Experience
12+ years in SAP Finance consulting with deep expertise across FI, CO, Treasury, Cash Management, Credit Management, and collections transformation
Role Type
Lead Functional Consultant / Finance Solution Lead with cross-functional and client-facing ownership
Domain
Dairy, Food & Nutrition, Consumer Goods, process manufacturing, and regulated multi-entity finance operations
Location / Work model
India (Hyderabad / Indore / Bengaluru) · Hybrid
Engagement
Full-time
Role overview
An experienced SAP Finance lead consultant is required with broad and deep expertise across SAP FICO, SAP Credit Management and Collections, SAP Treasury and Risk Management, SAP Cash Management, and core treasury operations to drive complex finance solution delivery for a global dairy and nutrition enterprise. The role extends well beyond application support and requires ownership of end-to-end finance-process architecture spanning record-to-report, order-to-cash finance integration, treasury operations, liquidity planning, credit-risk governance, collections effectiveness, bank connectivity, and management accounting transformation across ECC and S/4HANA-oriented landscapes.
The consultant is expected to operate as a senior functional lead across finance, treasury, controllership, shared services, commercial operations, and IT teams, combining strong hands-on configuration depth with solution governance, integration orchestration, release planning, cutover leadership, hypercare management, and continuous process optimization.
Key responsibilities
§ Own end-to-end solution design across general ledger, accounts payable, accounts receivable, asset accounting, bank accounting, cost center accounting, internal orders, product costing, profitability analysis, credit exposure management, collections execution, cash positioning, liquidity forecasting, treasury deal processing, hedge management, and treasury accounting.
§ Lead advanced SAP FI configuration including parallel ledgers, document splitting, intercompany processes, AP/AR controls, electronic bank statement integration, dunning, payment programmes, automatic account determination, asset lifecycle accounting, and close-related reconciliation design.
§ Drive SAP CO design across cost center accounting, internal orders, profit center accounting, product costing, Material Ledger, actual costing, allocations, settlements, and profitability reporting for multi-plant manufacturing operations.
§ Lead enterprise SAP Credit Management and Collections design including credit master governance, scoring and risk classes, credit checks, exposure monitoring, dispute and deduction handling coordination, collections segmentation, worklist optimization, promise-to-pay tracking, and alignment to commercial risk policies.
§ Own SAP TRM and Treasury design across Transaction Manager, money market, foreign exchange, derivatives, securities where relevant, hedge management, risk analytics, treasury accounting flows, and integration of market and banking data into finance controls.
§ Drive SAP Cash Management and liquidity architecture including cash positioning, liquidity forecasting, bank account visibility, in-house cash or payment-factory concepts where applicable, and treasury-facing insights for working-capital and funding decisions.
§ Lead bank communication and payment integration architecture covering EBS, MT940, CAMT, SWIFT, host-to-host connectivity, payment approvals, BCM or APM-oriented controls, and reconciliation design across multiple banks and legal entities.
§ Support complex finance scenarios including high-volume supplier and customer settlements, multi-currency operations, farm-family and supplier payments, commodity-driven price exposures, intercompany accounting, and statutory control requirements.
§ Act as the primary functional escalation point for production-critical finance incidents, treasury posting failures, reconciliation breaks, cash visibility gaps, credit-block issues, and cross-module integration defects, with structured root-cause analysis and corrective-action governance.
§ Prepare detailed functional specifications for RICEFW objects, enhancements, interfaces, forms, workflows, reports, and data migration or conversion requirements; govern delivery quality across ABAP, BASIS, integration, security, and testing teams.
§ Lead fit-gap workshops, solution reviews, SIT, UAT, regression testing, mock cutovers, deployment planning, hypercare command-center activities, and transition into steady-state support.
§ Partner with finance leadership, treasury teams, controllership, tax, audit, shared services, and commercial stakeholders to define global templates, control frameworks, KPIs, compliance requirements, and harmonized operating models.
§ Support transformation programmes such as ECC-to-S/4HANA migration, treasury modernization, working-capital optimization, credit-and-collections enhancement, close acceleration, and finance-process standardization.
§ Mentor junior consultants and analysts, review solution designs, establish documentation standards, and provide leadership in steering discussions, workshops, and solution decision forums.
Mandatory skills
SAP FICO
§ Deep hands-on expertise across SAP FI and CO including general ledger, AP, AR, Asset Accounting, Bank Accounting, document splitting, parallel ledgers, cost center accounting, internal orders, profit center accounting, CO-PC product costing, Material Ledger, actual costing, and CO-PA or Margin Analysis.
§ Strong capability in finance close design, allocation logic, profitability reporting, manufacturing-cost integration, and multi-entity finance operations in complex business environments.
Credit Management and Collections
§ Strong experience in SAP Credit Management and collections processes including credit exposure control, credit checks, collections strategy, aging-based prioritization, customer-risk segmentation, blocked-order resolution support, and integration with receivables and order-to-cash flows.
§ Ability to align technical design with commercial credit policy, dispute handling, cash-collection targets, and working-capital improvement objectives.
Treasury, TRM and Cash Management
§ Deep functional expertise in SAP Treasury and Risk Management including Transaction Manager, FX, money markets, derivatives, hedge management, treasury accounting, and risk-analysis processes.
§ Strong experience in Cash and Liquidity Management, bank communication, payment controls, bank statement processing, cash visibility, liquidity planning, and treasury operations across multi-bank and multi-currency environments.
Integration and architecture
§ Strong working knowledge of FI-MM, FI-SD, FI-CO, treasury-bank connectivity, and cash-management integration patterns, including interfaces, data reconciliation, and operational control design.
§ Ability to work across SAP ECC and S/4HANA Finance landscapes and coordinate with tax, reporting, master-data, middleware, compliance, and analytics teams on enterprise design dependencies.
Implementation and leadership
§ Proven experience in at least two full-lifecycle implementations, major rollouts, or transformation programmes in SAP Finance, with additional ownership in AMS stabilization or global support engagements.
§ Demonstrated ability to lead finance and treasury design workshops, challenge fragmented requirements, translate control and reporting needs into scalable SAP solutions, and govern execution across onsite, offshore, and third-party teams.
§ Strong experience with release management, defect triage, change governance, cutover planning, hypercare leadership, service transition, and audit-support readiness.
Domain expectations
§ Experience in dairy, food, nutrition, FMCG, or adjacent process-manufacturing industries with high-volume finance operations, commodity exposure, margin sensitivity, and regulated multi-entity reporting environments.
§ Practical understanding of co-operative or supplier-intensive payment models, multi-currency receivables, commodity-price volatility, and treasury requirements related to agriculture-linked businesses.
§ Strong appreciation of financial controls, audit discipline, traceability, and close-management rigor in globally operating organizations.
Preferred qualifications
§ SAP S/4HANA Finance and Treasury exposure, Central Finance awareness, and strong experience in treasury or working-capital transformation programmes are preferred.
§ Knowledge of IFRS 9 hedge accounting, advanced bank connectivity models, and modern collections or cash-visibility processes is desirable.
§ Certification in SAP FI, CO, Treasury, or related finance solutions is a plus.
Soft skills
§ Excellent stakeholder management, workshop facilitation, structured communication, and executive-level documentation capability.
§ Strong analytical problem solving, ownership mindset, delivery rigor, and ability to operate effectively in a fast-paced global support and transformation environment.
§ Ability to balance strategic finance-process thinking with detailed configuration execution, risk awareness, and production support accountability.
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Pay: ₹1,810,432.45 - ₹2,709,835.66 per year
Work Location: Hybrid remote in Hyderabad, Telangana
