SAP FICO Consultant

Job Description

Introduction

A career in IBM Consulting is built on long-term client relationships and close collaboration worldwide. You’ll work with leading companies across industries, helping them shape their hybrid cloud and AI journeys. With support from our strategic partners, robust IBM technology, and Red Hat, you’ll have the tools to drive meaningful change and accelerate client impact. At IBM Consulting, curiosity fuels success. You’ll be encouraged to challenge the norm, explore new ideas, and create innovative solutions that deliver real results. Our culture of growth and empathy focuses on your long‑term career development while valuing your unique skills and experiences.

Your Role And Responsibilities

IBM Consulting helps our clients fundamentally redesign experiences to create new sources of value, digitally reinvent their operations for great efficiency and transform their entire enterprises through cognitive. We invite you to consider joining IBM's global reach, outcome-focused methodologies, domain skills and deep industry expertise that are helping transform the way we live and work.

In this role, you will work in our IBM Client Innovation Center (CIC) in Nova Scotia, delivering deep technical and industry expertise to public and private sector clients worldwide. You’ll also act as a SAP FI/CO consultant, responsible for implementing, configuring, and maintaining SAP FI/CO modules to optimize financial processes, analyzing existing systems, recommending solutions, collaborating with stakeholders to gather requirements, designing solutions, customizing configurations, and conducting testing.

Must be located on-site at IBM office in Bedford, Nova Scotia.

Skills

IBM's state-of-the-art Client Innovation Centre (CIC) opened in Nova Scotia in March 2013 and is the first of its kind in Canada. The centre weaves together IBM’s business insights and industry-leading software portfolio and is ideally suited for any client that needs flexible access to emerging or niche skills that may not be cost effective to grow internally. The CIC NS is one of IBM’s highest performing delivery centres worldwide for retention, client satisfaction and utilisation. Our employees are empowered to stay and grow within IBM.

Required Technical And Professional Expertise

• Experience working in financial accounting, management accounting and/or financial performance management


• Strong leadership qualifications and experience


• Strong interpersonal and negotiation skills; confident and credible working with VP level clients (senior positions)


• Manage and lead the on-site and off-site Finance Support Teams


• Provide status updates on operational activities, incidents, service requests and minor enhancements


• Monitor and manage team activities and provide action plans


• Perform problem management tasks and communicate escalation procedures


• Create a sense of community among peers


• Understand the existing skill set versus the client's requirements and develop a training strategy


• Assist team members with highly complex and diversified issues


• Harvest reusable assets


• Contribute to incremental revenue by identifying additional opportunities and assisting in proposal development

SAP Skills

• Strong Financial configuration skills in SAP versions ECC6 and S/4 HANA. Preferred applicants will hold an active certification


• Experience with the integration points between FICO and other modules


• Knowledge of "best practices" built into the SAP software


• Knowledge of SOX compliance parameters would be an asset


• Experience using the ASAP implementation methodology


• Knowledge in Inventory Costing


• Knowledge in Treasury Consulting


• Minimum 3 years SAP experience with FI and/or CO


• Preferred: Minimum 5 years SAP implementation project experience with FI and/or CO


• Eligible or have in hand - Enhanced Security Clearance

Preferred Technical And Professional Experience

• Develop and document SAP functional, business and/or system requirements specifications


• Develop and document screen, report and interface requirements in SAP


• Develop functional, business and/or system interface or interaction capability as per specifications/requirements


• Gather and analyze information to establish the functional and technical needs of a system or project


• Design methods and procedures for SAP modules that are integrated within an SAP solution


• Develop, test, document and implement changes to SAP modules that are integrated within an SAP solution

Nice To Have Skills

• Document forms, manuals, programs, interfaces, release notes, data files work instructions and procedures


• Analyze data conversion requirements to determine data conversion strategies and mechanisms based on strategy


• Analyze, document SAP Service Marketplace Support Portal notes in support of problem and change analysis


• Assist Business Analyst in the conduct of business and system requirements workshops


• Provide knowledge transfer to departmental personnel on an ongoing basis

Seniority Level

Mid‑Senior level

Employment Type

Full‑time

Job Function

Information Technology

Industries

IT Services and IT Consulting

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