Job Description:
The Senior SAP FICO Business Process Architect serves as Zep's primary IT partner for Finance, Accounting, Treasury, Tax, and Shared Services business functions. This role combines deep SAP Financials expertise with strong business acumen to design, support, and continuously improve financial processes across the enterprise.
The position acts as a trusted advisor to Finance leadership by translating business requirements into SAP solutions, ensuring regulatory compliance, supporting acquisitions and strategic initiatives, and maintaining integration between SAP and critical financial systems. The ideal candidate possesses strong SAP Finance process knowledge, solution-design capabilities, and the ability to lead cross-functional projects from concept through implementation.
Key Responsibilities
Finance Business Partnership
- Serve as the primary IT liaison for Accounting, Treasury, Tax, Fixed Assets, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, and Financial Planning teams.
- Partner with Finance leadership to identify process improvement opportunities and technology solutions.
- Translate business requirements into scalable SAP designs and system enhancements.
- Provide guidance regarding process impacts, controls, and best practices.
SAP FICO Solution Architecture
- Lead design and support activities across SAP Finance and Controlling functions.
- Maintain and enhance General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Asset Accounting, Bank Accounting, Cost Center Accounting, and Internal Order processes.
- Design and document functional specifications for enhancements and interfaces.
- Analyze business requirements and develop long-term solution strategies.
Fixed Assets & Financial Compliance
- Support asset capitalization, depreciation, retirement, transfer, and reporting processes.
- Maintain depreciation keys, asset classes, valuation methods, and related accounting configurations.
- Assist Finance teams with regulatory, statutory, and tax reporting requirements.
- Support financial audits and compliance initiatives
Treasury & Banking Solutions
- Support electronic payment processing, lockbox integrations, bank account management, and cash-management functions.
- Maintain SAP house banks, payment methods, bank determination, and banking interfaces.
- Partner with banking institutions and internal finance teams to implement new banking solutions.
- Support treasury transformation and acquisition-related initiatives.
Financial Systems Integration
- Lead design efforts for integrations between SAP and external financial applications.
- Support interfaces with banking platforms, BlackLine, Concur, tax systems, reporting platforms, and other enterprise applications.
- Ensure data integrity and process consistency across integrated solutions.
Project Leadership
- Lead Finance-focused system implementations, acquisitions, upgrades, and process improvement initiatives.
- Coordinate business requirements, testing, training, deployment, and post-go-live support activities.
- Work effectively with internal teams, external consultants, managed service providers, and software vendors.
Production Support & Continuous Improvement
- Analyze and resolve complex production issues impacting financial operations.
- Manage SAP support tickets, root-cause investigations, and corrective actions.
- Collaborate with SAP support partners and application vendors to address defects and enhancements.
- Drive process standardization and automation opportunities.
Required Qualifications
- 8+ years of SAP FICO experience.
- Strong expertise in:
- General Ledger (GL)
- Accounts Payable (AP)
- Accounts Receivable (AR)
- Asset Accounting (AA)
- Bank Accounting
- Electronic Payments
- Cash Management
- Experience supporting month-end and year-end financial processes.
- Experience working directly with Controllers, Accounting teams, Treasury, and Finance leadership.
- Experience gathering requirements and leading solution design activities.
- Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
Preferred Qualifications
- SAP ECC and/or S/4HANA Finance experience.
- Experience supporting BlackLine integrations.
- Experience supporting Concur integrations.
- Experience with treasury and banking implementations.
- Experience with acquisitions, divestitures, and financial system transformations.
- Manufacturing or distribution industry experience.
- Knowledge of SAP CO, Product Costing, and Profitability Analysis.
