple SAP landscapes across continents. Are you up for the challenge?

Accountabilities:

As a Lead Consultant, you'll be at the forefront of resolving SAP issues reported by business users and delivering necessary changes and enhancements. You'll be responsible for completing tasks assigned by the team lead and project coordinator, while actively engaging with business users for requirement gathering and providing timely updates on progress. Your broad functional knowledge and expert technical skills in the FI and CO modules will be key to your success.

Essential Skills/Experience:

• At least two end-to-end Implementation experience of FICO module in S/4 HANA and two end-to-end implementation experience in SAP ECC
• Extremely well versed in all the FICO submodules like GL, AP, AR, Asset Accounting Banking, Cost Centre Accounting, Cost Element Accounting, Profit Centre Accounting, Profitability Analysis, Product Cost Controlling, Activity-based costing and Material Ledger
• In-depth functional understanding of the Record to Report work stream
• Good understanding of business processes in the life sciences/pharmaceutical domain
• Ability to understand business requirements from business users, prepare functional specifications, perform configuration changes, assist technical teams (e.G., ABAP) in their work, perform system and integration testing
• Exposure is essential to highly customized SAP environments and working on collaborate with Non-SAP systems (Exposure to interfaces like COUPA, Blackline, Workday, Concur is preferred)
• Very good understanding of integration of SAP modules in End-to-end business processes
• Exposure to SAP new dimensional modules PaPM (Profitability and Performance Management), AFC (Advanced Financial Close), ICMR (Intercompany Matching and Reconciliation) and ESG (Environment, Social and Governance) is a definite plus
• Understanding of ITIL processes and Application lifecycle management
• Ability to work in large and diverse teams
• Exposure to Run SAP (Solution Manager) methodologies
• Experience of various Estimation Techniques will be an added advantage
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Well versed in English. Excellent spoken and written skills
• Willingness to work in shifts
• Proactive approach to problem solving
• Experience working in a Globally distributed team