SAP Finance Lead Solution Architect

Role Description

The SAP Finance Lead Solution Architect is a senior delivery role responsible for leading the SAP S/4HANA Finance stream architecture and functional governance during an SAP ECC to S/4HANA brownfield conversion within a client environment. The role is accountable for ensuring financial integrity, statutory compliance, and continuity of business operations throughout the conversion lifecycle while enabling controlled adoption of S/4HANA Finance capabilities.

Location

Sydney, NSW

Salary

AUD 129,311 - 142,018 Annual Gross (indicative)

Flexible Working Arrangements

Hybrid, reviewed on a case by case basis; please contact a recruiter for details.

Roles and Responsibilities

• Own and govern the SAP S/4HANA Finance solution architecture for the brownfield conversion program.
• Define and manage Finance conversion scope, ensuring minimal disruption to existing business processes and controls.
• Lead Finance impact assessments covering data model changes, functional simplification, and Universal Journal adoption.
• Ensure alignment of Finance design decisions with client financial policies, audit requirements and delegated authorities.
• Assess the existing SAP ECC Finance landscape, including custom developments, enhancements and integrations, historical data volumes and dependencies.
• Guide decisions on custom code remediation, data cleansing and simplification items impacting Finance.
• Oversee Finance related activities during system conversion and mock cycles, Finance reconciliation and reporting validation, parallel close/parallel run (where applicable).
• Provide Finance leadership for integration testing and regression testing, user acceptance testing, conversion dress rehearsals and cut over planning.
• Ensure end to end Finance reconciliation (GL, AA, CO, FM where applicable) across pre and post conversion systems.
• Support Finance readiness for go live and hyper care, including issue triage and resolution oversight.
• Act as the primary Finance solution contact for agency Finance stakeholders, project management and system integrator teams.
• Support senior stakeholders by explaining conversion impacts, risks and mitigations in business terms.
• Mentor Finance functional leads and ensure consistent application of agreed design principles across the project.
• Identify and manage Finance specific risks and ensure appropriate mitigation and sign offs.

Essential Qualifications

• 12+ years of SAP Finance consulting experience, including leadership on large and complex SAP programmes.
• Demonstrated experience as Finance Lead or Solution Architect on S/4HANA brownfield conversions.
• Prior delivery experience within Australian public sector projects strongly preferred.
• Deep hands on expertise in SAP S/4HANA Finance, including FI (General Ledger, AP, AR), CO, Asset Accounting, Universal Journal (ACDOCA).
• Strong understanding of Finance specific brownfield impacts, including new data model and table structure changes, historical data retention and reconciliation, decommissioning of obsolete ECC functionality.
• Proven experience with SAP Public Sector Management (PSM FM), including budgets and funds structures, commitments and actuals, availability control.
• Strong understanding of financial management and reporting requirements, including appropriation and budget controls, statutory and audit obligations.
• Experience with FI CA / PSCD for revenue and collections desirable.
• Strong experience or working knowledge of Treasury and Cash Management.
• Experience with Grants Management.
• Working knowledge of SAP brownfield conversion approach, including SUM based system conversion, SPAU/SPDD and regression impacts (conceptual understanding), data reconciliation and validation controls.

Preferred

• SAP S/4HANA Finance certifications.
• Experience in SAP S/4HANA Finance - Brownfield Conversion.

Additional

• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.
• Ability to translate complex business requirements into scalable technical solutions.
• Experience leading distributed, onsite offshore delivery teams.
• Strong problem solving, decision making and solution ownership mindset.

Benefits

• Income Protection Insurance.
• Paid parental and volunteer leave.
• Employee Assistance Program.
• Flexible working arrangements (hybrid, reviewed case by case basis).
• Health insurance discount and well being program.
• Access to fitness and gym memberships.
• Salary packaging and novated leasing.

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