Senior SAP FICO Consultant

About the Role

We are looking for a Senior SAP FICO Consultant to join a stable international SAP service for a confidential enterprise client.

The role requires strong functional expertise in SAP Finance, the ability to engage directly with international business stakeholders in English, and the capacity to understand financial and tax-related requirements across different countries and translate them into complete, viable SAP solutions.

You will take functional ownership of SAP finance initiatives, managing the full lifecycle from requirements gathering and solution design through configuration, testing, coordination and delivery.

Responsibilities

• Engage with international Finance, Tax and other business teams.
• Understand business needs, explain SAP implementation alternatives and agree on appropriate solutions with stakeholders.
• Gather, document and obtain validation of functional requirements.
• Design and configure SAP financial solutions.
• Work with the relevant SAP data models, financial documents and functional configuration.
• Participate in treasury, tax reporting and financial integration processes where required by the project.
• Translate financial and tax requirements into viable SAP implementation options.
• Execute functional testing and support the validation of the implemented solution.
• Coordinate dependencies with other functional and technical teams.
• Take ownership of timelines, blockers and end-to-end delivery.
• Escalate risks and dependencies appropriately.

Requirements

• Senior-level experience in SAP FICO, typically five or more years.
• Solid experience in SAP financial implementations.
• Strong understanding of SAP financial data models, documents and functional configuration.
• Ability to understand integrated financial processes and translate financial or tax requirements into SAP solutions.
• Demonstrable experience working as a Functional Business Analyst.
• End-to-end autonomy across requirements gathering, documentation, validation, solution design, configuration, testing and coordination.
• Advanced business and technical English, equivalent in practice to C1 level.
• Ability to conduct meetings about financial or tax processes, understand local business requirements and explain SAP alternatives to international stakeholders.
• Sustainable availability to attend the Madrid office six days per month.

Nice to Have

• Exposure to treasury processes.
• Experience with tax reporting.
• Experience delivering SAP implementations across multiple countries.
• Experience integrating financial flows originating from sales processes.
• Experience working in international environments.
• Experience coordinating multiple functional and technical teams.

Key Competencies

• Strong analytical thinking.
• Ability to identify common financial concepts across different countries and business contexts.
• Confident communication with Finance and Tax stakeholders.
• Autonomy, initiative and accountability for delivery.
• Clear written and verbal communication.
• High-quality functional documentation.
• Cross-functional coordination.
• Responsible escalation of risks and blockers.
• Interest in developing long-term knowledge of the client environment.