At Zimele Technologies, we specialize in delivering comprehensive SAP ERP and Utilities (IS-U) solutions tailored to meet the diverse needs of organizations. Our expertise lies in maximizing the value derived from Information and Communication Technology (ICT) investments, ensuring compliance with government regulations, and providing prebuilt, internationally best-practice-aligned ERP systems. Our SAP-based solution facilitates high-quality service delivery, offering benefits such as improved customer relationship management, efficient service delivery, accurate billing, streamlined address and regional structure management, enhanced customer data management, optimized revenue collection, and improved financial management. Our Meter-to-Cash solutions prioritize fair billing and invoicing processes, minimizing rates and reducing outstanding receivables through highly flexible, automated processes. Leveraging our Meter Data Management System (MDMS) and Advanced Meter Infrastructure (AMI) services, we enable organizations to harness smart meter data for billing, troubleshooting, and energy usage analysis. As an accredited SAP partner, our AMI solutions empower seamless execution of meter-to-cash processes globally, providing intelligent metering solutions built on the SAP platform for easy integration, ultimately improving revenue collection, reducing operating costs, and enhancing customer satisfaction.
Job Summary
The SAP Senior Finance Consultant is responsible for the design, implementation, configuration, and ongoing support of SAP S/4HANA Finance solutions, covering General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Asset Accounting, Bank Accounting, and Controlling. This role involves working closely with finance, procurement, treasury, and audit stakeholders to understand financial accounting, reporting, and compliance requirements and translating these needs into effective SAP solutions integrated with Materials Management (MM), Sales and Distribution (SD), Investment Management (IM), Project System (PS), and Human Capital Management. As a senior member of the team, the Consultant provides solution leadership, quality-assures the work of other consultants, and acts as a trusted advisor to client finance teams, ensuring accurate and timely financial postings, period-end close, statutory and management reporting, and strong financial controls.
Key Responsibilities
Implementation and Configuration • Conduct workshops with finance stakeholders to gather, analyse, and document requirements, and lead fit-gap analysis against SAP S/4HANA standard functionality. • Configure and support the following SAP Finance processes:
General Ledger and Financial Close (FI-GL) • Configure the financial enterprise structure, including company codes, chart of accounts, fiscal year variants, ledgers, document types, posting keys, and number ranges. • Configure and support the Universal Journal (ACDOCA), parallel ledgers and currencies, document splitting, and automatic account determination. • Configure and support period-end and year-end closing activities, including accruals, foreign currency valuation, GR/IR clearing, reclassifications, and balance carry-forward. • Support manual and recurring journals, document parking, and journal approval workflows.
Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable • Configure and support vendor and customer master data through Business Partner, including duplicate checks and bank detail controls. • Configure invoice verification integration with MM, including three-way match, payment terms, tolerances, and blocking reasons. • Configure and support the automatic payment program, payment methods, payment media and bank file formats, down payments, and payment approvals. • Configure and support incoming payments, clearing, dunning, credit management integration, and customer and vendor reconciliation.
Asset Accounting (FI-AA) • Configure asset classes, depreciation areas, depreciation keys, and account determination. • Support asset acquisition from procurement and projects, assets under construction, capitalisation, transfers, and retirements. • Support depreciation runs, year-end asset closing, and asset reconciliation to the general ledger.
Bank Accounting and Cash Management • Configure house banks, bank accounts, and electronic bank statement processing. • Support bank reconciliation, cash position, and liquidity forecasting.
Controlling and Management Reporting • Configure and support cost centre accounting, profit centre accounting, internal orders, and allocation cycles. • Support management reporting, budget monitoring, and variance analysis. • Support accurate reconciliation between Financial Accounting and Controlling.
Taxation and Statutory Compliance • Configure and support tax codes, VAT, and withholding tax, including tax reporting. • Support statutory, regulatory, and audit reporting requirements. • Support financial controls, segregation of duties, authorisations, and audit requirements in collaboration with security and GRC teams.
Integration with Procurement, Projects, and Investment Management • Ensure seamless integration between Finance and MM (procure-to-pay), SD (order-to-cash), PS and IM (project and investment accounting), and payroll and human capital postings. • Support budget, commitment, and actual cost tracking across integrated modules.
Solution Leadership and Design • Be responsible for leading the finance solution design and ensuring that delivered solutions align with business requirements, SAP best practice, and client governance standards, by performing the following activities: • Own the finance solution blueprint and lead design decisions, including trade-offs, risks, and dependencies across modules. • Review and quality-assure functional specifications, configuration, and test evidence prepared by other consultants. • Advise clients on SAP S/4HANA Finance simplifications, the Universal Journal, SAP Fiori applications, and process improvement opportunities. • Provide effort estimates, work plans, and status reporting for finance workstreams. • Engage with client project governance forums, including steering committees and change boards, and report on progress, risks, and issues.
Data Migration and Conversion • Plan and support the migration of finance master and transactional data by performing the following activities: • Define data migration requirements and mapping for GL balances, open items, fixed assets, bank accounts, vendors, and customers. • Support data extraction, transformation, load, and validation using SAP S/4HANA migration tools. • Perform reconciliation of migrated data to source systems and support cutover and go-live activities.
Support and Troubleshooting • Provide ongoing support and troubleshooting for SAP Finance by performing the following activities: • Provide ongoing functional support and maintenance for SAP Finance to ensure system stability and business continuity. • Investigate, analyse, and resolve application defects, configuration issues, posting errors, interface failures, and process-related incidents in accordance with agreed service levels. • Perform root cause analysis on recurring incidents and implement corrective actions to minimise business disruption and improve system performance. • Provide period-end and year-end close support, including resolution of closing issues and reconciliation differences. • Collaborate with SAP technical teams, SAP Fiori developers, Basis, integration specialists, and other functional consultants to resolve cross-functional integration, interface, and performance issues. • Support incident, problem, and change management activities, ensuring timely resolution and effective communication with business stakeholders. • Provide post-go-live and production support, including defect resolution, system monitoring, and continuous improvement initiatives.
Systems Integration • Be responsible for designing, implementing, and supporting the integration of SAP Finance with related SAP applications and external systems to ensure seamless end-to-end business processes, accurate financial reporting, and efficient data exchange. • Implement and maintain integration between SAP Finance and MM, SD, PS, IM, and Human Capital Management, ensuring accurate postings and timely data flow. • Support integration with banks and other external systems, including payment files, bank statements, and third-party financial and tax data providers. • Monitor, troubleshoot, and resolve IDoc and interface issues to maintain data integrity and system reliability. • Collaborate with technical teams and business stakeholders to support interface enhancements and integration improvements.
Documentation • Develop and maintain comprehensive functional documentation, including: • Functional Specification Documents (FSD). • Business Requirement Documents (BRD). • Configuration documentation. • Training materials and user guides. • Test scripts and execution evidence. • Knowledge transfer documentation.
Testing and Validation • Be responsible for planning, coordinating, and executing testing activities to ensure SAP Finance solutions, enhancements, and integrations meet business requirements, quality standards, and operational expectations. • Execute unit, system integration, regression, and user acceptance testing activities. • Ensure configured solutions, enhancements, and interfaces perform as intended, including reconciliation of financial postings and reports. • Facilitate and support User Acceptance Testing (UAT) to validate business requirements and process outcomes. • Support defect management and testing sign-off processes.
Training, Mentoring and Knowledge Transfer • Be responsible for developing team capability by mentoring junior consultants, facilitating knowledge transfer, and promoting continuous learning to strengthen SAP Finance expertise across the organisation. • Mentor and support junior consultants and team members. • Conduct knowledge transfer sessions and end-user training workshops. • Contribute to building internal SAP Finance capability within Zimele Technologies.
Qualifications
Education: • Bachelor’s Degree in Finance, Accounting, Commerce, Computer Science, Information Technology, Business Administration, or a related field.
Certifications: • SAP Certified Associate - SAP S/4HANA Financial Accounting • SAP Certified Associate - SAP S/4HANA Management Accounting (Controlling) (advantageous) • Professional accounting qualification, such as CA(SA), CIMA, or SAIPA (advantageous)
Experience: • Minimum of 8 years’ experience as an SAP Finance consultant, including a Lead or Senior role on at least three full-cycle SAP S/4HANA Finance implementations. • Demonstrated expertise in end-to-end finance processes, including record-to-report, procure-to-pay, order-to-cash, and asset-to-retire. • Strong experience in SAP S/4HANA Financial Accounting (FI-GL, AP, AR, AA) and Controlling, including the Universal Journal, parallel ledgers, and document splitting. • Experience supporting period-end and year-end closing, financial reconciliation, and statutory and audit reporting. • Experience with SAP ECC and S/4HANA implementations, conversions, or upgrades involving SAP Finance. • Experience integrating SAP Finance with MM, SD, PS, IM, and Human Capital Management. • Experience in data migration for finance master and transactional data, including cutover and reconciliation. • Experience supporting SAP Fiori applications for finance, including functional testing, issue analysis, user acceptance testing (UAT), defect resolution, and collaboration with SAP Fiori developers. • Experience supporting and troubleshooting SAP integration technologies, including IDocs, bank interfaces, and interface monitoring. • Experience in public sector, utilities, or other regulated environments is advantageous. • Experience leading, mentoring, or quality-assuring the work of junior consultants.
Knowledge & Skills Required
Technical Skills • Expert knowledge of SAP S/4HANA Finance configuration and business process design across FI-GL, AP, AR, AA, Bank Accounting, and CO. • Strong understanding of the Universal Journal, ledger and currency concepts, document splitting, and financial close processes. • Strong knowledge of automatic payment processing, bank statement processing, and payment file formats. • Strong knowledge of VAT and withholding tax configuration and tax reporting. • Strong integration knowledge across MM, SD, PS, IM, and Human Capital Management. • Working knowledge of financial reporting, analytics, and SAP Fiori finance applications. • Working knowledge of IDoc monitoring, troubleshooting, and error resolution. • Working knowledge of SAP S/4HANA data migration tools and approaches. • Knowledge of financial controls, segregation of duties, and audit requirements. • Exposure to SAP ABAP debugging and enhancement support is advantageous.
Professional Skills • Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities with the ability to resolve complex business and system issues. • Excellent stakeholder management and consulting skills, including advising senior client finance stakeholders. • Strong verbal and written communication skills with the ability to engage business and technical audiences. • High attention to detail and commitment to quality and accuracy. • Strong customer-focused approach and service orientation. • Ability to work independently and collaboratively within cross-functional teams. • Strong documentation and presentation skills. • Demonstrated ability to lead, mentor junior consultants, and transfer knowledge effectively. • Proficiency in English with excellent report-writing and functional specification development skills. • Flexibility to operate in dynamic project environments and manage competing priorities effectively. • Ability to establish and maintain strong professional relationships with clients, partners, and internal stakeholders.
