Global Solution Architect - Finance Processes - SAP

Principal Accountabilities

- Work with the colleagues of Enterprise + Technical Architecture and Demand management to select or design the solution that will best-fit the deployment or improvement of a business capability and subsequent business requirements. Also ensure it complies with technical requirements, including coding standards, security requirements, protocols and others.

- Drive and approve functional specifications, template and functional training materials to support the delivery teams of key Global projects.

- Communicate design challenges clearly to technology partners to ensure standardization and simplification is achieved.

- Define global templates for future deployments of solutions by ensuring the proper repository of specifications as well as global template documentation such as Academy Trainings, global coding standards and Others

- Provide the SI partners with code standards, UX and UI standards, technical and support requirements to ensure fast and cost-efficient delivery of high-performance and compliant solutions.

- Develop Prototypes to confirm functional design effectiveness

- Assess and define the proper prototyping tools and standards to ensure fast and efficient prototypes.

Previous Work Experience Required

- Senior SAP Finance Consultant

- Translates business requirements into well-architected solutions that best leverage the SAP functionality

- Provides detailed level of effort estimates for proposed solutions. Articulate the benefits and risks to a solution's feasibility and functionality

- Provides hands-on, expert-level technical assistance to developers

- Follows and understands new SAP FI product and technical capabilities resulting from product releases and acquisitions (like Ariba, Blackline)

- Coaches and mentors other technical and functional team members

- Interview candidates

- Experience leading large IT and Business program / projects, focused on Finance business functions

- Experience in working in a multi-national / multi-cultural / multi-time zone environment

- Strong analytical / problem-solving skills, preferably with Finance experience

- Agile Methodology

- Experience in CPG company strongly preferred

Qualifications and Skills:

Level of educational attainment required:

- Academic Degree - MBA, Masters or PhD.

- Engineer, IT-Related professions

- Microsoft Office (mandatory)

- Minimum 12+ years of SAP Finance consulting experience

- Active SAP Module certifications or ability to achieve relevant certifications upon hire

- Proven ability to design and optimize business processes and integrate business processes across disparate systems

- Excellent client-facing written and oral communications skills

- Technologies and Technical Landscapes supporting multiple business areas