Job Description:

Role: Senior Associate

Tower: SAP

Experience: 6 - 10 years

Key Skills: SAP Central Finance (CFIN)

Educational Qualification: BE / B Tech / ME / M Tech / MBA / B.SC / B. Com / BBA

Job Description

As a Senior Associate, you'll work as part of a team of problem solvers, helping to solve complex business issues from strategy to execution. PwC Professional skills and responsibilities for this management level include but are not limited to:

As an Associate, you'll work as part of a team of problem solvers, helping to solve complex business issues from strategy to execution. PwC Qualified skills and responsibilities for this management level include but are not limited to:

Collaborate effectively with others.

Identify and make suggestions for improvements when problems and/or opportunities arise.

Handle/analyze data and information responsibly.

Follow risk management and compliance procedures.

Keep up to date with developments in the area of specialization.

Communicate confidently in a clear and concise manner.

Uphold the firm's code of ethics and business conduct.

Work in a team environment that includes client interactions, manage deliverables independently, and cross-team collaboration.

Good Team player. Take up cross competency work and contribute to COE activities.

Position Requirements:

Role: SAP S/4HANA Central Finance (CFIN) Functional & Technical Support Consultant Support Scope: External FI Document Replication from Baan and InforLN to SAP S/4HANA Central Finance through IBM-DS -> SAP SLT.

1. SAP Central Finance Functional Knowledge

Strong understanding of SAP S/4HANA Central Finance architecture and end-to-end external FI document replication.

Experience with FI document replication from non-SAP source systems, specifically Baan and InforLN.

Knowledge of CFIN document processing, accounting document creation, and Universal Journal (ACDOCA).

Strong SAP Finance knowledge, including General Ledger, company codes, fiscal year variants, posting periods, currencies, exchange rates, and document types, document splitting, Profit Center and Segment derivation, and zero-balance clearing.

Knowledge of parallel currencies, group currency, currency types, and parallel valuations.

Ability to troubleshoot accounting documents posting errors, including balance differences, missing master data, account determination, and currency-related errors.

Understanding of CFIN initial load, historical load, ongoing replication, and reconciliation processes.

2. SAP SLT and Third-Party System Integration

Hands-on experience with SAP Landscape Transformation Replication Server (SLT) integration with non-SAP source systems.

Understanding of Baan and InforLN database structures and extraction mechanisms.

Knowledge of custom SLT staging tables, including FI document header and line-item tables.

Experience troubleshooting the end-to-end flow: Baan/LN IBM-DS SLT CFIN AIF FI Document.

Ability to monitor SLT replication.

Troubleshooting SLT mass transfer IDs, replication jobs, triggers, logging tables, and replication latency.

Ability to investigate missing documents, stuck records, duplicate records, incomplete header/line-item transfers, and failed replication.

Knowledge of SLT data transformation, filtering, field mapping, and replication configurations.

Ability to coordinate with source-system, database, BASIS, and infrastructure teams to resolve integration issues.

Understanding of SLT connectivity, RFC destinations, authorizations, and technical dependencies.

3. SAP AIF Monitoring and Error Resolution

Strong hands-on experience with SAP Application Interface Framework (AIF) for CFIN FI document replication.

Ability to monitor, analyze, correct, restart, and reprocess failed accounting documents using /AIF/ERR.

Knowledge of AIF namespaces, interfaces, error statuses, and message processing.

Ability to distinguish between source-data errors, mapping errors, configuration defects, and technical integration failures.

Experience resolving Profit Center, Cost Center, G/L account, Trading partner, document splitting, currency, and balancing errors.

Knowledge of AIF error notifications,



monitoring jobs, and automated alerts.

Ability to identify recurring error patterns and implement permanent solutions to minimize manual corrections.

Experience with mass reprocessing of AIF errors and monitoring successful document postings.

4. CFIN Mapping and Master Data

Strong knowledge of CFIN mapping configuration and Mapping Framework

Experience maintaining and troubleshooting mappings for:

Company Codes and cross-system Company Code assignments.

G/L Accounts and Chart of Accounts.

Cost Centers and Profit Centers.

Document Types and other relevant FI fields.

Knowledge of source-system identifiers, key mappings, and value mappings.

Ability to identify missing or incorrect mappings and coordinate mapping corrections.

Understanding of master-data dependencies, validity dates, and organizational assignments.

5. CFIN Technical and ABAP Troubleshooting

Ability to analyze custom ABAP enhancements, BAdIs, user exits, and transformation logic.

Experience in CFIN inbound processing, mapping logic, and accounting document posting.

Working knowledge of ACDOCA, BKPF, BSEG, and relevant CFIN/AIF technical tables.

Ability to troubleshoot custom staging interfaces and /1LT/* table processing.

Ability to analyze short dumps, failed background jobs, application logs, and interface errors.

Knowledge of IDoc, RFC, and asynchronous integration concepts, where relevant to the solution architecture.

Ability to work with ABAP developers to implement, test, and deploy technical corrections.

6. Reconciliation and Data Integrity

Experience reconciling FI documents between Baan/LN source systems and SAP Central Finance.

Ability to validate document counts, debit/credit balances, and currency amounts.

Understanding of document-level and Trial Balance reconciliation.

Ability to identify missing, duplicate, rejected, or partially processed documents.

Experience monitoring replication completeness and calculating interface success rates.

Ability to investigate source-to-target differences in G/L accounts, company codes, Profit Centers, and currencies.

Knowledge of historical-load versus ongoing-replication reconciliation and cutover boundaries.

Ability to prepare daily reconciliation reports and exception summaries.

7. Production Support and Incident Management

Experience providing L2/L3 production support for SAP CFIN and SLT interfaces.

Ability to independently investigate and resolve critical production incidents.

Experience with ADO, or equivalent incident and defect management tools.

Knowledge of incident prioritization, SLA management, root cause analysis, and problem management.

Ability to distinguish temporary workarounds from permanent defect fixes.

Experience coordinating production changes, transports, emergency corrections, and regression testing.

Ability to support month-end and year-end financial close activities.

Knowledge of job monitoring, interface recovery, data reprocessing, and restart procedures.

Experience preparing incident documentation, RCA reports, and knowledge-transfer materials.

8. Monitoring, Automation and Operational Controls

Ability to perform daily health checks of SLT replication, AIF queues, and CFIN posting status.

Experience monitoring background jobs, replication delays, and interface failures.

Ability to establish automated monitoring, alerts, and escalation procedures.

Knowledge of safe reprocessing controls to prevent duplicate accounting documents.

Ability to develop operational dashboards covering replication volumes, failed documents, aging, and success rates.

Experience identifying performance bottlenecks and supporting high-volume FI document replication.

Understanding production controls, audit requirements,



and change-management procedures.

Required Skills:

6 10 years of SAP FI/CO experience, including hands-on SAP Central Finance implementation or production support.

At least one end-to-end SAP CFIN implementation involving non-SAP source systems.

Strong experience with SAP SLT and third-party database integration.

Prior experience with Baan / Infor LN to SAP S/4HANA integration preferred.

Hands-on experience with SAP S/4HANA 2023 Private Cloud or equivalent releases.

Ability to independently handle functional and technical troubleshooting without relying extensively on separate teams.

Strong analytical skills, communication, documentation, and cross-functional coordination.

Experience supporting offshore/onshore production support models.

Preferred Skills:

Critical Skills Must Have vs. Nice to Have

Skill

Priority

SAP CFIN external FI document replication

Must Have

SLT integration with Non SAP Systems

Must Have

SLT monitoring and troubleshooting

Must Have

AIF error analysis, correction and reprocessing

Must Have

SAP Finance functional knowledge

Must Have

CFIN mapping and master-data troubleshooting

Must Have

Source-to-target reconciliation

Must Have

L2/L3 incident management and RCA

Must Have

Background job monitoring and interface recovery

Must Have

Non-SAP database troubleshooting

Preferred

Performance tuning and monitoring automation

Preferred

SAP BASIS and infrastructure coordination

Preferred

CFIN technical troubleshooting

Preferred

Managed Services - Application Evolution Services

At PwC we relentlessly focus on working with our clients to bring the power of technology and humans together and create simple, yet powerful solutions. We imagine a day when our clients can simply focus on their business knowing that they have a trusted partner for their IT needs. Everyday we are motivated and passionate about making our clients' better.

Within our Managed Services platform, PwC delivers integrated services and solutions that are grounded in deep industry experience and powered by the talent that you would expect from the PwC brand. The PwC Managed Services platform delivers scalable solutions that add greater value to our client's enterprise through technology and human-enabled experiences. Our team of highly-skilled and trained global professionals, combined with the use of the latest advancements in technology and process, allows us to provide effective and efficient outcomes. With PwC's Managed Services our client's are able to focus on accelerating their priorities, including optimizing operations and accelerating outcomes. PwC brings a consultative first approach to operations, leveraging our deep industry insights combined with world class talent and assets to enable transformational journeys that drive sustained client outcomes. Our clients need flexible access to world class business and technology capabilities that keep pace with today's dynamic business environment.

Within our global, Managed Services platform, we provide Application Evolution Services (formerly Application Managed Services), where we focus more so on the evolution of our clients' applications and cloud portfolio. Our focus is to empower our client's to navigate and capture the value of their application portfolio while cost-effectively operating and protecting their solutions. We do this so that our clients can focus on what matters most to your business: accelerating growth that is dynamic, efficient and cost-effective.

As a member of our Application Evolution Services (AES) team, we are looking for candidates who thrive working in a high-paced work environment capable of working on a mix of critical Application Evolution Service offerings and engagement including help desk support, enhancement and optimization work, as well as strategic roadmap and advisory level work. It will also be key to lend experience and effort in helping win and support customer engagements from not only a technical perspective, but also a relationship perspective.
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Mandatory Skills - Under JD
Nice to have skills - Under JD
Clean Room Project - No

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