The SAP Functional Consultant – Group Reporting Specialist

The SAP Functional Consultants – Group Reporting will support the use of the newly implemented Group Reporting module to generate consolidated financial statements for City. The consultant will be a member of the hypercare team for the project. The resource will. 
  Support the generation of financial statements for the City, Agencies, Boards, and Corporations. 
  Review and update data gathered from workshops with Financial reporting and consolidation teams 
  Review and update the current state, year end consolidation processes 
  Review and update mapping of business requirements to SAP S/4HANA Group reporting functionality 
  Review and update group structures 
  Configure consolidation units, groups document types. 
  Set up Consolidation logistics 
 o Inter-agency/corporation eliminations 
  Configure data Collection 
 o ACDOCA to ACDOCU mapping 
 o Validation rules 
 o Reclassification and adjustment postings. 
  Integrate local accounting (ACDOCA) with group reporting (ACDOCU). 
  Configure Data Release, Mapping, and Validation between accounting and consolidation. 
  Enable year-end closing activities: 
 o Intercompany reconciliation and eliminations 
 o Consolidation of investments 
 o Consolidation of equity 
 o Reporting and disclosures 
 o Guide users in running consolidation tasks and resolving issues. 
  Develop financial reports required by Public Sector Accounting Board (PSAB) 
 o Statement of Financial Position 
 o Statement of operations 
 o Statement of Remeasurement Gains and Losses 
 o Statement of Changes in Net Debt 
 o Tangible Capital Assets 
  Provide support for triaging of support tickets, trouble shooting, issue identification, and defect resolution 
  Support the PMO in the prioritization and implementation of items deferred to the post go-live period.
  Work in collaboration with the Business Process Lead and vendor lead informing the design, development and configuration of the SAP solution and its integration with SAP and non-SAP solutions. 
  Support the R2R team providing SAP knowledge/expertise/leadership. 
  Identify linkages to other key processes to support reporting.
 Help the City validate proposed functionality and alignment to design with the Systems Integrator and provide their experience in leading best practices. 
  Provide leadership related to business processes, accounting principles, systems configuration, enhancements and data to enable related processes. 

 Qualifications  
1. A minimum of 10+ years hands-on experience in large project/program management with Government jurisdictions and or large private sector organizations. 
 2. Experience in delivering at least 2 end-to-end implementations with at least 1 implementation in a public sector environment. 
 a. Implementation of Group reporting in a municipality would be a distinct advantage. 
 b. Knowledge of PSAB requirements 
 c. Preparation of financial statement in required formats 
 3. Experience in designing, configuring and implementing SAP S/4HANA Group Reporting including data collection and intercompany eliminations 
 4. SAP Certification Group Reporting 
 5. Expertise and experience in other SAP S/4HANA modules; Finance, Controlling, Accounts Payable, Funds Management, Grants Management, Project Systems, Asset Accounting and Asset Retirement Obligation. 
 6. Extensive experience providing support during hypercare period of a project implementation and transitioning to sustainment a. Experience in troubleshooting, problem resolution during post go-live period 
 7. Experience in consolidating financial data form various sources to produce financial statements 
 8. Expertise in configuration of S/4 HANA modules PS, AA, ARO as well as understanding the integration to FICO, Materials Management. 
 9. Strong knowledge of test methodologies. Extensive experience with traditional and innovative project management processes, techniques, tools across agile, waterfall, iterative methods and associated tools including PMBOK or SAP Activate Methodology. 
 10. Ability to lead efficient communication between all project stakeholders, including internal teams and clients. 
 11. Excellent written & verbal communication skills (comfortable & confident communicating at all levels, including business partners, leadership and vendors).