Senior SAP S/4HANA Finance & Controlling (FICO) Lead

We are looking for a FICO resource on contract to hire basis! Job Title: Senior SAP S/4HANA Finance & Controlling (FICO) Lead. Location: Mumbai, Andheri east. Experience: 10+ Years, immediate joiner only! Mandatory skills: For this requirement, focus your search on candidates with strong S/4HANA FICO + Product Costing + Material Ledger + Group Reporting experience. Role Purpose: Own the delivery and support of the integrated Finance (FI) and Controlling (CO) solution across an 18-company-code, multi-country S/4HANA Private Cloud Edition landscape. This is a hands-on senior role for someone who can move fluently between statutory finance and management accounting closing the loop from raw-material cost through product cost to margin and consolidated group results and who can lead a workstream through SIT, data migration, cutover, and hypercare rather than advise from the sidelines. Key Responsibilities — Finance (FI): Own the FI configuration validation across G/L, AP, AR, Asset Accounting, and Bank Accounting for all in-scope company codes, on the S/4HANA Universal Journal (ACDOCA) model. Design and govern the multi-country chart of accounts, ledger and currency setup, and parallel valuation, including document splitting and non-leading ledger design. Lead intercompany accounting design, including principal model and cross-company-code postings across 18 entities. Own period-end and financial-close design and orchestration, tax, withholding, and country-specific statutory and e-invoicing/compliance. Direct AP automation agenda, working with BTP/automation team. Key Responsibilities — Controlling (CO): Own the CO design across Cost Element, Cost Center, Internal Order, Profitability Analysis on Universal Journal, and Product Costing. Lead Product Cost Planning and cost estimate/costing-run design, activity rates, and margin-condition design. Own Material Ledger and Actual Costing design and activation, migration, and mock-cycle issues. Design overhead, settlement, and period-end CO close, and PP/CO and PS/CO integration. Key Responsibilities — Group Reporting & Integration: Own or co-own SAP Group Reporting S/4HANA Consolidation design: units, groups, FS-item mapping, currency translation, and intercompany elimination. Ensure clean FI-CO integration and cross-module integrity with MM, SD, PP, PM, PS, and EWM.