SAP S4 HANA Core Finance Functional with Strong Asset accounting

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Job Title: SAP S4 HANA Core Finance Functional with Strong Asset accounting-

Location: Houston, TX

Job Description

Core Responsibilities

• Serve as the senior client-side advocate for SAP Core Finance design across record-to-report, controllership, and core accounting process areas.
• Review and challenge program deliverables including but not limited to design documents, functional specifications, configuration choices, process flows, and cross-functional integration decisions proposed by the SI and other delivery partners.
• Guide decision-making for general ledger, accounts payable, accounts receivable, asset accounting, controlling, intercompany, allocations, close/reporting, and other core finance capabilities in S/4HANA.
• Validate fit-to-standard recommendations and identify where utility-specific requirements, regulatory needs, or internal control obligations justify additional design consideration.
• Ensure strong traceability from business requirements through design decisions, configuration outcomes, testing impacts, and reporting consequences.
• Participate in Design Authority, governance forums, and key deliverable review cycles on behalf of the client team.
• Help identify and resolve cross-functional issues spanning supply chain, finance, EAM, and field operations.
• Guide the client team on where fit-to-standard is appropriate and where operational realities require deeper evaluation or design clarification.
• Translate complex finance design trade-offs into clear business decision points for client sponsors, process owners, and governance stakeholders.
• Help build client capability by coaching finance leads and reinforcing durable quality disciplines across planning, design, and validation activities.

Required Experience and Qualifications

• 12-15 years of SAP Finance experience with deep command of SAP ECC and SAP S/4HANA implementations across large, complex transformation programs.
• Demonstrated expertise in core finance capabilities including GL, AP, AR, Asset Accounting, Cost Center Accounting, Internal Orders, Profitability/Controlling, and financial close/reporting processes.
• Strong understanding of S/4HANA finance concepts, including Universal Journal and key finance integration points with supply chain, projects, and EAM.
• Hands-on experience interpreting and validating design documentation, functional specifications, process architecture, and integration designs.
• Strong working knowledge of SAP Activate, Fit-to-Standard, and end-to-end process design methods.
• Experience implementing large, complex, multi-jurisdiction SAP Transformations is required.
• Experience across both SAP ECC and SAP S/4HANA environments is required.

Additional Preferred Experience

• Experience implementing SAP in Electric and/or Gas IOU s is strongly preferred.
• Southwest region based preferred but not required.
• Ability and willingness to co-locate with the client team during critical planning, design, and governance periods. (at least 50% of the time)
• 4 full-lifecycle SAP Transformations, at least 3 preferred
• Experience with PowerPlan /Fixed Asset Accounting is preferred.
• Experience with FERC reporting, regulatory accounting/reporting needs, or other utility reporting obligations.
• Experience operating in complex multi-partner programs where the practitioner must independently assess and challenge SI recommendations.
• Experience with capital vs. O&M treatment, regulatory recovery considerations, fixed asset capitalization, work order settlement, and utility accounting structures.
• Experience advising utility clients on finance implications of major EAM, supply chain, and field execution design decisions.