Senior SAP S/4HANA FICO Consultant - Location: Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India (onsite). Experience: 12+ years. Role: Individual Contributor + Team Mentor (Multi-Project Delivery).
Position Summary: We are looking for a highly skilled, hands-on Senior SAP S/4HANA FICO Consultant who can independently drive complex finance implementations with minimal supervision. This is a delivery-focused role, not a pure people management position. The candidate will act as a functional expert and mentor, owning critical configurations, ensuring delivery quality across multiple projects, and guiding junior consultants to become independent contributors.
Responsibilities
- Lead end-to-end S/4HANA FICO implementations (blueprint to go-live hypercare)
- Own AMS support, enhancements, and stabilization activities
- Handle India localization (GST, e-Invoicing, e-Way Bill) and support global rollouts
- Drive finance transformation and process optimization
- Manage integration with MM, SD, and PP modules
- Lead data migration, reconciliation, and financial validation
- Provide techno-functional expertise (debugging, enhancements)
- Mentor and train internal team members
- Manage client communication and escalations independently
- Ensure quality of configuration and solution delivery across projects
Core Functional Expertise
- Universal Journal
- Parallel Ledgers
- Document Splitting
- GL
- AP
- AR
- Asset Accounting (full lifecycle)
- Banking BRS (EBS + manual reconciliation)
- Cost Center
- Profit Center
- Internal Orders
- COPA (account-based preferred)
- Budgeting Availability Control
- Financial closing reporting
Statutory Compliance (Mandatory)
- GST configuration and reporting
- e-Invoicing (IRN generation, GSP/API integration exposure)
- e-Way Bill
- TDS / withholding tax
- Minimum 5-6 full lifecycle implementations (at least 2 in S/4HANA)
- Experience in cutover planning and execution
- Ownership of hypercare and critical issue resolution
- Ability to handle multiple projects simultaneously (2-3 projects)
Requirements
- Strong hands-on configuration experience (not coordination-focused)
- Experience in India and at least one overseas engagement
Educational Qualification
- Bachelor's degree is mandatory; Finance background (CA / ICWA / M.Com / MBA Finance) is preferred
Preferred Skills
- Exposure to SD / PP integration
- Experience in global rollout projects
- Knowledge of Fiori apps and CDS views
- Exposure to cloud / RISE with SAP environments
Key Attributes
- Strong ownership mindset with delivery focus
- Ability to mentor and uplift team members
- High attention to configuration quality and detail
- Comfortable working in rapid-paced, multi-project environments
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