Engagement: Contract / Fractional
Experience: 8+ years
Focus: Cost Accounting, Enterprise Budgeting & Finance Systems
About the Role
We are looking for a Senior Functional Solution Consultant with strong experience in cost accounting, annual budgeting and finance transformation .
You will work between Finance, Product, Engineering, QA and Delivery to convert complex finance processes into clear, buildable and testable software requirements.
This is not a generic Business Analyst role . Strong hands-on understanding of cost centres, budgeting, allocations, actuals, variance and finance systems is essential.
What You'll Do
- Understand and map budgeting and cost-accounting processes.
- Define Cost Centres, Cost Elements/GL mapping, drivers, formulas, rates, allocations and budget versions .
- Convert finance requirements into functional specifications, workflows and acceptance criteria.
- Create configuration catalogues, formula specifications and data/mapping requirements.
- Convert approved requirements into clear WBS work packages for Engineering and QA.
- Identify gaps, assumptions, dependencies and scope changes before they impact development.
- Support Engineering, QA and UAT teams throughout implementation.
- Lead workshops with Finance and business stakeholders and drive decisions to closure.
- Help distinguish between defects, configuration issues, data issues and new scope during UAT.
Must Have
- 8+ years of experience in finance-functional consulting, cost accounting, FP&A; systems, enterprise budgeting or ERP finance transformation.
- Robust cost-accounting experience in manufacturing, industrial, consumer goods, chemicals, process manufacturing or similar environments .
- Experience with at least one enterprise finance/planning platform such as SAP CO, SAP BPC, SAC Planning, Oracle EPM, Anaplan or IBM Planning Analytics .
- Strong knowledge of Cost Centres, Cost Elements/GL mapping, allocations, drivers, standard rates, actuals, variance, currency and annual budgeting .
- Experience creating functional specifications and UAT/acceptance documentation.
- Strong communication and written English.
- Ability to work with incomplete or conflicting finance documentation and turn it into clear system behaviour.
Good to Have
- Multi-plant, multi-department or multi-entity budgeting experience.
- Experience with effective-dated configurations and approval/delegation workflows.
- Experience with Azure, SSO/RBAC, audit controls and formal UAT/Go-Live processes.
- Experience working with custom software development teams.
- Experience working with Indonesian enterprise stakeholders.
Engagement The initial engagement is expected to be an intensive 6–8 week design phase , with potential continued support through build, UAT and early go-live.
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