Senior Sap Finance Control Consultant

Role Title : Senior SAP Finance Consultant (Business Advisory & Solution Architect)
Experience : 10-12 years
Job location : Pan India
Role Purpose
The Senior SAP Finance Consultant / Business Advisor serves as the primary strategic partner and technical authority for pladis UK’s finance transformation
Trusted Advisor: Partner with senior business stakeholders, Financial Controllers, and the Head of SAP Business Solutions to translate complex business needs into robust SAP capabilities.
Process Interrogation & Optimization: Lead deep-dive reviews of existing "as-is" finance processes to identify inefficiencies, control gaps, and modernization opportunities.
Retiring Excel Workarounds: Design automated, SAP-standard solutions to systematically replace manual, Excel-based spreadsheets (e.g., Direct Marketing allocations, Trade Accounting reconciliations, Balance Sheet reconciliations, and period-end closing tasks).
Feasibility & Readiness Assessment: Lead the strategic evaluation, prerequisites review, and risk assessment for enabling Material Ledger (ML) within pladis's existing SAP ECC 6 environment.
Solution Design for Actual Costing: Architect the end-to-end Material Ledger solution to achieve actual costing, multi-currency valuation, and transparency across manufacturing plants.
Execution Roadmap: Define cutover strategy, historical data implications, parallel run requirements, and risk mitigation plans for Material Ledger activation.
Costing & Profitability Architecture: Lead solution design for complex Product Costing (CO-PC), Cost Component Splits, and Profitability Analysis (CO-PA), including weighted production variance allocations.
Cross-Module Integration: Drive seamless integration between Finance/Controlling and supply chain modules—Production Planning (PP), Materials Management / Procurement (MM), and Sales & Distribution (SD).
Architecture Blueprints: Produce high-quality Solution Architecture Design Documents (SADD), functional specifications, integration mappings, and future-state process flows.
Strategic Project Delivery: Direct the end-to-end delivery lifecycle of critical finance initiatives from discovery and blueprinting to user acceptance testing (UAT) and cutover.
Knowledge Transition: Establish structured documentation and lead knowledge transfer sessions to upskill offshore AMS support teams and business power users.
Expert functional depth across FI-GL, AP, AR, Asset Accounting, Cost Center Accounting, Internal Orders, and Profit Center Accounting.
High commercial acumen with the ability to structure cost/benefit analyses and support business cases for change.

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