SAP S4HANA Finance Architect

### Roles & Responsibilities - Understand the needs of business and the business vision. Articulate technology vision/roadmap and how is it applicable to business for finance domain. - Defining and articulating solutions for projects, including business, application, data and infrastructure impacts along with testing and implementation considerations. - Play a key role in defining the Scalable Enterprise Architecture and Engineering guidelines as per industry best practices. - Orchestrate and deliver solution for SAP AP, AR, CO solutions within SAP S/4 HANA Finance domain. - Drive end-to-end Order-to-Cash (O2C) and Procure-to-Pay (P2P) process design, including invoicing, vendor management, payment, returns, 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 Finance processes and improve operational efficiency. - Exposure to SAP Central Finance or shared service models. - Ensure alignment with business performance management and reporting needs. - Lead functional workstream in SAP S/4HANA implementations, rollouts, and transformation programs. - Conduct and mentor workshops to gather and analyse business requirements for financial track. - Translate requirements into functional design and configuration specifications. - Orchestrate solution which works across FI, MM, SD, PP, QM and cross-functional areas to ensure end-to-end integration. - Design and review functional specifications for RICEFW objects for enhancements, interfaces, and integrations. ### Technical Expertise - Drive and Lead SAP S/4 HANA Finance related key processes, including: - Account Payable, Account Receivable and Controlling. - Order-to-Cash (O2C) and Procure to Pay lifecycle processes. - Make to Order, Make to Stock 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. - Asset Accounting and REFX. - Fund Management and Grant Management. ### Role Requirement - Minimum bachelor’s degree in finance, Accounting, Information Systems, or related discipline. - Over 15 years of SAP experience, including at least 7 years with S/4HANA solutions. - SAP certification in FI or S/4HANA Finance. - Experience with cloud-based SAP deployments (e.g., RISE with SAP) and full lifecycle SAP implementations (design-build-test-deployment-hypercare). - Completed a minimum of 5 end-to-end full lifecycle implementation projects (lasting at least 5 years in total), with at least 3 of them being S/4HANA projects. - More than 7 years of team lead experience and managed and led at least 10 team members. - Has worked on projects involving at least 30 company codes and/or plants.