SAP FICO Sr Solution Architect

Job description

SAP FICO Senior Solution Architect This role has been designed as Hybrid with a requirement that you will work on average 2 days per week from an HPE office. 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 organizations 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: • Global SAP FICO Architecture Leadership • Core Delivery Leadership: Leads from a FICO perspective, including local legal compliance requirement implementation, rollout, upgrade, migration, and continuous improvement projects across multiple business units and geographies. • Stakeholder Collaboration: Collaborates with business stakeholders to gather and document business requirements and align them with SAP FICO capabilities. • SAP FICO Configuration: Configures SAP FICO modules-including GL, AP, AR, Tax, AA, CCA, PCA, Internal Orders, COPA, CO-PC, and Banking-to meet complex corporate and localized business needs. • Change Management: Communicates new functionalities, system changes, and relevant processes to business partners clearly and effectively. • Cross-Module Integration: Engages in SAP integration with other modules like MM, SD, PS, and HCM, ensuring smooth end-to-end process flows. • RICEFW Governance: Partners with ABAP development teams to design Functional Design Specifications (FDS) and oversees complex RICEFW developments. • Testing Quality Assurance: Conducts and supports end-to-end testing activities, including unit testing, regression testing, and UAT in coordination with business users. • Documentation Training: Creates comprehensive documentation, including functional specifications, training materials, and knowledge articles. • Continuous Optimization: Identifies and implements continuous improvement opportunities to optimize SAP FICO processes and solutions. • Service Excellence: Ensures customer satisfaction through proactive communication, timely issue resolution, and high-quality deliverables. • Advanced Procurement, Central Ledger Compliance Integration • SAP Ariba P2P Integration: Architect and govern the end-to-end financial integration between cloud-based procurement ( SAP Ariba Buying Invoicing, Ariba Network ) and the core ERP backend via Managed Gateway (CIG) to drive automated Invoice Reconciliation (IR) and touchless Accounts Payable (FI-AP) processing. • Central Finance (CFIN) Strategy: Lead the architecture and implementation of SAP Central Finance (CFIN) , managing real-time data replication from localized source systems into a unified central ledger while resolving complex mapping conflicts through the Application Interface Framework (AIF). • Global Tax Automation SAF-T: Standardize global indirect/direct tax engine integrations and design systemic, automated workflows to generate localized compliance frameworks, specifically Standard Audit File for Tax Purposes (SAF-T) and digital E-Invoicing mandates across varied jurisdictions. • Automated Revenue Accounting (RAR): Oversee the integration of operational sales/contract data with SAP RAR to automate multi-element performance obligations, contract liabilities, and com