SAP Fico Consultant

Responsibilities

SAP Leadership & Project Delivery

• Lead SAP implementation and enhancement initiatives from requirements gathering through go-live and hypercare.
• Facilitate requirements workshops, Fit-Gap analysis, solution design, testing, deployment, and end-user readiness activities.
• Lead functional design discussions and drive timely resolution of functional and cross-functional issues.
• Partner with business stakeholders, IT teams, system integrators, and other project teams to deliver solutions aligned with agreed scope and business objectives.
• Identify project risks, dependencies, and delivery issues and communicate them clearly to relevant stakeholders.
• Promote effective collaboration and accountability across cross-functional teams.

Solution Design & Functional Delivery

• Translate business requirements into scalable SAP functional solutions.
• Partner with system integrators and technical teams to design, document, configure, and deliver SAP solutions.
• Define functional requirements for enhancements, interfaces, reports, workflows, and data-conversion solutions.
• Review functional designs and ensure solutions meet business, integration, and enterprise IT requirements.
• Evaluate relevant SAP capabilities and release enhancements and recommend opportunities that improve business processes or system effectiveness.

Business Analysis & Documentation

• Facilitate stakeholder workshops to understand existing processes, pain points, requirements, and future-state needs.
• Develop and maintain business requirements, process flows, use cases, user stories, functional specifications, and acceptance criteria.
• Maintain appropriate project artifacts in Jira or a comparable Agile delivery platform.
• Provide clear reporting on project status, risks, dependencies, issues, and key decisions.

Testing, Data Migration & Release Management

• Plan and coordinate functional, integration, security, regression, and user acceptance testing.
• Drive defect triage, resolution, retesting, and business validation.
• Support data profiling, extraction, cleansing, migration, reconciliation, and validation activities.
• Contribute to release planning, cutover readiness, deployment, and go-live activities.
• Lead or support post-production stabilization and hypercare activities.

Continuous Improvement & Operational Support

• Perform root cause analysis for recurring functional or process issues and coordinate corrective and preventive actions.
• Identify opportunities to simplify and improve SAP-enabled business processes.
• Support sustainable operating procedures, knowledge transfer, and team capability development.

Define, validate, and support business and operational reporting requirements

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Business, Engineering, or a related discipline, or equivalent relevant professional experience.
• Demonstrated experience leading SAP implementations, transformations, or major enhancement programs.
• Strong functional knowledge of [insert required SAP module(s)/solution area] and related end-to-end business processes.
• Experience facilitating requirements workshops, Fit-Gap analysis, process design, functional solution design, testing, and user readiness activities.
• Experience working with business stakeholders, IT teams, system integrators, and cross-functional delivery teams.
• Experience developing functional specifications, business requirements, process flows, user stories, and acceptance criteria.
• Experience supporting SAP testing, defect management, cutover, and post-go-live stabilization.
• Working knowledge of Jira or a comparable Agile project-management platform.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, root cause analysis, and decision-making skills.
• Experience working within Agile, iterative, or hybrid delivery methodologies.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to communicate technical concepts to business stakeholders.
• Demonstrated ability to lead and influence cross-functional teams.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with SAP S/4HANA implementations or transformations, if applicable to the environment.
• Experience delivering large-scale SAP programs across multiple business functions, sites, or regions.
• Experience with SAP reporting and analytics solutions relevant to the functional area.
• Experience with data migration, cutover, release management, and hypercare.
• Relevant SAP functional certification for the applicable module or solution area.
• Experience with [replace "IERP" with the confirmed platform/product and define it where necessary].