SAP Finance Solution Architect

Roles & Responsibilities: - Understand the needs of business and the business vision; articulate technology vision/roadmap for finance domain. - Define and articulate 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, collections, and dispute management. - Ensure compliance with financial regulations, credit controls, accounting standards and company policies. - Identify opportunities to automate Finance processes and improve operational efficiency. - 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. 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 Requirements: - 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. - Completed a minimum of 5 end-to-end full lifecycle implementation projects, with at least 3 of them being S/4HANA projects. - More than 7 years of team lead experience and managed at least 10 team members. - Has worked on projects involving at least 30 company codes and/or plants.