SAP FICO Consultant

Title: SAP FICO Consultant

Location: Toronto (Remote)

Type: Contract

Day to Day Job Duties:

• Lead requirement gathering, solution design, configuration, testing, deployment, and hypercare for SAP payment and bank-integration requirements.
• Configure SAP payment methods, payment method supplements, company-code payment settings, house banks, bank accounts, bank determination, payment program controls, and payment approval/release processes.
• Design, configure, and maintain payment-medium outputs using SAP PMW and DMEE/DMEEX.
• Build and validate ClientPayment Manager outbound payment files for the approved payment services, company codes, currencies, and payment methods.
• Perform source-to-target mapping of SAP payment, supplier, bank, remittance, invoice, and payment-reference data into required Clientfile formats.
• Configure and support Positive Pay / ARP check-issue file generation, including check issue, cancellation, and void scenarios.
• Configure incoming BAI2 electronic bank statements, including external transaction mapping, posting rules, account symbols, search strings, interpretation algorithms, clearing logic, and exception handling.
• Map ClientBAI transaction codes to SAP posting and clearing processes for payments, receipts, bank fees, interest, returns, and exception items.
• Coordinate with Treasury, AP, AR, Accounting, Client, middleware/MFT teams, and SAP technical teams to resolve file-format, transmission, master-data, and reconciliation issues.
• Prepare functional specifications for reports, enhancements, interfaces, validations, payment formats, and bank-statement processing requirements where standard SAP functionality is insufficient.
• Develop unit-test scripts, lead SIT, support UAT, manage defects, validate reconciliation results, and obtain business and bank-file sign-off.
• Support cutover planning, production deployment, first-live-file validation, reconciliation, and post-go-live hypercare.

Basic Qualifications:

• Minimum 8 10+ years of hands-on experience in SAP FI/CO or SAP S/4HANA Finance implementation, with strong focus on Accounts Payable, payment processing, bank integration, and electronic bank statements.
• Minimum 5 years of hands-on experience configuring SAP payment processes, including payment methods, house banks, bank accounts, payment program configuration, bank determination, payment blocks, and payment run controls.
• Minimum 4 5 years of experience with SAP Payment Medium Workbench (PMW) and DMEE/DMEEX payment-file configuration and support.
• Minimum 2 end-to-end SAP payment and bank-integration implementations including requirements, design, configuration, testing, go-live, and hypercare.
• Strong SAP S/4HANA or ECC expertise in AP payment processing, automatic payment program, bank accounting, payment medium generation, and bank reconciliation.
• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Information Systems, Computer Science, or equivalent work experience.
• SAP S/4HANA Finance or SAP ECC FI/AP.
• SAP Automatic Payment Program and payment configuration.
• SAP PMW.
• DMEE / DMEEX payment-medium tree configuration.
• House bank and bank account configuration.
• Payment methods, bank selection, ranking order, payment blocks, payment terms, and payment proposal/run processing.
• Electronic Bank Statement configuration.
• BAI2 bank-statement format, external transaction types, posting rules, account symbols, and clearing logic.
• Strong understanding of payment-file controls: transaction count, control totals, duplicate-file prevention, mandatory-field validation, and reconciliation.
• Experience with SIT, UAT, cutover, deployment, and production support.

Nice to Have: (But not a must)

• Client Payment Manager implementation experience.
• Client Positive Pay / ARP file-format experience, including issue (320), cancel (370), and void (430) records.
• ClientBAI2 bank-statement implementation experience.
• ISO 20022 XML payment formats, including pain.001.
• ACH, domestic wire, international wire, check, and virtual-card payment-process knowledge.
• Knowledge of SAFE Transmission, SFTP, PGP encryption, certificate/key management, AS2, or middleware-based file transmission.
• SAP Multi-Bank Connectivity, SAP Integration Suite, SAP CPI, or MFT integration exposure.
• SAP Treasury and Risk Management, Cash Management, Bank Account Management, or In-House Cash experience.
• ABAP debugging capability for payment programs, DMEE exits, payment-medium enhancements, and electronic bank-statement processing.
• Experience working with bank implementation teams and external payment-service providers.