Medior Finance Architect

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ROLE DESCRIPTION
Imagine you can shape businesses and the way they drive and increase their journey to the cloud. That is the opportunity ahead of you, by joining an innovative, open and fun team with an extreme focus on customer success and business outcomes. The primary purpose of the Cloud-Finance Domain Architect is to partner with customers, partners and account teams to transform the Intelligent Enterprise journey at our customers. In order to achieve this goal, the Cloud-Finance Domain Architect is responsible to identify and nurture business cases, develop and drive customer strategy together with the customer architects.
It is expected that the Cloud-Finance Domain Architect is able to create and nurture executive relationships by their own while having the complete support of the SAP organization at hand. 

ABOUT  SAP
From back office to boardroom, front-line sales, warehouse to storefront, desktop to mobile device – SAP empowers people and organizations. SAP enables them to work together more efficiently and use business insight more effectively to stay ahead of the competition and improve people’s lives. As market leader in enterprise application software, SAP helps companies of all sizes and industries run better and deliver sustainable outcomes. We innovate and focus the portfolio by infusing Business AI across the SAP product portfolio, building and running the leading suite for every business with Cloud ERP and BTP at the core complemented by HXM, ISBN & CX, as well as, accelerating business-driven innovation and scaling our New Growth Areas.

Architect & Advisory Services team
Within the Architect & Advisory Services team of SAP the Netherlands we have a trust-based and entrepreneurial working model. This team has the full capability to support customers to become a top cloud company, covering the Finance domain, as part of the entire end-to-end business. We leverage our data treasure to embed relevant, reliable and responsible Business AI into our solutions. This revolutionizes how our customers interact with SAP business systems - e.g. through Joule. With a trusted AI foundation on BTP, we empower customers and partners to consume and build context-aware, intelligent applications.
We are driven to make a difference with tangible outcomes at customers to continuously improve their Sustainable Enterprise. The strategy to make this happen is “Together with our customers and partners, enable them and guide them to deliver outcomes with SAP solutions and continue our agility”.
We have an extensive network within SAP worldwide and in Walldorf to have access to the latest SAP product knowledge and to provide feedback from our customers.

EXPECTATIONS AND TASKS

 
Advise – your role is to advise customers and work with them to enable them to be successful with SAP. With your knowledge of SAP and SAP products, you could:

• Support customers in defining and planning their Intelligent Enterprise roadmap, using as much of standard SAP processes and content, with a focus on Cloud and Finance.
• Support customers to accelerate their projects and roadmap execution, by supporting the set-up of Design Authority Boards providing directions and guidance.
• Participate in Design Authority Services delivery to guide and advise customers in the execution of projects and programs.
• Support customers to align project and program execution with their strategy.
• Advise and support customers in their business transformation by focusing on process excellence and automation, infused by Business AI across the SAP product portfolio and accelerated by SAP Best Practices and Industry references. 

Design – our customers design processes and work on implementations. Partners may have a role in this, as well as SAP, where we safeguard their success. As part of your role, together with a team, you:

• Support the customers in their business, process and technology designs, by aligning the work of a team of architects.

Sales and Business Development Support – your role is to help our Services Sales staff in commercial activities. This translates to:

• Promotion of the SAP brand, SAP products and SAP best practice approaches
• Supporting sales in the evaluation process
• Identification of SAP Services leads and opportunities

 
Implementation – in some cases we assist customers with specific needs in implementations. We assist by providing guidance and advisory, which leads to:

• Support management of the implementation phase
• Provide leadership of a team of analysts and functional consultants
• Undertaking team planning and performance monitoring tasks when required

EDUCATION AND QUALIFICATIONS / SKILLS AND COMPETENCIES

Required skills

• Experience with SAP Cloud Solutions focusing on Finance domains.
• Hands-on experience of operating in Finance BRIM Solutions with implementation, configuration and consulting skills
• As Finance BRIM Domain Expert – you will focus across Finance, Controlling, Finance Contract Accounting, Convergent Invoicing and Subscription Billing 
• Team player, who can collaborate with Sales, Presales and other stakeholder to ensure smooth operation.
• Have an Architect approach to helping customers to design E2E Solution Concept in SAP BRIM and integration with Convergent Mediation 
• Actively participate in delivery roles to show how SAP modern solutions can be taken into use
• Manage internal and external 3rd party vendor teams on the solution approach defining process
• Build trusted advisor relationship with customer stakeholders
• Work as Counterpart for Client to understand business context, IT landscape, business and technical requirements
• Work as Counterpart of SAP Sales and Account teams to present the benefits and value proposition of the solution.
• Work together with Sales in demand creation by attending customer or prospect meetings to present SAP’s Services capabilities and delivery approach.
• Drive solution strategy and create win proposals responding to client’s business requirements.
• Business and Commercial acumen.
• Effective communication skills.
• Business communication in both English and Dutch.

Key Areas of Responsibility:

Design

• Detailed design of customer business processes based on SAP product-family, and customer  specific development, that maps to the current or future customers process-, application- and system landscape
• Preparing and running workshops with subject matter experts and other staff, including. preparation of formal presentations, to define processes and agree functional design of SAP implementations Analysis of business processes, information flows and functional requirements, documenting these to a high standard
• Design architecture based on process requirements, application, and system landscape
• Analyze and define requirements for customer-specific development needs or integration requirements
• Review of business processes and corresponding mapping into IT architecture
• Define customer-roles to execute the business processes
• Conducting one-to-one interviews for information gathering purposes

Implementation

• Support management of the implementation phase
• Provide leadership of project team, undertaking team planning  and monitoring tasks if required

Experience

• Extensive SAP Billing and Revenue Innovation Management BRIM, Convergent Invoicing, Convergent Charging implementation experience in multiple industry sectors
• Extensive experience of operating at Solution Architect level or willingness to build path
• Knowledge of SAP Cloud Architecture, SAP Cloud Solution(s), and/or SAP HANA would be a distinct advantage
• Familiarity with SAP Activate methodology, and with SAP implementation tools such as SAP Solution Manager would be a distinct advantage.

Preferred skills

• Experience on Solution Architect level 
• Experience in Finance, Controlling, Tax and Treasury certification
• SAP BRIM

WORK EXPERIENCE

• Extensive SAP implementation experience (5+ years) in multiple industry sectors

LOCATION
Den Bosch Office and at customers primarily in the Netherlands. The position is based in the Netherlands and we are unable to consider candidates who require a relocation.

EXPECTED TRAVEL
Expected travel abroad is between 10-25%. We try to work as much as possible at Dutch customers, sometimes that means some travel abroad like to Walldorf.

We build breakthroughs together

SAP innovations help more than 400,000 customers worldwide work together more efficiently and use business insight more effectively. Originally known for leadership in enterprise resource planning (ERP) software, SAP has evolved to become a market leader in end-to-end business application software and related services for database, analytics, intelligent technologies, and experience management. As a cloud company with 200 million users and more than 100,000 employees worldwide, we are purpose-driven and future-focused, with a highly collaborative team ethic and commitment to personal development. Whether connecting global industries, people, or platforms, we help ensure every challenge gets the solution it deserves. At SAP, we build breakthroughs, together.

We win with inclusion

SAP’s culture of inclusion, focus on health and well-being, and flexible working models help ensure that everyone – regardless of background – feels included and can run at their best. At SAP, we believe we are made stronger by the unique capabilities and qualities that each person brings to our company, and we invest in our employees to inspire confidence and help everyone realize their full potential. We ultimately believe in unleashing all talent and creating a better and more equitable world.
SAP is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to the values of Equal Employment Opportunity and provide accessibility accommodations to applicants with physical and/or mental disabilities. If you are interested in applying for employment with SAP and are in need of accommodation or special assistance to navigate our website or to complete your application, please send an e-mail with your request to Recruiting Operations Team: Careers@sap.com
For SAP employees: Only permanent roles are eligible for the SAP Employee Referral Program, according to the eligibility rules set in the SAP Referral Policy. Specific conditions may apply for roles in Vocational Training.

EOE AA M/F/Vet/Disability:

Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to their age, race, religion, national origin, ethnicity, age, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, et al), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, protected veteran status, or disability.
Successful candidates might be required to undergo a background verification with an external vendor.

Requisition ID: 376118  | Work Area: Consulting and Professional Services  | Expected Travel: 0 - 100%  | Career Status: Professional  | Employment Type: Regular Full Time   | Additional Locations: #LI-Hybrid.