Highlights
Summary: This role serves as a subject matter expert across general accounting processes, ensuring accurate financial data migration, reconciliation, and reporting while partnering with business, functional, and technical stakeholders throughout the project lifecycle. Provide expertise in general ledger, journal entries, account reconciliations, intercompany accounting, accruals, fixed assets, and period-end/year-end close processes.
Numbers & Facts
| Location | Chicago, IL (Remote) |
| Industry | Financial Services |
| Salary | $60–$65 |
| Company Size | 1,000 to 1,499 employees |
| Year Founded | 1962 |
| Website | http://www.kforce.com/ |
Description
Kforce has a client in Chicago, IL that is seeking an SAP Record-to-Report (RTR)/General Accounting Consultant to support SAP finance implementation, migration, and transformation initiatives.
Summary:
This role serves as a subject matter expert across general accounting processes, ensuring accurate financial data migration, reconciliation, and reporting while partnering with business, functional, and technical stakeholders throughout the project lifecycle.
Key Responsibilities:
- Support SAP Finance implementation, migration, and transformation activities within the Record-to-Report (RTR) workstream
- Provide expertise in general ledger, journal entries, account reconciliations, intercompany accounting, accruals, fixed assets, and period-end/year-end close processes
- Execute data mapping, cleansing, validation, and conversion activities to ensure accurate financial data migration
- Perform reconciliations between source systems and SAP to ensure completeness and accuracy
- Support cutover planning, go-live readiness, and post-deployment stabilization
- Collaborate with Finance, Accounting, IT, and SAP functional teams to resolve data quality issues
- Support system testing, including unit testing, SIT, UAT, and defect resolution
- Analyze and troubleshoot financial process issues, escalating risks as needed
- Develop process documentation, test scripts, reconciliation procedures, and training materials
- Ensure compliance with internal controls, accounting policies, and reporting standards
- Support financial reporting validation within SAP
Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Information Systems, or related field
- 5+ years of experience in SAP Finance, General Accounting, or Record-to-Report processes
- Experience supporting SAP implementations, migrations, or transformation programs
- Strong understanding of GL, journal processing, reconciliations, and month-end close
- Experience with data migration, mapping, cleansing, and reconciliation activities
- Experience supporting testing activities and resolving system/data defects
- Strong analytical and stakeholder management skills
- Proficiency in Microsoft Excel and financial data analysis tools
- CPA, CMA, or equivalent accounting certification
- SAP Finance certification
- Experience with SAP Data Services, Migration Cockpit, or similar tools
- Large-scale ERP transformation experience in global organizations
- Knowledge of financial controls and regulatory compliance standards
- Financial Data Migration & Reconciliation
- SAP Finance (RTR)
- General Ledger & Close Processes
- Financial Reporting
- Data Quality Management
- Testing & Defect Resolution
- Cross-Functional Collaboration
- Problem Solving
- Cutover & Project Execution
The pay range is the lowest to highest compensation we reasonably in good faith believe we would pay at posting for this role. We may ultimately pay more or less than this range. Employee pay is based on factors like relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, seniority, location, performance, union contract and business needs. This range may be modified in the future.
We offer comprehensive benefits including medical/dental/vision insurance, HSA, FSA, 401(k), and life, disability & ADD insurance to eligible employees. Salaried personnel receive paid time off. Hourly employees are not eligible for paid time off unless required by law. Hourly employees on a Service Contract Act project are eligible for paid sick leave.
Note: Pay is not considered compensation until it is earned, vested and determinable. The amount and availability of any compensation remains in Kforce's sole discretion unless and until paid and may be modified in its discretion consistent with the law.
This job is not eligible for bonuses, incentives or commissions.
Kforce is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran status, or disability status.
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About Company
Kforce is a solutions firm specializing in technology, finance and accounting, and professional staffing services. Our KNOWLEDGEforce® empowers top companies to achieve their digital transformation goals. We curate teams of technical experts who deliver solutions custom-tailored to each client’s needs. These scalable, flexible outcomes are shaped by deep market knowledge, thought leadership and our multi-industry expertise.
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