YOUR ROLE
- Own the end-to-end SAP FICO solution architecture and ensure it meets business, regulatory, and technical requirements.
- Lead discovery and fit-to-standard workshops; translate business needs into scalable SAP designs.
- Provide architecture and design leadership across core FI processes, including:
1. General Ledger and financial close 2. Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable 3. Asset Accounting 4. Bank Accounting, payments, and cash-related processes 5. Tax and statutory reporting requirements
- Guide solution design across core CO processes, including:
1. Cost Center Accounting and Internal Orders 2. Profit Center Accounting 3. Cost allocations, assessments, and distributions 4. Product Costing and cost-object controlling 5. Profitability Analysis (CO-PA) 6. Planning, budgeting, settlement, and period-end activities
- Ensure Finance and Controlling designs integrate effectively with procurement, sales, manufacturing, banking, and external systems.
- Guide SAP S/4HANA Finance implementations, conversions, migrations, and global rollouts.
- Review solution designs, functional specifications, configuration, extensions, and integration approaches.
- Advise on SAP standard capabilities, suitable extensions, and clean-core principles.
- Guide data migration, testing, cutover, go-live, and hypercare planning for FICO workstreams.
- Identify design gaps, dependencies, and risks; recommend options and explain their business impact.
- Work closely with customer stakeholders, project leadership, functional and technical teams, and global delivery teams.
- Contribute to proposals, estimates, roadmaps, and presales discussions.
- Mentor senior consultants and support consistent design practices across projects.
YOUR PROFILE
- 12+ years of SAP FICO experience, including significant solution design and architecture responsibilities.
- Strong hands-on knowledge of SAP FI in ECC and/or SAP S/4HANA.
- Practical working experience with core SAP CO processes and a sound understanding of how they support management accounting and controlling.
- Experience designing or delivering cost center accounting, internal orders, profit center accounting.
- Understanding of planning, settlement, and period-end activities in CO.
- Experience with at least two end-to-end SAP implementations, conversions, or major transformation programs.
- Strong understanding of finance processes, accounting principles, and period-end and year-end close.
- Experience leading customer workshops and communicating solution options to business and IT stakeholders.
- Understanding of integration between FI/CO and other SAP modules, particularly MM, SD, and PP.
- Experience with architecture governance, design reviews, and delivery across distributed teams.
- Strong communication, stakeholder-management, and decision-making skills.
- SAP S/4HANA Finance transformation or migration experience.
- Knowledge of Universal Journal, Fiori, Current Asset Accounting, and S/4HANA financial close capabilities.
- Exposure to Central Finance, Treasury, Cash Management, or FSCM.
- Experience with SAP Activate, fit-to-standard methods, and clean-core approaches.
- Relevant SAP certifications.
- Experience in a consulting or global delivery environment.
📌 SAP FICO Solution Architect (India)
🏢 Adesso
📍 India