SAP Functional Consultant - FICO Group Reporting

Introduction

A career in IBM Consulting is rooted by long-term relationships and close collaboration with clients across the globe. You'll work with visionaries across multiple industries to improve the hybrid cloud and AI journey for the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Your ability to accelerate impact and make meaningful change for your clients is enabled by our strategic partner ecosystem and our robust technology platforms across the IBM portfolio

In this role, you'll work in one of our IBM Consulting Client Innovation Centers (Delivery Centers), where we deliver deep technical and industry expertise to a wide range of public and private sector clients around the world. Our delivery centers offer our clients locally based skills and technical expertise to drive innovation and adoption of new technology.

Your role and responsibilities

We are seeking an experienced SAP FICO Functional Consultant with 7-10 years of hands-on expertise in SAP Group Reporting and S/4HANA Finance.

The ideal candidate will have deep functional knowledge across SAP FICO modules (GL, AP, AR, Asset Accounting, CO) combined with advanced skills in Group Reporting design, configuration, and consolidation processes. This role requires strong consulting abilities to lead workshops, gather requirements, configure solutions, and ensure seamless integration across finance and related modules.

SAP Group Reporting - Design & Configuration

Lead the design and configuration of SAP Group Reporting, including:

• Consolidation models
• Group structures
• Elimination rules
• Reporting layouts
• Align consolidation processes with business objectives and S/4HANA best practices.

Requirements Gathering & Stakeholder Engagement

• Conduct workshops with finance stakeholders to capture consolidation and reporting needs.
• Document processes and translate business requirements into system configurations.
• Partner with business teams to align SAP capabilities with legal and management consolidation requirements.

Data & Integration Management

• Oversee data mapping, migration, and reconciliation for consolidation units and accounts.
• Coordinate integration with SAP General Ledger and related modules (MM, SD, PS, CO).
• Ensure accuracy and completeness of consolidated financial data.

Testing & Validation

• Develop and execute test plans for unit, integration, and user acceptance testing (UAT).
• Validate consolidated financial statements and reports for accuracy and compliance.
• Troubleshoot and resolve consolidation and reporting issues.

SAP FICO Functional Expertise

• Configure and support General Ledger (GL), Accounts Payable (AP), Accounts Receivable (AR), Asset Accounting (AA), and Cost Center/Profit Center Accounting.
• Work on FI-Logistics processes, intercompany transactions, and revenue recognition.
• Ensure seamless integration between FICO and other SAP modules (MM, SD, PS, CO).
• Develop functional specifications for enhancements and work closely with ABAP/Basis teams.

Required education

Bachelor's Degree

Preferred education

Associate's Degree/College Diploma

Required technical and professional expertise

• 7-10 years of SAP Finance experience, including FICO and Group Reporting.
• Proven track record in S/4HANA deployments and finance transformation projects.
• Strong understanding of consolidation processes, intercompany eliminations, and currency translation.
• Experience configuring SAP FICO modules and integrating with other SAP components.
• SAP certification in Group Reporting or S/4HANA Finance preferred.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills for complex finance workflows.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills for workshops and stakeholder engagement.
• Ability to manage priorities and deliver in fast-paced consulting environments.
• Familiarity with SAP security, WRICEF development, and testing frameworks.

Preferred technical and professional experience

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ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT

IBM Consulting is IBM's consulting and global professional services business, with market leading capabilities in business and technology transformation. With deep expertise in many industries, we offer strategy, experience, technology, and operations services to many of the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Our people are focused on accelerating our clients' businesses through the power of collaboration. We believe in the power of technology responsibly used to help people, partners and the planet.

YOUR LIFE @ IBM

In a world where technology never stands still, we understand that, dedication to our clients success, innovation that matters, and trust and personal responsibility in all our relationships, lives in what we do as IBMers as we strive to be the catalyst that makes the world work better.

Being an IBMer means you'll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you'll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background.

Our IBMers are growth minded, always staying curious, open to feedback and learning new information and skills to constantly transform themselves and our company. They are trusted to provide on-going feedback to help other IBMers grow, as well as collaborate with colleagues keeping in mind a team focused approach to include different perspectives to drive exceptional outcomes for our customers. The courage our IBMers have to make critical decisions everyday is essential to IBM becoming the catalyst for progress, always embracing challenges with resources they have to hand, a can-do attitude and always striving for an outcome focused approach within everything that they do.

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ABOUT IBM

IBM's greatest invention is the IBMer. We believe that through the application of intelligence, reason and science, we can improve business, society and the human condition, bringing the power of an open hybrid cloud and AI strategy to life for our clients and partners around the world.

Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are not only one of the largest corporate organizations in the world, we're also one of the biggest technology and consulting employers, with many of the Fortune 500 companies relying on the IBM Cloud to run their business.

At IBM, we pride ourselves on being an early adopter of artificial intelligence, quantum computing and blockchain. Now it's time for you to join us on our journey to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world.

IBM is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, or other characteristics protected by the applicable law. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.

OTHER RELEVANT JOB DETAILS

Must have the ability to work in Canada without sponsorship.

This role will involve working with technology that is covered by Export Regulations sanctions. If you are a Foreign National from any of the following US sanctioned countries (Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Syria, and the Crimea, Luhansk, Donetsk, Kherson, and Zaporizhia regions of Ukraine) on a work permit, you are not eligible for employment in this position.

Client-provided location(s): Dartmouth, Canada

Job ID: IBM-69109

Employment Type: OTHER

Posted: 2025-10-29T18:48:10