SAP Financial Lead Consultant

At Zimele Technologies, we specialize in delivering comprehensive SAP ERP and Utilities (IS-U) solutions tailored to meet the diverse needs of organizations. Our expertise lies in maximizing the value derived from Information and Communication Technology (ICT) investments, ensuring compliance with government regulations, and providing prebuilt, internationally best-practice-aligned ERP systems. Our SAP-based solution facilitates high-quality service delivery, offering benefits such as improved customer relationship management, efficient service delivery, accurate billing, streamlined address and regional structure management, enhanced customer data management, optimized revenue collection, and improved financial management.

Our Meter-to-Cash solutions prioritize fair billing and invoicing processes, minimizing rates and reducing outstanding receivables through highly flexible, automated processes. Leveraging our Meter Data Management System (MDMS) and Advanced Meter Infrastructure (AMI) services, we enable organizations to harness smart meter data for billing, troubleshooting, and energy usage analysis. As an accredited SAP partner, our AMI solutions empower seamless execution of meter-to-cash processes globally, providing intelligent metering solutions built on the SAP platform for easy integration, ultimately improving revenue collection, reducing operating costs, and enhancing customer satisfaction.

The SAP Senior Finance Consultant is responsible for the design, implementation, configuration, and ongoing support of SAP S/4

HANA Finance solutions, covering General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Asset Accounting, Bank Accounting, and Controlling. This role involves working closely with finance, procurement, treasury, and audit stakeholders to understand financial accounting, reporting, and compliance requirements and translating these needs into effective SAP solutions integrated with Materials Management (MM), Sales and Distribution (SD), Investment Management (IM), Project System (PS), and Human Capital Management.

As a senior member of the team, the Consultant provides solution leadership, quality‑assures the work of other consultants, and acts as a trusted advisor to client finance teams, ensuring accurate and timely financial postings, period‑end close, statutory and management reporting, and strong financial controls.

• Conduct workshops with finance stakeholders to gather, analyse, and document requirements, and lead fit‑gap analysis against SAP S/4
  
  HANA standard functionality.
• Configure and support the following SAP Finance processes:

• Configure the financial enterprise structure, including company codes, chart of accounts, fiscal year variants, ledgers, document types, posting keys, and number ranges.
• Configure and support the Universal Journal (ACDOCA), parallel ledgers and currencies, document splitting, and automatic account determination.
• Configure and support period‑end and year‑end closing activities, including accruals, foreign currency valuation, GR/IR clearing, reclassifications, and balance carry‑forward.
• Support manual and recurring journals, document parking, and journal approval workflows.

• Configure and support vendor and customer master data through Business Partner, including duplicate checks and bank detail controls.
• Configure invoice verification integration with MM, including three‑way match, payment terms, tolerances, and blocking reasons.
• Configure and support the automatic payment program, payment methods, payment media and bank file formats, down payments, and payment approvals.
• Configure and support…