SAP FICO VIM Senior Consultant

AG, an industry-leading specialist in SAP consulting services, delivers solutions across ECC, S/4 HANA Private and Public Cloud, solving business challenges and understanding SAP to an expert level. We’re proud to employ some of the world’s most talented and best-trained SAP and RPA Consultants across all our international locations. Our Consultants have extensive SAP Implementation and ‘real world’ SAP Support experience, experts in Business Process Enhancements, Data Migration and SAP 3rd Party Application integration.

We are seeking a Senior SAP FICO & VIM Consultant to join a leading SAP consultancy. The role will focus on delivering high-quality SAP Finance solutions, with a strong emphasis on SAP FICO and Vendor Invoice Management (VIM by OpenText) across client transformation and optimisation programmes. The successful candidate will bring deep functional expertise, strong client-facing skills, and experience working in a consulting delivery environment. Ideally with some domain knowledge in the Oil and Gas/Energy Natural Resources sector.

Qualified candidates will work on implementation and support projects in ECC and S/4 HANA environments. The SAP (FICO) Senior Consultant will work with clients to understand their finance business processes and accounting practices, analysing and translating those requirements to enhance, support and facilitate effective solutions, using their business process knowledge and SAP FICO Technical Knowledge. They will assist clients in the implementation, configuration, and support of SAP Functionality.

Strong SAP FICO skills and S4/HANA implementation experience is required, in areas such as Business Partners, Currency settings, New Fixed Assets, parallel and extension ledgers and Fiori Apps. Responsibilities include:

• Liaising with clients to provide full life-cycle project implementation consulting expertise including assessments, blueprinting, configuration, testing, data migration and go-live stability.
• Implementing and supporting OpenText VIM solutions, including invoice processing, workflow configuration, exception handling, and integration with SAP FICO.
• Preparing and facilitating assessment/blueprint workshops to analyse clients’ business requirements.
• Defining the SAP Blueprint by embedding the Business processes and Standard SAP best practices for existing software, hardware, and network provision.
• Examining existing business models and flows of data and designing functional specifications and test plans for new systems to meet clients’ needs.
• Writing detailed functional mapping to SAP applications, functional gap analysis, detailed blueprint design and process documentation and detailed functional specifications for any custom development.
• Preparing summary level presentations and facilitating future and emerging state system design and process workshops to obtain client acceptance.
• Performing and/or overseeing the configuration of SAP applications, creation of unit test scripts, and execution of unit tests.
• Training client staff on design, application functions and configuration to implement new systems.
• Creating and/or supporting creation of integration/user acceptance test scenarios and scripts as well as facilitating and providing direct support for user testing.
• Creating and/or supporting creation of Data Migration scripts and templates and assisting or performing the Data Migration.
• Creating and/or supporting creation of cutover plan as well as facilitating and providing direct support for production migration and go-live stability.
• Providing status updates on assigned work to management and, when required, acting as a project manager on small to medium-sized projects.
• Providing consulting services on both new implementations and existing support projects.
• Engaging with client stakeholders to gather and translate business requirements into functional designs and system solutions.

Qualifications include:

• A degree in Finance, engineering, business administration or applicable work experience is advantageous.
• Minimum of 8 years of experience in a full cycle implementation as well as in upgrades/migration or support projects.
• Proven experience as a Senior SAP FICO Consultant within a consultancy or systems integrator environment.
• Strong hands-on configuration experience across SAP FI and CO modules.
• Solid experience implementing and supporting OpenText VIM integrated with SAP.
• Experience working on SAP ECC and/or SAP S/4HANA Finance projects.
• Strong understanding of end-to-end finance processes including P2P, R2R and O2C.
• Excellent client-facing, stakeholder management, and communication skills.

Preferred Qualifications:

• SAP or OpenText certifications.
• Experience with S/4HANA Finance transformations or brownfield conversions.
• Exposure to SAP BTP or workflow automation tools.
• Experience in regulated or complex enterprise environments.
• Knowledge of Agile or hybrid delivery methodologies.

Rate based on profile, expertise & exposure.

Interview Process:

• Round 1: HR (Recruiter) Interview – To identify/cross check professional & personal details.
• Round 2: Technical Round – To gauge the technical expertise of the candidate.
• Round 3: Director rendezvous – Directors confirm if the candidate is a good fit for AG.
• Round 4: HR Manager Discussion – HR Manager will discuss the salary breakup and other benefits before the release of offer.

Seniority level: Mid-Senior level

Employment type: Full-time

Job function: Information Technology, Consulting, and Finance Business Consulting and Services, IT Services and IT Consulting, and Oil, Gas, and Mining.