SAP RTR Consultant

Location: Lisle, ILNo H1B -Should work from the office 4 days a week. 6-month contract-to-hire.Job Description :Sr SAP Functional Analyst (R2R)Role Overview:We're looking for an enthusiastic SAP RTR Functional Analyst to join us and take the lead on designing and delivering complex finance capabilities across our Record-to-Report landscape including Finance & Consolidations. This is a design and architecture role for someone who genuinely enjoys solving hard finance problems and wants real ownership across configuration, enhancements, and integrations.With a major financial transformation program launching later this year, this role will play a central part in shaping how we consolidate, report, and recognize revenue on S/4HANA. You'll partner closely with our Chief Product Owner, Functional SAP SME, business stakeholders, and the broader architecture team, and your design thinking will directly influence how we scale.Key Responsibilities:• Design and architect RTR solutions on S/4HANA across the general ledger, sub-ledgers, and period-end close processes.• Support Central Finance (CFIN) and SLT-driven replication scenarios, including configuration, data flow design, and troubleshooting across source and target systems.• Lead design and configuration for Multi Bank Connectivity (MBC), including bank integration, payment formats, and secure connectivity setup.• Own design and delivery of Revenue Accounting and Reporting (RAR), including contract management, performance obligations, and revenue recognition scenarios.• Drive Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable design, including invoice processing, payment runs, dunning, credit management, and cash application.• Lead tax configuration and design, including integration with OneSource for indirect tax, withholding tax, and broader tax reporting needs.• Own account determination configuration across FI, CO, and integrated modules, ensuring clean, scalable mappings that support downstream reporting.• Support the design and delivery of financial consolidations, including intercompany eliminations, currency translation, and group reporting processes.• Contribute to profitability analysis (CO-PA) design where applicable, ensuring alignment with margin reporting and management reporting needs.• Drive enhancements and continuous improvements across RTR, balancing short-term business needs against long-term architectural direction.• Serve as the solution architect for finance integrations, covering cross-module touchpoints with SD and MM, and external systems through IDocs, APIs, and middleware.• Collaborate with enterprise and domain architects across the broader landscape to ensure RTR designs align with overall architecture direction and standards.• Translate business requirements into scalable functional designs, pressure-testing them against close timelines, audit, and reporting constraints.• Partner with functional leadership on design decisions, blueprint reviews, and solution governance.• Drive technical documentation, functional specifications, and design artifacts that reflect architectural intent.• Provide thought leadership on finance best practices and mentor team members on complex design problems.What We're Looking For:• Extensive hands-on SAP FI/CO experience on S/4HANA, with a track record of contributing to design on large implementations or transformation programs.• Deep expertise across core RTR functions, including general ledger, asset accounting, intercompany, and period-end close.• Strong hands-on experience with Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable, including payment processing, cash application, credit, and collections.• Hands-on experience with Multi Bank Connectivity (MBC), bank integration, and payment format configuration.• Proven experience with SAP tax configuration and hands-on integration with OneSource, including tax code setup, condition records, and reconciliation scenarios.• Hands-on experience with Revenue Accounting and Reporting (RAR), including BRF+ configuration, contract management, and revenue recognition design.• Strong experience with account determination configuration across FI and integrated modules.• Solid background in financial consolidations, including intercompany processes, eliminations, and group reporting concepts.• Solution architecture experience with integration-heavy landscapes, including IDocs, APIs and middleware, and cross-module dependencies with SD and MM.• Experience collaborating with enterprise architects and cross-domain architecture teams to align solutions to broader technical direction.• Ability to own solutions from blueprint through deployment and stabilize post go-live.• Strong stakeholder management and the ability to communicate design trade-offs clearly to both business and technical audiences.• A collaborative, curious mindset. Someone who asks good questions, challenges assumptions constructively, and enjoys working across functions.Nice to Have:• Experience with SAP Document and Reporting Compliance (DRC), particularly for Mexico statutory and e-invoicing requirements (CFDI).• S/4HANA certification in Finance.• Experience with profitability analysis (CO-PA), including account-based and margin analysis design.• Exposure to SAP Group Reporting, BPC, or other consolidation platforms.• Background in industries with complex revenue recognition or consolidation requirements.