SAP Finance Functional Consultant SAP Finance Functional Consultant

Job description

Key Responsibilities • Conduct workshops with Finance, Logistics and business stakeholders to understand the current freight invoice process and define the future-state process. • Own functional requirements for approved Freight Invoice and Credit Note integration into SAP. • Define SAP invoice-posting requirements, accounting rules and validation logic. • Determine appropriate SAP posting processes/document types and required accounting treatment. • Define Vendor, GL Account, Cost Center and other accounting mappings required for invoice posting. • Analyze tax, currency, company code, payment and other relevant FI posting requirements. • Define business rules for successful posting, rejection and exception scenarios. • Define SAP acknowledgement/status information required by the external Freight Audit solution. • Design functional requirements for invoice attachments/supporting documents received from the external platform. • Define reconciliation requirements between LOOP and SAP to ensure completeness and accuracy of invoice processing. • Define functional requirements for logging, error handling, reprocessing and monitoring. • Analyze and define the Freight Accrual process/reporting requirements in coordination with Finance and Logistics. • Prepare detailed Functional Specifications, interface mappings, business rules and test scenarios. • Work closely with SAP BTP/CPI and ABAP developers during technical design and development. • Review technical solutions to ensure alignment with Finance requirements and SAP accounting controls. • Perform functional/unit testing of SAP posting scenarios. • Support end-to-end SIT and business UAT. • Analyze posting failures and coordinate defect resolution across SAP, integration and external vendor teams. • Support cutover, Go-Live and post-production validation for each rollout. • Provide hypercare support and knowledge transfer to the SAP support organization. Required Skills • Strong hands-on experience in SAP FI, particularly Accounts Payable (FI-AP). • Strong knowledge of vendor invoice and credit-note processing. • Good understanding of SAP accounting documents, posting keys, document types, GL accounts, Cost Centers and account determination. • Experience with automated/interface-based financial postings into SAP. • Strong SAP configuration knowledge in relevant FI areas. • Experience designing validation, error handling, reconciliation and reprocessing processes. • Strong experience in SAP development/integration projects involving interfaces, APIs and RICEF objects. • Ability to prepare detailed Functional Specifications and data/interface mappings. • Experience working closely with ABAP and middleware/integration developers. • Experience with SIT, UAT, cutover, production deployment and hypercare. • Strong analytical and production-issue troubleshooting capability. • Strong client-facing communication and stakeholder-management skills. • Ability to independently own requirements through design, development, testing and Go-Live. • Flexibility to collaborate with India, US and third-party vendor teams across time zones. Preferred Skills • Experience with freight invoice processing, freight audit or logistics invoice integration. • SAP S/4HANA / SAP RISE project experience. • Exposure to SAP BTP Integration Suite/CPI and API-based SAP integrations. • Knowledge of freight accrual/accounting processes. • Experience integrating SAP with third-party invoice-processing, freight or logistics platforms. • Experience with multi-phase/global SAP rollout projects. ",