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# Senior SAP Finance Business Architect - Netherlands - 6+ months

- **Company:** Global Enterprise Partners
- **Location:** Amsterdam, Netherlands
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** SAP (Applications), Sap Finance, RISE with SAP, SAP S/4HANA
- **Published:** September 9, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.globalenterprisepartners.com/en-gb/job/senior-sap-finance-business-architect---netherlands---6-months/4072055

## About the Role

* 10+ years of experience in Finance Transformation, Finance Operations, Process Architecture, or Finance Change programmes, * Experience working in SAP-enabled environments, ideally involving SAP S/4HANA and/or RISE with SAP

 * Ability to bridge Finance, Business, and Architecture stakeholders

 * Proven experience designing target-state processes, capabilities, and operating models

## Description

We're currently supporting a leading international platform organisation undergoing a large-scale Finance Transformation and SAP modernisation journey., They are looking for an experienced Finance Business Architect to help define and optimise Finance capabilities, processes, and operating models across a complex global environment. This role sits at the intersection of Finance and Architecture, acting as the business-side counterpart to Enterprise and Solution Architects.

This is a business-focused role for someone with deep Finance process expertise, rather than a technical SAP architecture background.

What you'll be doing

 * Design and optimise end-to-end Finance processes across Record-to-Report (R2R), Order-to-Cash (OTC), Procure-to-Pay (P2P), Treasury, Billing, and Financial Close

 * Define future-state Finance capabilities and operating models

 * Act as the Finance counterpart to Enterprise and Solution Architects during transformation initiatives

 * Create and improve cross-functional Finance process cycles, ensuring alignment across multiple Finance domains

 * Support strategic transformation projects within a broader RISE with SAP environment

 * Drive process standardisation, simplification, and automation initiatives

 * Improve Financial Close performance, including initiatives aimed at accelerating close cycles (e.g. moving from a traditional 4-day close towards a 2-day or continuous close model)

 * Translate Finance, Accounting, and Reporting requirements into scalable business solutions

 * Collaborate closely with Controllers, Accounting teams, FP&A, SMEs, Product, and Architecture teams

 * Help improve programme delivery speed through better Finance process design and business architecture, * Record-to-Report (R2R)
 * Order-to-Cash (OTC/O2C)
 * Procure-to-Pay (P2P)
 * Treasury
 * Billing
 * Financial Close

 * Strong understanding of:
 * Balance Sheet processes
 * Financial Reporting
 * Reconciliations
 * Financial Controls
 * Accounting impacts across end-to-end process flows


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