Sap Financial Accounting Senior Consultant in Ottawa

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Client: PwC Canada

Duration: ASAP initially until January 2027, plus extensions up-to potentially a total of 2-years.

Level of Effort (LoE): Part-Time

• Weeks 1 to 8 at 4-hours, per week.
• Week 9 & 10 at 2-hours, per week.
• Leading to Up-to 40 hours upon extension

Project Description: PwC Canada requires a Senior Finance Consultant, to act as a part of PwC's internal SAP Practice leading as subject matter expert and providing ongoing advisor and support as required during the SAP S/4HANA Discovery-Phase, in preparation for the Greenfield Implementation. The client is in the food processing, packing, and shipping industry, specifically protein.

MANDATORY PREREQUISITE:

• Specialize within the SAP Accounts Payable (AP), General Ledger (GL), Asset Accounting (AA), Costing (CO) modules, as an SAP Finance Consultant,
• Must offer a minimum of ten years (120 months) of SAP Finance Consulting experience.

PREFERENCE:

• Ideally, applicants will offer an SAP Certification(s), and an Accounting Designation(s).
• Ideally, food processing, packing, and shipping industry experience.
• Ideally, experience with SAP Project Systems (PS), Group Reporting, SAC FP&A and Budgeting.

Tasks and duties include:

• Lead functional stream by managing the workstream activities, collaborating cross-functionally and with PMO on activities such as but not limited to functional/technical dependencies, RAID.
• Representing workstream in daily standups, project status meetings and other ongoing project meetings.
• Collaborating with Client and other streams.

Lead functional fit to standard and technical & integrations workshops by providing:

• Inventory of BPML business processes in scope for phase 1.
• Documented Key Design Decisions (KDD) that will drive the solution architecture.
• High level future-state global process flows, including alignment to SAP best practices and S/4HANA solution scope.
• Gaps relative to standard, RICEFW register including integrations, reports and forms.
• Reporting and analytics requirements, identifying custom report requirements (gaps).
• Interfacing inventory, proposed integration approach, complexity levels, and refined effort estimates for design and build
• Initial inventory of change impacts, as identified during fit-to-standard workshops.
• Conducting SAP Fit-to-Standard workshops to confirm enterprise-wide business process standards aligned with SAP best practices, Clean Core principles and AI opportunities.
• Collaborating with Data team to define the data migration approach, including identification of data objects, data volume, migration tooling, and initial cleansing and transformation requirement.
• Collaborating with Security, Technical/Integration, and Change Management teams.
• Defining SAP organizational structure (company codes, plants, storage locations, purchasing organizations, sales organizations, etc.).

Provide input and collaborate with Delivery Lead, PMO and client by:

• Creating a revised integrated program plan.
• Creating a register of all pertinent assumptions and uncertainties related to Project Elevate.
• Refreshing the existing list of program risks and mitigations plans.
• Creating a revised division of responsibilities and program roles between the end-client and PwC for inclusion in the next Statement of Work (SOW).
• Revising the cost estimate for subsequent implementation project.

Lead workstream deliverable and provide input into cross-functional and project deliverables:

• Program Scope and Workplan.
• Integration Strategy & Architecture Document.
• Data Migration Scope.
• Refined ROM (Rough Order of Magnitude) Estimate.
• Executive Approval Packages.

Closing Steps:

#1: Applicants will ensure to demonstrate all relevant components of the above listed modules, skills and experience are clearly referenced within their client/project experiences if applicable;

#2: Pre-assessed applicants based on resumes, will be contacted for an initial introductory vmeeting, potentially leading to a formal panel vmeeting; and

#3: The selected applicant will be selected for a potential start, by no later than Friday, October 30th, 2026.

IMPORTANT:

• Out of country applicants will be automatically rejected by the posting.
• Only candidates providing a resume clearly demonstrating the required expertise and experience may be contacted.
• No staffing agencies will be considered.

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