SAP S4HANA Finance Architect
Job Summary
The SAP S/4HANA Finance Architect will lead end-to-end implementation and architecture design for complex financial solutions. The role involves orchestrating cross-functional SAP integrations, driving business process automation, and mentoring functional teams. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in S/4HANA transformations and a deep understanding of financial accounting and compliance.
Responsibilities
- Define SAP S/4HANA Finance architecture and technology roadmap.
- Lead end-to-end financial business process design and integration.
- Manage functional workstreams in complex S/4HANA implementations.
- Drive finance process automation and operational efficiency.
- Mentor teams and facilitate business requirement workshops.
Required Skills
- 15+ years SAP experience (7+ years S/4HANA).
- SAP FI/S/4HANA Finance Certification.
- Full lifecycle implementation experience.
- Expertise in O2C, P2P, FSCM, and Asset Accounting.
- Leadership experience managing 10+ team members.
Job Details
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 (O2C) 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.