Job Title : Principal Consultant - SAP FICO

Job Location : Mississauga, Ontario | Calgary, Alberta

Job Type : Permanent

Required Qualifications:

- At least 15 years of Information Technology experience.

Preferred Qualifications:

- 15+ years of SAP FICO implementation and support experience, with a minimum of 3 full-cycle S/4 HANA implementations.
- Deep expertise in SAP S/4 HANA Finance modules including
- General Ledger (New GL) – parallel ledgers, document splitting, ledger-specific postings
- Accounts Payable (AP) & Accounts Receivable (AR) – payment runs, dunning, credit management
- Asset Accounting (AA) – depreciation areas, parallel valuation, S/4 migration
- Bank Accounting – house banks, payment methods, electronic bank statement (EBS) configuration
- Treasury & Risk Management (TRM) – cash management, liquidity planning
- Proficiency in SAP Controlling (CO) including:
- Cost Center Accounting (CCA), Internal Orders, Profit Center Accounting (PCA)
- Product Costing (PC) – cost estimates, manufacturing orders, WIP, variance analysis
- Profitability Analysis (CO-PA) – costing-based and account-based CO-PA
- Material Ledger / Actual Costing
- Hands-on experience with SAP S/4 HANA Central Finance (CeFi) and financial consolidation scenarios.




- Experience with Fiori Apps for Finance, embedded analytics, and real-time financial reporting.
- Knowledge of integration touchpoints with MM (procure-to-pay), SD (order-to-cash), PP (production), and HCM payroll.
- Experience with IFRS/US GAAP accounting standards and their SAP configuration implications.
- Ability to perform Business Blueprint / Solution Design workshops and prepare Functional Specification documents.
- Exposure to SAP S/4 HANA migration tools – SUM, SPDD/SPAU, and system conversion methodology.

Experience of at least 3 end-to-end lifecycle implementation activities including:

- Requirement gathering & Business process design
- SAP configuration & RICEFW Functional design
- System Integration Testing (SIT) & User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
- Cut-over planning, Go-live support, and post-go-live stabilization
- Strong client-facing experience with excellent communication and presentation skills.
- Strong analytical skills with ability to work with advanced Excel-based data analysis and financial modelling.
- Ability to manage and coordinate onsite-offshore delivery teams.
- Adaptable work timings required due to remote working environment including offshore overlaps.

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