This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Consultor(a) SAP FI SR based in Brazil.
This is an opportunity for a Senior SAP FI Consultant to play a key role in data migration activities for an SAP S/4HANA transformation project. You will lead critical stages of financial data migration, from strategy definition and legacy data mapping to preparation, loading, validation, and reconciliation. Working with SAP Migration Cockpit and different migration methods, you will help ensure the accuracy, integrity, and consistency of financial data throughout the transition. You will collaborate with technical teams, business stakeholders, and key users to resolve migration issues and maintain project timelines. The role also involves supporting mock migration cycles, cutover activities, go-live execution, and post-launch validation. This is a fully remote, long-term consulting opportunity for a professional with strong SAP FI expertise and hands-on experience in complex migration projects.
Accountabilities:
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Plan data migration activities: Participate in defining the strategy and planning for financial data migration from SAP ECC and other legacy systems to SAP S/4HANA.
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Map legacy data: Map existing system data to SAP S/4HANA structures, identifying transformation requirements and ensuring alignment with the target environment.
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Prepare and validate data: Analyze, cleanse, transform, and validate data before migration to ensure completeness, accuracy, and compliance with S/4HANA requirements.
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Execute data loads: Perform data migration using SAP Migration Cockpit, including Direct Transfer, Staging Table, and other applicable methods.
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Manage financial data objects: Handle migration of general ledger accounts, customers and suppliers/business partners, fixed assets, GL balances, open accounts receivable and payable items, bank data, and other finance-related objects.
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Resolve migration errors: Investigate loading errors, inconsistencies, and rejected records, identify root causes, and coordinate the necessary corrections and reprocessing.
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Execute mock migration cycles: Prepare, run, monitor, and validate mock loads, ensuring issues are documented, corrected, and resolved before subsequent cycles.
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Perform reconciliations: Reconcile SAP ECC and S/4HANA data to verify that migrated balances, financial documents, and open items are consistent.
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Collaborate with business teams: Validate migration results with key users and business stakeholders, ensuring the migrated data supports financial processes and operational requirements.
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Assess configuration and technical dependencies: Identify the impact of SAP customizing and master data on migration outcomes, analyzing tables, structures, error messages, dumps, and SAP programs when necessary.
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Prepare functional specifications: Document requirements for custom developments or data processing where standard migration functionality does not meet business needs.
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Monitor migration performance: Track load volumes, execution indicators, errors, rejected records, and reprocessing activities to support progress monitoring and issue resolution.
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Maintain documentation and evidence: Prepare detailed records and supporting evidence for each migration cycle to facilitate validation, traceability, and project governance.
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Support cutover and go-live: Coordinate production data loads within agreed timelines and assist with post-go-live data validation and reconciliation.
Requirements:
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SAP FI experience: Proven professional experience as an SAP FI Consultant, with strong knowledge of financial processes and data structures.
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SAP S/4HANA projects: Demonstrated experience in SAP S/4HANA implementation projects, particularly data migration or system transformation initiatives.
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Hands-on data migration: Practical experience preparing, loading, validating, and reconciling data in SAP environments.
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SAP Migration Cockpit: Working knowledge of SAP Migration Cockpit and its applicable migration methods, including Direct Transfer and Staging Table.
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Financial process expertise: Strong understanding of SAP FI processes, particularly General Ledger (GL), Accounts Payable (AP), Accounts Receivable (AR), and Asset Accounting (AA).
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SAP data structures: Familiarity with SAP tables, data structures, and relevant technical elements used to analyze and validate migrated data.
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Error analysis and resolution: Experience investigating data load failures, identifying inconsistencies, implementing corrections, and managing reprocessing.
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Reconciliation skills: Ability to compare legacy and target-system data and verify the consistency of financial balances, documents, and open items.
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Analytical and problem-solving abilities: Strong attention to detail and the ability to investigate complex migration issues systematically.
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Documentation and communication: Ability to document migration activities clearly and collaborate effectively with technical teams, finance stakeholders, and key users.
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Preferred qualification: Knowledge of English is desirable.
Benefits:
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Fully remote working model.
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PJ (Brazilian legal entity contractor) engagement.
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Indefinite-term consulting assignment, with the opportunity to become part of the consulting team.
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Opportunity to contribute to an SAP S/4HANA transformation and complex financial data migration activities.
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Professional exposure to SAP Migration Cockpit, financial data validation, reconciliation, and migration lifecycle management.
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Collaboration with technical and business teams on critical enterprise technology initiatives.