Senior SAP FICO + FICA Specialist (For independent contractors)

Senior SAP FICO + FICA Specialist

The Financial Systems team provides technology expertise to the finance department and is responsible for SAP, HANA, and connected 3rd party systems at Booking.com. We want to change the way people work with SAP, by building a finance application platform that supports simplification of business processes, and empowers the finance community with better financial insights.

We run our SAP environment on HANA and in February 2016 we migrated to Simple Finance. In 2021 we started our financial transformation with S4 HANA implementation.

As a SAP Senior FI, you will be the designer of the solutions for new initiatives, day-to-day SAP optimization, setting up new functionalities, customizing or modifying existing functionalities to transform the as-is processes. You will utilize your knowledge of SAP FICO and FICA to design solutions which meet business objectives and goals.

You will participate in the development of solution design documents, functional design documents, configurational rationale, testing and deployment.You will partner with business owners and digital teams to identify opportunities for improvement and offer up appropriate solution designs to meet business objectives. You will have deep experience with the integration of SAP FICO, FICA Controlling, Payments, Tax.

This role involves extensive daily interaction with functional specialists, developers in all finance and IT departments in Booking.com. It is essential that you have a strong understanding of finance processes and integration with legacy systems and you have strong verbal/written communication and presentation skills in English.

Due to the rapid and continuous growth of the organization, the tasks and duties of this role may evolve over time. You will be keen to develop and grow within the role and to take on additional challenges and responsibilities as they occur.

B.Responsible

• Full ownership of projects and quality of changes, from planning, communication, coordination, compliance aspects, customization and go-live hypercare;

  
  

• Analytical thinking

  
  

• Providing scalable and innovative solutions;

  
  

• Ability to take fast decisions in a very dynamic environment, with some level of uncertainty

  
  

• Contribute to the identification of opportunities (processes, people) to improve project delivery and/or development methodologies.

  
  

• Training of key users and key user support.Analyzing issues and changes;

  
  

• Day to day support and incident resolution

Experience & skills — mandatory

• 10 + years overall SAP Finance (FICO) experience, including ≥ 3 years hands-on FICA configuration

  
  

• At least one full-cycle FICA or BRIM / Convergent Invoicing implementation (greenfield or brownfield)

  
  

• Comfortable reading ABAP/debug logs and writing clear functional specs for developers — no heavy coding required

  
  

• Solid integration knowledge across FI-GL, AR/AP, payments, Business Partner, and external/digital interfaces

  
  

• Fluent English with proven stakeholder-management and presentation skills

Experience & skills — desirable

• Exposure to high-volume billing domains (Utilities IS-U, telecom, media, etc.)

  
  

• Controlling & Profitability Analysis (CO, CO-PA)

  
  

• Familiarity with SAP Convergent Charging (CC) or Revenue Accounting & Reporting (RAR)

  
  

• S/4HANA Finance migration experience or SAP Activate certification