Principal SAP FICO Consultant

Principal SAP FICO Consultant – Infosys

Infosys is seeking a Principal SAP FICO Consultant to contribute to all phases of the consulting lifecycle. The role involves business process consulting, solution definition, development, configuration, deployment, and training. The consultant will guide teams, deliver project processes, help build proposals, provide client training, and define project scopes, shaping solutions to meet evolving global landscape demands.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent from an accredited institution. Three years of progressive experience in the specialty may substitute for one year of education.
• At least 11 years of experience with Information Technology.
• Location: Fort Worth, TX.
• Candidates authorized to work in the United States without employer-based visa sponsorship are welcome. Infosys cannot provide immigration sponsorship for this role.

Functional Leadership & Delivery

• Lead Record‑to‑Report / Finance workstream through all SAP Activate phases.
• Drive fit‑to‑standard workshops, solution mapping, delta design, and influence business decisions for optimal S/4 adoption.
• Oversee design and configuration for core FI/R2R areas:
• General Ledger (New GL, ledger setup, parallel accounting)
• Asset Accounting (AA)
• Accounts Payable / Accounts Receivable (AP/AR)
• Bank Accounting / Cash & Liquidity
• Closing Cockpit / Financial Close
• Controlling integration points (Cost Centers, Internal Orders, COPA, Product Costing)
• Manage and guide functional consultants (internal + SI) across multiple locations.

Brownfield‑Specific Responsibilities

• Review and act on simplification items, ledger considerations, AA changes, and BP conversion impacts.
• Validate conversion impacts for Universal Journal, AA migration, new depreciation engine, parallel valuation & currency setup, and open item conversion.
• Support execution of financial data migration (open items, assets, GL balances), mock conversions, dry runs, and reconciliation cycles.
• Cutover planning focusing on period‑end close tasks.

Compliance & Controls (Life Sciences / Eye Care)

• Ensure compliance with SOX controls, GxP/CVS validation requirements, 21 CFR Part 11, corporate accounting policies & audit standards.
• Support finance‑related regulatory needs (FDA, UDI impacts, costing traceability).

Testing & Quality Assurance

• Define test approach and scenarios for functional testing, SIT, UAT, regression, and GxP validation.
• Integrate across MM, SD, PP, QM, EWM.
• Ensure traceability of requirements to test results and lead defect triaging.

Stakeholder Engagement

• Partner with finance leads (Corporate Accounting, FP&A, AR/AP, Treasury, Tax).
• Act as primary liaison between Finance, IT, System Integrator, and Program Management Office.
• Communicate progress, issues, and risks to leadership; propose mitigation plans.

Cutover & Hypercare

• Own finance cutover tasks (period close, balances, asset loads, open items, reconciliations).
• Validate data loads and ensure financial statement accuracy post conversion.
• Lead hypercare stabilization for finance: incident resolution, defects, training, adjustments.

Required Experience

• 8+ years of SAP Finance / R2R experience in large global enterprises.
• 2+ full‑cycle SAP implementations, including at least one S/4HANA brownfield conversion.
• Strong expertise in FI (GL, AA, AP, AR, Bank Accounting) and controlling integration.
• Hands‑on experience with Universal Journal, AA migration, financial closing processes, multi‑GAAP / multi‑ledger environments.
• Experience in life sciences / medical devices / pharma highly preferred.
• Familiarity with GxP, CSV, SOX controls, and audit processes.
• Strong cross‑functional integration experience with SD, MM, PP, QM, EWM.
• Excellent communication skills and ability to lead functional teams & workshops.

Preferred Experience

• 10‑15 years experience in SAP FICO and pharmaceutical industry.
• Implementation projects, template build, global roll‑out experience.
• Strong SAP S/4HANA Finance experience, including GL, AR, AP, Fixed Assets, and integration with procurement, operations, logistics.
• Experience with global ERP reporting initiatives.
• Lead requirements discovery, fit‑gap analysis, future‑state process design, UAT planning/execution, defect triage, training, cutover, and rollout for a global user community.
• Proven track record in SAP implementations, detailed process analysis and design, system architecture, technology standards, CSV, GXP and SOX requirements.
• Broad industry experience and understanding of complex enterprise IT landscapes.

Personal Qualities

• High analytical skills.
• High degree of initiative and flexibility.
• High customer orientation.
• High quality awareness.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

The job involves prolonged computer use, telephone, email, or face‑to‑face communication. Travel may be required.

Benefits

• Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance
• Long‑term/Short‑term Disability
• Health and Dependent Care Reimbursement Accounts
• Insurance (Accident, Critical Illness, Hospital Indemnity, Legal)
• 401(k) plan and contributions dependent on salary level
• Paid holidays plus Paid Time Off

Infosys is a global leader in next‑generation digital services and consulting. We enable clients in more than 50 countries to navigate their digital transformation and deliver unprecedented levels of performance and customer delight.

EEO Statement

Infosys provides equal employment opportunities to applicants and employees without regard to race, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, religious practices and observances, national origin, pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditions, status as a protected veteran or spouse/family member of a protected veteran, or disability.