SAP FICO Senior Solution Architect

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SAP FICO Senior Solution ArchitectThis role has been designed as 'Hybrid' with a requirement that you will work on average 2 days per week from an HPE office. **Who We Are:** Hewlett Packard Enterprise is the global edge-to-cloud company advancing the way people live and work. We help companies connect, protect, analyze, and act on their data and applications wherever they live, from edge to cloud, so they can turn insights into outcomes at the speed required to thrive in today’s complex world. Our culture thrives on finding new and better ways to accelerate what’s next. We know varied backgrounds are valued and succeed here. We have the flexibility to manage our work and personal needs. We make bold moves, together, and are a force for good. If you are looking to stretch and grow your career our culture will embrace you. Open up opportunities with HPE. **Job Description:** **HPE Global IT is a dynamic organization enabling the enterprise to innovate and lead the industry with our consumption-based IT transformation and our consulting, financial, educational, and operational support services.  Join us as we develop innovative solutions that revolutionize how we help customers by simplifying their operations and move the world forward.** **Job Family Definition:** Provides consulting to businesses, functions, and geographies that utilize IT services and drives effective business engagement for IT. Understands the specific goals and needs of the business, function, or geography and represents those needs to the IT organization. Develops and maintains relationships with appropriate members of the business/function/geography organization. Works to align business, function, and geography requirements with IT plans and priorities. Facilitates business, function, and geography involvement in IT projects to identify requirements, gather feedback, and finalize scope. Identifies opportunities for IT to leverage solutions across business, function, and geographic organizations. Establishes effective processes for managing the relationship on an ongoing basis. Communicates IT standards and new IT solutions, processes, and policies to the businesses, functions, and geographies. Connects business/function/geography “customers” with appropriate IT technical resources when technical discussions are necessary. **Management Level Definition:** **Unique mastery** and recognized authority on relevant subject matter knowledge including technologies, theories and techniques. Contributes to the development of innovative principles and ideas. Successfully operates in the most complex disciplines, in which the company must operate to be successful. Provides highly innovative solutions. Leads large, cross-division functional teams or projects that affect the organization's long-term goals and objectives. May participate in cross-division, multi-function teams. Provides mentoring and guidance to lower level employees. Routinely exercises independent judgment in developing methods, techniques and criteria for achieving objectives. Develops strategy and sets functional policy and direction. Acts as a functional manager within area of expertise but does not manage other employees as a primary job function. Provides expert consulting and support for SAP FICO across HPE businesses, functions, and geographies, driving alignment between business needs and IT capabilities. Acts as a strategic partner to business stakeholders, ensuring SAP FICO solutions are effectively designed, implemented, and maintained to meet enterprise financial and controlling requirements. Collaborates closely with cross-functional teams, leveraging deep SAP knowledge to optimize processes, ensure data integrity, and support digital transformation initiatives. **What you’ll do*****:*** **Responsibilities:** - Establishes and maintains relationships with key decision-makers at the top of the business, function, geography or organization as well as key tactical leaders. - Uses extensive business knowledge at domain level to drive engagement for the largest IT initiatives. Proactively engages in strategic business planning where there is IT impact; influences overall business strategies of customer organizations. - Communicates strategic IT decisions and plans and works to achieve alignment at the top level of the business, function, or geography. - Represents the needs of the business, function, or geography during the IT priority-setting process. - Identifies leverage opportunities where IT can provide cost-effective, standard solutions to meet the needs of multiple business/function/geography organizations. - Actively participates in IT projects to ensure that business, function, and geography "customers" are included appropriately and ensures that they receive sufficient and timely communications. - Promotes best practices found in working with one business/function/geography to other business and function organizations. - Identifies the need for new IT processes as well as significant improvements to major IT processes and drives the development and implementation of those. - Lead from FICO perspective, including local legal compliance requirement implementation, rollout, upgrade, migration and continuous improvement projects across multiple business units and geographies. - Collaborate with business stakeholders to gather and document business requirements and align them with SAP FICO capabilities. - Configure SAP FICO modules including GL, AP, AR, Tax, AA, CCA, PCA, Internal Orders, COPA, CO-PC, and Banking to meet business needs. - Communicate new functionalities, system changes, and relevant processes to business partners clearly and effectively. - Engage in SAP integration with other modules like MM, SD, PS, and HCM ensuring smooth end-to-end process flows. - Partner with ABAP development teams to design functional specifications (FDS) and oversee RICEFW developments. - Conduct and support end-to-end testing activities, includin