Job Summary:
The SAP FICO Consultant will act as the internal Finance solution owner for Cummins Arabia's SAP S/4HANA transformation program. The role is responsible for owning finance and controlling business requirements, validating and governing the SAP FICO solution delivered by the System Integrator (SI), and ensuring compliance with statutory, reporting, and business needs. The consultant will serve as the primary bridge between Finance stakeholders and the SI, ensuring SAP standardbased, scalable, and auditcompliant solutions are delivered.
Qualifications & Experience:
- Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Information Technology, or related field.
- Minimum 7-10 years of hands-on experience in SAP FICO implementation and support.
- Strong understanding of financial accounting principles, controlling processes, and statutory compliance (IFRS/local GAAP).
- Experience with SAP Rise with S/4HANA is highly preferred.
- SAP FICO certification is a plus.
Skills & Competencies:
- Deep expertise in SAP FICO configuration and integration.
- Ability to challenge SI design decisions and prevent overcustomization while enforcing SAP standardfirst principles.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management abilities.
- Ability to work independently and lead cross-functional teams.
- Familiarity with SAP Solution Manager, Fiori apps, and reporting tools.
Preferred Experience:
- Experience in manufacturing, industrial, or project-based environments.
Exposure to financial reporting for multiple business lines and consolidated reporting
Key Responsibilities:
Solution Leadership & Design
- Own and govern SAP Finance solution design, ensuring all finance business requirements are clearly defined, validated, and correctly delivered by the SI.
- Own and govern the SAP FICO solution architecture and validate SI design decisions against business needs and SAP best practices.
- Review, challenge, and validate SIproposed solution designs, SAP configurations, and custom developments for complex finance processes.
- Drive and part of solution design workshops sessions with finance stakeholders.
Implementation & Configuration
- Review, validate, and approve SAP FICO configurations delivered by SI, including:
- Finance (FI): General Ledger (GL), Accounts Payable (AP), Accounts Receivable (AR), Asset Accounting (AA), Bank Accounting.
- Controlling (CO): Cost Center Accounting, Profit Center Accounting, Internal Orders, Product Costing, Profitability Analysis (CO-PA).
- Ensure seamless integration with other SAP modules (MM, SD, PP, QM, EWM, PS) and external systems.
Project Execution & Support
- Work closely with SI, validate the SI deliverables and provide sign off for further phase to start. Act as the functional gatekeeper for finance scope before phase exits and golive.
- Participate in all phases of the SAP Activate methodology: Discover, Prepare, Explore, Realize, Deploy, and Run.
- Own finance business scenario validation and formally accept or reject SI testing results during unit testing, integration testing, and UAT.
- Provide post-go-live support, issue resolution, and continuous improvement of finance processes.
Stakeholder Engagement
- Collaborate with finance, operations, and audit teams to ensure SAP solutions meet regulatory and reporting requirements.
- Act as a trusted advisor to internal stakeholders, providing guidance on SAP capabilities and process optimization.
- Coordinate with external system integrators and ensure knowledge transfer to internal teams.
Documentation & Training
- Review, validate, and approve functional specifications, configuration documents, and process designs prepared by the SI.
- Validate training materials and coown training delivery with SI to ensure business readiness.
