
Principal Consultant – SAP S/4HANA Finance
Wavestone
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Zürich • 🇨🇭 Switzerland
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Lead
Tech Stack
Cloud
About the role
- You design and implement innovative, future-focused solutions covering Accounting, Controlling and Cash & Treasury as part of projects for our local and international clients.
- You lead teams of experts — internally or at project level — taking active responsibility for their performance and professional development.
- You are accustomed to communicating at executive level and actively build your own network around Finance and Technology topics, either cross-industry or with a focus on Financial Services (Swiss banks and insurance companies).
- You contribute to our innovation focus areas such as GenAI in Finance, Financial Reporting and Working Capital Management.
- You help shape the future of the team and take on entrepreneurial activities such as pre-sales or account management.
Requirements
- 10+ years of consulting experience in SAP Finance
- Solid knowledge of value flows and processes and the corresponding SAP solutions
- Project experience with S/4HANA as well as with agile and/or traditional project methodologies is desirable
- Ideally knowledge/experience in at least one of our focus areas: GenAI, Financial Reporting, SAP Group Reporting with S/4HANA; initial experience with SAP RISE and/or integrations to cloud solutions is an advantage
- Fluent written and spoken German and English complete your profile
Benefits
- Our Personal Growth Model and Coaching & Leading approach provide close, comprehensive support for both your long-term development and daily work.
- Our Academy offers a broad training portfolio such as language and certification courses, individualized coaching, and targeted leadership training.
- Thanks to our Mobile Work policy, you can work conveniently from home or from one of our Swiss offices.
- With 'Mobile Work Abroad' you can work up to 50 days per year from EU countries (as well as the UK, NOR, ISL, LIE) when your client does not require you on site.
- 25 days of vacation, additional leave for special family circumstances or job-related relocation, and various sabbatical options.
- With a fixed monthly mobility budget, you stay flexible and eco-conscious—whether for private or business use—with a clear focus on sustainable transport options.
- Our values—responsible, energetic and together—are integral to our daily life. You will feel this in activities such as our Powerdays (where you can engage in community work), our networks (e.g., the Women’s Network), regular employee surveys via Great Place To Work, company events, internal fitness groups, our corporate benefits program and much more.
- We offer fair and attractive salaries consisting of a fixed and a performance-based component.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
SAP FinanceS/4HANAagile methodologiestraditional project methodologiesGenAIFinancial ReportingSAP Group ReportingSAP RISEcloud solutionsvalue flows
Soft skills
leadershipcommunicationnetworkingentrepreneurial activitiesperformance managementprofessional development