W.W. Grainger
Overview
We are seeking a Senior SAP Finance Functional Architect, with a strong accounting background and proven expertise in migrating from SAP ECC to SAP S/4HANA. This leadership role requires a seasoned finance business architect who is technically proficient and skilled at partnering closely with Finance leadershipincluding the CFO and Controllerto guide them through complex transformation decisions and their associated business and technical impacts. The successful candidate will have a detailed hands-on understanding of the topics and provide end-to-end leadership across finance process design, solution architecture, data migration, system configuration, and cutover planning to ensure a smooth and successful transition. Key Responsibilities / You Will
Executive Stakeholder Engagement & Business Leadership: Serve as a trusted advisor to the CFO and Controllers for aligning accounting practices, reporting requirements, and internal controls with the new system. Executive Stakeholder Engagement & Business Leadership: Serve as a bridge between business and IT, educating stakeholders on key changes, required actions, and the impact of the S/4 transformation. Executive Stakeholder Engagement & Business Leadership: Lead strategic workshops with executive stakeholders to align on S/4HANA capabilities, finance transformation vision, and roadmap. Executive Stakeholder Engagement & Business Leadership: Conduct business workshops to define and document finance processes, data structures, and reporting requirements under S/4HANA. Executive Stakeholder Engagement & Business Leadership: Guide the organization through key transformation decisions, such as the Universal Journal and data structure implications, New Asset Accounting design, Material ledger, Margin Analysis, explaining financial, operational, and compliance implications in a business-friendly manner. Executive Stakeholder Engagement & Business Leadership: Facilitate decision-making by presenting options, pros/cons, and SAP-recommended best practices. Solution Architecture & Process Transformation: Translate business requirements into functional specifications and work closely with technical teams to realize them. Solution Architecture & Process Transformation: Define and own the end-to-end SAP S/4HANA Finance (FI/CO) solution architecture, including Universal Journal structure, Asset Accounting, Margin Analysis, Material Ledger, and integration with EMP tools for consolidations and planning/forecasting. Solution Architecture & Process Transformation: Ensure solution designs meet compliance and internal control requirements. Solution Architecture & Process Transformation: Provide oversight and mentorship to IT configuration teams, finance SMEs, and business analysts during the implementation of the S/4HANA solution. Solution Architecture & Process Transformation: Partner with other architects and process owners to ensure consistency of process design, configuration standards, and integration across SAP modules (e.g., MM, SD, WM). Data Migration, Cutover, and Program Leadership: Determine timing for S/4 migration preparation tasks and lead related workshops and POCs. Data Migration, Cutover, and Program Leadership: Provide leadership on S/4 financial data migration strategy, data cleansing, reconciliation processes, and cutover planning for the finance track. Data Migration, Cutover, and Program Leadership: Partner with internal audit, IT finance and business teams to ensure reconciliation integrity and audit readiness for migrated data. Data Migration, Cutover, and Program Leadership: Advise on approaches to ECC-to-S/4 data model changes and lead finance reporting reconciliation activities in preparation for migration. Data Migration, Cutover, and Program Leadership: Participate in program governance structures and represent the Finance workstream in cross-functional steering committees. Data Migration, Cutover, and Program Leadership: Drive issue resolution and escalation management for all finance-related topics. Key Skills / You Have
A deep understanding of both accounting principles and SAP technical architecture, with strategic vision and hands-on execution ability. Strong leadership and stakeholder management abilities, including working with the CFO, Controllers and finance team leaders; ability to bring structure to ambiguity and influence decision-making. Excellent oral and written communication skills; ability to adapt communication style to a nontechnical audience. Ability to lead cross-functional workshops and clearly explain ECC to S/4 changes, options and their implications on FI/CO operations. Proven experience guiding finance organizations through complex transformation decisions, managing both business and technical impacts. Deep SAP FI/CO expertise with hands-on experience in S/4HANA Finance including: Universal Journal, New Asset Accounting, Margin Analysis, New GL with segment reporting and document splitting, Parallel Accounting Options, Material Ledger with multiple valuations, Business Partner Integration impact on Finance, integrations with EMP, supporting data model, Fiori apps, APIs and reports. Experience with at least two SAP ECC to S/4HANA system conversions in large complex organizations with a lead role focused on Finance transformation. Experience with global rollouts, compliance frameworks, segregation of duties, tax, and audit/regulatory reporting requirements; Canada and Mexico regulations experience preferred. Experience with adjacent architectural areas such as Data, Infrastructure, Security, and Cloud architecture. Open-mindedness to adopting SAP best practices while utilizing third-party tools and modified processes as appropriate for the business. Demonstrated leadership of IT configuration teams and data/process migration efforts. Working knowledge of SAP Activate methodology and supporting tools. Bachelors degree in accounting, finance, or a technical field. 15+ years of experience with SAP Finance (FI/CO) including multiple ECC and S/4HANA, business analysis, and architecture design. If you are a strategic thinker with a passion for finance transformation and SAP technologies, we want to hear from you! Equal Employment Opportunity
We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or expression, protected veteran status or any other protected characteristic under federal, state, or local law. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We are committed to fostering an inclusive, accessible work environment that includes reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities during the application and hiring process as well as throughout employment. If you need a reasonable accommodation during the application or selection process, including use of our website or any part of the application, please advise us so that we can provide appropriate assistance. #J-18808-Ljbffr
We are seeking a Senior SAP Finance Functional Architect, with a strong accounting background and proven expertise in migrating from SAP ECC to SAP S/4HANA. This leadership role requires a seasoned finance business architect who is technically proficient and skilled at partnering closely with Finance leadershipincluding the CFO and Controllerto guide them through complex transformation decisions and their associated business and technical impacts. The successful candidate will have a detailed hands-on understanding of the topics and provide end-to-end leadership across finance process design, solution architecture, data migration, system configuration, and cutover planning to ensure a smooth and successful transition. Key Responsibilities / You Will
Executive Stakeholder Engagement & Business Leadership: Serve as a trusted advisor to the CFO and Controllers for aligning accounting practices, reporting requirements, and internal controls with the new system. Executive Stakeholder Engagement & Business Leadership: Serve as a bridge between business and IT, educating stakeholders on key changes, required actions, and the impact of the S/4 transformation. Executive Stakeholder Engagement & Business Leadership: Lead strategic workshops with executive stakeholders to align on S/4HANA capabilities, finance transformation vision, and roadmap. Executive Stakeholder Engagement & Business Leadership: Conduct business workshops to define and document finance processes, data structures, and reporting requirements under S/4HANA. Executive Stakeholder Engagement & Business Leadership: Guide the organization through key transformation decisions, such as the Universal Journal and data structure implications, New Asset Accounting design, Material ledger, Margin Analysis, explaining financial, operational, and compliance implications in a business-friendly manner. Executive Stakeholder Engagement & Business Leadership: Facilitate decision-making by presenting options, pros/cons, and SAP-recommended best practices. Solution Architecture & Process Transformation: Translate business requirements into functional specifications and work closely with technical teams to realize them. Solution Architecture & Process Transformation: Define and own the end-to-end SAP S/4HANA Finance (FI/CO) solution architecture, including Universal Journal structure, Asset Accounting, Margin Analysis, Material Ledger, and integration with EMP tools for consolidations and planning/forecasting. Solution Architecture & Process Transformation: Ensure solution designs meet compliance and internal control requirements. Solution Architecture & Process Transformation: Provide oversight and mentorship to IT configuration teams, finance SMEs, and business analysts during the implementation of the S/4HANA solution. Solution Architecture & Process Transformation: Partner with other architects and process owners to ensure consistency of process design, configuration standards, and integration across SAP modules (e.g., MM, SD, WM). Data Migration, Cutover, and Program Leadership: Determine timing for S/4 migration preparation tasks and lead related workshops and POCs. Data Migration, Cutover, and Program Leadership: Provide leadership on S/4 financial data migration strategy, data cleansing, reconciliation processes, and cutover planning for the finance track. Data Migration, Cutover, and Program Leadership: Partner with internal audit, IT finance and business teams to ensure reconciliation integrity and audit readiness for migrated data. Data Migration, Cutover, and Program Leadership: Advise on approaches to ECC-to-S/4 data model changes and lead finance reporting reconciliation activities in preparation for migration. Data Migration, Cutover, and Program Leadership: Participate in program governance structures and represent the Finance workstream in cross-functional steering committees. Data Migration, Cutover, and Program Leadership: Drive issue resolution and escalation management for all finance-related topics. Key Skills / You Have
A deep understanding of both accounting principles and SAP technical architecture, with strategic vision and hands-on execution ability. Strong leadership and stakeholder management abilities, including working with the CFO, Controllers and finance team leaders; ability to bring structure to ambiguity and influence decision-making. Excellent oral and written communication skills; ability to adapt communication style to a nontechnical audience. Ability to lead cross-functional workshops and clearly explain ECC to S/4 changes, options and their implications on FI/CO operations. Proven experience guiding finance organizations through complex transformation decisions, managing both business and technical impacts. Deep SAP FI/CO expertise with hands-on experience in S/4HANA Finance including: Universal Journal, New Asset Accounting, Margin Analysis, New GL with segment reporting and document splitting, Parallel Accounting Options, Material Ledger with multiple valuations, Business Partner Integration impact on Finance, integrations with EMP, supporting data model, Fiori apps, APIs and reports. Experience with at least two SAP ECC to S/4HANA system conversions in large complex organizations with a lead role focused on Finance transformation. Experience with global rollouts, compliance frameworks, segregation of duties, tax, and audit/regulatory reporting requirements; Canada and Mexico regulations experience preferred. Experience with adjacent architectural areas such as Data, Infrastructure, Security, and Cloud architecture. Open-mindedness to adopting SAP best practices while utilizing third-party tools and modified processes as appropriate for the business. Demonstrated leadership of IT configuration teams and data/process migration efforts. Working knowledge of SAP Activate methodology and supporting tools. Bachelors degree in accounting, finance, or a technical field. 15+ years of experience with SAP Finance (FI/CO) including multiple ECC and S/4HANA, business analysis, and architecture design. If you are a strategic thinker with a passion for finance transformation and SAP technologies, we want to hear from you! Equal Employment Opportunity
We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or expression, protected veteran status or any other protected characteristic under federal, state, or local law. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We are committed to fostering an inclusive, accessible work environment that includes reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities during the application and hiring process as well as throughout employment. If you need a reasonable accommodation during the application or selection process, including use of our website or any part of the application, please advise us so that we can provide appropriate assistance. #J-18808-Ljbffr