Sr. SAP Finance Consultant

Job Title: Sr. Finance Consultant/Architect

Location: San Jose, CA - Remote

Duration: 8+ Months

Hourly Rate: $100/hr on W2

Job Title: Sr. Finance Consultant/Architect

Key Responsibilities:

• Expertise in architecting and driving custom reports like Financial Statements, Cash Flow and profit and loss reports.

• Designing, implementing, and supporting complex business processes in an SAP environment

• Designing, building, testing, and deploying SAP FICO technical solutions, emphasizing RICEFs (Reports, Interfaces, Conversions, Extensions, Forms) design

• Deal effectively with ambiguous and unstructured problems and situations.

• Initiate open and candid coaching conversations at all levels.

• Initiate and lead open conversations with teams, clients, and stakeholders to build trust.

• Anticipate stakeholder needs, and develop and discuss potential solutions, even before the stakeholder realizes they are required.

• Coordinating and liaison with the other cross functional Workstreams, Strategic Integration Vendors, SME’s, Communities of Practice’s, IT Solution Architects/COE and Stakeholders across the network to develop a strong and deep pool of expertise across Finance processes and Applications.

• Liaise with the SMEs to develop training plans for each of the key Applications to enhance the knowledge base across the Finance Domain

• Identify System enhancements, including reports, setting system targets, preparing estimates and understanding actuals through critical analytics.

• Support cross functional teams across organizational entities to drive business systems through improvement and sustainable changes.

• Analyze, design, and implement S/4 Hana system improvements through interaction with internal users and customers to understand and document system requirements to produce business requirements documents (BRDs)

• Identify and support end user system access and/or transactional issues and interface with additional internal/external resources as required.

• Teams with internal auditors during deployment of system audits

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in finance, Accounting, or a related field

• 15 years of experience in financial roles

• Strong understanding of Finance operations

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills

• Detail-oriented with a high degree of accuracy

• Ability to work collaboratively in a team and across departments.

• Experience in process automation and cost-saving initiatives is a plus.

Desired Qualifications and Experience:

• Exceptional ability to comprehend and translate complex functional requirements. Proven experience in leading complex projects.

• Outstanding communication and collaboration skills for effective leadership in cross-functional teams.

• Proven experience with Agile methodologies and practices.

• Willingness and ability to travel as needed to support projects and solution requirements.

• SAP certification(s) in SAP S/4 Hana Finance is highly advantageous.