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Support for SAP FI configuration, General Ledger, Accounts Payable and Receivable, asset accounting, and month-end close. Find vetted, available SAP finance experts fast, with precise matching for your project.
About the role
What they do
SAP FI Consultants shape the financial core of an SAP system. They set up and refine Finance processes so postings, balances, and reports work cleanly across the business. Typical work includes General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Asset Accounting, bank interfaces, and period-end closing support.
- Configure SAP FI structures and posting logic
- Map business finance processes into SAP
- Support integration with CO, MM, SD, and BW
- Test month-end and year-end close flows
- Fix issues in live finance processes
Skills and tools
A strong SAP FI Consultant understands both accounting and system design. They know how finance data moves through SAP and how to translate requirements from controllers, accountants, and shared service teams into stable system behavior. Common work involves customizing, testing, documentation, and user support.
Key skills include:
- SAP FI customizing and process design
- FI/CO integration knowledge
- Experience with SAP S/4HANA Finance and classic ECC setups
- Strong grasp of accounting logic, not just transactions
- Clear communication with finance and IT teams
When to bring one in
Companies usually hire a freelance SAP FI Consultant when they need focused help for a rollout, migration, carve-out, audit issue, or finance process change. This is common in manufacturing, retail, logistics, and professional services, especially when internal teams are busy with daily operations.
In Germany, many clients want someone who can work closely with local finance teams and speak the language of accountants, project leads, and SAP users. Remote work is often possible, but workshops and cutover phases may need on-site presence.
What strong consultants deliver
Good SAP FI Consultants do more than configure fields. They look at the full financial process and make sure the solution holds up in real use. They document decisions clearly, catch dependencies early, and keep business impact low during changes.
- A stable finance setup that matches business rules
- Clean test cases and traceable change notes
- Practical support during go-live and hypercare
- Reliable fixes for posting, reconciliation, and close issues
- A finance process that users can actually follow
Meet FRATCH SAP FI Consultants
Peter Herrmann
Consultant Banking Regulatory Law and Banking Reporting
Last position:
Consultant Financial Data Warehouse Migration Interfaces Reporting at Large bank / central institution
- New connection of the product interfaces of the Financial Data Warehouse (FDW) directly to the Abacus 360 native interfaces
- IT environment: PC, client-server, Citrix remote client, Oracle DB
- Mapping of FDW outbound to Abacus 360 Native
- Analysis of requirements documents, business concepts, and existing interface rules
- Definition of new FDW rules for outbound to Abacus 360
- Adjustment of test scripts for the new interfaces
- Execution of tests to ensure correct data delivery and processing
Abhishek Sharma
SAP FICO Architect | Solution Architect | Lead Consultant
Last position:
Business Process Manager / SAP FICO Owner at Dynapac GmbH
- Defined S/4HANA finance solution architecture and led full project lifecycle — Blueprint through Hypercare — for global rollout.
- Designed global finance templates and COPA characteristics, harmonizing financial reporting across business units.
- Implemented role-based authorizations, SOD controls, and master data governance; managed provisioning and training for 200+ users.
- Coordinated cross-module integrations (MM, SD, PP) and third-party systems (Salesforce, SAP DRC, E-Invoicing), reducing month-end close from 5 days to 2 days.
- Prepared functional specifications, supported ABAP development, and drove problem management practices that reduced recurring incidents.
Pavlin Vatev
Finance Executive & SAP Consultant FI/CO/BPI S4 HANA
Last position:
SAP Consultant FI/CO/BPI S4 HANA at Freelancer
- Stream lead - Training
- Trainings – lead of the team & support of the relevant stakeholders
- Management of learning journeys & development of training plans
- Training environment & data – definition & development with the IT team
- Training documentation – management & coordination of the preparation
- Project lead - Germany
- Project management – planning, motivation, communication, execution
- Business process integration – analysis, definition, management
- Rollout management – planning, coordination, deployment
- Governance – template & project
- Test management – definition, findings, solutions, documentation
- Trainings – management of the training programs
- Business process management – integration, analysis, optimization, etc.
- Template & project governance
- Customizing FI
- Definition of the scope of acceptance test cases
- Organizing and execution of the tests – findings, development of design solutions based on business requirements, documentation, etc.
- Trainings – planning, creation, delivery, documentation, etc.
- Business process management – definition of data transfer, etc.
- Preparation and management of template workshops
- Preparation of technical and process documentation
- Agile project management
- Stream lead – process integration & governance
- Business process management – integration, analysis, optimization, etc.
- Management of the rollout quality gates
- Project governance – planning, monitoring, control of project progress
- Template governance – harmonization and standardization of business processes
- Standing governance – master data, chart of accounts, authorizations, customizing, etc.
- Standardization of repeating processes, incl. analysis and optimization, planning the transition to daily business and the activities within the month, interim, annual close, creation of a concept, checklist, etc.
- Participation in defining different interfaces (incl. concept, defining organizational structures, master data, template & standing governance, etc.)
- Definition and structuring of monitoring processes: IDocs, BI folders, etc.
- Participation in the definition and customizing of different areas in FI
Peter Schordie
SAP FI/CO Consulting
Last position:
SAP FI/CO/PSM consulting at Federal agency
- SAP ERP/ECC, SAP S/4 HANA
- Analysis and documentation of customizing for SAP FI/CO, PSM, PSCD
- Analysis, consulting, and documentation of S/4 HANA apps for defining and executing statutory reports
- Clarification of prerequisites for using the S/4 HANA apps to define and execute statutory reports
- Analysis and documentation of customizing for in-house developments
- Consulting on integration of SAP FI/CO as well as PSM, PSM-FM (budget management), contract accounts receivable and payable (PSCD)
- Consulting and documentation of customizing adjustments in SAP FI/CO, PSM, PSM-FM, PSCD for the introduction of new company codes and other organizational structures
- Consulting and documentation of necessary process adjustments
Victor Klyushkin
SAP S/4HANA Financial Consultant
Last position:
SAP S/4HANA Financial Consultant at SIIX
SAP S/4HANA Implementation (Greenfield)
- SAP Finance Reporting
- VAT Reporting
- Foreign Plants
- Tax Calculation for SD/MM
- Z4/Z5 Reports
- Intrastat
- SAP DRC (E-Invoicing)
System: SAP
Industry: Manufacturing
Team: 10
Fabio Nogueira
SAP FI/CO Technical Specialist | ABAP (Debugging & Enhancements) | S/4HANA Transition
Last position:
SAP Logistics & Financials Coordinator at AirPlus International
- Leading technical SAP projects in FI/CO and logistics.
- Advanced ABAP analysis, debugging, and validation of complex integrations.
- Optimization of financial and logistics processes in S/4HANA environments.
- Responsibility for demand management, workshops, and technical solution architecture.
Venkatakrishna Gurram
Senior SAP S/4HANA FI/CO Consultant
Last position:
Senior SAP S/4HANA FI/CO Consultant at Scandinavian Tobacco Group - Freelancer
- Lead SAP Controlling, Product Costing and Material Ledger activities across multiple legal entities, improving standard-costing consistency, inventory valuation and month-end financial reporting.
- Contributed to a 30% reduction in the overall financial closing cycle by coordinating SAP Finance, Controlling, Material Ledger and plant-closing activities against a structured month-end calendar.
- Maintain 99.5% SLA adherence while resolving complex Level 2 and Level 3 incidents across Product Costing, Cost Center Accounting, Material Ledger, Actual Costing, WIP, variance calculation and production-order settlement.
- Execute and validate individual and mass standard-cost estimates using CK11N and CK40N, ensuring accurate costing based on current BOMs, routings, activity prices, purchasing conditions and overhead structures.
- Improved product-costing accuracy by identifying and correcting inconsistencies across material-master costing views, activity types, work centres, BOMs, routings and purchasing data.
- Reduced month-end delays by resolving missing cost estimates, incomplete settlement rules, incorrect activity allocations, variance-calculation errors and production-order settlement failures.
- Reconcile production-order costs, inventory values, purchase-price differences, work in process, production variances and settlement postings across SAP Controlling, Material Ledger and General Ledger.
- Execute Material Ledger and Actual Costing close activities, including price determination, purchase-price-difference allocation and periodic unit-price validation.
- Analyse manufacturing-cost variances across raw materials, labour, machine activity, subcontracting, production usage and overhead costs, enabling business controllers to identify root causes and cost-reduction opportunities.
- Configure and support costing variants, valuation variants, quantity structures, cost-component structures, overhead-costing sheets and automatic account-determination settings.
- Coordinate annual standard-cost planning, costing runs and standard-price releases with Finance, Procurement, Production and plant-controlling teams.
- Improved indirect-cost visibility through cost-center planning, activity-price calculations, assessments, distributions and cost-allocation cycles.
- Support profitability reporting through Account-Based CO-PA, enabling analysis by product, customer, market, company code and profit center.
- Developed reconciliation controls, standard operating procedures and costing reports that improved financial governance, closing accuracy and audit readiness.
- Facilitate workshops and knowledge-transfer sessions covering standard costing, Material Ledger, WIP, production variances and production-order settlement.
Thomas Dirr
Senior SAP FI/CO Consultant; Sub-Project Lead FI/CO
Last position:
Senior SAP FI/CO Consultant; Sub-Project Lead FI/CO at J. Wagner GmbH
- Profound knowledge in SAP HANA: FI, CO and PS.
- FI/CO subproject lead for SAP rollout in Vietnam.
- Detailed knowledge in conceptual work, customizing and support of CO and FI-topics.
Mehmet Akif Seyfi
Senior SAP FI/CO Consultant (Freelancer)
Last position:
Senior SAP FI/CO Consultant (Freelancer) at maseyfi consulting
Short profile:
- Active in national and international projects focusing on rollouts, transformations, release upgrades and subproject management
- Supporting the design, implementation, configuration and optimization of accounting processes
- Taking responsibility from functional design through customizing to go-live + hypercare and serving as an interface between the business and IT
- Structured analysis of complex financial processes, clear communication with stakeholders, and a pragmatic, solution-oriented approach
SAP FI/CO expertise:
Comprehensive knowledge and experience in SAP FI/CO modules, including implementation, configuration and optimization
Project management:
Experience in leading and coordinating SAP projects, including rollouts and system migrations
Process optimization:
Skills in analyzing, consulting and improving business processes in the SAP environment
SAP S/4 HANA & SAP ECC:
Experience with SAP S/4 HANA / SAP ECC implementations and migrations
ABAP programming:
Knowledge in ABAP programming for custom developments and adjustments
Data analysis:
Skills in data analysis and evaluation, especially with SAP tools and Excel
International projects:
Experience in executing SAP projects in various countries and cultures
Service portfolio:
- Functional and technical consulting
- Requirements/data/process analysis
- Creating functional designs, blueprints and solution proposals
- Customizing and support in FI/CO including process optimizations
- Conducting workshops/tests
- Preparing training materials and conducting user training
- Data migration
- Interface support including development knowledge
- Partial/full project management, cutover management and hypercare
Industries:
- Precision mechanics and optics industry
- Automotive industry
- Food industry
- Beverage/food industry
- Mechanical engineering
SAP knowledge:
- Very good knowledge of SAP CO, FI and AA
- Additionally: SAP DRC, Fiori, Concur, DART, DMEE and user exits
- Good knowledge of SAP PS, authorization management and ABAP
- Basic knowledge of SAP components MM, PP, SD
- Basic knowledge of the HR module
- Version experience: SAP R/3 4.7 / SAP ECC / SAP S/4 HANA
- Migration tools: LSMW, Migration Cockpit
Experience with legal requirements:
- Germany
- Hungary
- Turkey
- Switzerland
- China
- Czech Republic
- Slovakia
- United Kingdom (UK)
- Sweden
- France
- Portugal
I am an SAP FI/CO consultant with extensive experience in national and international projects. My focus is on rollouts, transformations, release upgrades, and managing subprojects. In doing so, I take responsibility from functional design through customizing to go-live and hypercare. As an interface between business and IT, I ensure that complex financial processes are analyzed in a structured way, communicated clearly, and implemented pragmatically.
My core expertise lies in the SAP FI/CO modules, where I have successfully carried out implementations, configurations, and process optimizations. With in-depth knowledge of SAP S/4 HANA and SAP ECC, I reliably support companies in implementations, migrations, and release upgrades. Additionally, I have experience in ABAP programming for custom adjustments and developments, allowing me to flexibly meet individual requirements.
I bring extensive experience in leading and coordinating SAP projects, particularly in rollouts and system migrations. In the process, I carefully analyze business processes in accounting, develop practical solutions, and implement them efficiently. My approach combines structured project management with pragmatic process understanding to achieve tangible results for companies.
I have executed SAP projects in numerous countries, taking into account different legal requirements. This international experience has not only given me technical know-how but also intercultural competence, flexibility, and the ability to successfully manage complex projects in various regulatory environments.
If you are looking for an experienced SAP FI/CO expert to support national and international projects with responsibility, technical expertise and a pragmatic process understanding, I look forward to hearing from you.
Nicole Fotso
SAP FI Consultant & Tester
Last position:
SAP FI Consultant & Tester at DZB Bank
- Analysis and optimization of business processes in financial accounting
- Customizing in SAP FI (e.g., company codes, chart of accounts, payments)
- Integration with other modules such as CO, MM, SD
- Advising on legal requirements (e.g., GoBD, UStG)
- Support for monthly and year-end closing
- Creation of test plans (system test, integration test, UAT)
- Definition of test cases (e.g., postings, payment runs, dunning runs)
- Selection of appropriate test data and scenarios
- Manual testing of posting processes (e.g., customer invoices, payment runs)
- Validation of automatic postings (e.g., in MM credit memo)
- Checking interfaces (e.g., to subsystems or non-SAP solutions)
- Documenting defects in the test tool (e.g., Jira, ALM)
- Analysis and feedback to developers or customizing team
- Retesting after defect fixes
- E2E tests with SAP Solution Manager (SolMan)
- Using tools such as SAP CBTA or Micro Focus UFT
Yunus Basardal
Subproject Manager CVI/BP, Consulting and Implementation of Business Partner Processes and Readiness Check
Last position:
Subproject Manager CVI/BP, Consulting and Implementation of Business Partner Processes and Readiness Check at Emons Group
- Responsibility for executing the CVI at Emons Group, including the target design and implementation of the new business partner processes
- Focused on migrating vendor and customer master data to business partners, as well as leading and coordinating the functional and technical master data cleansing
- Used SAP ERP ECC, SAP Query Reporting, LSMW, SAP Readiness Check, and SAP authorizations
Mesut Akkaya
Senior / Lead SAP FI/CO Consultant
Last position:
Senior / Lead SAP FI/CO Consultant at Akkaya – SAP & Strategy Consulting
- Freelance SAP consultant in SAP FI/CO
- Focus on SAP R/3 and SAP S/4HANA on-Premise and Public Cloud implementations
- Rollouts, SAP data migration, customizing
- SAP key-user and end-user training
- 2nd and 3rd level support
Ergin Şen
SAP FI Consultant
Last position:
SAP FI Consultant at Freelance
Andreas Niestroj
CO Consultant (Part-time)
Last position:
CO Consultant (Part-time) at WestLotto
- CO Greenfield introduction on S/4 HANA (margin analysis, contribution margin accounting under two parallel rules)
- Data migration design for adding a company code
- Setup of parallel contribution margin accounting via extension ledger with alternative valuations
- Definition and implementation of derivation strategies
- User and key-user training
Jürgen Wellhausen
Business Consultant FI Migration S/4Hana
Last position:
Business Consultant FI Migration S/4Hana at E.ON/Westnetz
- Training of employees on the new requirements in SAP S4/hana
- Testing, documentation, training and support for SAP FI (S/4Hana)
- Creating/implementing the delta migration concept for S/4Hana
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SAP FI Consultants statistics
Typical experience
20 years
Average project duration
2.2 years
Certifications per freelancer
2
Top business areas
Accounting, Finance, Information Technology
Top industries
Information Technology, Professional Services, Manufacturing
Most common languages
German, English, Turkish
Bachelor's degree or higher
93%
Master's degree or higher
47%
Doctorate
7%
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Frequently Asked Questions
Questions in mind? Get key insights about FRATCH
An SAP FI Consultant handles finance process design and system setup inside SAP. That often includes General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Asset Accounting, banking flows, and support for financial closing. On project work, they also help with testing, cutover, and issue resolution after go-live.
Look for solid SAP FI customizing knowledge and a clear understanding of accounting processes. The best candidates can explain FI/CO integration, handle S/4HANA Finance topics, and work well with finance stakeholders. They should also write clear documentation and stay calm when live postings are affected.
An SAP FI Consultant focuses on financial accounting in SAP, while an SAP FI/CO Consultant usually covers both Finance and Controlling. In smaller teams, the roles often overlap, but the exact scope should be agreed early. If your project touches cost centers, profit centers, or internal allocations, FI/CO knowledge becomes more important.
A freelancer is often the better fit when the need is tied to a rollout, migration, audit finding, or short-term backlog. That gives you targeted expertise without a long hiring cycle. It also works well when your internal team knows the business but lacks deep SAP FI project bandwidth.
Much of the work can be done remotely, especially configuration, testing support, and documentation. On-site helps during workshops, key design discussions, and cutover if the team wants faster coordination. In Germany, many projects use a mix of remote work and selected on-site days.
A strong SAP FI Consultant should leave behind more than settings in the system. Expect process documentation, test scenarios, functional specs, issue logs, and support during user testing or go-live. For many projects, the real value is a finance setup that is stable and easy to maintain.
Ask for examples that go beyond transaction names and configuration terms. A strong candidate can describe how they solved a real finance process problem, worked with adjacent modules, and handled close or reconciliation issues. Good answers are specific, practical, and tied to business impact.
Freelancers need a strong mix of SAP FI know-how and business communication. They should be able to talk with accountants, challenge unclear requirements, and keep work organized across testing and change phases. The best freelancers are dependable during close periods and careful with data and process details.
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