SAP S/4HANA Finance Solution Architect / FICO Lead

Req ID: 395525

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We are currently seeking a SAP S/4HANA Finance Solution Architect / FICO Lead to join our team in Bangalore, Karnātaka (IN-KA), India (IN).

SAP S/4HANA Finance Solution Architect / FICO Lead
Senior Solution Architecture Role | Primary Skill: Finance | Secondary Skill: Controlling
Job Summary
We are seeking an experienced SAP S/4HANA Finance Solution Architect to serve as the senior subject matter expert and central solution authority for SAP Finance within NTT DATA. This role requires deep expertise in Financial Accounting, supported by strong working knowledge of Controlling, and will provide leadership across assessments, advisory engagements, implementations, conversions, and optimization programs.
The architect will work directly with CFOs, controllers, finance leaders, business process owners, enterprise architects, and SAP delivery teams. The individual will help clients understand finance processes and SAP capabilities, analyze complex requirements and pain points, answer solution questions, evaluate options, and define scalable SAP S/4HANA Finance solutions aligned with standard functionality and clean-core principles.
This is a client-facing and practice leadership role for a hands-on architect who can operate across business process advisory, solution design, delivery governance, presales support, and issue resolution. Manufacturing industry experience is required, together with experience in one or more additional industries.
Key Responsibilities
SAP Finance Solution Leadership
• Serve as the senior SAP Finance SME across SAP S/4HANA transformation, assessment, implementation, and advisory engagements.
• Own the Finance solution strategy and architecture across Greenfield, Brownfield, and Selective Data Transition programs.
• Lead end-to-end solution design for Record-to-Report, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Asset Accounting, Financial Close, Intercompany Accounting, and Financial Reporting.
• Provide architecture-level oversight for Controlling and management accounting, ensuring full integration with the Finance solution.
• Act as the primary escalation point for complex Finance design, integration, data, reporting, and delivery issues.
• Establish reusable Finance architecture principles, design standards, and leading practices across client engagements.
Finance Solution Design and Architecture
• Lead solution architecture and detailed design for core SAP S/4HANA Finance capabilities, including:
o General Ledger, Universal Journal, parallel ledgers, currencies, and document splitting
o Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Business Partner, and payment processing
o Asset Accounting, bank accounting, tax, foreign currency valuation, and intercompany accounting
o Financial close, statutory and management reporting, embedded analytics, and SAP Fiori for Finance
o Credit, collections, dispute management, cash management, and Treasury integration
• Translate business, accounting, regulatory, and operational requirements into scalable SAP solutions.
• Evaluate solution alternatives, articulate trade-offs, and provide clear recommendations to business and project leadership.
• Ensure alignment with SAP standard capabilities, S/4HANA simplifications, clean-core principles, and future-state enterprise architecture.
• Review and approve functional designs, configurations, reports, workflows, interfaces, conversion designs, and integration specifications.
Client Advisory and Finance Transformation
• Engage with CFOs, controllers, finance directors, process owners, and business users to understand current processes, business challenges, controls, and strategic priorities.
• Lead finance assessments, discovery sessions, Fit-to-Standard workshops, and future-state process design sessions.
• Help clients understand SAP S/4HANA Finance capabilities and explain complex solution concepts in clear business language.
• Analyze current-state processes and identify opportunities for simplification, standardization, automation, stronger controls, and improved reporting.
• Develop finance transformation roadmaps, solution options, implementation strategies, business cases, and executive recommendations.
• Advise on finance operating models, shared services, close optimization, governance, chart of accounts harmonization, and organizational design.
S/4HANA Transformation and Delivery
• Assess the impact of S/4HANA simplifications on finance processes, configuration, reports, interfaces, controls, and custom developments.
• Guide decisions related to ledger and currency strategy, parallel accounting, document splitting, Business Partner, New Asset Accounting, and financial reporting.
• Lead or advise on Finance data migration for balances, open items, assets, bank and tax data, cost objects, and historical data.
• Assess RICEFW requirements and challenge unnecessary customization to support a clean-core solution.
• Provide solution oversight through design, build, testing, cutover, go-live, and hypercare.
• Support test strategy, defect resolution, mock conversions, financial reconciliation, cutover planning, and go-live readiness.
Integration and Cross-Functional Coordination
• Coordinate closely with MM, SD, PP, QM, EWM, PM, PS, HCM, Treasury, Group Reporting, planning, data, security, and technical teams.
• Ensure accurate and complete financial integration across Procure-to-Pay, Order-to-Cash, Plan-to-Produce, Project-to-Cash, Acquire-to-Retire, and Record-to-Report.
• Provide Finance leadership for account determination, valuation, settlement, allocations, intercompany processing, and reporting across integrated business processes.
• Collaborate with ABAP, integration, data, analytics, workflow, and Fiori teams on enhancements and interfaces.
• Ensure the Finance solution aligns with the broader SAP and non-SAP landscape and enterprise architecture.
Controlling and Manufacturing Finance Support
• Provide architecture-level guidance for Cost Center Accounting, Profit Center Accounting, Internal Orders, Product Costing, Material Ledger, Cost Object Controlling, Settlement, and Profitability Analysis.
• Ensure Controlling design is integrated with Financial Accounting and aligned with business reporting and performance management needs.
• Support manufacturing finance requirements such as inventory valuation, standard and actual costing, production variances, production order settlement, and profitability reporting.
• Partner with specialized Controlling consultants for detailed configuration or complex industry-specific scenarios.
Practice and Team Leadership
• Act as the central SAP Finance solution authority and trusted advisor within NTT DATA.
• Support client assessments, pre-sales activities, proposals, estimates, solution reviews, and executive presentations.
• Mentor Finance consultants, workstream leads, and architects and provide guidance on complex design and integration topics.
• Develop reusable assessment frameworks, solution standards, design principles, and leading-practice content.
• Work effectively within global onshore, nearshore, and offshore delivery models and manage multiple priorities across concurrent engagements.
Required Skills and Experience
Primary Skill: SAP Financial Accounting
• 20+ years of SAP