SAP FICO VIM Senior Consultant

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We are seeking a Senior SAP FICO & VIM Consultant to join a leading SAP consultancy. The role will focus on delivering high‑quality SAP Finance solutions, with a strong emphasis on SAP FICO and Vendor Invoice Management (VIM by Open Text) across client transformation and optimisation programmes. The successful candidate will bring deep functional expertise, strong client‑facing skills, and experience working in a consulting delivery environment.

Ideally with some domain knowledge in the Oil and Gas/Energy Natural Resources sector. Qualified candidates will work on implementation and support projects in ECC and S/4 HANA environments. The SAP (FICO) Senior Consultant will work with clients to understand their finance business processes and accounting practices, analysing and translating those requirements to enhance, support and facilitate effective solutions, using their business process knowledge and SAP FICO Technical Knowledge.

They will assist clients in the implementation, configuration, and support of SAP Functionality.

Strong SAP FICO skills and S4/HANA implementation experience is required, in areas such as Business Partners, Currency settings, New Fixed Assets, parallel and extension ledgers and Fiori Apps.

• Liaise with clients to provide them with full life‑cycle project implementation consulting expertise including assessments, blueprinting, configuration, testing, data migration and go‑live stability.
• Implement and support Open Text VIM solutions, including invoice processing, workflow configuration, exception handling, and integration with SAP FICO.
• Liaise with clients to prepare and facilitate assessment/blueprint workshops to analyse clients’ business requirements. Consultant must be able to define the SAP Blueprint by embedding the Business processes and Standard SAP best practices for existing software, hardware, and network provision.
• Examine existing business models and flows of data and designs functional specifications and test plans for new systems to meet clients’ needs.
• Write detailed functional mapping to SAP applications, functional gap analysis, detailed blueprint design and process documentation and detailed functional specifications for any custom development. This includes integration points with other SAP modules such as MM (Materials Management), SD (Sales and Distribution) and PS (Project Systems).
• Prepare summary level presentations and facilitate future and emerging state system design and process workshops to obtain client acceptance.
• Perform and/or oversee the configuration of SAP applications, creation of unit test scripts, and execution of unit tests.
• Train client staff on design, application functions and configuration to implement new systems.
• Create and/or support creation of…