SAP FI Experts in Berlin
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Meet FRATCH Experts in Berlin, who have recently used SAP FI
Mladen B.
Last position:
Senior SAP BW/4HANA / BPC / SAC Consultant – Freelancer at Company in Berlin and Belgium in the utilities sector
- Implementation of data models in BW/4HANA, ABAP CDS Views, HANA Calculation Views, AMDP Scripts, OData Services, object-oriented ABAP in BW, SAC.
- Adjustments in BPC for BW/4HANA.
Bernhard H.
Last position:
SAP MM Consultant, Business Solution Design Specialist at Nomen Nominandum
- Finalised several addon implementation projects as project manager, coordinating external service providers
- Implemented VAT reporting, e-invoicing, asset reporting, drug reporting to governmental authorities
- Played key role as business solution design specialist in an S/4HANA implementation project across PP-PI, eWM, QM, PM, IM, MM, SD and other logistic areas
- Designed organizational structures and processes in all logistic areas
- Developed and proofread business blueprint, managed implementation, test preparation and migration
Wolfram K.
Last position:
AI / Machine Learning Engineer (Projects & Applied AI) at UNIVERSITÉ PARIS 1 PANTHEON-SORBONNE & LIORA
- Designed and implemented a hybrid recommendation system (content-based + collaborative filtering)
- Built end-to-end ML pipelines including data processing, feature engineering, model training, and evaluation
- Developed RAG-based LLM systems using LangChain and vector databases for semantic search and knowledge retrieval
- Established MLOps workflows with MLflow for experiment tracking, versioning, and deployment readiness
- Implemented deep learning models (computer vision & classification) using PyTorch and TensorFlow
Matthias O.
Last position:
Freelance work at Etengo (fĂĽr Syna AG)
Consulting in the SAP EAM module as part of the migration to EON's S/4 HANA oneERP system
Review and cost estimation of customer-specific developments (e.g. cockpit for EAM orders, document flow display)
Preparation of EAM classification data for technical objects (functional locations, equipment) for migration to new classes
André S.
Last position:
IT Consultant SAP® Administration at Lechwerke AG (LEW)
- IT services for the administration of the SAP® systems NETZ/Sales, BW, Core, Portal
- Administration of SAP® authorizations and users via central user administration (ZBV) in SAP® Solution Manager
- Setup and further development of SAP® authorization roles
- Role assignment according to requests
- Creation, change, and deletion of users
- Incident handling and error analysis (e.g. authorization trace, debugging in test systems)
- Cooperation with the SAP® development team on new implementations and process changes
- Special tasks
- Execution of Privileged User Management (PUM) 2023–2025 using Security Bridge
- Decommissioning of the SAP® Core system and migration to S/4HANA
Oliver S.
Last position:
SAP Sub-Project Lead (SCM, MM, EWM) at Brunata Wärmemesser Hagen GmbH & Co KG
- Responsibility for time, budget and quality targets of the sub-project
- Creation and maintenance of the sub-project plan including dependencies to FI, CO, PP, SD
- Definition of work packages, resource planning and progress monitoring
- Risk and change management within module scope
- Analysis of as-is processes in procurement, logistics and warehouse management
- Design of to-be processes according to SAP standard (EWM warehouse processes such as goods receipt, put-away, picking, goods issue)
- Coordination with key users and specialist departments
- Support for interface development with external warehouse systems and supplier portals
- Organization of test data, error tracking and test documentation
- Support for deployment preparation and key user training
- Participation in the cutover plan (data migration, go-live preparation)
- Support of the department during the hypercare phase after go-live
- Assistance in mapping EWM core processes
- Management of external service providers
- Use of Jira, Confluence, Signavio, MS Teams, Aqua ALM
Heiko K.
Last position:
SAP development, Adobe form development at Arvato SE
- conversion of a function-group-based Adobe Interactive Forms framework to an object-oriented Adobe framework for documents in transport/logistics and dunning (FI)
- Adobe Lifecycle Designer 11.0.1 for SAP
- creating new and troubleshooting existing forms, function modules, programs, classes, and methods
- maintaining Smart Forms
- document printing, email sending, and file archiving
- message control for deliveries, orders, invoices, proforma invoices, and transports
- ticket system: Jira
- communication: Microsoft Teams
- migrating customers to a new SAP framework
- handling incident and change request tickets
- software: SAP ERP 6.0, SAP_ABA 7.5G, S4CORE 1.05
Beserithan M.
Last position:
SD Development and CRM Interaction Center Development at Sanner GmbH
- Part-time 2-3 days/week
- Developments in the SD module and CRM Interaction Center
- Consulting, customizing in SD module
- Adapting Fiori applications in the SD module
- Approval workflow for credit memos: design, concept, implementation, customizing
- Credit memo request: object type BUS 2094
- If the credit memo request value is below a certain threshold -> automatic release and removal of billing block
- If the credit memo request value is above a certain threshold -> automatic determination of the responsible employee
- The employee receives a work item in their integrated inbox or in My Inbox (Fiori) -> the employee can reject, approve, or edit the credit memo request
- UML modeling in technical documentation
- Creating a Z-table for customer sample line items
- Merging COA1 (delivery) + COA2 (CAQ) forms and adding to the spool request as a single PDF
- Correcting workflow title according to NACE, fixing message "ZBMA title is displayed incorrectly in SBWP (Workplace)"
- Receiving PLM documents from an external PLM system, creating an RFC function module, storing PLM documents in the material master as GOS objects
- On releasing a production order, reading PLM documents from MM and saving them in a shared folder for the MES system
- Displaying the number of inspection methods in a popup when creating an order -> VA01/VA02
- Automatic stock reconciliation LVS IDOC INVCON
- Performing AQUA tests
- IDOC archiving for old IDOCs
- NL_PM_drawings and storing print output, informing MES via ZPPORDER IDOC, writing technical documents
- Using SD user exits, BADIs for various requirements
- Extending screens for customer requests via screen exits
- Creating message types for sales orders, purchase orders, and invoices
- Extending CRM Interaction Center Business Partner -> Overview -> Contract with customer-specific requirements
- New Fiori application departure control with data from Z-table and standard equipment tables, displaying a pie chart, calculating "vehicles in operation"
- Extending Interaction Center Business Partner -> Overview -> new tab on Overview Page with list tables for performance feedback, attachments from GOS objects
- Extending Interaction Center Business Partner -> Overview -> new tab on Overview Page with list tables for PM quality notifications, attachments from GOS objects
- Implementing BADIs in CRM
- File storage on SAP server/UNIX server
- Using BOL/GENIL architecture in CRM development
- Project language: German
Juan R.
Last position:
Financial & Project Controller at Velero GmbH
- Project controlling including budget monitoring, forecasting, and profitability analyses
- Analyzing financial and project data and making recommendations for action
- Identifying optimization potential in controlling and business processes
- Preparing management reports and dashboards
Gopal K.
Last position:
SAP ABAP & Cloud Architect at parasus GmbH
- Concept and re-implementation of customer application over cloud and make the source code cloud ready
- Re-designing and putting a new architecture to overcome all the Team Scale findings and push ABAP code to ABAP cloud
- Converted the existing custom application code to ABAP cloud code and used ABAP Clean code guidelines
- Create a dynamic framework to call old vs new implementation from a Table maintenance to validate both implementations
- Utilized Key User Extensibility to seamlessly integrate multiple custom fields into a standard Fiori application, enhancing both the front-end and back-end GUI
Anuja G.
Last position:
SAP Consultant (Accounting in SAP) at Air India
- Assisted and deployed a pilot SAP consulting project, performing full-cycle configuration: Chart of Accounts, Company Codes, Recurring Entries, and Payment Integration.
- Hands-on execution of Accounts Receivable (FI-AR) workflows, including vendor invoice processing and automatic payment runs.
- Supported period-end closing and audit prep, including document splitting, GL configurations, and profit center accounting.
Yassine R.
Last position:
SAP FI/CO Inhouse Consultant at Energy technology company (international, group)
- Central SAP S/4HANA FI/CO contact for business departments and group controlling (DE, AU, USA)
- Traced a ~30 % margin variance (a million-euro amount, 8 months) back to 3 drivers (CO-PA, IC)
- S/4HANA Utilities (IS-U/FI-CA): Placed CO requirements before go-live as a Jira epic with 7 stories
- Month-end/year-end closing: GR/IR, value types, reclassifications; support for the audit
- Product cost controlling: clarified overheads, standard prices, and valuation differences down to the document level
- Replaced Excel/Tableau reports with SAP queries; built owner reporting for 3 companies
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Statistics of experts using SAP FI
Aggregated from the professional profiles of matched freelancers.
Experience
21 years (Germany: 25 years)
Position duration
1.3 years (Germany: 3 years)
Positions per freelancer
23 (Germany: 17)
Top business areas
Information Technology, Finance, Business Intelligence
Top industries
Information Technology, Professional Services, Manufacturing
Certification focus areas
Information Technology, Accounting, Finance
Bachelor's degree or higher
100% (Germany: 88%)
Master's degree or higher
78% (Germany: 56%)
Doctorate
22% (Germany: 6%)
Certifications per freelancer
3
Most common languages
German, English, Arabic
Speak two or more languages
100% (Germany: 97%)
Based on our profile pool as of 29 Oct 2026.
Daily rate distribution
The chart shows how the daily rates of experts in this technology in Berlin are distributed, based on recent contracts on our platform. Each bar covers a rate range — its height shows the share of experts charging within that range.
Average rates of experts in Berlin using SAP FI
Rates are based on recent contracts and do not include FRATCH margin.
The average daily rate is the mean of all daily rates from recent contracts of comparable freelancers on our platform.
The median daily rate is the middle value of all daily rates — half of comparable freelancers charge less, half charge more. Unlike the average, it is barely affected by outliers.
Calculated based on our freelancers’ daily rates as of 29 Oct 2026. Actual rates may vary depending on seniority level, experience, skill specialization, project complexity, and engagement length.
SAP FI experts industry focus
See which industries our matched freelancers work in most often — every figure is calculated live from the freelancers on FRATCH.
- Information Technology (83%)
- Professional Services (83%)
- Manufacturing (75%)
- Healthcare (67%)
- Utilities (58%)
- Banking and Finance (50%)
- Energy (42%)
- Automotive (33%)
Please note that freelancers can work across multiple industries, so percentages overlap.
About the technology
Financial core
SAP FI, also known as SAP Financial Accounting, manages the financial records that companies rely on for legal reporting and daily control. It covers the general ledger, accounts payable, accounts receivable, asset accounting and financial close. Teams use it to connect operational transactions with a consistent accounting structure.
Key capabilities
Strong SAP FI specialists configure business rules and keep postings accurate across entities, currencies and tax structures. Their work often includes:
- Chart of accounts, ledgers and document types
- Vendor invoices, customer billing and payment processes
- Asset accounting and depreciation rules
- Bank accounting, dunning and reconciliation
- Period-end and year-end closing procedures
Connected ecosystem
SAP FI rarely operates alone. Professionals work across SAP CO for management accounting, Materials Management for procurement postings, Sales and Distribution for billing, and SAP S/4HANA finance data models. They may also handle interfaces, workflows, authorizations, forms, reporting and integrations with banks or external tax systems.
When expertise matters
Companies bring in freelance SAP FI professionals during S/4HANA transformations, rollouts, carve-outs and chart-of-accounts redesigns. They are also useful when a close process is unreliable, a legal entity must be added, or finance data needs to move from SAP ERP Financials into a modern target landscape. In Berlin, collaboration may combine remote delivery with on-site workshops and German or English communication.
Typical deliverables
A specialist can document finance requirements, translate them into configuration and test the result with accounting teams. Typical deliverables include a fit-gap assessment, configuration workbook, migration mapping, test cases, user guidance and cutover support. The right scope depends on the company’s entities, integrations, reporting obligations and S/4HANA roadmap.
Quality signals
Look for professionals who can explain the accounting impact of a configuration choice, not only the menu path. Strong specialists show experience with complete process chains, from source transaction to general ledger and reconciliation. They understand controls, transport discipline, master data, defect triage and business-user training, and they leave clear documentation that internal teams can maintain.
Frequently asked questions
Curious about SAP FI? Here are the answers that come up again and again.
SAP FI is used to record, control and report financial transactions across an organization. It supports general ledger accounting, payables, receivables, asset accounting, bank processes and financial closing.
SAP FI focuses on external accounting, statutory reporting and financially relevant postings. SAP CO supports internal management accounting, such as cost centers, profitability analysis and planning; the two areas are closely integrated in many SAP landscapes.
A capable SAP Financial Accounting specialist often understands SAP CO, Materials Management, Sales and Distribution, tax configuration and banking interfaces. Knowledge of SAP S/4HANA data structures, migration tools, testing and finance controls is also valuable.
The right SAP FI professional depends on the project stage and scope. A rollout needs configuration and localization knowledge, while a transformation may require S/4HANA migration, data reconciliation, integration testing and cutover experience.
SAP FI work can often be delivered remotely when access, documentation and decision paths are well organized. On-site workshops in Berlin may still help with process discovery, user testing, closing issues and alignment between finance and IT teams.
Ask an SAP FI specialist to explain a complete process, such as invoice receipt through payment and reconciliation. Review how they handle controls, error analysis, testing, documentation and the accounting consequences of configuration decisions.
SAP FI remains central to SAP S/4HANA finance, although the data model, reporting options and some configuration approaches differ from older SAP ERP Financials environments. A specialist should distinguish legacy requirements from the target S/4HANA design.
An SAP Financial Accounting freelancer may deliver configuration, process documentation, migration mappings, test scripts, defect resolution and go-live support. The assignment can also include training finance users and stabilizing the first closing cycles after deployment.
The average hourly rate of freelancers in Berlin, Germany who have used SAP FI in their recent projects is 104 €, which corresponds to a daily rate of about 829 € based on an 8-hour working day.
Of the freelancers in Berlin, Germany who have used SAP FI in their recent projects, 100% hold at least a Bachelor's degree, 78% hold at least a Master's degree, and 22% hold a doctorate.
On average, freelancers in Berlin, Germany who have used SAP FI in their recent projects have 21 years of professional experience, with a single engagement typically lasting around 1.3 years.
The most common languages among freelancers in Berlin, Germany who have used SAP FI in their recent projects are German (100%), English (100%), and Arabic (17%).
The most common industries among freelancers in Berlin, Germany who have used SAP FI in their recent projects are Information Technology (83%), Professional Services (83%), and Manufacturing (75%).
The most common business areas among freelancers in Berlin, Germany who have used SAP FI in their recent projects are Information Technology (83%), Finance (75%), and Business Intelligence (67%).
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