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SAP FICO Consultant
SAP FICO Consultants help employers design, configure and support SAP finance and controlling processes. They bring practical FI and CO knowledge across financial accounting, management accounting, reporting, testing and finance transformation.
What does a SAP FICO Consultant do?
An SAP FICO Consultant works across SAP Financial Accounting and Controlling, helping finance teams design, configure and improve processes for statutory reporting, management accounting, cost control and financial operations.
The role is commonly used across SAP S/4HANA Finance, ECC, finance transformation, rollout and BAU support environments where employers need strong FI and CO knowledge, fit-gap control, testing support and practical finance process understanding.
When businesses hire SAP FICO Consultants
- Implementing SAP S/4HANA Finance, SAP ECC FI or SAP CO processes
- Supporting finance transformation, rollout, upgrade or optimisation programmes
- Improving financial accounting, controlling, reporting and period-end processes
- Configuring SAP finance processes while reducing unnecessary customisation
- Adding specialist SAP finance knowledge to testing, cutover, hypercare or BAU support
Typical responsibilities
- Gather finance and controlling requirements from business users, process owners and finance stakeholders
- Configure SAP FI and CO processes, settings, master data rules and controls in line with approved design
- Support areas such as general ledger, accounts payable, accounts receivable, asset accounting, cost centres, profit centres and internal orders
- Run fit-gap workshops, design reviews, process walkthroughs and finance testing activity
- Write functional specifications for reports, interfaces, enhancements, forms or workflows where needed
- Resolve defects, support integration testing, UAT, cutover, go-live and hypercare activity
- Help transition SAP finance changes into BAU with clear documentation and user guidance
Key skills to look for
- SAP FI and CO consulting experience
- Strong understanding of SAP S/4HANA Finance, SAP ECC FI and SAP CO processes
- Configuration experience across financial accounting, controlling, master data and reporting
- Fit-gap, testing, defect resolution and functional specification experience
- Ability to work with finance users, technical teams, data teams and implementation partners
- Clear judgement on standard SAP, finance controls, usability and long-term supportability