SAP FICO Specialist

Accenture•Montreal, QC

1d•CA$33 - CA$57

About The Position

The Advanced Technology Centers (ATCs) are the engine for reinvention in clients' transformation journeys, providing seamless access to industry insights and innovative technology solutions. ATCs solve clients' business problems by leveraging Innovation, Intelligence, Industry insights, new IT, and new technology skills. The Network provides geographic diversity, greater resilience, and seamless access to deep industry knowledge, the latest in Gen AI solutions, and tech expertise globally. For people, it offers boundaryless career paths in a collaborative team of experts where they can learn from each other and solve complex client challenges.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree or completion of a college program in a related discipline.
5+ years of SAP FICO implementation experience.
1-2 full lifecycle implementations of SAP S/4Hana Cloud Public Edition.
In-depth knowledge of SAP Activate methodology.
Strong ability to lead configuration workshops.
Experience working with cloud platform teams.
English is required for this position as this role will regularly interact with stakeholders across Canada, US and other countries across our Global footprint where English is the common language.

Nice To Haves

SAP S/4Hana Cloud Finance certification.
Multi-cloud platform experience.
Fluency in French an asset.

Responsibilities

Lead the end-to-end delivery of SAP Finance workstreams across all project phases, from solution architecture and blueprinting through realization, go-live, and steady-state operations.
Define and drive the finance solution strategy, ensuring it aligns with business objectives, regulatory requirements, and SAP best practices.
Lead fit-to-standard and fit-gap workshops with senior business stakeholders, helping them make informed decisions and adopt scalable, future-ready finance solutions.
Design and support solutions across SAP FICO, including General Ledger (GL), Accounts Payable (AP), Accounts Receivable (AR), Asset Accounting (AA), Profit Center Accounting (PCA), CO-PA.
Bring strong SAP Banking and financial services knowledge, with an understanding of banking processes, regulatory requirements, payments, cash management, and financial reporting.
Demonstrate experience integrating SAP Finance with external applications and third-party systems, including banking platforms, payment systems, tax solutions, treasury systems, procurement platforms, payroll, and other enterprise applications.
Understand end-to-end integration architecture across SAP and non-SAP landscapes, with experience working with APIs, web services, middleware, SAP Integration Suite, and other integration technologies.
Bring experience across multiple industries, with the ability to understand industry-specific finance processes, regulatory requirements, operating models, and business challenges.
Stay current with the latest SAP technologies and innovations, including SAP S/4HANA, SAP BTP, SAP Integration Suite, SAP Fiori, embedded analytics, and emerging SAP capabilities.
Lead and oversee end-to-end testing activities, including test strategy, test planning, integration testing, system integration testing (SIT), user acceptance testing (UAT), regression testing, defect management, and business-process validation.
Ensure SAP and external-system integrations are thoroughly tested across functional, technical, and end-to-end business scenarios before go-live.
Evaluate new SAP capabilities and emerging technologies to identify opportunities to simplify, automate, and modernize finance processes while maintaining a practical and sustainable architecture.
Ensure solutions are designed with integration, performance, scalability, and long-term maintainability in mind.
Oversee configuration, functional specifications, RICEFW development, testing, and overall quality assurance across the delivery team.
Manage program-level risks, issues, dependencies, and critical decisions, working closely with client and internal leadership to resolve challenges quickly.