SAP Accounting Consultant

Our client focuses on developing first-in-class and best-in-class therapeutics that provide meaningful advances to patients who live with serious and life-threatening rare genetic diseases.

Summary:

As our SAP Accounting Consultant, you will bring a combination of expert knowledge and experience on SAP S/4 Hana ERP system implementation and the general ledger accounting close.

We will appreciate your best practices in system design, processes, hands-on UAT testing, issue resolutions, and a successful go-live.

In addition, we can leverage your U.S. GAAP accounting close experience to support a smooth close.

We are a great team who values flexibility, excellence, integrity, and work-life balance.

We offer a hybrid model to get both personal connections as well as remote flexibilities. We collaborate in the office on Tuesday and Thursday while Monday, Wednesday, and Friday are remote.

This role is part of the U.S. accounting team and reports to the Director, U.S. Controllership.

Responsibilities:

SAP ERP System Implementation (80%):

You will function as our liaison between the U.S. controllership accounting team and the ERP Implementation team, advocating and ensuring accounting needs are met.

You will support SAP S/4 Hana ERP system design, setup, processes, system integration testing (SIT), master data load (MDL), user acceptance testing (UAT), address and resolve issues, prep for go-live and post go-live support.

Your support areas include cash and investments, payroll, prepaids, accruals, intercompany, Blackline, fixed assets and WBS capital projects, WBS R&D, leases, expense allocations, product allocations.

Perform SAP testing, identify issues, and work with the ERP Implementation team and accounting team to resolve issues.

Document system processes/workflows and train the accounting team on usage, share knowledge, and prepare the accounting team for go-live. Create SAP SOPs and provide overview trainings in accounting areas. Accounting Close (20%):

Prepare journal entries (e.g., prepaid addition/amortization, accruals, and other journals as applicable).

Prepare balance sheet account reconciliations.

Prepare income statement and balance sheet flux analysis and provide flux comments.

Ensure income statement and balance sheet are accurate, timely, and compliant with U.S. GAAP, internal controls, and company policies.