Principal Consultant SAP Finance - Consumer Goods, Retail and Logistics

About your role

As a Principal Consultant with the CRL (Consumer Goods, Retail & Logistics) team, you will design, deliver, and lead S/4HANA-enabled transformation programmes focused on Finance. Your responsibilities encompass planning, implementation, and continuous improvement of finance operating models and end-to-end processes.

Responsibilities

• Design and deliver S/4HANA transformation programmes, including Central Finance (CFIN), Financial Accounting (FI), Controlling (CO), and integration with other modules (MM, EWM, SD, PP, etc.).
• Integrate upstream and best-of-breed solutions such as BlackLine, Trintech, or similar.
• Design and implement the Finance Operating Model, defining the future role of Finance and its service delivery across process, technology, people, and organization.
• Develop and deliver R2R best‐practice processes covering fixed assets, intercompany, profitability analysis, product costing, project accounting, period‐end close, consolidation, and related areas.
• Lead pre‐sales conversations and help clients shape their Finance transformation journey roadmaps.
• Lead or participate in practice development activities that support sales and internal capability building.
• Facilitate design workshops and translate client requirements into actionable design artefacts.

Qualifications

• Broad business skill set, including stakeholder management, problem‐solving, and resilience.
• Experience gathering, validating, synthesizing, documenting, and communicating data and information to diverse audiences.
• Excellent interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills in the country’s official language(s) (C2 proficiency) and English (C2 proficiency).
• Willingness to travel for project‐related mobility.
• Strong knowledge of S/4HANA configuration and industry best practices.
• Demonstrable experience with Agile working practices on SAP implementations, including activity planning.
• Strong client‐facing skills and ability to lead a workstream through all phases of an SAP implementation.
• Flexible, adaptable, and process‐improvement oriented mindset.
• Proficient communication and presentation skills.
• Proven ability to transfer knowledge and stay current with emerging technical trends.
• Track record of professional success, preferably in consulting services.

CRL Practice

The CRL practice supports global firms and local brands across consumer goods, retail, and logistics. Services include growth strategy, new product innovation, omni‐channel customer experience, supply chain resilience, and AI‐driven new business models, aimed at digitally centric transformation and new revenue streams.