SAP S/4HANA Finance: An Introduction, 2nd edition 2023

Beginning your finance transformation? Looking to learn what SAP S/4HANA has to offer? This book is your starting point for SAP S/4HANA Finance! Learn about the suite’s architecture and explore its capabilities for your core finance processes: financial accounting, management accounting, treasury and risk management, planning, consolidation, and close. Unlock enterprise-wide finance reporting, assess your deployment options, and design your finance project with this introductory guide!

• Discover what SAP S/4HANA Finance offers your organization
• Explore key finance processes: accounting, controlling, financial close, and more
• Choose a deployment model that fits your needs

In this book, you’ll learn about:

Finance Capabilities

See how your core processes run in SAP S/4HANA. Walk through accounts payable and receivable, profitability analysis, cash management, financial planning, entity and corporate close, and more. Discover how the Universal Journal removes data siloes and transforms finance.

Reporting and Analytics

Establish an enterprise-wide reporting strategy! Learn about requirements for tax reporting and statutory reporting, and then explore tools to report and analyze data in SAP S/4HANA, such as SAP Fiori apps and SAP Analytics Cloud.

Implementation Planning

Take your first steps toward SAP S/4HANA Finance. Consider your deployment options: on-premise or cloud? Big-bang or phased approach? What about Central Finance? Design your future landscape and build your business case with this guide.

Highlights include:

• Financial accounting
• Management accounting
• Treasury and risk management
• Planning, budgeting, and forecasting
• Financial close and consolidation
• Universal Journal
• Reporting and analytics
• Implementation project planning
• Deployment options
• Architecture
• SAP Fiori applications

About the Author

Maunil Mehta is a partner at Deloitte Consulting. He has more than 19 years of experience helping Fortune 500 organizations define and achieve technology-enabled finance transformation, and currently leads the SAP Finance Transformation practice at Deloitte.

Usman Aijaz is a managing director at Deloitte Consulting, where he leads complex global SAP S/4HANA Finance transformation programs. He has more than 18 years of deep technology and consulting experience in helping global clients start from initial planning and business case development all the way to designing, implementing, and sustaining their technology platform.

Sam Parikh is a managing director at Deloitte Consulting. He has more than 25 years of experience leading large-scale finance transformations enabled by ERP systems. Sam is well versed in all aspects of the transformation, from developing a vision and an integrated design to successful implementation and user adoption. His client base spans multiple industries and geographies.

Sanjib Chattopadhyay is a finance transformation leader at Deloitte Consulting specializing in process optimization. He is passionate about building intelligent enterprises using SAP S/4HANA and other next-gen technologies. Over the past two decades, Sanjib has served many Fortune 500 companies to standardize and simplify their finance processes resulting in higher profitability. He is a featured speaker at SAP conferences.