SAP Finance Solution Architect

Key Responsibilities - Define and drive SAP Finance solution architecture aligned with business strategy, enterprise architecture, and industry best practices. - Analyse current business processes and develop future-state architecture roadmaps for finance transformation initiatives. - Lead solution design across SAP S/4HANA Finance, ensuring scalability, maintainability, and business value. - Provide architectural guidance for SAP implementations, upgrades, rollouts, and digital transformation programmes. - Lead the design and integration of SAP Finance modules including Accounts Payable (AP), Accounts Receivable (AR), Financial Accounting (FI), and Controlling (CO). - Drive end-to-end Order-to-Cash (O2C) and Procure-to-Pay (P2P) process design, including invoicing, billing, collections, dispute management, vendor management, payments, returns, and credit management. - Ensure SAP Finance solutions comply with accounting standards, financial regulations, governance requirements, and internal controls. - Identify opportunities to automate finance processes and improve operational efficiency through SAP innovations and best practices. - Develop solution architectures that integrate SAP FI with MM, SD, PP, QM, and other enterprise systems. - Conduct business workshops to gather requirements, define solution approaches, and validate business processes. - Translate business requirements into functional solution designs and architectural specifications. - Review and approve functional specifications for Reports, Interfaces, Conversions, Enhancements, Forms, and Workflow (RICEFW) developments. - Provide architectural leadership throughout solution design, development, testing, deployment, cutover, and post-go-live support. - Mentor project teams and provide technical and functional guidance to consultants across finance workstreams. - Evaluate emerging SAP technologies and recommend solutions that support long-term business objectives. Required Skills - Bachelor's Degree in Finance, Accounting, Information Systems, Computer Science, or a related discipline. - Minimum 15 years of SAP consulting experience, including at least 7 years delivering SAP S/4HANA Finance solutions. - Extensive expertise in SAP Financial Accounting (FI), Accounts Payable (AP), Accounts Receivable (AR), and Controlling (CO). - Strong knowledge of end-to-end Order-to-Cash (O2C) and Procure-to-Pay (P2P) business processes. - Experience with Make-to-Order (MTO) and Make-to-Stock (MTS) business processes. - Strong understanding of customer invoicing, collections, dispute management, credit management, and financial reporting. - Hands-on experience with SAP Financial Supply Chain Management (FSCM), including Credit Management, Collections Management, and Dispute Management. - Experience using SAP Fiori applications for finance operations and analytics. - Knowledge of cash application automation solutions and AI-driven payment matching technologies. - Experience with SAP Asset Accounting (AA), Flexible Real Estate Management (REFX), Fund Management (FM), and Grant Management. - Strong knowledge of SAP integration across FI, MM, SD, PP, QM, and other enterprise modules. - Experience with SAP RISE and cloud-based SAP deployment models. - Proven experience delivering at least five end-to-end SAP implementation projects, including a minimum of three SAP S/4HANA implementations. - Experience supporting enterprise environments with at least 30 company codes and/or plants. - Strong enterprise architecture, solution design, stakeholder management, and business process optimisation skills.