SAP FICO Architect

SAP FICO Architect

Location: Chicago, IL Experience: 15 to 18 Years Skills Required: WM EWM Warehouse Management and Extended Warehouse Management

Job Responsibilities:

• Responsible for successful global template technical solution implementation meeting full value realization across the business functions of Finance and inter-related processes.
• Coordinates with cross-functional work-stream leads, System Integrator(s), external suppliers, and Clients functional business leaders to drive solution design, deployment and overall governance of the global solution.
• Participates in strategic planning and budgeting activities for SAP Corporate and regional SAP solutions and platforms on an on-going basis.
• Develop and maintain a 5-year application roadmap for the Finance function, ensuring it reflects the current and future business needs, aligned with industry, SAP best practices and solution roadmap.
• Create and own the SAP Finance solution plan globally and drive completion of all deliverables for Global Concur and FP & A.
• Enforce governance of the standards and bring visibility to customizations and deviations. Drive harmonized industry-best practice process across all business functions and geographies allowing minor configurations (as necessary for legal, regulatory requirement) with no customizations.
• Partnering with the global business work stream leads, serve as the custodian of the finance solution template.
• Lead the development of technical design / solution. Lead and facilitate design sessions amongst business, IS stakeholders/leaders & SME(s), driving integration and eliminating gaps.
• Following established Clients solution governance process; clearly articulate what is global template solution and what qualifies as localization.
• Establish and maintain a repository of processes and solution documentation/assets that encompasses the global solution clearly articulating in-scope solutions. Maintain assets that are current and visually depict the global template solution in forms of entity relationship structures, intercompany relationships including both physical and financial flow of goods and services and all process flows.
• Maintain a solution guide that articulates supported languages (system, data, and output), currencies and various other rules that make up the overall Solution. Maintain the guide, as the business requirements and solution continues to evolve.
• Responsible and accountable for 100% adherence to Clients methodology and SOX controls
• Collaborate within the different workstreams and project team members to resolve conflicts, issues, and deviations and drive them to resolution
• Lead, manage and motivate a team of experienced functional and technical analysts
• Lead the continuous development of the innovation culture; work with people in such a manner as to build high enthusiasm and group commitment to the development of a robust solution that meets and or exceeds program goals and objectives

Required Skills/experience:

• 10 years of SAP experience with a proven record of accomplishment as a team lead of large and complex SAP business-system transformation programs.
• 10 years of experience with implementing & leading SAP FICO team in a lead configuration role
• 5 years of experience in team leadership role(s) directing, leading, or managing the FI and Procurement project team
• Major large, complex high-end SAP implementations; experience in multi-country implementations required
• Must have had hands-on experience with designing, configuring and implementing SAP solutions and modules (specifically FICO), covering business processes in finance and controlling.
• Must have had experience with implementing two or more of the SAP solutions listed below and should have hands-on prior SAP ECC configuration experience in multiple modules.
• ERP – SAP S4/HANA, SAP ECC
• Finance & Controlling – SAP FICO, Treasury, Material Ledger
• Procure To Pay processes starting from PR to vendor payment
• Hyperion
• Solution awareness and overall understanding of one or more of the solutions below is required:
• Bolt-on applications such as Thompson Reuters Tax Engine, Win shuttle, BLACKLINE
• User experience and Mobility – SAP FIORI
• SAP Concur
• Kofax
• Ability to work in highly matrixed environments managing global teams comprised of employees and system integrators.
• Demonstrated ability to lead culturally diverse teams including offshore models
• Innovative mindset and experience with agile, proto-typing and rapid development models
• Demonstrated leadership, interpersonal, analytical, change management and communication skills.
• Versatility and willingness to work with constantly changing priorities with enthusiasm
• Excellent understanding of business functional areas and "end to end" global business processes & sub-processes
• Work experience across multiple cultures and countries / regions is a plus
• Fluent in written and verbal business English

About Us: InterSources Inc, a Certified Diverse Supplier, was founded in 2007, offers innovative solutions to help clients with Digital Transformations across various domains and industries. Our history spans over 13 years and today we are an Award-Winning Global Software Consultancy solving complex problems with technology. We recognize that our employees and our clients are our strengths as the diverse talents and opportunities they bring to the table enables us to grow as a global platform and they are causally linked with our success. We provide strategic and technical advice, and we have expertise in areas covering Artificial Intelligence, Cloud Migration, Custom Software Development, Data Analytics Infrastructure & Cloud Solutions, Cyber Security Services etc. We make reasonable accommodations for clients and employees and we do not discriminate based on any protected attribute including race, religion, colour, national origin, gender sexual orientation, gender identity, age, marital status. We also are a Google Cloud partner company. We align strategy with execution and provide secure service solutions by developing and using the latest technologies that thrive our resources to deliver industry-leading capabilities to our clients and customers, making it convenient for our clients to do business with InterSources Inc. Our teams also drive growth by refining technology-driven client experiences that put the users first, providing an unparalleled experience. This results in strengthening the core technologies of clients, enabling them to scale with flexibility, create seamless digital experiences and build lifelong relationships.