CBS E2E Finance Architect

Job Details: Job Description: Role Overview: The E2E Finance Architect will own the enterprise Finance solution architecture across SAP Financial Accounting and Controlling (FICO), subledger accounting, product costing, fixed assets, Project Accounting, SAP Profitability and Performance Management (PaPM), and SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC) for Financial Planning and Analysis (FP and A). This role will provide architecture leadership for the current IAO transformation and maintain long-term ownership of the Finance technology roadmap after implementation. The architect will partner with Accounting, Manufacturing Finance, FP and A, business process owners, IT, and implementation partners to deliver integrated, scalable, and controlled Finance solutions. Key Responsibilities: End-to-end solution architecture ownership: Define and govern the Finance target architecture, solution designs, integration patterns, and architectural standards. Resolve cross-functional design issues and ensure consistency across accounting, costing, profitability, planning, and reporting. Accounting and subledgers: Lead solution architecture across general ledger, accounts payable, accounts receivable, intercompany accounting, bank accounting, financial close, and subledger-to-general-ledger reconciliation. Ensure consistent financial data, reporting dimensions, and auditability. • Product costing and manufacturing finance: Solution Architect standard and actual costing, Material Ledger, inventory valuation, work in process, overhead allocation, production variances, and profitability analysis. Address semiconductor requirements across wafer fabrication, assembly and test, yield and scrap impacts, and internal or outsourced manufacturing. • Fixed assets and Project Accounting: Own solution architecture for asset acquisition, assets under construction, capitalization, depreciation, transfers, and retirement. Integrate project structures, budgeting, commitments, cost collection, and settlement with fixed assets and financial accounting. • SAP PaPM: Define solution architecture for cost allocations, profitability models, business-driver calculations, and scenario analysis. Ensure transparent calculation logic, traceable results, and reconciliation with financial source systems. • SAC for FP and A: Lead solution architecture for budgeting, forecasting, long-range planning, and management reporting, including operating expenses, capital expenditures, workforce costs, and integrated financial statements. Connect planning models with actuals and operational drivers. • Treasury: Lead solution architecture for cash and liquidity management, bank account management, payments and bank connectivity, cash forecasting, and treasury risk management. Ensure integration with financial accounting, banking platforms, and FP and A to support accurate cash visibility, treasury accounting, and financial controls. • Tax with ONE SOURCE: Own solution architecture and integration between SAP and Thomson Reuters ONESOURCE for indirect tax determination, calculation, and compliance reporting, including sales and use tax, VAT, and GST. Ensure accurate tax postings, reconciliation, and auditability across procurement, sales, and intercompany transactions. • Current business transformation: Provide design authority through solution validation, build, integration testing, user acceptance testing, data migration, cutover, and stabilization. Review partner deliverables, resolve critical design gaps, and ensure business and operational readiness. • Post-transformation ownership: Maintain the Finance architecture roadmap, govern enhancements and releases, guide resolution of complex production issues, reduce technical debt, and drive continuous improvement. Establish effective knowle