SapCentral Finance - Expert Lead (Xico)

NEORIS is a Digital accelerator that helps companies enter the future, leveraging 20 years of experience in SAP and digital transformation across 11 countries.

Job Summary

Senior SAP S/4HANA Central Finance Expert Lead to support a complex, global transformation. The role will lead and coordinate the Central Finance and Finance Transformation stream, ensuring harmonized financial processes, real‑time reporting, and data integrity across multiple source systems.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead end‑to‑end implementation or migration of SAP S/4HANA Central Finance, ensuring SAP Best Practice adoption and harmonized financial processes.
• Drive standardisation of chart of accounts, controlling structures, and financial master data across source systems.
• Coordinate Finance functional teams and cross‑functional technical teams to ensure data replication, reconciliation, and reporting accuracy.
• Act as a key interface with global Finance leadership, CFO organization, and local finance teams.
• Manage multi‑system and multi‑ledger environments to maintain consistency between Central Finance and source ERPs.
• Maintain delivery momentum and financial data integrity within tight deadlines and high governance standards.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 4 years of experience in Central Finance.
• At least 2 full‑lifecycle Central Finance implementations.
• Deep experience in Financial Accounting and Controlling (GL, AP, AR, Asset Accounting, Cost Center Accounting, Profitability Analysis, Financial Close).
• Experience with Finance harmonisation, chart of accounts standardisation, controlling model alignment, and real‑time reporting across multiple entities.
• Strong understanding of Finance integrations, data replication, and system interoperability (SLT, BTP, CPI).
• Bachelor’s degree in IT management or related field.
• Proficient in English (C1‑C2) and Spanish (native). Hybrid home‑office model.
• Excellent communication, consensus building, and stakeholder management skills.
• Solid understanding of financial and project delivery management.
• Global mindset with experience working with distributed teams across different time zones and cultures.
• Resilience and ability to remain composed under extreme project pressure.
• Team‑first mentality and ability to break down silos between functional and technical workstreams.

Technical Competencies

• Architecture: S/4HANA Finance & Central Finance, Universal Journal (ACDOCA), CDS Views, Embedded Analytics, Fiori Finance apps.
• Migration & Data Replication: SLT for Central Finance data replication, SIT/UAT/Regression/Integration/Financial Reconciliation testing, S/4HANA Simplification Item Catalog.
• Integration & Extensibility (Clean Core): APIs, IDocs, event‑based integration, SAP BTP for side‑by‑side extensions, SAP Integration Suite / CPI, classic mechanisms (ALE/IDoc, RFC, BAPIs).
• Landscape, Controls & Governance: transport and change governance, data consistency, auditability, financial controls, segregation of duties compliance.

Work Conditions

• Overtime may be required to meet critical issues, deadlines, and SLAs.
• Sitting for extended periods of time.
• Physical ability to participate in training sessions, presentations, meetings, and project/roll‑out activities.
• Travel required for client meetings, stakeholder engagement, and off‑site project activities.

Tools & Methodologies

• SAP Activate and Agile delivery methodologies
• SAP Solution Manager / SAP Cloud ALM
• SAP Readiness Check 2.0 and Simplification Item Catalog
• Strong proficiency with SAP S/4HANA Finance and Central Finance tools: SLT, Embedded Analytics, Fiori Apps
• Solid understanding of SAP HANA architecture and SAP BTP for Finance extensions and analytics

Benefits

• Constant professional growth and development
• Legal and additional benefits
• Excellent work environment