Job Description

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The successful candidate will be responsible for the planning, design, execution, validation, and reconciliation of SAP Finance and Controlling data migration activities. The role will work closely with finance stakeholders, data migration teams, and technical teams to ensure data quality, financial integrity, and successful migration through cutover and go-live.

Key Responsibilities:

Data Migration Planning

• Define the SAP FICO data migration scope, migration objects, selection criteria, and cut-off rules.
• Develop the migration strategy and determine the appropriate load approach using tools and techniques such as SAP S/4HANA Migration Cockpit/LTMC, LSMW, BAPI, IDoc, or SAP Data Services (BODS).
• Identify dependencies between finance migration objects and establish the appropriate load sequence.
• Define migration criteria for master data, open items, balances, and other relevant financial and controlling data.

Data Mapping & Design

• Develop detailed field-level mappings and transformation rules from legacy systems to SAP.
• Define and maintain Chart of Accounts mappings between legacy and SAP G/L accounts.
• Define mappings for company codes, controlling areas, profit centers, cost centers, business areas, segments, and functional areas.
• Define transformation requirements for reconciliation accounts, tax codes, payment terms, currencies, exchange-rate types, and other relevant finance data.
• Create and maintain migration templates, mapping documents, and functional specifications.

Data Cleansing & Validation

• Collaborate with finance data owners to cleanse, deduplicate, enrich, and validate financial master and transactional data.
• Establish validation and reconciliation rules to ensure data completeness and financial accuracy.
• Perform pre-load and post-load data quality checks.
• Ensure migrated balances and transactions are reconciled with appropriate financial records.

Build, Testing & Cutover

• Configure or validate relevant SAP FICO settings required to support migration.
• Work closely with technical teams on migration objects, conversion requirements, and load programs.
• Execute and support mock loads, System Integration Testing (SIT), User Acceptance Testing (UAT), and dress rehearsals.
• Identify and resolve data migration and load errors.
• Contribute to cutover planning, including period-end and year-end considerations.
• Execute production data loads and reconcile migrated balances.
• Coordinate finance validation and business sign-off.
• Provide hypercare support after go-live, including support for the first financial period close.

Governance & Reporting

• Maintain migration specifications, mapping documents, issue logs, reconciliation reports, and supporting audit documentation.
• Track and communicate migration progress, risks, issues, and dependencies.
• Coordinate with finance controllers and relevant audit stakeholders on balance reconciliation, sign-off, and audit trail requirements.
• Provide status updates to project and data migration leadership.

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