SAP FICO Architect - P2P Finance

Scope : Manufacturing financial processes with heavy Finance * manufacturing integration, plus the Procure-to-Pay finance linkage, subcontracting, and electronic invoicing compliance.

Must-have SAP Finance modules :

Product Costing (CO-PC) - standard/actual costing, costing variants, runs

Material Ledger (CKM/ML) - multi-currency valuation, transfer pricing and parallel valuation

• Profitability Analysis (CO-PA) - costing- and account-based

• Heavy Manufacturing-Finance integration - production order settlement, variance flow, WIP, PP/MM/CO/FI touchpoints

• Subcontracting (finance side) - special stock O, byproduct/co-product accounting, settlement

• FI-MM integration - GR/IR, OBYC, valuation classes, inventory accounting

• P2P Finance linkage - MIRO/MIR7, three-way match, AP integration, payment runs

• Electronic invoicing via SAP DRC (Document and Reporting Compliance) - config, integration, transmission, FI reconciliation

• Core FI baseline - FI-GL, CO-CCA/OM, period-end close

Screening deep-dives

Material Ledger activation projects (industry, scale, parallel currencies)

• Product Costing design decisions (standard vs actual, COGS split approach)

• Subcontracting experience - special stock O, byproduct/co-product accounting

• SAP DRC implementation - country scope, document types, FI reconciliation approach

• CFIN deep-dive - cost data replication, material ledger replication, value flow consistency, parallel valuations

• DAB experience on costing / inventory / subcontracting decisions, Order-to-Cash financial processes including SAP RAR revenue recognition, COGS, billing, AR, intercompany OTC, credit/collections, and light Fixed Assets management for leased capital equipment kits.

Note: Treasury is out of scope (Corporate organization).

Must-have SAP Finance modules :

SAP RAR (Revenue Accounting and Reporting) module - contracts, performance obligations, BRF+ rules, ASC 606 / IFRS 15 (the module, not generic concepts)

• Cost of Revenue and COGS - split design, recognition timing, GL determination

• Billing and Invoicing finance integration - SD-FI integration

billing document flow, credit/debit memo

• Accounts Receivable (FI-AR) - customer master, dunning, lockbox, EBS, cash application

• Intercompany OTC - IC billing, IC AR/AP reconciliation, IC pricing

• Credit Management (FSCM-CR) and Collections (FSCM-COL)

• Light Fixed Assets for leased capital equipment kits - activation, depreciation control over lease lifecycle, retirement on return, integration with customer contract data (NOT corporate-wide FA management)

• Core FI baseline - FI-GL, CO-CCA/OM, period-end close

Screening deep-dives

SAP RAR implementation projects - contract scenarios, performance obligations, complexity

• ASC 606 / IFRS 15 compliance projects

• Leased asset / customer-installed equipment experience - activation, depreciation, retirement (medtech / capital equipment / service-leasing industries preferred)

• Intercompany OTC flow architecture

• CFIN deep-dive - revenue and AR replication, customer MDG-C/MDG-F, RAR coexistence with CFIN

• DAB experience on revenue / RAR / billing / AR decisions

8-12 years of SAP delivery experience, with at least 4 years in design lead / lead consultant / architect roles

At least one full-cycle SAP greenfield transformation program (ECC-to-S/4HANA or net-new S/4HANA, global rollout) in TTDL / Solution Lead / Senior Functional Lead capacity

Cross-ERP integration with SAP S/4HANA Central Finance (CFIN) - hands-on with SLT replication, MDG-F for master data harmonization, mapping rules, error handling, source-to-target reconciliation across heterogeneous landscapes

Proven delivery in multi-diverse matrix environments - dual/multiple reporting lines, multiple geographies and business units, ambiguous governance

Design leadership through formal governance bodies (DAB, ARB) with VP/executive stakeholder negotiation experience

Workshop facilitation - leading multi-day Solution Confirmation / Fit-Gap workshops with 10-30 participants

Clean Core thinking - favoring SAP standard over custom code with documented trade-off analysis

Tool fluency: Signavio, JIRA, Confluence, SAP Solution Manager / Cloud ALM, Microsoft 365

Strong English communication; comfortable operating with VP/executive stakeholders

Specialization-specific Finance modules - see split table at end of document

Nice-to-have

Medtech, pharma, or life sciences regulated industry experience (GxP, SOX, Part 11, GDPR)

SAP Activate methodology and SAFe/agile delivery (PI Planning, sprint cadences)