SAP Project Accountant
Our client, a Major Oil and Gas Operator is seeking an experienced SAP Project Accountant based in London. This is an initial 12 month PAYE contract role with a hybrid working system in place.
Description:
Purpose of Role:
Provide hands-on support SAP Projects team across multiple workstreams.
The role focuses on data and ledger reconciliations, contributing to testing activities to help ensure accurate, controlled, and timely delivery of SAP related changes and outputs.
Critical Responsibilities:
Ensuring that all activities are carried out in a safe manner complying with all regulatory requirements, legislation and client HSES Procedures
Ethics and Compliance Responsibilities:
Ensure that all activities and behaviours are carried out in accordance with the client’s Ethics and Compliance Policies and Procedures, and to complete any compulsory compliance training as required
Areas of Accountability, Responsibility and Competence:
Support SAP implementation activities by assisting with process understanding, documentation, and translation of reporting requirements into practical deliverables
Perform reconciliations between source data, sub-ledgers, general ledger, and reporting outputs
Support testing cycles, including test execution, evidence capture, defect logging, analysis, tracking
Assist with data validation activities (master data checks, migration reconciliation, completeness/accuracy checks)
Produce clear working papers and audit-ready documentation for reconciliations, testing, and control activities
Critical Skills, Qualifications,
Experience, etc.:
Experience preparing or supporting IFRS reporting and month-end close activities in a corporate or group finance environment
Experience performing complex reconciliations across different systems, ledgers and data sources.
Prior experience supporting SAP implementation projects in a finance capacity
Testing capability in a system implementation setting
Strong documentation standards and ability to produce clear working papers suitable for review