SAP Finance AR Lead

Roles & Responsibilities: - Lead the design and implementation of SAP Accounts Receivable (AR) solutions within SAP FI. - Drive end-to-end Order-to-Cash (O2C) process design, including billing, invoicing, collections, and dispute management for financial accounting and compliance requirements. - Ensure compliance with financial regulations, credit controls, accounting standards and company policies. - Identify opportunities to automate AR processes and improve operational efficiency. - Exposure to SAP Central Finance or shared service models. - Lead functional workstream in SAP S/4HANA implementations, rollouts, and transformation programs. - Experience in full lifecycle SAP implementations (design → deployment → support). - Conduct workshops to gather and analyse business requirements for financial track. - Translate requirements into functional design and configuration specifications. - Collaborate with FI, MM, SD, and cross-functional teams to ensure end-to-end integration. - Collaborate with technical (ABAP) teams for RICEFW enhancements, interfaces, and integrations. - Design and review functional specifications for RICEF objects. - Support data migration, testing cycles (SIT/UAT), and cutover activities. Technical Responsibilities: - Configure and drive SAP FI-AR modules and key processes, including: Customer master data, Incoming payments and clearing, Credit management (FSCM), Dunning and collections processes. - Deep expertise and Hands-on experience in: SAP FI Accounts Receivable configuration, Order-to-Cash (O2C) lifecycle processes, Customer invoicing, collections, and credit management, SAP FSCM (Financial Supply Chain Management – Credit, Collections, Dispute Management), SAP Fiori applications for AR monitoring and collections, Cash application automation tools and AI-based matching solutions. - Nice to have experience in: Asset Accounting and REFX, Fund Management and Grant Management. Role Requirement: - Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Information Systems, or related discipline. - Over 10 years of SAP experience, including at least 5 years with S/4HANA with strong focus on SAP FI-AR. - SAP certification in FI or S/4HANA Finance. - Experience with cloud-based SAP deployments (e.g., RISE with SAP). - Completed a minimum of 3 end-to-end implementation projects (lasting at least 4 years in total), with at least 2 of them being S/4HANA projects. - More than 5 years of team lead experience. - Has managed and led at least 3 team members. - Has worked on projects involving at least 20 company codes and/or plants.