Our Vancouver based client is seeking an Senior SAP Finance (FI) Accountant to join their project immediately on a 18 month employment contract, with possibility of an extension. The ideal candidate should have 5+ years of progressive high-level accounting experience in financial reporting, general ledger, cost accounting, internal controls, audit, or tax along with CPA designation. This will be a hybrid role with the exact amount of on-site scheduled days to be confirmed.
Key Responsibilities:
- Ability to independently interpret financial data and accurately apply accounting logic in a system and data migration environment.
- Provide accounting input into Business Process Documents (BPDs), functional specifications, and testing scenarios.
- Review Chart of Accounts, Cost Centers, Profit Centers, and related master data and transactional data for financial integrity.
- Ensure accuracy and completeness of accounting data throughout the migration lifecycle.
- Identify legacy data sources, including key tables and fields, for data objects in scope.
- Assist with data extraction coordination, helping identify what data is needed from legacy systems.
- Execute pre-load and post-load validations during mock and real data loads and help log defects.
- Participate in data mapping sessions, offering business logic to guide how legacy data translates to SAP.
- Validate financial data mappings from legacy ERP systems to SAP S/4HANA, ensuring alignment with accounting rules.
- Support pre-load and post-load data validation, reconciliation, and defect resolution.
- Understand legacy accounting processes, financial reports, and journal entries to be able to test the new system for accuracy and consistency.
- Partner with Finance, IT, and data migration teams to ensure accounting requirements are accurately represented.
- Support process design activities across Record-to-Report, Procure-to-Pay, and Order-to-Cash streams.
- Public accounting experience preferred;
