Title: ERP Program - SAP Finance Solution Specialist FICO

Resume Due Date:  Wednesday, October 1^st, 2025 (5:00PM EST)

Number of Vacancies: 2

Level:  MP5 upto $100/hr INC

Duration: 24 months

Hours of work:  40

Location:   700 University Ave & Oshawa (Hybrid, 2 days remote)                   

Job Overview

The SAP FICO & Finance Solution Specialist plays a strategic role in architecting, configuring, and delivering end-to-end financial processes within a modern S/4HANA landscape. This position combines technical mastery with business acumen, advisory capability, and transformational leadership. The successful candidate will drive value across record-to-report, planning, consolidation, and enterprise performance management, while ensuring strong integration, compliance, and alignment with OPG's enterprise architecture and innovation goals.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead solution design and implementation for core SAP FICO processes: General Ledger (GL), Accounts Payable (AP), Accounts Receivable (AR), Asset Accounting (AA), Bank Accounting, Cost Center and Profit Center Accounting, Internal Orders, Product Costing, Profitability Analysis (CO-PA), and Project Systems (PS).
• Design and configure advanced finance capabilities: parallel ledgers, chart of accounts, profit center hierarchy, intercompany eliminations, and tax localization.
• Drive seamless integration with adjacent modules: Materials Management (MM), Sales & Distribution (SD), Production Planning (PP), Enterprise Asset Management (EAM), and Human Resources (HR).
• Analyze and translate business requirements into SAP-enabled solutions, conducting fit-gap analysis, blueprinting, and supporting end-to-end project delivery using SAP Activate and agile methodologies.
• Develop and validate reporting and analytics using SAP Fiori apps, SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC), embedded analytics, SAP BW/4HANA, and BusinessObjects.
• Support financial planning, consolidation, and group reporting, including integration with planning tools (e.g., Anaplan) and multi-entity, multinational requirements.
• Risk Management: Identify, assess, and mitigate project risks related to finance solutions and data migration.
• Ensure compliance with internal controls (SOX, ICOFR), audit readiness, and regulatory/tax localization.
• Oversee data migration, data mapping, and master data management, ensuring data quality and governance in collaboration with business owners.
• Collaborate with ABAP, NetWeaver, and integration teams to deliver custom enhancements, interfaces, and reporting solutions.
• Provide post-go-live support, troubleshooting, and continuous improvement for SAP FICO processes.
• Deliver user training, documentation, and change management support to finance and business teams.
• Mentor team members and foster a collaborative, high-performing environment.

Solution Architecture & Governance

• Align finance solution architecture with OPG's enterprise architecture, leveraging tools such as LeanIX and Signavio for process modeling and documentation.
• Ensure all design decisions reflect SAP best practices, industry standards, and extensibility via SAP BTP and NetWeaver.
• Collaborate with technical architects and project managers to validate blueprint design, system scalability, and integration across modules and third-party systems.
• Apply configuration expertise (IMG/SPRO) to support design validation, gap analysis, and fit-to-standard enablement.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Accounting, Finance, Business, Information Technology, or a related field (advanced degree preferred).
• 10+ years of SAP FICO experience, with at least 2 full-cycle S/4HANA implementations.
• Strong expertise in financial close, planning, consolidation, and regulatory reporting (IFRS, GAAP, multi-entity).
•  Proven experience with SAP Fiori, embedded analytics, NetWeaver, and integration with MM, SD, PP, EAM, HR.
• Knowledge of SAP Activate methodology, value engineering, and data governance.
• Experience with post-go-live support, troubleshooting, and continuous improvement.
• Excellent analytical, advisory, and communication skills.
• Experience in utilities, asset-intensive, or regulated industries is an asset.