S/4HANA FI/CO Senior Consultant

The S/4HANA FI/CO Lead serves as the functional owner of the Finance and Controlling tower within nxzen’s SAP AMS practice, combining deep hands-on expertise in S/4HANA Finance with senior-level delivery leadership. This role is designed for an experienced consultant who can operate at both a strategic and configuration level—owning the end-to-end FI/CO workstream while guiding technical execution, managing stakeholder expectations, and ensuring compliance across complex, multi-entity, multi-jurisdiction SAP environments.

As a senior functional leader, the FI/CO Lead oversees all BAU AMS activities across Record to Report, including incident resolution, change management, regulatory updates, RICEF governance, and cross-functional coordination. The role demands strong command of S/4HANA Finance capabilities such as the Universal Journal, New Asset Accounting, and advanced reporting, along with the ability to manage statutory, fiscal, and compliance-driven financial requirements across diverse geographies.

In addition to operational leadership, the FI/CO Lead plays an influential role in practice development by mentoring junior consultants, shaping nxzen’s delivery methodology, ensuring quality at project handover points, and contributing to best-practice frameworks. This is a high-impact position suited for a consultant who brings structured delivery discipline, strong stakeholder management, and proven experience driving FI/CO stability and innovation in demanding enterprise environments.

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Role Summary

The S/4HANA FI/CO Lead owns the Finance and Controlling functional tower within nxzen's SAP AMS practice. This is a senior hands-on role that combines deep S/4HANA FI/CO functional expertise with

the project management capability to lead delivery workstreams, coordinate cross-functional teams and govern change in complex, multi-entity environments. The role requires active, configuration level S/4HANA experience not oversight alone alongside the planning, stakeholder and delivery management skills to run the FI/CO workstream end-to-end.

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Core Responsibilities

Functional AMS Leadership Finance & Controlling

• Own all FI/CO incidents, service requests and change requests across all severity levels within AMS scope.
• Lead RICEF audit, documentation and ongoing maintenance across the Record to Report catalogue.
• Oversee FI/CO change management, regression testing and release governance within BAU AMS.
• Provide functional leadership and mentoring to FI/CO support consultants in the delivery team.
• Manage complex statutory and regulatory reporting requirements across multi-entity, multijurisdiction engagements. Regulatory & Compliance Management
• Monitor and implement statutory and fiscal rule changes within agreed SLA timeframes.
• Maintain a regulatory change log and communicate SAP impact assessments to the client.
• Own the fast-track regulatory update process, ensuring live system compliance is maintained continuously.
• Support multi-country onboarding adapting FI/CO configuration, RICEFs and reporting for each new legal entity.

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Knowledge Transfer & Practice Development

• Lead FI/CO knowledge transfer during hyper-care periods from implementation to BAU.
• Review and sign off FI/CO documentation, open defects and test evidence at handover quality gates.
• Contribute to nxzen's FI/CO methodology, accelerators and AMS best practices.
• Mentor and develop junior FI/CO consultants within the wider AMS practice.

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Skills & Experience

Essential

• 8 - 12 years of SAP FI/CO experience with at least 3 years on S/4HANA.
• Deep knowledge of Record to Report processes: General Ledger, Accounts Payable/Receivable, Fixed Assets, Controlling, Profit Centre and Cost Centre Accounting.
• Strong understanding of S/4HANA Universal Journal, New Asset Accounting and S/4 Finance architecture.
• Proven experience managing FI/CO AMS or post-go-live support, including RICEF maintenance and regulatory change management.
• Experience with multi-entity, multi-currency and multi-jurisdiction SAP Finance environments.
• Track record in regulated or complex industries energy, utilities, manufacturing or financial services.
• Proven workstream or project management experience able to plan, track and report on a complex FI/CO delivery independently.
• Experience running structured delivery processes: backlog management, sprint planning, issue tracking, risk registers and status reporting.
• SAP FI/CO certification on S/4HANA.

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Highly Valued

• Experience supporting multi-country SAP rollouts across EMEA, LATAM or APAC regions.
• Knowledge of statutory reporting requirements across multiple legal jurisdictions.
• Experience with SAP Group Reporting or consolidation within S/4HANA.
• Formal project management qualification (Prince2, PMP, SAFe or equivalent).

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Leadership & Personal Attributes

• Subject matter authority the trusted go-to expert for all FI/CO process and compliance questions.
• Highly organised with the ability to manage multiple concurrent deadlines.
• Clear and confident communicator with finance leadership and external stakeholders.
• Collaborative across onshore, nearshore and offshore team structures

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