Romania: What is the salary range for an SAP FI beginner consultant, Associate certified?

[Former Member]

Hi all,

I am now in the middle of negotiating salary for an offer in Bucharest, Romania for SAP Support Consultant, contract for at least 3 years with some clause for the minimum of 3y period.

I have recently certified on the FI area and I have experience as a key user at the current job, but not as consultant yet.

Do you know what is the salary range in Romania, Bucharest? Maybe some Romanians are here and read this 🙂

Thank you very much for an answer!

Madalina

[former_member182098]

Hi Madalina,

You should check

www.glassdoor.com

or any other local website that quotes the local salary for the similar position.

Personally, I would not much bother about the salary considering your situation. Getting to work in SAP FICO area as a consultant is more valuable than the salary. Very few people get the opportunity to work as a consultant from the end user experience. Therefore, please do not much bother about the salary, please join the team. In couple of years, once you put up real experience, they salary beyond your expectations would come to you automatically.

Hope this helps.

Kind Regards,

Ravi

[Former Member]

Hi Ravi,

Many, many thanks for the tips! Indeed I have also checked the salary ranges through a few websites, but eventually I realized exactly your point: hands-on experience at the very beginning is utmost important.

Also, thanks for all the useful info posted here, articles especially; I find them very, very useful.

I hope to  have the opportunity to give back to the SCN at the time of mastering a very good knowledge.

Keep up with the good work!

Best wishes,

Madalina

[former_member182098]

Hi Madalina,

Thanks for your cheerful words.

Whether it is implementation work / support job,you would surely find engaging with SCN Finance Community is much useful. They are one of most proactive groups. There are number of useful solutions / articles and blogs, which could be useful in your day to day work. 10 Years back, there were not many resources on the web, however, now SCN serves center point for most of the issues in the system.

I am sure that you will also find SCN helpful, I do really appreciate that your plan to give it back to SCN.

All the best.

Kind Regards,

Ravi

[sapmmgopal]

I agree with Ravi sir.

All you have to do is to get sound knowledge with real time experience.

I did a mistake of leaving my job opportunity at XXXXX(Donot want to mention company name) because of salary.

Never do mistake by considering monetary benefits. You will have enough salary in couple of years. Just concentrate on gaining the knowledge...

GK.

[Former Member]

Hi Krishna,

Indeed I'll do that, I really want to gain real hands-on knowledge.

At the time of negotiations I was asked to express my expectations, now all is good.

Thank you for your time in expressing your feedback! 

Mada

[Former Member]

   Hi Mada, 

   I am also a fresh consultant just like you, also in Bucharest, and like those before me said, salary shouldn't be so important at the moment. The most important thing should be the environment you work in and the perspective for you to develop. You will travel a lot and meet tons of people[(if you didn't already:)]. Think at those things, money will come as your level will rise. Good Luck.

[Former Member]

Hi Stefan,

Indeed I have oriented towards the experience through gaining knowledge as it is the main, main priority; at that particular moment I had no idea about the salary ranges.

The number of vacancies is not that great at all, but being consistent always drives us to our targets.

Thank you and best of luck!

Madalina

[Former Member]

Hi Madalina,

I am also preparing for SAP in FI module. What should I prepare before joining SAP in FI certification to get upper hand in learning SAP FI.

Thanks.

[Former Member]

Hello,

I will give the extended answer I have just posted yesterday, maybe it can be of help.

I will describe a little bit my experiences as an individual case struggling the same questions and fears as expressed above. I will conclude regarding my SAP Financial Certification.

My background: mathematics-information highschool; college: foreign languages as translator-interpreter.  So far nothing that technical, right?

Work domain: some technical support job during college and afterwards I worked within the financial department in a multinational corporation - so here the SAP-get-to-know started. I had the chance to access SAP, mostly on the AR side and very little on the SD at the previous job as a user and later as key user.

As the courses provided by SAP were too expensive for me, I started learning by myself step by step with a thirst of knowledge because there was sooo much information.

I have oriented towards a SAP certification that served my area of knowledge- SAP Financial in this case and started to really prepare reading + taking tests online according to the exam Curriculum on the SAP Training website. This was very important as it helped me gain a lot of knowledge and go even beyond the curricula in order to have a wider, bigger picture overall and on the module of interest. There are books on Amazon + also free-of-charge online tests that are a real support on helping fixing the information and youtube presentations are very useful too.

After an approx. 2-2,5y of experience as an end user and reading all from the curriculum as mentioned in the past few months, i have  took the SAP Financial certification.

This was possible through lots of readings, tests, taking serious the certification curricula.

The job came after aprox. 8 months and a few interviews as the market is not that active and the projects not that many. I think this is applicable for many countries. Check the recruiting websites periodically in order to have an idea regarding the jobs market on SAP.

From the user experience was easier to start learning into depth, so I would recommend this before paying lots of money for just a few days of courses.

Spot the wanted certification that best suites your career intention on the Training page on www.sap.com, check the curricula and let the party begin 🙂 Read, read, test online and not only (maybe take some testing book from Amazon) and get ready for the certification.

I hope this would be of help.

Best wishes and keep up the good work!

Madalina

[Former Member]

Hi Madalina,

Thank you so much for guiding me .The blog you shared will be of great help to me.