Our Toronto based client is seeking an experienced SAP S/4HANA Finance (FI), Assets, Projects & Reporting Consultant to join their project immediately on a long term contract. The ideal candidate should have 8 to 12 years of total experience, with 5+ years in SAP Finance specializing in assets and projects, and two or more full life-cycles completed including two or more full-lifecycle S/4HANA Finance implementations with ownership of fixed assets and project accounting. Hands-on asset accounting configuration covers depreciation and the asset close process, alongside expertise in hierarchy design with judgment applied to cost drivers rather than mechanical cycle building, and genuine fluency in reporting. This will be a primarily remote work with minimal travel to the client office.
Key Responsibilities:
- Support the allocation model as design partner to R2R maintain cost center and profit center hierarchies, validate driver data quality, and confirm allocated results reconcile in reporting.
- Serve as the Finance counterpart to Reporting, Data & Analytics: define finance data requirements, validate the semantic layer against source postings, and confirm reports reconcile to the GL.
- Own fixed assets design and configuration: asset classes, depreciation areas and methods, capitalization rules, leases, transfers, retirements and the asset close.
- Own internal project accounting capital and internal projects, WBS structures, settlement rules, capitalization and project close
- Own S/4 embedded analytics for finance standard Fiori apps, KPI tiles, custom CDS-based reports within public cloud limits.
- Lead fit-to-standard sessions for assets and projects scope; document design and secure business sign-off.
- Own test scenarios for asset lifecycle and project settlement; support asset and project master data migration and opening balances .
Preferred Experience:
- Public Cloud Edition; Canadian banking experience (major Canadian bank formats and clearing); SAP Advanced Payment Management or Cash Management exposure; CPA or strong accounting depth; bilingual (EN/FR).
