Senior SAP R2R & Central Finance Consultant

Cynet Systems•Fremont, CA

About The Position

The Senior SAP R2R & Central Finance Consultant will lead finance process design and SAP Central Finance transformation initiatives, including end-to-end integration of SAP ECC landscapes with SAP S/4HANA Central Finance. The role involves facilitating business workshops, defining target operating models, harmonizing processes across entities and geographies, and designing Central Finance architecture and deployment strategies. It also supports financial close, reporting, reconciliation, governance, and enterprise finance integration across complex global environments with multiple source systems, currencies, and charts of accounts. The consultant will work closely with business stakeholders, finance leadership, enterprise architects, technical and integration teams, and offshore delivery teams. Responsibilities span data replication and mapping, historical balance and open-item migration, reconciliation and control frameworks, testing and deployment, and enablement of related finance capabilities such as Central Payments, Central Credit Management, Group Reporting, and tax reporting integrations.

Requirements

12+ years of SAP Finance consulting experience.
5+ years of hands-on SAP Central Finance implementation experience.
Experience delivering a minimum of 2–3 end-to-end SAP Central Finance implementations.
SAP FI-General Ledger (GL), Record-to-Report (R2R), financial closing and reporting, intercompany accounting, parallel accounting, SAP ECC and S/4HANA Finance, Universal Journal, and financial reporting and compliance expertise.
Hands-on knowledge of Central Finance architecture, initial and delta loads, SLT replication, key and value mapping, AIF monitoring and error handling, financial data reconciliation, historical balance migration, and open-item migration.
Experience with SAP ECC-to-S/4HANA integration, ALE/IDocs, RFC connectivity, data migration and reconciliation, enterprise integration design, and multi-system financial data integration.
Proven experience leading workshops and solution-design sessions with business stakeholders.
Strong experience with multi-currency environments, multiple charts of accounts, multi-entity finance landscapes, and global finance transformation programs.
Experience managing medium-to-high complexity SLT mapping scenarios.

Nice To Haves

Knowledge of Central Payments, Central Credit Management, Group Reporting, and Tax Reporting Integration, including Withholding Tax Integration.
Experience implementing Central Payments, Central Credit Management, Group Reporting, Tax Reporting, and Withholding Tax integrations.

Responsibilities

Lead and facilitate workshops to define future-state Record-to-Report processes and gather finance transformation requirements.
Assess current finance operating models and define standardized target-state processes, harmonization, roadmaps, and SAP-aligned solution recommendations.
Design, implement, support, and govern SAP Central Finance solutions, including architecture and deployment strategy.
Lead SAP ECC to SAP S/4HANA Central Finance integration initiatives and own integration design.
Configure and govern initial loads, real-time replication, delta loads, key mapping, value mapping, and AIF monitoring and error handling.
Design and oversee SLT replication, ALE/IDocs, RFC connectivity, and financial data replication frameworks in collaboration with technical and integration teams.
Execute financial data reconciliation and validation across source and target systems; resolve replication failures, mapping issues, and reconciliation exceptions.
Lead historical balance migration strategies, historical balance loads, open-item migration, initial load activities, and delta-load validation.
Manage migration scenarios involving multiple currencies, charts of accounts, source systems, and parallel accounting requirements; define reconciliation frameworks for migration and cutover.
Design reconciliation templates and validation frameworks, define financial controls and audit requirements, and establish data-integrity monitoring and governance processes.
Support financial close, reporting, reconciliation, and governance, including month-end, quarter-end, and year-end closing activities.
Support SIT, UAT, cutover, hypercare, and deployment activities; prepare functional specifications, design documents, test scripts, and deployment plans.
Coordinate with offshore teams to deliver project milestones on time.
Facilitate implementation and enablement of Central Payments, Central Credit Management, Group Reporting, Tax Reporting Integration, Withholding Tax Integration, Intercompany Reconciliation, and Financial Consolidation Reporting.
Define enterprise-wide finance governance and reporting frameworks and support global finance transformation initiatives leveraging SAP S/4HANA.