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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # SAP S/4HANA Finance Transformation Architect - **Company:** BINGHAMTOM UNIVERSITY - **Location:** United States - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** $146,200.0 - $243,600.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Data Analysis, Cloud Engineering, Data Cleansing, Data Migration, Data Warehousing, SAP ERP, SAP (Applications), SAP FI/CO, SAP Implementation, SAP Sales and Distribution, Sap Finance, Sap Fiori, SAP S/4HANA, Integration Frameworks - **Published:** September 6, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.themuse.com/jobs/grainger/senior-sap-s4hana-finance-transformation-architect?utm_source=uconnect ## About the Role * 10+ years of SAP Finance (FI/CO) experience spanning business analysis and architecture design. * Bachelor's degree in accounting, finance, or a technical field. * A deep understanding of both accounting principles and SAP technical architecture, combined with a strategic vision and hands-on ability to execute. * Demonstrated ability to evaluate S/4HANA capabilities versus legacy approaches and recommend an adoption path based on value, risk, and operating impact. * Strong leadership and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to partner effectively with CFO and Controller organizations and influence senior business and technology leaders without direct authority. * Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to explain complex SAP finance topics clearly to non-technical audiences. * Proven experience guiding finance organizations through complex transformation decisions across business and technical domains. * Experience with design authority across Finance, setting architectural direction and guiding SI/build teams beyond module-level configuration. * Deep SAP FI/CO expertise with hands-on experience in S/4HANA Finance, including: + Universal Journal (ACDOCA), + New Asset Accounting, + Margin Analysis and Profitability Segment design, + New GL with segment reporting and document splitting, + Parallel Accounting and Ledger Strategy, + Material Ledger including multiple valuations + Business Partner integration impacts on Finance, + Integration impacts across EPM, analytics, Fiori apps, APIs, and reporting. * 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. Experience with U.S., Canada, and Mexico regulations preferred. * Experience with adjacent architectural areas such as Data, Infrastructure, Security, and Cloud architecture. * Working knowledge of SAP Activate methodology and supporting tools. ## Description We are seeking a Senior SAP S/4HANA Finance Transformation Architect to lead finance architecture and key controllership decisions for our ECC to S/4HANA transformation across the U.S., Canada, and Mexico. Partnering with the Sr. Director of Controllership and periodically presenting to the Controller and CFO, you will translate complex S/4 capabilities into clear options, tradeoffs, and recommendations, and provide architectural leadership across process design, integration, data migration, reconciliation, and cutover. You will Evaluate S/4HANA Finance capabilities and define the target-state finance architecture, including what to adopt versus retain from ECC and whether changes should be implemented pre-migration, at go-live, or post go-live, based on business value, compliance, operating impact, and system constraints. Lead finance system integration, data migration, reconciliation, and cutover design to ensure audit-ready outcomes. 1. Executive Stakeholder Engagement & Leadership: * Serve as a trusted advisor to the Controller and CFO, aligning accounting practices, reporting requirements, and internal controls with the new system. * Bridge Finance and IT by educating stakeholders on key S/4HANA changes, translating complex topics into clear options, tradeoffs, implications, and recommendations, and driving decisions to closure. * Lead finance design workshops and govern solution outcomes produced by Engineering, BSAs, and the System Integrator to ensure alignment with the target-state architecture. * Guide key finance architecture decisions and explain business, financial, and compliance impacts in clear terms. 1. Solution Architecture & Process Transformation: + Define and own the target-state S/4HANA Finance architecture and design guardrails, including ledger and parallel accounting strategy, controlling design, data model impacts, and integration patterns across the finance ecosystem. * Drive finance data transformation resulting from the S/4HANA data model, including finance data products and extraction patterns for downstream reporting. * Ensure solution designs meet compliance and internal control requirements and provide oversight and mentorship to configuration teams and finance SMEs through implementation. * Work with finance leadership, Engineering, BSAs, and the System Integrator to define end-to-end finance process and solution design across record-to-report, intercompany, close, and reporting. * Govern solution consistency across workstreams and ensure alignment to the target-state architecture. * Oversee integration design across SAP and non-SAP platforms, including key touchpoints with MM, SD, WM, tax, banking, EPM, and analytics. * Define the finance reconciliation and audit-readiness approach for conversion and cutover. 1. Data Migration, Cutover, and Program Leadership: * Define the Finance data migration, reconciliation, and cutover strategy, including required data cleansing, validation, and audit controls. * Partner with Internal Audit, IT, and Finance stakeholders to ensure reconciliation integrity and audit readiness for migrated data. * Define the approach to finance reporting continuity and reconciliation impacted by S/4HANA data model changes, including data warehouse and downstream reporting considerations. * In partnership with business leaders and the PMO, define the sequencing of S/4HANA preparation activities, including chart of accounts mapping, material ledger conversion, data cleanup, and other finance readiness activities. * Represent the Finance workstream in S/4 program governance and steering forums, driving issue resolution, escalation, and cross-functional alignment on finance-related decisions. ## Related Videos - [Headless by Design: Building Enterprise Systems That Agents Can Actually Use](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100092-headless-by-design-building-enterprise-systems-that-agents-can-actually-use) - [Next Level Enterprise Architecture: Modular, Flexible, Scalable, Multichannel and AI-Ready?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1017-next-level-enterprise-architecture-modular-flexible-scalable-multichannel-and-ai-ready) - [Replacing Excel with SAP APIs & Python validation](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1944-replacing-excel-with-sap-apis-python-validation) - [When AI Runs the Business: The Reality of Enterprise-Wide Automation](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100124-when-ai-runs-the-business-the-reality-of-enterprise-wide-automation) ## Related Articles - [Best Companies to Work For in Berlin: Top 14 Companies in 2023 ](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/188-best-companies-to-work-for-in-berlin-top-14-companies-in-2023) - [Best Coding Boot Camps in Germany](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/237-best-coding-boot-camps-in-germany) - [Best Companies to Work For in Germany: Top 25 Companies in 2023 ](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/33-best-companies-to-work-for-in-germany-top-25-companies-in-2023) - [Top-Paying Tech Jobs (with Salaries)](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/372-top-paying-tech-jobs-with-salaries) - [Coffee with Developers - Maria Apazoglou - Making AI understandable for all in production](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/475-coffee-with-developers-maria-apazoglou-making-ai-understandable-for-all-in-production) - [Data Analyst Salary in Switzerland](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/276-data-analyst-salary-in-switzerland)