SAP Finance AR Lead
Job Summary
The SAP Finance AR Lead is responsible for designing and implementing end-to-end SAP FI-AR and O2C solutions. This role involves leading SAP S/4HANA transformation programs and ensuring high-level operational efficiency through automation. The candidate will collaborate across functional teams to deliver integration, testing, and hypercare support for complex financial environments.
Responsibilities
- Design and implement SAP FI-AR solutions
- Lead end-to-end O2C process and SAP S/4HANA rollouts
- Identify and implement financial process automation
- Coordinate cross-functional integration and testing
Required Skills
- 10+ years SAP experience
- SAP S/4HANA FI-AR expertise
- SAP FSCM proficiency
- Team leadership experience
- SAP certification
Job Details
Responsibilities:
- Lead design and implementation of SAP FI-AR solutions.
- Drive end-to-end O2C process design including billing, invoicing, collections, and dispute management.
- Ensure compliance with financial regulations, accounting standards, and credit controls.
- Identify automation opportunities to improve AR operational efficiency.
- Lead SAP S/4HANA implementations, rollouts, and transformation programs.
- Conduct workshops, gather business requirements, and prepare functional designs.
- Collaborate with FI, MM, SD, and technical teams for end-to-end integration.
- Support data migration, SIT/UAT testing, cutover, and hypercare activities.
- Design and review functional specifications for RICEF developments.
Required Technical Expertise:
- SAP FI Accounts Receivable configuration
- Order-to-Cash (O2C) lifecycle processes
- Customer invoicing, collections, and credit management
- SAP FSCM (Credit Management, Collections Management, Dispute Management)
- SAP Fiori applications for AR monitoring and collections
- Cash application automation and AI-based matching tools
Nice-to-Have Skills:
- Asset Accounting
- REFX
- Fund Management
- Grant Management
- SAP Central Finance
- Shared Service Models
Mandatory Requirements:
- Bachelor's Degree in Finance, Accounting, Information Systems, or related field
- 10+ years of SAP experience
- Minimum 5 years of SAP S/4HANA experience focused on FI-AR
- SAP FI or SAP S/4HANA Finance Certification
- Experience with RISE with SAP / cloud-based SAP deployments
- Minimum 3 end-to-end SAP implementations, including at least 2 SAP S/4HANA implementations
- At least 5 years of team lead experience managing 3 or more team members
- Experience working with 20+ company codes and/or plants