SAP Finance – FP&A / Financial Planning Functional Consultant

We are looking for an experienced SAP Finance – FP&A / Financial Planning Functional Consultant with 5+ years of experience in FP&A, financial planning, budgeting, forecasting, and finance transformation.

The ideal candidate should have strong functional expertise in translating Finance and business requirements into structured planning solutions, with hands-on experience working with SAP Finance data and financial models.

Immediate joiners / candidates currently on bench are preferred. Candidates serving notice period or having a future joining date are not preferred.

Key Responsibilities
Lead functional activities across FP&A, financial planning, budgeting, and forecasting.
Develop and support planning models for:
P&L Planning
Revenue Planning
COGS
Opex
Workforce / Payroll Planning
CapEx & Depreciation
Cash Flow
Balance Sheet Planning
Work with complex Excel-based financial models and convert them into structured planning models.
Design and implement driver-based and rule-based planning approaches.
Support top-down and bottom-up planning processes.
Work with SAP Finance data, including:
General Ledger (GL)
Cost Center
Profit Center
Fixed Assets
Gather business requirements and translate Finance requirements into system requirements.
Prepare functional specifications, business rules, and planning workflows.
Facilitate workshops and manage stakeholders across Finance and technology teams.
Act as a bridge between Finance/business users and technical/data teams.
Define and maintain financial dimensions, hierarchies, assumptions, and planning structures.
Support Finance transformation initiatives and planning solution implementations.
Mandatory Skills & Experience
5+ years of experience in FP&A, Financial Planning, Budgeting, Forecasting, or Finance Transformation.
Strong experience in financial planning and modelling.
Strong knowledge of P&L, Revenue, COGS, Opex, Workforce Costs, CapEx, Depreciation, Cash Flow, and Balance Sheet planning.
Strong Excel-based financial modelling experience.
Experience converting Excel models into structured planning solutions.
Experience with driver-based / rule-based planning.
Experience with top-down and bottom-up planning.
Hands-on experience with SAP Finance / SAP data, particularly:
GL
Cost Center
Profit Center
Fixed Assets
Strong functional consulting experience.
Requirement gathering and functional specification preparation.
Business rules and planning workflow definition.
Strong stakeholder management and workshop facilitation.
Ability to translate business requirements into system requirements.
Strong understanding of financial dimensions, hierarchies, and planning assumptions.
Good-to-Have Platforms
SAP Integrated Planning / SAP IP
SAP BPC
SAP Analytics Cloud Planning
Anaplan
OneStream
Oracle EPM
IBM Planning Analytics
Key Functional Areas
Revenue Planning
COGS Planning
Employment Costs
Property Costs
CapEx & Depreciation
Marketing Costs
IT & Overheads
P&L Planning
Cash Flow Planning
Balance Sheet Planning