SAP S4HANA Finance Architect - Part-Time

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/4HANAimplementations, 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 SAPS/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