SAP S/ HANA Group Reporting

About the Role

ITHR Technologies Consulting is seeking a highly experienced SAP S/4HANA Group Reporting Quality Assurance Consultant to support a large-scale SAP S/4HANA implementation program for a leading Oil & Gas organization in Saudi Arabia. This full-time role is based in Riyadh and requires a minimum of 10 years of relevant experience. The consultant will join an Independent Quality Assurance (QA) team responsible for reviewing, evaluating, and validating SAP Group Reporting solutions and implementation deliverables developed by the System Integrator (SI).

Key Responsibilities

• Independently review SAP S/4HANA Group Reporting solution designs, configurations, and functional specifications, ensuring alignment with business requirements, SAP leading practices, and IFRS reporting standards.
• Assess legal and management consolidation processes, structures, ownership relationships, and methods, including full consolidation and equity method accounting.
• Review intercompany matching, reconciliation, and elimination designs, validating transaction identification, matching rules, and elimination processes.
• Evaluate currency translation designs across multiple legal entities and currencies, assessing accuracy and IFRS compliance.
• Assess financial data integration between SAP S/4HANA Finance and Group Reporting, including data extraction, transformation, mapping, loading, and validation.
• Review the design and execution of group financial close calendars and consolidation activities, evaluating task sequencing, financial submissions, and controls.
• Review integration between SAP Group Reporting and relevant SAP components (FI, CO, AP, AR, AA, Universal Journal, ICMR) and non-SAP financial systems.
• Participate in design assurance reviews and formal project Quality Gate assessments, documenting QA findings and providing recommendations.
• Review System Integration Testing (SIT) and User Acceptance Testing (UAT) strategies, test plans, execution results, and defect management.
• Assess Group Reporting data migration strategies, mapping, transformation, cleansing, and load procedures, validating data accuracy and reconciliation.
• Review cutover plans, deployment strategies, operational readiness, and post-Go-Live hypercare, recommending corrective actions.
• Identify functional, accounting, reporting, integration, testing, migration, and deployment risks, maintaining QA findings, risk registers, and issue logs.

Qualifications and Experience

• Minimum 10+ years of SAP consulting experience, with extensive financial consolidation and SAP Group Reporting expertise.
• Minimum 5 end-to-end SAP implementation projects.
• At least 2 SAP implementations in the Oil & Gas, Midstream, Downstream, Petrochemical, or Energy sectors.
• Strong hands-on expertise in SAP S/4HANA Group Reporting.
• Comprehensive knowledge of Legal and Management Consolidation, Intercompany Matching, Reconciliation, and Elimination, Currency Translation, and Group Financial Close processes.
• Strong understanding of applicable IFRS consolidation and financial reporting requirements.
• Proven experience in independent quality assurance, solution reviews, design assurance, and implementation governance.
• Experience reviewing Solution Design Documents, functional specifications, system integration designs, SIT, UAT, data migration, financial reconciliation, cutover, and Go-Live readiness.
• Strong understanding of SAP Finance integration with Group Reporting.
• Ability to independently challenge solution designs, identify implementation risks, and recommend corrective actions.
• Excellent analytical, documentation, problem-solving, stakeholder management, and presentation skills.
• Strong written and verbal English communication.
• Willingness to work onsite in Saudi Arabia according to phase-wise project requirements.

Preferred Qualifications

• SAP S/4HANA certification in Group Reporting, Financial Consolidation, or a related functional area.
• Previous experience as an SAP Group Reporting QA Consultant, Solution Assurance Consultant, Consolidation Lead, or Solution Architect.
• Experience on large-scale SAP S/4HANA transformation or independent QA engagements in the GCC.
• Strong understanding of SAP Activate methodology and implementation quality gates.
• Familiarity with SAP Signavio, SAP Solution Manager, or SAP Cloud ALM.
• Experience with SAP Intercompany Matching and Reconciliation (ICMR) and SAP Group Reporting Data Collection.
• Knowledge of integration with non-SAP financial systems.
• Experience working with major System Integrators.
• Arabic language proficiency is an advantage.

Expected Deliverables

• SAP Group Reporting Solution Design Review Reports
• Legal and Management Consolidation Assessment Reports
• Intercompany Reconciliation and Elimination Review Reports
• Currency Translation and Ownership Consolidation Assessments
• Group Reporting Data Integration and Mapping Reviews
• Design Assurance and Quality Gate Reports
• SIT and UAT Readiness Assessments
• Data Migration and Financial Reconciliation Review Reports
• Cutover and Go-Live Readiness Assessments
• QA Findings, Risk Registers, and Issue Tracking Logs
• Post-Go-Live Stabilization Review Reports
• Executive-Level QA Reports and Recommendations

Candidate Profile

The ideal candidate is a senior SAP S/4HANA Group Reporting specialist with a combination of hands-on financial consolidation implementation expertise, IFRS knowledge, Oil & Gas industry experience, and independent quality assurance capabilities. Candidates must demonstrate experience with complex consolidation environments involving multiple legal entities, ownership structures, currencies, reporting hierarchies, and financial data sources. The successful consultant should be capable of independently assessing System Integrator deliverables and challenging consolidation designs.