Job Summary:
The FICO Lead Consultant will serve as the single point of contact for the Park and Post solution, owning functional design, role design, role-to-user mapping, and coordination with Finance, Controllership, IT, security, ABAP/Workflow, and GRC stakeholders. The role will lead requirements workshops across multiple countries and company codes, define approval workflows and thresholds, oversee FI configuration and functional specifications, manage SIT and UAT, coordinate cutover readiness, and lead hypercare through transition to client support.
Key Responsibilities:
• Run requirements workshops with Finance and Controllership across US, Canada, Hong Kong, and Mexico and convert outcomes into signed-off functional designs.
• Define threshold values by company code, country, and department, including applicable lower local limits, and specify Z-table structure and effective-dating behavior for workflow.
• Design the approver hierarchy model covering company code, department, tier, position, and user mapping, including the required data templates.
• Own role design and role-to-user mapping, including defining role boundaries and authorization activities to be withdrawn from existing GLSU and FI roles.
• Produce functional specifications for ABAP/Workflow development and role specifications for GRC implementation.
• Secure threshold values, approver hierarchy information, and initial delegation records required for implementation.
• Own FI configuration for the solution and serve as the functional authority for build-related questions from ABAP/Workflow and GRC consultants.
• Review and approve tier determination logic, currency translation treatment, and agent determination rules against the approved blueprint.
• Coordinate role-to-user mapping with Client Security and Finance teams and resolve conflicts identified through GRC risk analysis.
• Own SIT and UAT scope, approve test scripts prepared by offshore teams, and chair defect triage activities.
• Coordinate business validators across all four countries and manage validation readiness.
• Own cutover readiness, including role assignment, threshold table loading, hierarchy loading, and go/no-go decision input.
• Lead onsite hypercare, manage daily triage activities, and transition the solution to client support.
Required Qualifications:
• 10+ years of SAP FICO experience.
• At least 3 full-lifecycle implementations or major enhancements involving SAP ECC FI.
• Strong experience with SAP FI, including General Ledger (GL), document parking and posting, document types, posting periods, currency, and exchange-rate configuration.
• Demonstrated experience designing FI approval workflows, including document parking release, amount-based release strategies, and workflow variants at company-code level.
• Strong working knowledge of SAP FI authorization objects and the distinction between park and post activities.
• Ability to specify SAP roles precisely for implementation by security consultants.
• Experience with GLSU or an equivalent Excel-to-SAP journal upload tool.
• Experience working with multi-country, multi-currency, and multi-company-code FI environments.
• Experience with cross-company documents and foreign currency translation rules.
• Proven client-facing SPOC experience with the ability to conduct workshops with Controllers and senior stakeholders, manage scope, and make or ratify functional design decisions.
• Experience working with offshore delivery models and coordinating follow-the-sun handovers.
• Strong communication, stakeholder management, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
Preferred Qualifications:
• Exposure to SAP GRC.
