SAP MDG Techno Functional Consultant in Halifax

In this role, you will:

• Facilitate and support discovery, design, and validation workshops with Procurement, Accounts Payable, Treasury, Tax, Master Data, and IT stakeholders across the US, Mexico, and Brazil.
• Capture as-is vendor and customer master processes for the acquired entity and design the harmonized to-be model in MDG.
• Produce functional specifications, data dictionaries, and design decision logs; drive open items to closure.
• Own source-to-target field mapping for supplier and customer master, including general data (name, address, communication, search terms), company code data (payment terms, payment methods, house bank, reconciliation account, withholding tax), purchasing data, partner functions, bank details, and tax identifiers.
• Define transformation, derivation, defaulting, and validation rules; document exceptions and business rule ownership.
• Configure MDG-S and MDG-C: data model extensions, change request types and workflows, BRF+ rules, derivations, UI configuration, duplicate check and match/merge, key and value mapping.
• Set up data replication (DRF, IDoc, SOA services) to Ariba and the ERP; support key mapping across systems.
• Work with the Ariba workstream on Supplier Lifecycle and Performance (SLP) registration and qualification flows, supplier requests, questionnaires, and Ariba Network account linkage.
• Support integration through SAP Cloud Integration Gateway / SAP Integration Suite, including field mapping, error handling, and reconciliation between Ariba, MDG, and the ERP.
• Profile legacy data; define and execute cleansing, enrichment, and de-duplication cycles with business data stewards.
• Build and run extraction and load.
• Support SIT, UAT, cutover, and hypercare; produce reconciliation reports and sign-off packs.
• Help define the ongoing stewardship model, data ownership, SLAs, and SOPs.
• Deliver training and knowledge transfer to the retained organization.

What you need to have to be considered:

• Strong Techno – functional experience with 10+ years in SAP master data, with at least two full-lifecycle SAP MDG implementations covering MDG-S (supplier) and/or MDG-C (customer).
• Deep working knowledge of vendor and customer master structures - LFA1/LFB1/LFM1 and KNA1/KNB1/KNVV in ECC, Business Partner (BP) and BUT000/BP roles in S/4HANA.
• Strong functional grasp of the P2P and O2C data that drives payment: payment terms, payment methods, blocking indicators, bank master, withholding tax, tolerance groups.
• Hands-on SAP Ariba experience - SLP and/or Buying & Invoicing - including supplier onboarding flows and Ariba-to-ERP integration patterns.
• Data migration experience at scale: profiling, mapping specs, load tooling, mock cycles, reconciliation.
• Demonstrated ability to run workshops with senior business stakeholders and write specifications a developer can build from.

Salary and Other Compensation:

The annual salary for this position is between CAD 100,000 - CAD 160,000 depending on experience and other qualifications of the successful candidate.

Benefits: Cognizant offers the following benefits for this position, subject to applicable eligibility requirements:

• Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance
• Paid holidays plus Paid Time Off
• Long-term/Short-term Disability
• Paid Parental Leave