SAP Finance Solution Architect--Conversions

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Finance Solution Architect for conversions

Position Summary

As a Finance Solution Architect for conversions, you will focus on guiding customers with conversions from earlier SAP releases (ECC) to S/4HANA. Additionally, you may evaluate and recommend finance architectural solutions and focus on the short and long-term strategic business benefits. As a trusted advisor, you will understand the high-level business requirements and translate them into SAP finance solutions. This role requires a deep understanding of the conversion process and a broad understanding of SAP Financial Accounting and Managerial Accounting solutions along with Central Finance, Group Reporting, SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC), BW4/HANA, and Business Technology Platform (BTP).

Role Requirements

You will primarily assist customers through the conversion process to SAP S/4HANA focusing on the impact to Financial and Managerial accounting. Furthermore, you will design the architecture based on process requirements, application, and system landscape. Finally, you will develop high-level roadmaps in conjunction with team members including the project manager.

Must have

• A minimum of 7 years SAP consulting experience with at least 5 years in Finance
• A minimum of 2 end-to-end implementations using SAP Activate methodology
• A minimum of 2 brownfield conversions to SAP S/4HANA
• Deep understanding of the data model changes between ECC and S/4 (Universal journal vs indexes etc.)
• End to end knowledge of conversion process (Pre conversion steps > Custom code analysis > SUM tool > CVI / logistics steps > FI migration > Validations/reconciliation etc.)
• Experience with executing and reviewing a readiness check and simplification item check tool and consistency check reports
• Deep understanding the various errors from those tools and helping to provide solutions in resolving them
• Understanding the concept of Customer Vendor Integration (CVI) and Business Partner
• Experience with reconciliation and comparison of FI data pre / post conversion
• Running / Executing the Finance Data Migration and using the Mass Data Framework
• Working knowledge of New Asset Accounting with conversion experience
• Strong leadership skills with the ability to lead customer engagements at an executive level
• Excellent interpersonal skills in areas such as teamwork, facilitation, and negotiation
• Strong written, verbal communication and presentation skills; ability to present and discuss strategies and technical information in a manner that establishes rapport, persuades others, and establishes understanding for technical and non-technical audiences
• Working knowledge of Group Reporting, SAC Planning, Receivables Management, and Document Reporting and Compliance.

Nice to have

• Prior experience with SAP implementations on private cloud or hyperscalers
• Working Knowledge of material ledger and config needed for migration
• Experience in presales activities such as resource planning and ability to work with sales to produce a rough order of magnitude for scope items.
• Experience in integration with SAP Application areas such as Sales and Distribution (SD), Materials Management (MM), Production Planning (PP), and Inventory Management.
• Certification in SAP S/4HANA Finance 1909 or higher
• Certification in Enterprise Architecture Framework or TOGAF

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Requisition ID: 373331 | Work Area: Consulting and Professional Services | Expected Travel: 0 - 50% | Career Status: Professional | Employment Type: Regular Full Time | Additional Locations: #LI-Hybrid

Requisition ID: 373331

Posted Date: Jul 27, 2023

Work Area: Consulting and Professional Services

Career Status: Professional

Employment Type: Regular Full Time

Expected Travel: 0 - 50%

Location: