SAP Finance AP and CO Lead

Primary Purpose

As an SAP AP and CO Lead Consultant, you will lead finance transformation initiatives with a focus and work closely with business stakeholder and technical teams to delivery scalable and efficient solutions on management accounting, Account Payable and controlling processes across SAP platforms.

Roles & Responsibilities

Lead the design and implementation of SAP Accounts Payable (AP) and Controlling (CO) solutions within SAP S/4 HANA Finance domain.

Drive end-to-end Procure-to-Pay (P2P) process design, including invoice processing, vendor management, and payment runs

Define cost allocation cycles, planning, budgeting, and variance analysis frameworks

Ensure alignment with business performance management and reporting needs

Ensure alignment with accounting standards, regulatory requirements, and internal controls

Lead functional workstream delivery across SAP S/4HANA implementations, upgrades, and rollouts.

Drive adoption of S/4HANA innovations such as Universal Journal and real-time analytics

Conduct workshops to gather and analyse business requirements for financial track.

Translate requirements into functional design and configuration specifications

Collaborate with FI, MM, SD, and cross-functional teams to ensure end-to-end integration

Collaborate with technical (ABAP) teams for enhancements, interfaces, and integrations

Design and review functional specifications for RICEF objects

Support data migration, testing (SIT/UAT), and cutover activities

Technical Responsibilities

Configure and drive SAP FI-AP modules and key processes, including:

» Vendor master data

» Invoice posting and validation

» Automatic payment program (F110)

» Withholding tax and tax integration

Configure and drive SAP FI-CO modules and key processes, including:

» Cost Centre Accounting (COCCA)

» Profit Centre Accounting (PCA)

» Internal Orders

» Product Costing (PC)

» Profitability Analysis (COPA - account-based & costing-based)

» Variance Calculations, Over Heads, WIP Calculations Settlement

» Actual Price Calculation, Budget Planning

Nice to have experience in :

» Asset Accounting and REFX

» Fund Management and Grant Management

Role Requirement

Bachelor's degree in finance, Accounting, Information Systems, or related discipline

Over 10 years of SAP experience, including at least 5 years with S/4HANA

Experience with cloud-based SAP deployments (e.g., RISE with SAP) and full lifecycle SAP implementations (design-build-test-deployment-hypercare).

Completed a minimum of 3 end-to-end implementation projects (lasting at least 4 years in total), with at least 2 of them being S/4HANA projects

More than 5 years of team lead experience and managed and led at least 3 team members.

Has worked on projects involving at least 20 company codes and/or plants

Preference will be given to Singapore Citizens or PR, and the role requires onsite presence in Singapore