SAP Finance Domain Architect at Talan in Toronto, ON, Canada

Job description

• Reporting to the Vice President, Delivery, the SAP Finance Domain Architect is Talan’s functional authority for SAP finance processes across multiple clients and engagements. The role covers the value chain from planning and budgeting through transactional execution, consolidation, close, and integration with every module that posts to the general ledger.
• You step in when decisions require a deep understanding of how SAP works and of their end-to-end financial implications. Working with Sales, solution, and delivery teams, you shape solutions, approve functional designs, arbitrate gaps against standard, and safeguard the coherence of postings, master data, and process handoffs.

Responsibilities

• Consultative intelligence
• Provide the deep functional expertise required to shape solutions by distinguishing standard capabilities, genuine gaps, and the choice among configuration, extension, or process change.
• Lead Finance workstreams in digital discovery and readiness assessments, then present recommendations, estimates, assumptions, and trade-offs in workshops, proposals, and oral presentations.
• Assess the financial implications of adjacent process designs, including revenue recognition, intercompany activity, inventory valuation, fixed assets, and period close.
• Technical and functional expertise
• Define and uphold the functional architecture for Finance, including universal journal, the SAP S/4HANA data model, consolidation, planning, costing, margin analysis, asset accounting, project systems, and treasury touchpoints.
• Configure and prototype complex scenarios when design decisions cannot be settled on paper, then confirm the end-to-end behaviour of postings, master data, and interfaces.
• Advise clients on IFRS and statutory requirements in Canada and the United States and on where tax engines and e-invoicing belong in the solution.
• Problem solving and analytical thinking
• Review and approve functional designs, specifications for reports, interfaces, enhancements, forms, and workflows, and the domain’s critical test strategies and scripts.
• Support defect analysis during system integration, user acceptance, and regression testing, then resolve domain escalations through cutover, hypercare, and transition into AMS.
• Guide data migration and cutover decisions, including opening balances, open items, and master-data quality thresholds.
• Leadership, vision and initiative
• Act as the Finance design authority across multiple concurrent engagements and serve as the quality gate before deliverables reach clients.
• Coach functional consultants through design reviews, contribute to interviews and onboarding, and identify the capabilities the practice must develop, train, or hire.
• Track the SAP roadmap for the domain and brief the practice on changes that affect the standard approach, clean core, and cloud solutions.
• Knowledge sharing
• Create and maintain reusable process models, configuration accelerators, demo environments and scripts, guides, and design patterns for presales and delivery.
• Capture engagement lessons and patterns in practice intellectual property and contribute domain content to AI-enabled delivery tools and the internal knowledge base.

Requirements

• SAP experience: At least twelve (12) years of SAP experience, including at least ten (10) years of hands-on configuration in Finance, with a track record as the domain escalation point.
• SAP S/4HANA achievements: Participation in at least four (4) SAP S/4HANA projects on current releases, including at least one greenfield implementation or selective transition where the candidate owned domain design.
• Design authority: At least three (3) years reviewing and approving other people’s functional designs, with demonstrated experience supporting multiple concurrent engagements.
• Finance expertise: Expertise in universal journal and the SAP S/4HANA Finance data model, Group Reporting or a comparable consolidation tool, SAP Analytics Cloud Planning, product costing, and margin analysis.
• Finance integration: Hands-on experience with asset accounting, project systems, capital project accounting, and integration points involving revenue recognition, intercompany activity, inventory valuation, fixed assets, and period close.
• Accounting standards: Working knowledge of IFRS and local statutory requirements in Canada and the United States and of the integration of tax engines and e-invoicing.
• Industries: Working credibility in at least two of Mining, Oil and Gas, Consumer Packaged Goods, and Industrial Manufacturing.
• Education: Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field.
• Conditions: Canada-based role with client travel across North America, representing approximately 20% to 40% of working time.
• Communication: Good oral and written communication skills in English, to communicate with clients located across North America.
• Exposure to asset-intensive capital accounting or to Consumer Packaged Goods trade spend and deduction accounting.
• Consulting experience with a Big Four firm or SAP partner, experience building reusable accelerators, and experience with SAP public cloud and clean-core constraints.
• Exposure to Central Finance, SAP Datasphere, or SAP Business Data Cloud.
• SAP S/4HANA certification in Financial Accounting or Management Accounting; SAP Group Reporting or SAP Analytics Cloud Planning certification preferred; CPA, CMA, or equivalent designation considered an asset.

Skills

Required

• SAP experience
• hands-on configuration in Finance
• SAP S/4HANA
• universal journal
• SAP S/4HANA Finance data model
• Group Reporting
• SAP Analytics Cloud Planning
• product costing
• margin analysis
• asset accounting
• project systems
• capital project accounting

Preferred

• asset-intensive capital accounting
• building reusable accelerators
• SAP public cloud
• clean-core constraints
• Central Finance
• SAP Datasphere
• SAP Business Data Cloud
• SAP Group Reporting certification

Benefits

• Aside from joining a professional and dynamic team, you will be entitled to our compensation plan and various other benefits, such as the opportunity to be part of a talented team.
• Professional development
• Profit sharing
• Health & well-being insurance on your first day
• RPDP, Deferred Profit-Sharing Regime
• Flexible work in hybrid mode
• Allowance for public transit and cell phone
• Generous employer participation to your RRSP.