SAP Finance Functional Consultant SAP Finance Functional Consultant

Key Responsibilities

• Conduct workshops with Finance, Logistics and business stakeholders to understand the current freight invoice process and define the future-state process.
• Own functional requirements for approved Freight Invoice and Credit Note integration into SAP.
• Define SAP invoice-posting requirements, accounting rules and validation logic.
• Determine appropriate SAP posting processes/document types and required accounting treatment.
• Define Vendor, GL Account, Cost Center and other accounting mappings required for invoice posting.
• Analyze tax, currency, company code, payment and other relevant FI posting requirements.
• Define business rules for successful posting, rejection and exception scenarios.
• Define SAP acknowledgement/status information required by the external Freight Audit solution.
• Design functional requirements for invoice attachments/supporting documents received from the external platform.
• Define reconciliation requirements between LOOP and SAP to ensure completeness and accuracy of invoice processing.
• Define functional requirements for logging, error handling, reprocessing and monitoring.
• Analyze and define the Freight Accrual process/reporting requirements in coordination with Finance and Logistics.
• Prepare detailed Functional Specifications, interface mappings, business rules and test scenarios.
• Work closely with SAP BTP/CPI and ABAP developers during technical design and development.
• Review technical solutions to ensure alignment with Finance requirements and SAP accounting controls.
• Perform functional/unit testing of SAP posting scenarios.
• Support end-to-end SIT and business UAT.
• Analyze posting failures and coordinate defect resolution across SAP, integration and external vendor teams.
• Support cutover, Go-Live and post-production validation for each rollout.
• Provide hypercare support and knowledge transfer to the SAP support organization.

Required Skills

• Strong hands-on experience in SAP FI, particularly Accounts Payable (FI-AP).
• Strong knowledge of vendor invoice and credit-note processing.
• Good understanding of SAP accounting documents, posting keys, document types, GL accounts, Cost Centers and account determination.
• Experience with automated/interface-based financial postings into SAP.
• Strong SAP configuration knowledge in relevant FI areas.
• Experience designing validation, error handling, reconciliation and reprocessing processes.
• Strong experience in SAP development/integration projects involving interfaces, APIs and RICEF objects.
• Ability to prepare detailed Functional Specifications and data/interface mappings.
• Experience working closely with ABAP and middleware/integration developers.
• Experience with SIT, UAT, cutover, production deployment and hypercare.
• Strong analytical and production-issue troubleshooting capability.
• Strong client-facing communication and stakeholder-management skills.
• Ability to independently own requirements through design, development, testing and Go-Live.
• Flexibility to collaborate with India, US and third-party vendor teams across time zones.

Preferred Skills

• Experience with freight invoice processing, freight audit or logistics invoice integration.
• SAP S/4HANA / SAP RISE project experience.
• Exposure to SAP BTP Integration Suite/CPI and API-based SAP integrations.
• Knowledge of freight accrual/accounting processes.
• Experience integrating SAP with third-party invoice-processing, freight or logistics platforms.
• Experience with multi-phase/global SAP rollout projects.