Jr SAP Application Analyst – FI-CO (S/4HANA)
Sucafina
Posted 14 hours ago
About the Company
Sucafina is a leading sustainable coffee company that connects coffee producers with roasters globally. With a rich history and global presence, it is committed to sustainable practices, innovation, and strong relationships across the coffee supply chain, handling sourcing, trading, and logistics to ensure high-quality coffee reaches consumers efficiently and responsibly.
Job Description
This role involves providing day-to-day application support, assisting with changes and new rollouts, and contributing to the stability and continuous improvement of finance processes for an organization with multi-country operations. The ideal candidate will be an entrepreneurial, tech-savvy individual with a positive attitude, high integrity, and a willingness to learn and take on challenges in the coffee business. The company offers a pleasant family environment, opportunities for growth, exposure to multicultural settings, and merit-based compensation.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide daily application support for SAP S/4HANA FI and CO, escalating complex issues to senior consultants.
- Support month-end, quarter-end, and year-end closing activities for various financial modules like GL, AP, AR, asset accounting, bank accounting, FX revaluation, and CO allocations.
- Analyze business requirements from finance users and translate them into functional requirements and simple configuration changes under senior guidance.
- Perform FI-CO configuration and master data maintenance (GL accounts, cost centers, profit centers, internal orders) following established procedures.
- Monitor and support interfaces between the commodity trading (CTRM) system and SAP FI-CO, investigating posting errors and aiding reconciliations.
- Prepare and execute test scripts for unit, integration, and user acceptance testing for changes, fixes, and new entity rollouts.
- Support and manage rollouts of the FI-CO template to new companies, including data validation, testing, go-live, and post-go-live support.
- Support standard financial reporting needs using S/4HANA reports, Fiori apps, and potentially SAP Analytics Cloud.
- Coordinate with Basis, security, and development teams on authorization requests, enhancements, and technical issues related to FI-CO.
- Support internal and external audit requests and local statutory reporting requirements in collaboration with finance teams.
- Prepare and maintain functional documentation, process descriptions, and end-user guides, and provide user training and knowledge transfer.
Requirements
- 1–3 years of hands-on experience with SAP S/4HANA in FI and CO modules (project or support environment).
- Practical knowledge of core FI processes: General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Asset Accounting, Bank Accounting, and period-end closing (TRM is a plus).
- Practical knowledge of core CO processes: Cost Center Accounting, Profit Center Accounting, Internal Orders, allocations, and settlement.
- Experience in application support (incident and service request handling) and/or in testing and documentation of SAP changes.
- Understanding of finance and accounting fundamentals and how FI-CO integrates with other systems and interfaces.
- Mandatory technical competence in SAP S/4HANA Financial Accounting (FI): GL, AP, AR, Asset Accounting, Bank Accounting, period-end closing, foreign currency valuation.
- Mandatory technical competence in SAP S/4HANA Controlling (CO): cost center and profit center accounting, internal orders, allocations, settlement.
- Understanding of S/4HANA Universal Journal (ACDOCA) and its impact on FI-CO processes and reporting.
- Basic FI-CO configuration (SPRO) and master data management, adhering to change control and transport procedures.
- Ability to use S/4HANA standard reporting and Fiori apps for finance; capable of writing functional specifications and test scripts.
- Highly desired: Knowledge of SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC) for building stories/dashboards and models for financial reporting.
- Nice to have: SAP S/4HANA Finance certification (or equivalent training).
- Nice to have: Experience working in a multinational or shared-services environment.
- Nice to have: Exposure to commodity trading or agribusiness finance processes.
- Nice to have: Awareness of local statutory, tax, and reporting requirements for finance operations.
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Job Details
- Function
- Software & Data
- Industry
- IT & Telecoms
- Type
- Full-time
- Location
- Nairobi
- Experience
- Entry Level
- Salary
- Open
- Posted
- Nov 12, 2026
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- 24