SAP Finance Solution Architect

Primary Purpose

The Lead Architect analyses, designs and develops roadmaps and implementation plans based on a current versus future state business architecture, solutioning and review the solution. The Lead Architect leads and facilitates the solutioning of business requirements as well as manages exceptions at a business level. The Lead Architect assesses near-term needs to establish business priorities and align best practices to requirements with strategy plan. The Lead Architect consults with clients and IT teams on business solutions and provides recommendations on emerging technology to senior management. The Lead Architect establishes strategy roadmap and advises on options, risks, versus benefits and system impact based on industry best practices.

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

Preference will be given to Singapore Citizens or PR, and the role requires onsite presence in Singapore.