SAP FICO Grant Management Consultant

SAP FICO Grant Management Consultant

Houston, TX – 100% Onsite from day one

Duration: 6 Months plus

Job Summary

We are seeking an experienced SAP Finance & Grants Management Consultant to support a Brownfield system conversion from SAP ECC to SAP S/4HANA. The consultant will lead finance transformation and grants management enablement while preserving historical data, ensuring regulatory compliance, and aligning financial processes with S/4HANA innovations and best practices. The consultant has to be an individual contributor, must do individual hands on configuring the system and on the other defined activities per project plan.

Key Responsibilities

Brownfield Conversion & Finance Transformation

Lead Finance and Grants Management workstreams in Brownfield conversion from SAP ECC to SAP S/4HANA

Perform Finance simplification item analysis and system readiness assessments

Evaluate legacy customizations and identify remediation strategies

Ensure continuity of financial operations during system transition

Support conversion strategy including data, configuration, and reporting alignment

Finance Functional Responsibilities

Core Finance (FI)

Configure and optimize:

General Ledger (New GL / Universal Journal)

Accounts Payable & Accounts Receivable

Bank Accounting & Cash Management

Asset Accounting

Tax & Regulatory Reporting

Enable S/4HANA Finance innovations:

Universal Journal (ACDOCA)

Real-time financial analytics

Parallel ledgers and accounting standards

Document splitting

Controlling (CO)

Cost Center Accounting

Internal Orders

Profit Center Accounting

Product Costing

Margin Analysis (CO-PA)

Budget availability control

Grants Management Responsibilities

Lead implementation and optimization of SAP Grants Management functionality

Configure:

Grant master data

Sponsored programs & classes

Grant budgeting and lifecycle tracking

Grant billing and cost recovery

Ensure compliance with sponsor and regulatory requirements

Integrate Grants Management with Finance, Funds Management, and Projects

Support reporting for grant audits and funding agencies

Data Migration & System Readiness

Lead finance and grants master data assessment and cleansing

Oversee migration of:

Chart of Accounts

Vendors, Customers, Business Partners

Asset master and balances

Open items and historical transactions

Grant master data and grant budgets

Ensure financial data integrity post-conversion

Support migration tools (e.g., Migration Cockpit, LTMC)