About the role
1.0 Description of Assignment The City of Toronto has launched a major business transformation of its financial system, driven by the implementation of SAP S4/HANA to enable future-state business processes. Modules that are involved in this transformation include Group Reporting, Finance and Controlling, Funds Management, Grants Management, Project Systems, Asset Accounting, Treasury, Logistics and Sales and Distribution. The project recently entered the Run phase. The SAP Functional Consultant – Group Reporting and Financial Closing Specialist will complement the City’s existing Record to Report (R2R) team. The SAP Functional Consultant – Group Reporting and Financial Closing Specialist will be working under a hybrid mode, with remote option, as well as working from Metro Hall, 55 John Street in Toronto for 3 days per week. The successful candidate will be working seven (7) hours per day, five (5) days per week based on normal working Business Hours. The assignment is expected to start September 14th, 2026, and will be for 6 months with a potential 6-month extension.
2.0 Assignment Duties The SAP Functional Consultants – Group Reporting and Financial Closing Specialist will support the use of the Group Reporting module to generate consolidated financial statements for City. The consultant will lead the effort to continue the roll out of Group reporting, support generation of consolidated financial statement for 2026. The resource will. • Lead the roll out Group Reporting templates to the City’s agencies, boards and corporations to enable their results to be consolidated with the City2026 Financial statements, reducing effort, cost and improving overall reporting quality and timeliness. The resource will. o Support to end-to-end use of the City's accounting structures by ABCs o Ensure consistent interpretation GL account details o Leverage expertise in current state processes o Configuration of S/4HANA Group Accounting o Map ABCs to City CoA o Testing of integrated solution • Review and update data gathered from workshops with financial reporting and consolidation teams • Review and update the current state, year-end consolidation processes • Review and update mapping of business requirements to SAP S/4HANA Group reporting functionality • Review and update group structures • Configure consolidation units, groups document types. • Set up Consolidation logistics o Inter-agency/corporation eliminations • Configure data Collection o ACDOCA to ACDOCU mapping o Validation rules o Reclassification and adjustment postings. o Substitution rules • Integrate local accounting (ACDOCA) with group reporting (ACDOCU). • Configure Data Release, Mapping, and Validation between accounting and consolidation. • Update Preparation Ledger • Support the generation of consolidated financial statements for the City, Agencies, Boards, and Corporations. • Enable year-end closing activities: o Intercompany reconciliation and eliminations o Consolidation of investments o Consolidation of equity o Reporting and disclosures o Guide users in running consolidation tasks and resolving issues. • Develop financial reports required by Public Sector Accounting Board (PSAB) o Statement of Financial Position o Statement of operations o Statement of Remeasurement Gains and Losses o Statement of Changes in Net Debt o Tangible Capital Assets • Configure the Advances Financial Closing tool • Develop in collaboration with the City Financial Reporting team the finance closing cockpit for monthly, quarterly, annual reporting including generating consolidated groups as required. • Provide support for triaging of support tickets, trouble shooting, issue identification, and defect resolution • Support the PMO in the prioritization and implementation of items deferred to the post go-live period. • Work in collaboration with the Business Process Lead and vendor lead informing the design, development and configuration of the SAP solution and its integration with SAP and non-SAP solutions. • Support the R2R team providing SAP knowledge/expertise/leadership. • Identify linkages to other key processes to support reporting. • Help the City validate proposed functionality and alignment to design with the Systems Integrator and provide their experience in leading best practices. Provide leadership related to business processes, accounting principles, systems configuration, enhancements and data to enable related processes.
3.0 Qualifications
- A minimum of 10+ years hands-on experience in large project/program management with Government jurisdictions and or large private sector organizations.
- Experience in delivering at least 2 end-to-end implementations preferably 1 implementation in a public sector environment. a. Implementation of Group reporting in a municipality would be a distinct advantage. b. Experience with implementing Preparation Ledger c. Knowledge of PSAB requirements d. Preparation of financial statement in required formats
- Experience in delivering at least 2 end to end implementation of Advance Financial Closing tool.
- Experience in designing, configuring and implementing SAP S/4HANA Group Reporting including data collection and intercompany eliminations
- SAP Certification in Finance – Group Reporting and Advance Financial Closing
- Expertise and experience in other SAP S/4HANA modules; Finance, Controlling, Accounts Payable, Funds Management, Grants Management, Project Systems, Asset Accounting and Asset Retirement Obligation.
- Experience in consolidating financial data form various sources to produce financial statements
- Expertise in configuration of S/4 HANA modules PS, AA, ARO as well as understanding the integration to FICO, Materials Management.
- Strong knowledge of test methodologies. Extensive experience with traditional and innovative project management processes, techniques, tools across agile, waterfall, iterative methods and associated tools including PMBOK or SAP Activate Methodology.
- Ability to lead efficient communication between all project stakeholders, including internal teams and clients.
- Excellent written & verbal communication skills (comfortable & confident communicating at all levels, including business partners, leadership and vendors). The City may contact the references provided. Should any reference fail to confirm that the services listed in Section 3.0 were performed in a satisfactory manner; the Candidate may be declared non-compliant and not considered for the remainder of the evaluation process.
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About the role
1.0 Description of Assignment The City of Toronto has launched a major business transformation of its financial system, driven by the implementation of SAP S4/HANA to enable future-state business processes. Modules that are involved in this transformation include Group Reporting, Finance and Controlling, Funds Management, Grants Management, Project Systems, Asset Accounting, Treasury, Logistics and Sales and Distribution. The project recently entered the Run phase. The SAP Functional Consultant – Group Reporting and Financial Closing Specialist will complement the City’s existing Record to Report (R2R) team. The SAP Functional Consultant – Group Reporting and Financial Closing Specialist will be working under a hybrid mode, with remote option, as well as working from Metro Hall, 55 John Street in Toronto for 3 days per week. The successful candidate will be working seven (7) hours per day, five (5) days per week based on normal working Business Hours. The assignment is expected to start September 14th, 2026, and will be for 6 months with a potential 6-month extension.
2.0 Assignment Duties The SAP Functional Consultants – Group Reporting and Financial Closing Specialist will support the use of the Group Reporting module to generate consolidated financial statements for City. The consultant will lead the effort to continue the roll out of Group reporting, support generation of consolidated financial statement for 2026. The resource will. • Lead the roll out Group Reporting templates to the City’s agencies, boards and corporations to enable their results to be consolidated with the City2026 Financial statements, reducing effort, cost and improving overall reporting quality and timeliness. The resource will. o Support to end-to-end use of the City's accounting structures by ABCs o Ensure consistent interpretation GL account details o Leverage expertise in current state processes o Configuration of S/4HANA Group Accounting o Map ABCs to City CoA o Testing of integrated solution • Review and update data gathered from workshops with financial reporting and consolidation teams • Review and update the current state, year-end consolidation processes • Review and update mapping of business requirements to SAP S/4HANA Group reporting functionality • Review and update group structures • Configure consolidation units, groups document types. • Set up Consolidation logistics o Inter-agency/corporation eliminations • Configure data Collection o ACDOCA to ACDOCU mapping o Validation rules o Reclassification and adjustment postings. o Substitution rules • Integrate local accounting (ACDOCA) with group reporting (ACDOCU). • Configure Data Release, Mapping, and Validation between accounting and consolidation. • Update Preparation Ledger • Support the generation of consolidated financial statements for the City, Agencies, Boards, and Corporations. • Enable year-end closing activities: o Intercompany reconciliation and eliminations o Consolidation of investments o Consolidation of equity o Reporting and disclosures o Guide users in running consolidation tasks and resolving issues. • Develop financial reports required by Public Sector Accounting Board (PSAB) o Statement of Financial Position o Statement of operations o Statement of Remeasurement Gains and Losses o Statement of Changes in Net Debt o Tangible Capital Assets • Configure the Advances Financial Closing tool • Develop in collaboration with the City Financial Reporting team the finance closing cockpit for monthly, quarterly, annual reporting including generating consolidated groups as required. • Provide support for triaging of support tickets, trouble shooting, issue identification, and defect resolution • Support the PMO in the prioritization and implementation of items deferred to the post go-live period. • Work in collaboration with the Business Process Lead and vendor lead informing the design, development and configuration of the SAP solution and its integration with SAP and non-SAP solutions. • Support the R2R team providing SAP knowledge/expertise/leadership. • Identify linkages to other key processes to support reporting. • Help the City validate proposed functionality and alignment to design with the Systems Integrator and provide their experience in leading best practices. Provide leadership related to business processes, accounting principles, systems configuration, enhancements and data to enable related processes.
3.0 Qualifications
- A minimum of 10+ years hands-on experience in large project/program management with Government jurisdictions and or large private sector organizations.
- Experience in delivering at least 2 end-to-end implementations preferably 1 implementation in a public sector environment. a. Implementation of Group reporting in a municipality would be a distinct advantage. b. Experience with implementing Preparation Ledger c. Knowledge of PSAB requirements d. Preparation of financial statement in required formats
- Experience in delivering at least 2 end to end implementation of Advance Financial Closing tool.
- Experience in designing, configuring and implementing SAP S/4HANA Group Reporting including data collection and intercompany eliminations
- SAP Certification in Finance – Group Reporting and Advance Financial Closing
- Expertise and experience in other SAP S/4HANA modules; Finance, Controlling, Accounts Payable, Funds Management, Grants Management, Project Systems, Asset Accounting and Asset Retirement Obligation.
- Experience in consolidating financial data form various sources to produce financial statements
- Expertise in configuration of S/4 HANA modules PS, AA, ARO as well as understanding the integration to FICO, Materials Management.
- Strong knowledge of test methodologies. Extensive experience with traditional and innovative project management processes, techniques, tools across agile, waterfall, iterative methods and associated tools including PMBOK or SAP Activate Methodology.
- Ability to lead efficient communication between all project stakeholders, including internal teams and clients.
- Excellent written & verbal communication skills (comfortable & confident communicating at all levels, including business partners, leadership and vendors). The City may contact the references provided. Should any reference fail to confirm that the services listed in Section 3.0 were performed in a satisfactory manner; the Candidate may be declared non-compliant and not considered for the remainder of the evaluation process.