Engagement: Contract; full-time; initial 6 months with extension based on milestones
• Location: Onshore — US; Eastern or Central time zone preferred
• Working arrangement: Hybrid; on-site for workshops cycles; ~10-15% travel during workshop phases
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Positions:
SAP FICO Architect – P2P Finance
SAP FICO Architect – OTC Finance
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Must-have qualifications (both positions)
8-12 years of SAP delivery experience, with at least 4 years in design lead / lead consultant / architect roles
At least one full-cycle SAP greenfield transformation program (ECC-to-S/4HANA or net-new S/4HANA, global rollout) in TTDL / Solution Lead / Senior Functional Lead capacity
Cross-ERP integration with SAP S/4HANA Central Finance (CFIN) — hands-on with SLT replication, MDG-F for master data harmonization, mapping rules, error handling, source-to-target reconciliation across heterogeneous landscapes
Clean Core thinking — favouring SAP standard over custom code with documented trade-off analysis
Tool fluency: Signavio, JIRA, Confluence, SAP Solution Manager / Cloud ALM, Microsoft 365
Strong English communication; comfortable operating with VP/executive stakeholders
Specialization-specific Finance modules — see split table at end of document
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Nice-to-have
Medtech, pharma, or life sciences regulated industry experience (GxP, SOX, Part 11, GDPR)
SAP Activate methodology and SAFe/agile delivery (PI Planning, sprint cadences)
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Position 1: SAP FICO Architect – P2P Finance
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Scope: Manufacturing financial processes with heavy Finance ↔ manufacturing integration, plus the Procure-to-Pay finance linkage, subcontracting, and electronic invoicing compliance.
Must-have SAP Finance modules:
Product Costing (CO-PC) — standard/actual costing, costing variants, runs
Material Ledger (CKM/ML) — multi-currency valuation, transfer pricing and parallel valuation
• Profitability Analysis (CO-PA) — costing- and account-based
• Heavy Manufacturing-Finance integration — production order settlement, variance flow, WIP, PP/MM/CO/FI touchpoints
• Subcontracting (finance side) — special stock O, byproduct/co-product accounting, settlement
• FI-MM integration — GR/IR, OBYC, valuation classes, inventory accounting
• P2P Finance linkage — MIRO/MIR7, three-way match, AP integration, payment runs
• Electronic invoicing via SAP DRC (Document and Reporting Compliance) — config, integration, transmission, FI reconciliation
• Core FI baseline — FI-GL, CO-CCA/OM, period-end close
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Screening deep dives
Material Ledger activation projects (industry, scale, parallel currencies)
• Product Costing design decisions (standard vs actual, COGS split approach)
• Subcontracting experience — special stock O, byproduct/co-product accounting
• SAP DRC implementation — country scope, document types, FI reconciliation approach
• CFIN deep-dive — cost data replication, material ledger replication, value flow consistency, parallel valuations
• DAB experience on costing / inventory / subcontracting decisions
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Position 2: SAP FICO Architect – OTC Finance
Order-to-Cash financial processes including SAP RAR revenue recognition, COGS, billing, AR, intercompany OTC, credit/collections, and light Fixed Assets management for leased capital equipment kits.
Note: Treasury is out of scope (Corporate organization).
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Must-have SAP Finance modules:
SAP RAR (Revenue Accounting and Reporting) module — contracts, performance obligations, BRF+ rules, ASC 606 / IFRS 15 (the module, not generic concepts)
• Cost of Revenue and COGS — split design, recognition timing, GL determination
• Billing and Invoicing finance integration — SD-FI integrationÂ
billing document flow, credit/debit memo
• Accounts Receivable (FI-AR) — customer master, dunning, lockbox, EBS, cash application
• Intercompany OTC — IC billing, IC AR/AP reconciliation, IC pricing
• Credit Management (FSCM-CR) and Collections (FSCM-COL)
• Light Fixed Assets for leased capital equipment kits — activation, depreciation control over lease lifecycle, retirement on return, integration with customer contract data (NOT corporate-wide FA management)
• Core FI baseline — FI-GL, CO-CCA/OM, period-end close
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Screening deep dives
SAP RAR implementation projects — contract scenarios, performance obligations, complexity
• ASC 606 / IFRS 15 compliance projects
• Leased asset / customer-installed equipment experience — activation, depreciation, retirement (medtech / capital equipment / service-leasing industries preferred)
• Intercompany OTC flow architecture
• CFIN deep-dive — revenue and AR replication, customer MDG-C/MDG-F, RAR coexistence with CFIN
• DAB experience on revenue / RAR / billing / AR decisions
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Thanks,Â
Bhargavi Jalthar
13501 Katy, Suite #3305, Houston, TX 77079, United States.Â