Global SAP Financials Business Process Architect

beBeeBusiness; Barcelona; Presencial; EUR 70.000 - 90.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

A multinational company is seeking an EMEA IT SAP Financials Business Process Architect to lead SAP integration across Europe. Responsibilities include managing financial operations and ensuring alignment with corporate strategies. The ideal candidate will have extensive SAP experience, particularly in CO and FI modules, and must be fluent in English. This role is based in Barcelona, Spain.

Formación

• 7 years professional experience in Functional SAP CO and 5 years in SAP FI.
• Experience in IT transformation programs in complex environments.
• Strong background in financial business processes.

Responsabilidades

• Drive adoption of a global SAP model across European companies.
• Ensure alignment of financial performance with corporate objectives.
• Manage project system controlling and cross-functional projects.

Conocimientos

Functional SAP CO

SAP FI

Financial business processes

ABAP knowledge

Microsoft Office tools

Educación

Master in IT, Engineering or related fields

Herramientas

SAP ECC

SAP S/4HANA

WinShuttle

Descripción del empleo

Overview

Job Opportunity

The EMEA IT SAP Financials Business Process Architect is responsible for supporting the planning and execution of the IT strategy for the EMEA region. The mission is to drive the adoption of a global model based on the US SAP ECC system, rolling out the solution in European companies. This role can be based in Spain or Poland.

You will contribute to the company by performing the following tasks:

• Rationale for the organization's strategy, enabling the effective integration of business processes across the region.
• Drive business process efficiency through improvement initiatives.
• Product costing controlling / Variance analysis, ensuring alignment with corporate objectives.
• Sales & Profitability Controlling (CO-PA), overseeing financial performance.
• Project System controlling, coordinating cross-functional projects.
• Finance (GL, AP, AR, AA, SL), managing financial operations.
• Operational and Group Reporting, providing timely insights to stakeholders.
• Integration with SAP S4 Central Finance (CFIN), enhancing data consistency.
• Demonstrated knowledge of key touch points and integration to SAP MM / SD / PP modules.
• Establishing effective communication channels between the business and IT departments.
• Collaboration with internal US / EMEA IT team and external parties.
• S/4 HANA migration upon completion of ECC roll-out phase, ensuring seamless transition.
• Application Maintenance and Support in EMEA region team - Manage troubleshooting, modification, maintenance, and enhancement.
• Documenting processes and delivering training to users.
• Involved in projects and reporting to the Program Lead.
• Key contributor to the SAP EMEA Centre of excellence.
• Facilitating negotiation of requirements amongst multiple stakeholders.
• Business Process Modelling capabilities (BPMN, Process Diagram, etc.), designing efficient processes.
• Delivering elements of systems design, including data migration rules and analyzing and creating detailed functional and development specifications.
• Supporting business in Data cleansing activities and managing the data upload.
• Main interactions and relationship - Internal : Business, IT team (Application / Technical / Security) - External : Consulting firms, SAP, Software / tool vendor.
• Contribute to the definition of test approach and scenarios, organize and execute and / or validate Unit and System Integration testing.
• Deliver solutions as per plans (on-budget and on-time).
• Ability to drive change and ensure alignment at every stage from main stakeholders and impacted parties.
• Ability to understand and synthesize business needs from multiple sources, and identify arbitration needs.
• Have superior communication and interaction skills, including tact and diplomacy.
• Ability to collect data and report blocking points.
• Issue resolution and value realization oriented.

As part of the program, the main tasks of the EMEA IT FI-CO BPA are :

• Design / improve / be the guardian of the Global Solution
• Provide expertise of existing business processes / SAP solutions.
• Collects the knowledge of as-is, best practices and possible improvements and consolidate from IT local and global network of experts (internal and / or external consultants).
• Contributes with the local Business team to the definition of the design of the solution based on industry best practices.
• Develops him / herself on the capabilities provided by SAP S4Hana for his / her perimeter.

• Development and testing
• Organizes and supports the execution of unit-tests, integration tests and User Acceptance Tests.
• Ensures that the documents about the configuration of the system are kept up to date.
• Contributes with the development team to the specific developments.
• Ensures that the test results are properly evaluated, and all the defects addressed.

• Migration and go-live
• Support and contributes to data migration activities.
• Support and executes cut-over activities.
• Deliver post go-live support.

• Roll-out strategy and roadmap
• Contributes to the definition of the roll-out strategy.
• Contributes to the definition of the implementation roadmap.

Required Skills and Qualifications

• 7 years professional experience in Functional SAP CO + 5 years in SAP FI.
• Experience of implementing large IT transformation programs in complex and international environments.
• Demonstrate a good track record in SAP design and customizing (SAP CO and FI modules) preferably in Printing / Packaging or Consumer Products industry.
• Strong background in Financials business processes.
• Working knowledge of EDIs, LSMW, BAPIs, BADIs, and other enhancement methods is a requirement. Knowledge and use of WinShuttle application is highly appreciated.
• General understanding of ABAP; debug skill required.
• Knowledge on S / 4 Hana in his / her area.
• At ease with Microsoft Office tools, project management tool and in general with IS tools.

• Education
• Post-graduate studies (4 / 5 years) : Master in IT, Engineering, Master in Scientific disciplines, Master in economics.

• Language Skills
• Fluent English mandatory as working language. Any additional European language (French, Spanish, Dutch, German) a plus.
• Change agent
• Team player, service-oriented
• Dynamic, results driven
• Analytical and synthetic, able to formalize solutions, good writing skills
• Active listener, able to challenge requirements
• Strong oral and written communication skills
• Able to convince
• Rigorous, autonomous
• Accountability and Reliability