For one of our prestigous global clients from automotive industry we are looking for an experienced senior SAP FI/CO Solution Architect. This role is the key contributor in defining solution strategy and design principles to ensure the alignment between business needs and technical solutions. You will be developing and executing architectural strategy for design and implementation, creating, and documenting high level solution designs, and working with Solution Delivery leads to identify scalable options, impacts and recommendations.

You will be working as a technical expert for business teams and assist them with defining, estimating, and recommending optimized solutions. Provide trusted advisor guidance on SAP solutions and migration options; and devise high level road maps and associated business cases to move to SAP S/4HANA architecture. Also, you will be working with integrations to our satellite applications and external partners. Lastly, you will make sure that our solutions are in tandem with the overall product strategy.

Details:

• Role: Senior SAP FI/CO Solution Architect
• Location: Preferred location in Lyon (France) with alternatively to be based in Goteborg (Sweden)
• Start: ASAP
• Permanent position

Main responsibilities:

• Driving architecture within the Industrial Cluster
• Ensuring realization of solutions in accordance with operational requirements
• Creating a stable solution architecture that realizes the system's functional requirements and quality attributes
• Ensuring that architectural principles are followed
• Ensuring that technical solutions are supporting the roadmap for each product team
• Driving and establishing a future proof architecture based on our architecture principles
• Part of modernization effort – Technology evaluation, Technology upgradation, Cloud transformation
• Closely collaborate with other technical experts as well as with our stakeholders

Required competences:

• 6-8+ years of experience in SAP with FICO as the primary competence area and working knowledge of other SAP modules. Expertise in S/4 HANA
• Certified in S4 HANA and 3+ years working with S4 HANA implementation projects
• Hands on experience in implementing at least 2 Full cycle SAP implementation projects
• Worked in highly customized SAP End to End Implementation project from Realization, Cutover activities to Go-Live & Support
• Good knowledge & working experience in FI modules of AP, AR, AM, Invoice Interfaces, CO –COPA – Marginal Analysis and CCA
• In-depth understanding of business processes related to finance with integration of other modules and business functions such as Month-end processing for FI & CO, Year-end processing tasks
• Process and technology expertise to work with transformation from SAP ECC to SAP S4 HANA

• Excellent English communication skills (verbal and written)
• Nice to have: FIORI