SAP Consultant

Job Title: R2R Workstream Lead Consultant – SAP S/4HANA Transformation - Senior

Location: Toulouse, France (Hybrid - 2 Days on the client site every 2 weeks)

No. of years of experience: 8+ years

Job Type: Contract (extendable or renewable)

Job Description

• The R2R Workstream Lead Consultant owns the overall design and governance of the finance and accounting process for the Record to Report workstream within the S/4HANA transformation program.
• This role ensures a fit to standard, compliant, and scalable financial solution covering general ledger, asset accounting, controlling, financial close, consolidation, and reporting.
• The role collaborates closely with business finance teams, cross-functional workstreams, architects, and technical teams to drive an integrated S/4HANA Finance landscape.

Key Responsibilities

1. Workstream Leadership & Delivery Governance

• Lead the full R2R workstream across global finance, controlling, tax, audit, and technical stakeholders.
• Manage scope, timeline, risks, dependencies, and deliverables for all R2R activities.
• Conduct workshops, design authorities, and governance meetings to secure alignment and decisions.
• Ensure compliance with the SAP Activate methodology, program standards, and quality gates.

2. Finance Process & Solution Architecture

• Define the end-to-end R2R process architecture, including GL, AA, CO, financial close, consolidation, statutory, and management reporting.
• Drive fit to standard adoption, challenging custom requests where needed to safeguard a harmonized core.
• Own the To Be design, solution blueprints, and cross-functional integration documentation.
• Translate business finance requirements into S/4HANA configuration and functional specifications.

3. SAP S/4HANA Expertise

Areas typically covered include:

• General Ledger (New GL), Parallel Ledgers, Document Splitting
• Asset Accounting (FI AA)
• Accounts Payable & Receivable (FA/AR) integration with R2R
• Management Accounting (CO): Cost Centers, Profit Centers, Internal Orders, Allocations
• Product Costing & COPA (if included in scope)
• Group Reporting / Consolidation
• Tax configuration & statutory compliance
• Bank Accounting / Cash Management (if aligned under R2R)

4. Stakeholder Collaboration & Business Engagement

• Act as the primary point of contact for the CFO organization, Finance Process Owners, and Shared Service Centers.
• Moderate discussions to align global templates with local statutory requirements.
• Prepare and support training, change management, business readiness, and transition to new finance processes.

5. Quality Assurance & Testing

• Review process flows, configuration, master data design, and functional documentation.
• Lead test preparation for SIT/UAT: scenario coverage, test data, defect triage, and resolution.
• Validate R2R-relevant cutover tasks such as open item migration, balances load, and ledger initialization.

6. Integration Management

• Ensure alignment with P2P, O2C/L2C, Treasury, Manufacturing/CO, and Data Migration teams.
• Oversee integration touchpoints for master data: Business Partner, cost objects, GL accounts, tax codes, etc.
• Coordinate with Security & Controls to ensure SoD compliance and proper financial authorizations.

Critical Skills & Experience

• 8–12+ years SAP FI/CO experience with strong R2R process expertise.
• Minimum one full S/4HANA implementation, ideally in a lead or design authority role.
• Deep knowledge of Universal Journal, closing processes, controlling, and financial reporting.
• Experience running global template design, workshops, and complex finance transformations.
• Strong leadership, communication, and stakeholder management skills, especially with CFO level audiences