SAP FICO Finance Functional Expert/ Lead - S/4HANA Semiconductor/Hitech Domain

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The Senior SAP S/4HANA Finance Functional Expert serves as the primary liaison between Finance business stakeholders and IT delivery teams. This role combines deep Finance business experience with hands-on SAP S/4HANA functional expertise to support, optimize, and transform end-to-end Finance processes. The individual acts as a trusted subject matter expert for Finance business processes, SAP solutions, reporting, analytics, data governance, AI-enabled capabilities, and continuous process improvement initiatives.

• Responsible for the Finance IT ecosystem that includes SAP S/4HANA and integrated applications such as OneStream.
• Serve as the primary SAP S/4HANA Finance Functional Expert, providing leadership for solution design, configuration, testing, deployment, and ongoing support of Finance-related capabilities.
• Configure, maintain, and optimize SAP S/4HANA Finance solutions to support Accounting, Costing, FP&A, Treasury, Reporting, and related business processes.
• Partner with Finance business stakeholders to gather requirements, analyze business needs, and translate them into scalable SAP functional solutions and technical requirements.
• Lead SAP Finance master data governance, transactional data management, configuration changes, and system enhancements to improve process effectiveness and data integrity.
• Collaborate with SAP technical teams, developers, integration teams, security teams, and AMS providers to deliver system improvements and resolve complex issues.
• Ensure seamless integration between SAP Finance and upstream business processes, including Procure-to-Pay (PTP), Order-to-Cash (OTC), Supply Chain Management (SCM), Manufacturing, and Plant Maintenance (PM).
• Support SAP Fiori, SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC), SAP Joule AI capabilities, and Microsoft Copilot initiatives that enhance user productivity, reporting, analytics, and business decision-making.
• Provide production support, incident resolution, root-cause analysis, transport coordination, change management, and release support following ITIL best practices.
• Develop and maintain business process documentation, functional specifications, process flows, work instructions, training materials, and knowledge articles.
• Lead or participate in SAP implementation, upgrade, enhancement, and transformation projects using Agile, Waterfall, or hybrid project methodologies while driving continuous process improvement and user adoption.
• Participate and partner with operations to improve inventory control, cycle count program, and inventory transactions for production and work order processing.
• Assist with interim and year-end audits

Mandatory Skills & Experience

• 8 years of hands-on SAP Finance functional experience, including SAP S/4HANA configuration, implementation, enhancement, and support experience.
• 5 years of hands-on Finance business experience in SAP S/4HANA Finance, including General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Asset Accounting, Costing, Controlling, Treasury, Planning, and Financial Reporting.
• 8 years of hands-on SAP Finance functional experience, including SAP S/4HANA configuration, implementation, enhancement, and support experience.
• 5 years of hands-on Finance business experience in SAP S/4HANA Finance, including General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Asset Accounting, Costing, Controlling, Treasury, Planning, and Financial Reporting.
• Proven experience configuring SAP organizational structures, master data, business rules, financial controls, workflows, reporting structures, and Finance-related system processes.
• Strong understanding of SAP Finance integration with Procurement, Supply Chain, Manufacturing, Inventory Management, Plant Maintenance, Logistics, and Sales processes.
• Demonstrated ability to gather business requirements, perform process analysis, and translate requirements into functional designs, configuration specifications, and technical deliverables.
• Experience with SAP master data governance, transactional data management, testing, change management, release management, and production support.
• Working knowledge of SAP Fiori applications, role-based user experiences, embedded analytics, and SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC).
• Experience supporting SAP Security, Governance Risk & Compliance (GRC), Segregation of Duties (SoD), and SAP transport management processes within an ITIL-controlled environment.
• Strong business-facing communication skills with the ability to act as an effective liaison between Finance stakeholders, business process owners, IT teams, external consultants, and support partners.
• Hands-on experience with Microsoft 365 tools, Microsoft Copilot, process documentation tools, user training, knowledge transfer, and continuous business process improvement initiatives.

Preferred Skills & Experience

• Experience of working in Chemicals or Process Manufacturing industry
• SAP S/4HANA Finance Certification.
• Experience with SAP Central Finance/ OneStream Planning, Consolidation, or Financial Reporting.
• Experience supporting SAP S/4HANA deployments and Finance transformation programs.
• Experience with AI-enabled business solutions, SAP Joule, intelligent automation, or process mining platforms.

Minimum Required Education/Certification

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Information Systems, Business Administration, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related discipline.
• Equivalent combination of education and relevant professional experience may be considered.

Behaviors

• Analytical and solution-oriented problem solver.
• Strong communicator capable of interacting with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Collaborative team player with strong stakeholder management skills.
• Committed to continuous improvement, operational excellence, governance, and user enablement.
• Effective trainer, mentor, and change champion supporting business adoption of new technologies and processes.