Role Overview:
- Our client, a life sciences company, is looking for an SAP Group Reporting Analyst to support the configuration, testing, deployment, and hypercare of its SAP S/4HANA Group Reporting solution.
- You will work on consolidation workstreams, including moving from legacy to new reporting logic, currency translation and simulation, intercompany matching, and data integration.
- You will work closely with finance and the cross-functional project teams.
- The client especially needs someone with seasonal consolidation experience, running consolidated closes on quarterly, semi-annual, or custom seasonal reporting cycles instead of the standard monthly close.
Responsibilities:
- Configure and run seasonal consolidation in SAP Group Reporting, grouping multiple fiscal periods into one consolidated close for a quarter, half-year, or custom season.
- Align subsidiaries on different fiscal year variants or seasonal calendars, using version and mapping settings so group results are consistent.
- Run currency translation, intercompany eliminations, and consolidation of investments.
- Reconcile data from the Universal Journal (ACDOCA) to consolidation journals (ACDOCU).
- Help transition reporting from legacy logic to the new Group Reporting design.
- Support currency simulations and Intercompany Matching & Reconciliation (ICMR) activities.
- Assist with Group Reporting Data Collection (GRDC) and Group Reporting Planning (GRPL) activation.
- Take part in business and design workshops, document requirements, write functional specs, and turn business needs into configuration.
- Run and support unit, integration, and user acceptance testing, and track and resolve defects.
- Support data integration and migration activities, including validating and reconciling consolidated results.
- Help with cutover, go-live, hypercare, and knowledge transfer to production support.
- Work with finance, IT, and project teams to keep the work aligned with business requirements.
Required Qualifications:
- 3 to 4 years of hands-on experience with SAP S/4HANA Group Reporting.
- Hands-on seasonal consolidation experience in SAP Group Reporting, meaning configuring and running consolidations on quarterly, semi-annual, or custom seasonal reporting periods.
- Experience consolidating entities with different fiscal year variants.
- Solid understanding of financial consolidation, reporting, and close processes.
- Working knowledge of ICMR, GRDC, and GRPL.
- Experience with data integration, migration, and testing.
- Able to work fully remote on Central Time hours.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience with SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC).
- Familiarity with SAP integrations and interfaces.
- Life sciences, pharma, or other regulated-industry experience.
- Full-cycle implementation experience (design through hypercare).
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Information Technology, or a related field.