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SAP Accounting Consultant

San Rafael, CA 94901

Posted: 05/09/2025 Employment Type: Contract Industry: Finance Job Number: 12146 Pay Rate: $70.00 - $76.00 Remote Friendly: Onsite

Job Description

Our client focuses on developing first-in-class and best-in-class therapeutics that provide meaningful advances to patients who live with serious and life-threatening rare genetic diseases.


Summary:
  • As our SAP Accounting Consultant, you will bring a combination of expert knowledge and experience on SAP S/4 Hana ERP system implementation and the general ledger accounting close.
  • We will appreciate your best practices in system design, processes, hands-on UAT testing, issue resolutions, and a successful go-live.
  • In addition, we can leverage your U.S. GAAP accounting close experience to support a smooth close.
  • We are a great team who values flexibility, excellence, integrity, and work-life balance.
  • We offer a hybrid model to get both personal connections as well as remote flexibilities. We collaborate in the office on Tuesday and Thursday while Monday, Wednesday, and Friday are remote.
  • This role is part of the U.S. accounting team and reports to the Director, U.S. Controllership. 

Responsibilities:

SAP ERP System Implementation (80%):
  • You will function as our liaison between the U.S. controllership accounting team and the ERP Implementation team, advocating and ensuring accounting needs are met.
  • You will support SAP S/4 Hana ERP system design, setup, processes, system integration testing (SIT), master data load (MDL), user acceptance testing (UAT), address and resolve issues, prep for go-live and post go-live support.
  • Your support areas include cash and investments, payroll, prepaids, accruals, intercompany, Blackline, fixed assets and WBS capital projects, WBS R&D, leases, expense allocations, product allocations.
  • Perform SAP testing, identify issues, and work with the ERP Implementation team and accounting team to resolve issues.
  • Document system processes/workflows and train the accounting team on usage, share knowledge, and prepare the accounting team for go-live. Create SAP SOPs and provide overview trainings in accounting areas.
Accounting Close (20%):
  • Prepare journal entries (e.g., prepaid addition/amortization, accruals, and other journals as applicable).
  • Prepare balance sheet account reconciliations.
  • Prepare income statement and balance sheet flux analysis and provide flux comments.
  • Ensure income statement and balance sheet are accurate, timely, and compliant with U.S. GAAP, internal controls, and company policies.

Job Requirements

Experience and Qualifications Required:
  • SAP S/4 Hana implementation and hands-on super user experience.
  • SAP S/4 Hana UAT experience.
  • Minimum 3+ years accounting experience in General Ledger Accounting, with hands-on GL financial close responsibilities.
  • Experience in Record to Report and knowledge in Source to Pay workstreams.
  • Excellent in Excel and data analytics.

Bonus Points:
  • Publicly traded company financial accounting and internal controls experience.

Education:
  • Bachelors degree in accounting or finance required or equivalent accounting experiences.

Meet Your Recruiter

Lisa Weiss
Senior Recruiter, Account Manager

As a Recruiter at Compass, Lisa has a long history of working with candidates in many different industries. Lisa was drawn to the life science industry because she feels her best work is done when she’s connecting candidates to jobs that make a big impact on the world.

Lisa is passionate about her candidates and feels most rewarded when she helps them land their dream job. She will walk you through the opportunities and guide you so that you can share your best self to the employer.

When Lisa isn’t working, she enjoys fitness, travel, and spending time with her husband and two children.  And yes, if her voice sounds familiar to you it’s because she’s a famous voice over star.

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