SAP FICO Solution Architect

YOUR ROLE

• Own the end-to-end SAP FICO solution architecture and ensure it meets business, regulatory, and technical requirements.
• Lead discovery and fit-to-standard workshops; translate business needs into scalable SAP designs.
• Provide architecture and design leadership across core FI processes, including:

• • General Ledger and financial close
  • Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable
  • Asset Accounting
  • Bank Accounting, payments, and cash-related processes
  • Tax and statutory reporting requirements

• Guide solution design across core CO processes, including:

• • Cost Center Accounting and Internal Orders
  • Profit Center Accounting
  • Cost allocations, assessments, and distributions
  • Product Costing and cost-object controlling
  • Profitability Analysis (CO-PA)
  • Planning, budgeting, settlement, and period-end activities

• Ensure Finance and Controlling designs integrate effectively with procurement, sales, manufacturing, banking, and external systems.
• Guide SAP S/4HANA Finance implementations, conversions, migrations, and global rollouts.
• Review solution designs, functional specifications, configuration, extensions, and integration approaches.
• Advise on SAP standard capabilities, suitable extensions, and clean-core principles.
• Guide data migration, testing, cutover, go-live, and hypercare planning for FICO workstreams.
• Identify design gaps, dependencies, and risks; recommend options and explain their business impact.
• Work closely with customer stakeholders, project leadership, functional and technical teams, and global delivery teams.
• Contribute to proposals, estimates, roadmaps, and presales discussions.
• Mentor senior consultants and support consistent design practices across projects.

YOUR PROFILE

• 12+ years of SAP FICO experience, including significant solution design and architecture responsibilities.
• Strong hands-on knowledge of SAP FI in ECC and/or SAP S/4HANA.
• Practical working experience with core SAP CO processes and a sound understanding of how they support management accounting and controlling.
• Experience designing or delivering cost center accounting, internal orders, profit center accounting.
• Understanding of planning, settlement, and period-end activities in CO.
• Experience with at least two end-to-end SAP implementations, conversions, or major transformation programs.
• Strong understanding of finance processes, accounting principles, and period-end and year-end close.
• Experience leading customer workshops and communicating solution options to business and IT stakeholders.
• Understanding of integration between FI/CO and other SAP modules, particularly MM, SD, and PP.
• Experience with architecture governance, design reviews, and delivery across distributed teams.
• Strong communication, stakeholder-management, and decision-making skills.
• SAP S/4HANA Finance transformation or migration experience.
• Knowledge of Universal Journal, Fiori, New Asset Accounting, and S/4HANA financial close capabilities.
• Exposure to Central Finance, Treasury, Cash Management, or FSCM.
• Experience with SAP Activate, fit-to-standard methods, and clean-core approaches.
• Relevant SAP certifications.
• Experience in a consulting or global delivery environment.