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Senior SAP Finance Consultant (GL)

United States, United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 12 Jun 2025

About the role

LSI has been focusing strategically on SAP higher education and public sector implementation services and solutions over the last 27 years, starting with the first US higher education implementation at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (“MIT”) and the first US government implementation at the City of Phoenix. Since 1998, LSI has developed a practice specifically working with government, higher education, research, and academic medical research organizations across North America. We have been involved with numerous higher education SAP application implementations, solution design, and ongoing support, maintenance, and advisory services. Twenty of twenty-two US Universities using SAP have been LSI clients.
SAP Senior Finance Consultant (GL)Migration experience preferred from ECC to S/4HANA. SAP Experience

8-10 years of SAP experience.
State government and/or Public Sector experience required.

SAP Skills

Must have excellent functional knowledge of S/4HANA finance subject matters: GL, CO, FM, AP, AR, AM, etc.
Must have Expertise in intercompany accounting, RAR integration, intercompany cost allocation and Group Reporting.
Must have the ability to drive reporting requirements with the FI functional team by interacting with those resources.
Must have the ability to understand existing blueprints and requirements documents.
Must have excellent specification writing skills.
Must have the ability to recognize when reporting requirements overlap within a subject matter for the purposes of report consolidation.
Experience writing Reporting Functional Specifications with Public Sector clients.
Be able to perform under pressure and a fast-paced project.
At least 5 full life-cycle implementation projects (from Blueprint/Explore through Go-Live).
At least one full-cycle S/4HANA implementation.
Understanding of SAP Activate Methodology.
Sound knowledge of configuration and master data, in GL, AP, AR, Asset accounting and Cash and Bank accounting including New GL accounting, document splitting and closing cockpit.
Sound knowledge of cost element, cost center, internal order, and has a working knowledge of profit center accounting.

Responsibilities

Leads project implementations as a General Ledger Lead and understands integration to Funds Management and Grants Management modules following SAP ASAP or Activate Methodology standards.
Understands Public Sector Accounting and all the dependent master data objects required for financial reporting.
Provides specialist level functional and configuration knowledge in designing SAP solutions in the FI and CO modules.
Should have sound knowledge of configuration and master data, in GL, AP, AR, Asset accounting and Cash and Bank accounting including New GL accounting, document splitting and closing cockpit.
Should have sound knowledge of cost element, cost center, internal order, and has a working knowledge of profit center accounting.
Understands configuration dependencies and interrelationships between separate functional modules of SAP and provide financial expertise into the definition and resolution of issues in this area with this knowledge.
Conducts or participates in user requirements gathering, blueprinting & documentation designs. Ensure compliance to existing, and development of required data and reporting standards.
Ensure the integrity of the finance configuration of the SAP system across multiple landscapes.
Leads workshops with customers to demonstrate and explain module functionality and best practice processes.
Assists customers improve business processes and documents changes required to SAP configuration settings to implement redesigned business processes.
Develops to-be design documentation for Master Data and Process designs.
Unit tests standard transactions and applications.
Develops functional specifications for Workflows, Reports, Interfaces, Data Conversions, Enhancements and Forms.
Coordinates with technical developers to review specifications with customers, explain the design and obtain approval of specifications.
Makes SAP configuration settings as required.
Unit tests standard transactions and applicati