SAP Finance Domain Architect
Talan · Toronto
Company Description
Talan is an international group that supports its clients in their end-to-end Data & AI transformation by combining management consulting with technological expertise.
With over 6,000 employees across five continents, we accelerate our clients' transformations through long-term partnerships, creating measurable and sustainable impact.
Our value proposition is built on a structured innovation ecosystem: 2,500 Data & AI experts, proprietary solutions built on advanced models, and an applied research, experimental development, and innovation laboratory.
In Americas, our multidisciplinary teams bring over 30 years of experience helping business leaders across key industries achieve measurable performance and strong ROI, designing, building, and scaling solutions that enable companies to grow more efficiently.
Job Description
Reporting to the Vice President, Delivery, the SAP Finance Domain Architect serves as Talan’s functional authority for SAP finance processes and plays a central role in developing new business opportunities. Up to 50% of the role is dedicated to presales activities, including opportunity qualification, discovery sessions, solution definition, estimates, proposals, demonstrations, and client presentations.
The role covers the Finance value chain, from planning and budgeting through transactional execution, consolidation, close, and integration with the modules that post to the general ledger. Working closely with Sales, Solution, and Delivery teams, you translate business requirements into credible, achievable, and differentiated SAP Finance solutions. You also act as a design authority for active engagements by approving functional direction, resolving deviations from standard, and safeguarding the coherence of processes, data, and integrations.
Your mission consists of:
- Presales and Solution Development
- Dedicate up to 50% of working time to presales activities, including opportunity qualification, discovery workshops, and client presentations.
- Design SAP Finance solutions, prepare estimates, and contribute to commercial proposals in partnership with Sales and Delivery teams.
- Develop reusable demonstrations, accelerators, and offerings that support practice growth.
- 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.
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Qualifications
- 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.
- Presales experience: Demonstrated experience in opportunity qualification, discovery sessions, solution design, estimates, commercial proposals, demonstrations, and client presentations. Ability to balance client requirements, business value, solution feasibility, and delivery risk.
- 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.
Assets
- 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.
Additional Information
What about the advantages of joining us?
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.
All that you deserve and more:
- 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.
If this opportunity speaks to you, apply today!
Talan offers competitive salaries and equal opportunities for all. If you are motivated to take on stimulating challenges and meet the requirements, send us your resume now!
Please note that we will only communicate with candidates selected for an interview. For the purposes of this job offer, the feminine and masculine genders designate indistinctly the staff of both sexes and do not establish any distinction based on sex. Talan is committed to employment equity.