Job Description :

This role sits inside Client's Finance to Manage (FTM) footprint - the S/4HANA Finance / Universal Journal-anchored solution that runs Client's general ledger, controlling, asset accounting, intercompany, group reporting, and treasury operations across the enterprise.

The work is hands-on technical : S/4HANA Finance ABAP development against an active enhancement and bug-fix backlog covering record-to-report, financial close, consolidation, treasury, and tax compliance.

What You'll Do :

- Build and enhance ABAP objects across the S/4HANA Finance module set : FI-GL (Universal Journal / ACDOCA), FI-AP, FI-AR, FI-AA, CO-PA (Margin Analysis), CO-PC (Product Costing), Group Reporting, and Central Finance.

- Develop reports, enhancements, and interfaces supporting period-end close - journal posting, intercompany eliminations, allocations, assessment/distribution cycles, settlements, and consolidation runs.

- Build and extend logic for intercompany postings, transfer pricing, bank communication interfaces, payment formats (SEPA, ACH, ISO 20022), and tax compliance reporting via SAP DRC.

- Triage and remediate Finance-specific defects across the existing landscape; deliver enhancements via BAdIs, BTEs, validations/substitutions (BRF+), user exits, FM exits, and the standard Finance enhancement framework.

- Develop CDS views, OData services, and reporting layers over ACDOCA / ACDOCP / FAGLFLEXA supporting financial planning, statutory reporting, and audit/compliance use cases.

- Work with the US-based functional and architecture team on requirement clarification, technical specs, and unit test scripts.

- Contribute to integration work where Finance touches MM/SD (procurement and sales postings), HR (payroll), TRM (treasury), and external systems (banks, tax authorities, consolidation and disclosure tools).

Must Have :

- 7+ years of SAP ABAP development, with at least 3+ years on S/4HANA (1809 or later).

- Demonstrable S/4HANA Finance project experience.

- This is the differentiating requirement - candidates must have shipped real work in at least one of : Universal Journal (ACDOCA) extensions, Margin Analysis, Group Reporting, Central Finance, Advanced Financial Closing, or large-scale FI/CO enhancements.

- Generic ABAP-on-HANA without S/4HANA Finance exposure will not pass screen.

- ABAP 7.50+ syntax fluency, OOABAP, and the standard enhancement framework (BAdIs, BTEs, validations/substitutions, user exits, function module exits, screen exits, implicit/explicit enhancements).

- CDS view development with performance tuning (filter pushdown, annotations, associations) over Finance core tables and AMDP exposure.

- OData service development (SEGW or RAP).

- Interface experience : BAPI, RFC, ALE/IDoc, proxy/SOA Manager - particularly for banking, payment, and tax integrations.

- Comfortable working offshore (India) on US business hours overlap for daily standups and tech screens with the US team.

Nice to Have :

- Direct experience at a Fortune 500 Finance organization with multi-entity consolidation, intercompany complexity, or a large-scale Central Finance footprint.

- SAP Group Reporting (formerly BPC for S/4) configuration and enhancement experience.

- Advanced Financial Closing (AFC) familiarity and exposure to predictive / intelligent close.

- SAP Business AI / Joule exposure for finance close acceleration, anomaly detection, or cash forecasting.

- SAP Document and Reporting Compliance (DRC) for e-invoicing and statutory reporting.

- Forms development : Adobe Forms and Smart Forms for invoices, dunning letters, payment advices, remittance advices, and statutory tax forms.

- BTP ABAP / Steampunk experience for cloud-side Finance extensions.

- SAP Activate or Agile/Scrum delivery experience.

- SAP Finance certification (S/4HANA for Financial Accounting, Management Accounting, Group Reporting, or Central Finance) or formal SAP Finance training.

Engagement Profile :

- Location : Offshore (India).

- Hiring Posture : FTE preferred; contractor accepted if FTE pipeline runs thin.

- Duration : Tied to AppDev Finance backlog through 2026; extension likely based on backlog flow.

- Team Structure : Reports into Mindset delivery; works alongside Client-side functional leads and a small offshore ABAP pod also covering Treasury and Group Reporting workstreams on the same engagement.