Consulting SAP FICO Consultant Professional

Position: Consulting SAP FICO Consultant Professional Multiple Cities

A career in IBM Consulting is built on long‑term client relationships and close collaboration worldwide. You’ll work with leading companies across industries, helping them shape their hybrid cloud and AI journeys. With support from our strategic partners, robust IBM technology, and Red Hat, you’ll have the tools to drive meaningful change and accelerate client impact. At IBM Consulting, curiosity fuels success. You’ll be encouraged to challenge the norm, explore new ideas, and create innovative solutions that deliver real results.

Our culture of growth and empathy focuses on your long‑term career development while valuing your unique skills and experiences.

In this role, you’ll work in one of our IBM Consulting Client Innovation Centers (Delivery Centers), where we deliver deep technical and industry expertise to a wide range of public and private sector clients around the world. Our delivery centers offer our clients locally based skills and technical expertise to drive innovation and adoption of new technology.

Responsibilities

SAP FI/CO consultant responsible for providing expertise in implementing, configuring, and maintaining SAP FI/CO modules to optimize financial processes of client.

Job involves understanding the client’s financial requirements, analyzing existing systems, and recommending solutions using SAP FI modules such as GL/Asset/Account payables/ Account receivables etc.

Individual needs to collaborate with stakeholders to gather business requirements, design solutions, customize configurations and conduct testing.

Must be located on‑site at IBM office in Bedford, Nova Scotia.

Required Education

Bachelor’s Degree

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• Experience working in financial accounting, management accounting and/or financial performance management
• Strong leadership qualifications and experience
• Strong interpersonal and negotiation skills; confident and credible working with VP level clients (senior positions)
• Manage and lead the on‑site and off‑site Finance Support Teams
• Provide status updates on operational activities, incidents, service requests and minor enhancements
• Monitor and manage team activities and provide action plans
• Perform problem management tasks and communicate escalation procedures
• Create a sense of community among peers
• Understand the existing skill set versus the client’s requirements and develop a training strategy
• Assist team members with highly complex and diversified issues
• Harvest reusable assets
• Contribute to the incremental revenue by identifying additional opportunities and assisting in proposal development

SAP Skills

• Strong financial configuration skills in SAP versions ECC6 and S/4 HANA. Preferred applicants will hold an active certification
• Experience with the integration points between FICO and other modules
• Knowledge of best practices built into the SAP software
• Knowledge of SOX compliance parameters would be an asset
• Experience using the ASAP implementation methodology
• Knowledge in inventory costing
• Knowledge in treasury consultant

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• Minimum 5 years SAP implementation project experience with FI and/or CO
• Eligible or have in hand - Enhanced Security Clearance

Required Services

• Develop and document SAP functional, business and/or system requirements specifications;
• Develop and document screen, report and interface requirements in SAP;
• Develop functional, business and/or system interface or interaction capability as per specifications/requirements;
• Gather and analyze information to establish the functional and technical needs of a system or project;
• Design methods and procedures for SAP modules that are integrated within an SAP solution;
• Develop, test, document and implement changes to SAP modules that are integrated within an SAP solution;

Nice to Have Skills

• Document forms, manuals, programs, interfaces, release notes, data files work instructions and procedures;
• Analyze data conversion requirements to determine data conversion strategies and mechanisms based on strategy;
• Analyze, document SAP Service Marketplace Support Portal notes in support of problem and change analysis;
• Assist Business Analyst in the conduct of business…