SAP CO

SAP CO (FICO) Consultant

Experience: 8–10 Years

Role: SAP CO (FICO) Consultant – Offshore Resource

Employment Type: Full-Time

Job Summary

We are looking for an experienced SAP CO (FICO) Consultant with strong functional expertise in Product Cost Controlling (CO-PC), Material Ledger, Actual Costing, Project Systems (PS), and Revenue Recognition.

The candidate will support the design, configuration, implementation, and ongoing maintenance of SAP Controlling processes, with a strong focus on product costing, actual labor costing, project profitability, WIP, settlement, and revenue recognition for engineering and construction projects. The role will involve close collaboration with onshore teams, SAP PS, FI, and PA resources.

Key Responsibilities

SAP CO / Product Costing

• Design, configure, and support SAP CO processes with a strong focus on Product Cost Controlling (CO-PC).
• Configure and maintain Material Ledger and Actual Costing processes.
• Support standard costing, actual costing, and cost component structures.
• Perform and analyze variance calculations, including:
• Purchase Price Variances (PPV)
• Production Variances
• Material and Activity Variances
• Support period-end closing activities related to CO-PC and Material Ledger.
• Analyze costing issues and provide functional solutions.

Actual Labor Costing & Cost Center Accounting

• Configure and support actual labor costing for project-based engineering and construction activities.
• Configure activity types, cost centers, activity rates, and rate calculations.
• Support labor cost allocation and project cost tracking.
• Analyze actual versus planned labor costs and identify cost variances.
• Ensure accurate integration of labor costs across CO and Project Systems.

Project Costing & Revenue Recognition

• Work closely with SAP PS teams to support project-based costing and profitability reporting.
• Implement and maintain Revenue Recognition using Results Analysis (RA) methods, including:
• Percentage of Completion (POC)
• Cost-based methods
• Revenue-based methods
• Configure and support Work in Progress (WIP) calculation and settlement.
• Support project revenue recognition, cost recognition, and profitability reporting.
• Troubleshoot RA, WIP, settlement, and project profitability reconciliation issues.

Integration & S/4HANA

• Maintain integration points between CO, PS, FI, and PA (Profitability Analysis).
• Ensure accurate flow of costs and revenues across integrated SAP modules.
• Work with SAP S/4HANA architecture, including a strong understanding of the Universal Journal (ACDOCA).
• Support S/4HANA implementations and migration activities involving CO, Material Ledger, and costing.
• Analyze and resolve integration and posting issues across modules.

Implementation & Support

• Participate in full lifecycle SAP implementations and major S/4HANA migration projects.
• Gather business requirements and translate them into SAP CO functional solutions.
• Prepare functional specifications, configuration documentation, test scripts, and process documentation.
• Perform configuration, unit testing, integration testing, and support UAT.
• Troubleshoot production issues and provide timely functional resolutions.
• Support period-end and year-end closing activities.
• Collaborate with onshore teams and offshore functional/technical resources.
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Required Qualifications & Skills

• 7 –12 years of overall SAP CO/FICO experience with strong functional expertise.
• Strong hands-on experience in Product Cost Controlling (CO-PC).
• Strong experience with Material Ledger and Actual Costing.
• Experience with standard costing and variance analysis.
• Deep understanding of:
• Purchase Price Variances
• Production Variances
• WIP
• Settlement
• Period-end closing
• Strong experience in actual labor costing, activity types, cost centers, and rate calculations.
• Hands-on experience with Results Analysis (RA) and Revenue Recognition.
• Good understanding of project-based costing and profitability.
• Strong knowledge of SAP S/4HANA architecture and ACDOCA.
• Experience integrating CO with FI, PS, and PA.
• Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills.

Project Experience

• Minimum 2 full lifecycle SAP implementations or major S/4HANA migration projects.
• Projects should include significant experience with Material Ledger, Standard Costing, and/or Actual Costing.
• Experience supporting engineering, construction, or other project-based industries is highly desirable.

Preferred Skills

• Experience with SAP S/4HANA Finance and Controlling.
• Knowledge of SAP Project Systems (PS).
• Experience with SAP Profitability Analysis (CO-PA).
• Experience in engineering and construction project environments.
• Exposure to SAP Fiori and S/4HANA reporting.
• SAP CO/FICO certification is an advantage.

Education

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Accounting, Finance, Information Systems, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related discipline.

Key Competencies

• Strong functional and analytical capabilities.
• Excellent problem-solving and troubleshooting skills.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to work effectively with onshore and offshore teams.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities in a project and support environment.
• Strong understanding of business processes and financial controls.

End-to-End SAP-ERP project (BBP to module Go-live)

Experience: 5+Years

Should have done minimum 2-3 End to End Implementations and 1-2 Support Projects.

Strong Knowledge in Implementation.

Involved in workshops for requirement gathering of the client business processes.

Coordinate with the stakeholders during requirement gathering and execution phases.

Hands-on capabilities in Blueprinting, Configuration and Testing the complete process cycles.

Integration knowledge across modules, including Payroll, Projects, TRM, BPC, FM, MM, PM and SD.

Good to have an exposure in PSU processes.

Involved with technical team in providing the functional specifications and testing of client business processes.

Involved in user training workshops, documentation and handling day-to-day issues.

Should have good communication skills and be able to successfully conduct Workshops.

Should have experience of handling a team.

Client interfacing.

We are looking for a Senior SAP Consultant with a strong SAP FICO background and proven experience in end-to-end SAP implementations, migrations & transformation projects.

🔑 Key Skills:

✅ SAP FI/CO – GL, AP, AR, AA, CO-CCA, PCA, COPA, Product Costing

✅ S/4HANA Implementation / Migration

✅ Cross-module integration with MM, SD, PP

✅ End-to-end SAP Implementation experience

✅ Solution Design & Client Handling

✅ Pre-sales, Requirement Gathering & Solutioning

✅ Team Leadership & Mentoring

✅ Exposure to SAP Cloud / S/4HANA Cloud preferred

🎯 Ideal candidate: Someone who can go beyond FICO and take ownership of core SAP delivery, implementation leadership, and solutioning.

Role Overview

We are looking for a SAP Fico Consultant with 5-8 years of experience in FICO Implementation. This role focuses on SAP Implementation on Hana. The ideal candidate is a SAP FICO Consultant having experience in SAP FI/CO Implementation on S/4 Hana for Global clients.

🛠️ Key Responsibilities

• Should have good experience in Project systems for commitment management.
• Should have good experience in Order management.
• Strong knowledge about Cost center and element accounting.
• Candidate should have good Exposure into General ledger, Accounts payable, Accounts Receivable, Asset Accounting, Bank accounting..
• Strong knowledge in Material Ledger accounting and Actual costing.
• Experience in working in split architecture environment will be added advantage
• Should have knowledge of both Standard and Actual costing scenarios.
• Good to have experience in Product cost management & COPA

🎓 Qualification

• Bachelor’s degree in finance (B.Com preferred).

🚨 IMMEDIATE JOINERS – HIRING ALERT 🚨

Job Title: SAP FICO - Lead Functional Consultant

Shift: 2:00PM-11:00PM

Location: Pune, Bangalore, Chennai, Noida, Hyderabad.

Experience: 12+ Relevant Years

Job Type: Permanent-Hybrid Mode

Position Overview:

We are seeking a seasoned SAP S/4HANA FI Lead Consultant with SAP S/4HANA FI functional & technical experience executing and delivering a complex migration project from SAP ECC to SAP S/4HANA. The candidate will be responsible for the configuration of SAP S/4HANA Target System to receive selected data migrated from a current SAP ECC system to ensure a seamless transition, while providing expert guidance and support to clients throughout the configuration build, testing and cutover activities of their journey to SAP S/4HANA.  

Key Responsibilities: 

• Leading Workshops AS IS / TO BE Process to map requirements from business process understanding, cost management and reporting, integration with other modules and systems, overall business strategy.
• Provide expert guidance and support in SAP FI including General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Asset Accounting. Work with SAP S/4HANA Core Team to configure and customize SAP S/4HANA functionalities to meet client requirements, ensuring adherence to best practices and industry standards. 
• Develop technical solutions and enhancements to support data migration, integration, and reporting requirements. 
• Provide guidance and support with S/4 HANA transformation project including configuration, Data Migration, providing functional Expertise, trouble shooting, User training.
• Designs and optimizes controlling processes to meet the business needs.

Business Process Analysis and Optimization: 

• Work closely with finance and control departments to understand their processes and needs. 
• Analyze existing financial processes and suggest improvements. 
• Ensure the SAP system is aligned with business financial operations and reporting requirements. 

Testing, Training, and Support: 

• Develop and execute test plans, scenarios, and scripts to validate SAP S/4HANA configurations and functionalities. 
• Conduct system integration testing, user acceptance testing, and regression testing to ensure system reliability, accuracy, and performance. 
• Collaborate with business users to resolve issues, address concerns, and implement solutions to meet project objectives. 
• Train end-users on the functionality of SAP S/4HANA FI modules. 
• Provide ongoing support and troubleshooting for SAP FI issues. 

Integration and Data Migration: 

• Ensure seamless integration of the S/4 Finance Accounting with other SAP modules like Order to Cash, Sourcing & Procurement, Manufacturing, Supply Chain.
• Oversee data migration from SAP ECC/legacy systems to SAP S/4HANA, ensuring data integrity and accuracy.  
• Work with the Selective Data/Bluefield Migration Team on the migration of data from Customer’s SAP ECC System target SAP S/4HANA System to ensure minimal business disruption and maximum efficiency. 
• Collaborate with data migration and technical teams on activities regarding data extraction, transformation, and loading into SAP S/4HANA during build, test and cutover phases of the project. 

Reporting and Analytics: 

• Develop and maintain financial accounting reports and dashboards using SAP tools. 
• Assist in the utilization of SAP S/4HANA's embedded analytics capabilities to provide actionable insights into financial data. 

Stakeholder Engagement and Communication: 

• Act as the primary point of contact for key business and IT stakeholders including business users, project sponsors, and IT teams, providing regular updates, progress reports, and presentations on project status and milestones. 
• Proactively engage with stakeholders to gather and validate requirements, address concerns, and obtain feedback throughout the migration and transformation process to SAP S/4HANA. 
• Build and maintain strong relationships with clients, fostering trust and confidence in the migration process and deliverables.

Qualifications: 

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Business Administration, Information Technology, or related field. Master's degree preferred.

Experience needed:

More than 6 years of experience in SAP FICO, with experience in S/4HANA 2023.

Key Responsibilities and Technical Skills

General Ledger – FI

• Experience with New GL functionalities.
• Parallel Ledger.
• Global Chart of Accounts.
• Country-specific Chart of Accounts.
• Multiple currency setups.
• Multi-GAAP requirements.
• Tax setup and reporting.
• Account determination.
• Withholding Tax setup with GST.
• Financial closing activities.
• GST configuration and processes.
• Working with interfaces such as ALE, IDOC and PI/PO.

Treasury

• Experience with the SAP Treasury module.
• Handling day-to-day FICO and Treasury issues.
• Customer interaction related to FICO and Treasury processes.

Accounts Receivable and Accounts Payable

• S/4HANA experience in Accounts Receivable and Accounts Payable.
• Strong integration experience with PTP and OTC processes.
• Intercompany accounting and reconciliation.
• Payment methods.
• Payment files.

Bank Accounting

• House bank and bank account setup.
• Electronic Bank Statement using different file formats, including MT940.
• Bank interfaces for:
• Customer collections.
• Vendor payments.

Asset Accounting

• Multi-country and multi-currency setup for Asset Accounting.
• New Asset Accounting for New GL.

SAP Integration

• FI integration with:
• SD
• MM
• PP
• HR
• Experience with interfaces across SAP modules.
• Month-end activities.
• Year-end activities.

Controlling – CO

• Cost Centre Accounting.
• Profit Centre Accounting.
• Product Costing.
• Actual Costing.
• Profitability Analysis.
• Internal Orders.
• WBS.
• Budgeting.
• Material Ledger.
• Standard Costing.

Change Requests and Business Support

• Handling Change Requests.
• Requirements gathering.
• Preparing Functional Specifications.
• Supporting new business setup.
• New Company Code setup.
• Supporting changes in business processes.
• Handling requirements such as PF interest calculation and ISD distribution in HR modules.
• Repeat call analysis from FICO.
• Identifying possible automation cases in FICO and Treasury.

Stakeholder and Customer Interaction

• Coordinate with other SAP modules.
• Participate in customer meetings.
• Handle day-to-day FICO and Treasury issues.
• Maintain effective communication with customers and stakeholders.
• Handle customer interactions related to FICO and Treasury.

We are hiring!

4–8 year SAP PS Functional Consultant who has hands-on configuration experience across WBS, networks, activities, budgeting, costing, availability control and settlement, has participated in at least one implementation/rollout, understands S/4HANA PS, and can work across FI/CO, MM and SD integrations.