SAP S/4HANA FI and CO Specialist - Remote with travel to northern Italy

Project overview

A functional specialist seat looking after SAP S/4HANA Finance and Controlling for the business units, keeping it running well and pushing it forward. A lot of the job is direct contact with the Local Process Owners, and the client wants someone who comes back with something workable rather than something theoretical.

DAY TO DAY SUPPORT

TESTING, RELEASES AND ROLLOUT

COSTING AND CONTROLLING

IMPROVEMENT, DOCUMENTATION AND ADOPTION

REQUIRED PROFILE

• Act as the day to day point of contact for the Local Process Owners
• Handle functional queries from the units already running on the system
• Investigate FI and CO faults and see them through to a fix
• Own the ticket queue, chasing corrections with internal IT and outside suppliers
• Keep turnaround inside the service levels that have been agreed
• Plan the acceptance testing, write the scenarios, and sit with key users while they work through them
• Sign off fixes, enhancements and new releases before anything reaches production
• Work alongside the release and change process
• Bring further business units onto S/4HANA: set up their org structure, move their data over, prove the processes hold
• Be part of the cutover, the go-live itself and hypercare afterwards
• Look after Product Costing and the management accounting side, keeping standard costs right and updates clean
• Run and check cost rolls, work through variances, and support margin and profitability reporting
• Join up Controlling, Finance, Supply Chain and Operations so cost is visible and reported the same way everywhere
• Spot where a process could be simplified or automated
• Steer the units towards common ways of working and SAP standard where it fits
• Take on enhancement work as it comes up
• Keep user guides, procedures and functional documentation current
• Train key users and end users, and help the business actually adopt what gets delivered
• SAP S/4HANA Finance and Controlling functional expertise
• Used to dealing directly with Local Process Owners
• Looking after live business users, including fault analysis and ticket handling
• Planning acceptance testing, writing scenarios, guiding key users through them
• Taking new business units live on an existing system: org structure, data, process proving
• Cutover, go-live and hypercare
• Product Costing and management accounting, standard costs, cost rolls, variances, margin reporting
• Writing user guides and delivering training
• Comes back with workable answers rather than theory
• Fluent English essential, Italian an advantage
• Able to travel to northern Italy around twice a month early on

Project details

Applications are handled by AP Staffing Limited, specialist SAP contract recruitment.

• Location: remote, with travel to northern Italy
• Travel: around twice a month until the end of January 2027, less frequently after that
• Contract type: contract / freelance, full-time, 5 days per week
• Duration: until the end of July 2027 as a first contract
• Start: as soon as possible
• Languages: fluent English essential, Italian an advantage
• Start: asap
• Duration: 10 months
• Remote: remote
• Location: Milan, Italy, IT
• Languages: English, Italian