Hybrid Principal Consultant – SAP S/4HANA Finance

at Wavestone

• Job title: Principal Consultant – SAP S/4HANA Finance
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Lead
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: Cloud
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Zurich, Switzerland

About the role

• Lead Consultant at Wavestone designing and implementing SAP S/4HANA Finance solutions for a diverse clientele. Guide teams and shape innovative finance management strategies across sectors.

Responsibilities

• You design and implement innovative, future-oriented 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—and take active responsibility for their performance and development.
• You are used to communicating at the 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 engage in our innovative focus areas such as GenAI in Finance, Financial Reporting and Working Capital Management.
• You help shape the team's future and take on commercial 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 and 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 integration with cloud solutions is an advantage
• Excellent written and spoken German and English skills complete your profile.

Benefits

• Your career, your way: Our Personal Growth Model and Coaching & Leading approach offer you close, comprehensive support both in your long-term development and in daily business.
• In our Academy you'll find a wide range of training options such as language and certification courses, personal coaching, and targeted leadership training.
• And through our flexible career model and our Fluid Company approach, you decide where and how fast you progress.
• Career & private life: To support a healthy balance, we try to offer as many positions as possible on a part-time basis.
• Thanks to our Mobile Work Policy, you can conveniently work 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, Norway, Iceland, Liechtenstein) when your client does not require you on site.
• You also get 25 days of vacation, additional days off for special family circumstances or job-related relocation, and various sabbatical options.
• Tailored mobility: With a fixed monthly mobility budget, you are flexible and environmentally conscious—whether for private or business use—with a clear focus on sustainable transport.
• A valuable corporate culture: Our values—responsible, energetic and together—are central to our everyday work. You can experience this in events such as our Powerdays where you can volunteer, in networks like the Women's Network, or in our Mindfulness Guild.
• Regular employee surveys via Great Place To Work, unique company events, internal fitness groups and much more.
• Fair compensation: We offer fair and attractive salaries consisting of a fixed and a performance-based component. In the case of maternity protection we pay the full performance-based component. We also regularly align our salaries with the market through external benchmark studies—always with a view to gender equal pay.