Lead SAP FICO Consultant

As a Lead SAP Finance Consultant, you will play a critical role in shaping and delivering complex SAP S/4 Finance solutions for our clients. This is a strategic, client-facing position where you will act as a trusted advisor - leading solution design, influencing finance transformation roadmaps, and guiding clients through on-premise and cloud (public and private) SAP landscapes.

You will combine deep finance process expertise with strong delivery leadership, supporting pre-sales engagements, defining best practices, and mentoring consultants across the practice. Module experience across FI/CO is essential, with additional exposure to PS, Treasury, and JVA considered a strong advantage. This role is suited to someone who thrives in a dynamic consulting environment, balancing delivery, relationship management, and practice development., * Lead full lifecycle delivery of SAP S/4HANA Finance solutions across FI/CO, including AP, AR, GL, AA, CO and associated sub-modules.

• Own end-to-end solution architecture across core Record-to-Report and period-end processes.
• Run discovery, Fit-to-Standard, explore, and design workshops with senior finance stakeholders.
• Configure, test, and quality-assure SAP Finance components in collaboration with technical and integration teams.
• Lead cutover planning, data validation, and hypercare support during go-lives.
• Lead pre-sales activities including solution design, demos, commercial input, and RFP/RFI responses.
• Present compelling, well-structured finance transformation solutions to prospective and existing clients.
• Mentor and coach junior and mid-level consultants, supporting their development and capability growth.
• Contribute to developing reusable assets, templates, and accelerators to strengthen the delivery model.
• Participate in proofs of concept, pilots, and strategic initiatives to prepare the practice for future projects.

Essential Experience

• Extensive SAP Finance consulting experience, including S/4HANA implementation experience
• Deep hands-on configuration skills across FI/CO (AP, AR, GL, AA) with strong understanding of end-to-end R2R processes.
• Strong knowledge of SAP Fiori apps, embedded analytics, and S/4HANA standard reporting tools.
• Experience delivering cross-module integrations (MM, SD, PS) within complex programme environments.
• Proven experience leading workstreams or acting as a functional lead on major programmes.
• Strong grounding in SAP Activate or equivalent delivery methodologies.
• Demonstrable experience shaping and presenting SAP Finance solutions during pre-sales activities.
• Ability to build compelling client presentations, demos, and value propositions.
• Ability to simplify complex technical/financial concepts for senior stakeholders.
• Exceptional communication and stakeholder engagement skills at senior levels.
• Proactive, structured, and quality-focused approach, able to run complex engagements independently.
• Strong organisational skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities across clients.
• Collaborative mindset with the maturity to influence outcomes and drive best practice.

Desirable Experience

• Exposure to Treasury (TRM), Joint Venture Accounting (JVA), or extended Project Systems capabilities.
• Experience across public cloud Finance or hybrid cloud landscapes.
• Experience building reusable assets, accelerators, and templates within a consulting practice.
• Previous involvement in proofs of concept, pilots, or innovation initiatives.
• Consulting experience within multi-client, multi-industry environments.
• Experience delivering cross-module integrations (MM, SD, PS) within complex programme environments.

We’re Applexus, a global IT Consultancy with a people-centric and collaborative culture focused on employee well-being, learning and development and creating an excellent place for our people to work.

As an SAP Partner with over 30 years’ SAP experience, we provide wall-to-wall SAP advisory, implementation, development and support services.

Our mission is to deliver business process solutions of enduring value to our customers, through a combination of technical expertise, best practice and innovation - this is where you come in!