SAP Cloud ERP (Public) Solution Architect

  • Full-time
  • Field of interest: Technology, Transformation & Data
  • Level of hire: Experienced hire

Company Description

Do you have expertise in Finance Transformation domain combined with good understanding of SAP Cloud ERP and SAP products, technologies and transformation projects in general? Do you want to be the go-to expert in SAP Finance, make an impact and help clients realise their full potential through SAP S/4 HANA driven business transformation? Join our local SAP Team!

Join us in delivering sustainable, business-driven S/4HANA projects to the largest companies and well-known brands. By driving digital transformation, we aim at making an impact that matters to our clients and society. 

We are now looking for highly skilled Solution Architect with strong experience in SAP Cloud ERP (S/4 Hana Public Cloud) to lead end-to-end solution design, integration planning and implementation governance in our rapidly growing local SAP Consulting Team. Position is located in our Helsinki office, but some travel is also expected based on our Nordic operating model.

Job Description

This role is instrumental in defining the architecture and guiding the technical direction of the SAP landscape in close collaboration with system integrators, business process owners, subject matter experts (SMEs), and our clients internal teams.  We provide business value to our clients through designing new ways of working, defining enhanced operating models, implementation of new capabilities, harmonizing processes or consolidating technology solutions. Your expertise would be leveraged for helping clients optimize their finance processes through Finance Transformation and create value driven business cases around SAP Cloud ERP capabilities.

The common goal for us and the client is to acquire a good understanding of business processes and be able to offer the best solution options to meet the business needs. Your key role in this is enabling and supporting our SAP Finance team to efficiently define the solutions, explain business benefits and use cases with a realistic roadmap to meet the goals. You would be expected to translate business requirements into scalable and compliant system designs using SAP S/4 Hana Cloud solutions. Our culture supports and expects you to provide expert guidance and utilize experience on leading practices in your specialty areas for the whole project team.

The main responsibilities and possibilities in this role consist of:

  • Leading solution architecture and blueprinting for SAP Public Cloud implementation projects, as well as planning the finance part in our SAP related projects and defining viable commercial structure for them
  • Driving fit-to-standard workshops and discussions, identifying gaps, and proposing extensibility options using BTP and in-app capabilities 
  • Acting as the owner of the solution for your process area, governing scope, solution agility and the co-ordination of the solution completeness across work stream. This means creating innovative process and solution designs with concrete work estimates utilizing our global service offerings
  • Supporting our clients through the full lifecycle of an SAP S/4 HANA implementation - from discovery to post-go-live support while providing technical leadership to functional consultants, developers, and stakeholders
  • Actively participating in pre-sales and proposal activities with architecture and effort estimations

You will have the opportunity to pursue your passion and put your skills to good use together with the premier specialists within SAP Finance in Finland and broadly within Nordics and Europe. This position offers you an exciting opportunity to be part of the growth with us and influence the further development of this business area.

Why us

As an award-winning SAP alliance partner, we invest in our talent. You get to join and develop in both our local and international SAP professional community. We are working for our clients on their business transformation journeys from the roadmap creation to designing business processes with SAP technology to implementing SAP S/4HANA solutions. Together we will create value for our clients through designing new ways of working, enhancing operating models, implementing new capabilities, and consolidating technology solutions. We are currently delivering very exciting large SAP S/4 HANA client projects in Finland and the Nordics, and we want you aboard with us!

Learn more about how we help our clients in SAP S/4 enabled business transformations by reading this Metso case.

Qualifications

Why You

We are looking for an SAP Cloud professional who has an appetite for delivering sustainable, business-driven projects and being excited to co-operate with the largest companies and well-known brands. You enjoy engaging with clients to understand their requirements and find solution options for key challenges in finance area providing subject matter expertise with a good awareness of SAP and associated technologies within the process area.

Your most important attributes we’d like to see are:

  • Practical experience in SAP Cloud ERP (Public Edition) implementations
  • Strong understanding of SAP ERP architecture, cloud deployment models, and integration frameworks to ensure performance, scalability, extensibility and compliance aligned with business objectives. This requires good understanding of SAP cloud architecture, extensibility, and integration technologies
  • Thorough expertise in architecture and implementation around finance related SAP S/4HANA areas/competences such as Central Finance, FI/CO, Margin & Profitability Analysis, Project accounting with PS, Product Costing, Master Data modelling, Order to Cash, Procure to Pay or other
  • Good understanding of SAP S/4HANA product and cloud roadmaps (experience of other related SAP solutions such as e.g. Group Reporting, SAC is advantageous but not required) and knowledge of relevant delivery methods for SAP (waterfall, hybrid agile, agile) preferably with deployment experience e.g. global template rollouts


Additionally, to ensure smooth start and succeeding in the role, it is required from the applicant to:

  • Hold a master’s degree or similar relevant educational background with 6-10 years of relevant SAP experience - preferably across multiple industries.
  • Have implementation experience in SAP S/4HANA Cloud/Public/Private, On-Premise, SAP BTP with broad SAP functional and technical expertise in your own process area which supports your understanding of integrations between SAP modules and other applications
  • Have previous consulting and sales/pre-sales experience working with multiple large clients both with business and IT stakeholders
  • Be fluent in both written and spoken English with excellent communication and presentation skills. Ability to conceptualize and communicate complex topics in a clear and understandable manner (Proficiency in Finnish language seen as advantage but not required)
  • We highly appreciate SAP S/4Hana Cloud Public Edition – Finance and Accounting Certificate, or the ambition to complete it
  • Be currently located in Finland and possess a valid residence permit. For this role we do not offer relocation

Additional Information

Interested? 

We are looking forward to connecting with you. Interviews with new team members are arranged continually, so we recommend that you apply as soon as possible. Please attach your resume and cover letter to your application. The application period will end on 3rd of December.

Please do not hesitate to contact Elina Airaksinen ([email protected]) if you have any questions about the position. For questions regarding the application process please contact our recruitment team [email protected].  However, the applications we would like to receive via our recruitment system. 

Not quite your role? Don’t hesitate to look at our other positions or leave an open application on our website, you might be a perfect fit for another open role in our team!

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