Senior Solution Architect - SAP Bank & Cash

Opportunity

Maersk is achieving an unprecedented transformation in the growth of our businesses, rethinking the way we engage with customers and partners, and how the world’s trade flows across our global network. We are offering you a unique opportunity to help shape that journey and the future organization. As a part of this process, you will have an opportunity to participate with global finance transformation program while leading our ATR architecture that will set the direction of the future SAP S4hane based Finance solution for this large global organization. As SAP Functional Architect, you will be a key driver in building our digital core global ERP S4HANA platform.

Maersk is on multi-year program to revamp its technology and digital solutions footprint and as part of new strategy, SAP will act as the ‘digital core’ for company’s finance processes enabled by SAP’s latest cloud and S4HANA offerings. Maersk has currently ECC based SAP finance solutions running for Ocean and logistics divisions and plan is to subsume these solutions within revamped green field S4HANA implementations. SAP engineering team owns solution template, design and drives the SAP solution roadmap within Transport & Logistics.

Maersk is operating in more than 130 countries across the world and with rapidly and constantly changing business and technology environment, SAP Architect role offers an exciting opportunity to shape the vision and implementation of Finance Cash & Bank SAP solutions for Maersk group.

We offer

We’re on a landmark journey to simplify global trade. It brings the chance to have a major impact on the world economy, but also, on your career development. With significant personal responsibility, you’ll improve your industry knowledge and build the communication and commercial skills that are highly valued in customer-facing roles – quite possibly at a pace that will surprise you.

Key responsibilities

· Responsible for Solution design for the SAP Finance Cash & Bank solution across Maersk business units
· Work in an agile team with Finance Cash & Bank product owners, SAP developers/engineers and scrum master in executing on prioritized backlog
· Ensuring no architecture bottlenecks impacting delivery of solution
· Quality assurance of the solution from design to delivery
· Compliance to Enterprise architecture guidelines and product roadmap
· Hands on solution design for the Cash & bank products payment & bank communication, treasury management, AP, AR, FI_CA
· Managing the Product backlog, including prioritization of needs, creation of backlog items and mapping out dependencies in collaboration with users and customers
· Work closely with development teams in Agile way of working; contribute to the planning, execution and review of each sprint and work with the team to refine and improve the development process.
· Evaluating product progress accountable for each stage of the development process and the final product. Inspect and evaluate product progress at each iteration, determine whether final product is acceptable. Performance of product in general, includes example value delivery, user satisfaction, performance of the support process, compliance, cost, stability of the product and deployment/roll-out performance.
· To be successful, you need to perform stakeholder management related to your product(s)
· Contribute to developing product and agile practices across Maersk

We are looking for

· Experience working as SAP Finance Cash & Bank functional architect with large scale SAP transformation program environments
· At least 10 years’ experience in SAP as Cash & Bank architect.
· Experience working as SAP FICO functional architect with hands on experience with
· SAP baseline FI modules (GL, AR, AP) and, more importantly, have experience in SAP's FI-Banking, Inhouse bank and Cash Management modules
· Very strong understanding/knowledge of 'payment processes' (i.e. understand banking terminology - payment types, SWIFT channels, PSRs, etc.)
· Very strong understanding of payment processes in the P2P work-stream and the receipting/cash processes in the O2C work-stream
· As a baseline, has experience working in the FI-GL, FI-AP, FI-AR and has knowledge of the integration between MM, SD, CO, etc.
· Has extensive knowledge of SAP's Automatic Payment configuration and SAP's payment processes
· Has extensive experience in unit and integration testing of payment files internally and externally with a bank partner; Regression testing will be required; You must be able to manage go lives of new payment files
· Has experience working with SAP's Electronic Bank Statement configuration and understands bank statement processing and post processing in SAP
· Experience working with SAP's Bank Communication Management Module
· Experience with SAP's check (cheque) functionality and processes; Cheque testing using dedicated cheque printer and with the banking partner
· In depth domain knowledge in the Accounting to Reporting (ATR) area.
· Experience in implementing large and complex SAP Projects, and designing architecture to meet business requirements.
· Experience in working with business process/activity owners in understanding business requirement and solution design
· Experience in developing SAP roadmap for Finance Line of business
· Experience with S4HANA implementation is must
· Certification in SAP FI/CO or FICA preferred
· Proven experience with managing complex stakeholders and ability to influence without authority
· Good problem solving & communication skills
· Bachelor's Degree in IT related discipline
· Collaborative mindset across business functions

At Maersk we value the diversity of our talent and will always strive to recruit the best person for the job – we value diversity in all its forms, including but not limited to: gender, age, nationality, race, sexual orientation, disability or religious beliefs. We are proud of our diversity and see it as a genuine source of strength for building high performing teams.