SAP Solution Architect, FI/CO & Product Costing

Slate Auto

1d • Remote

About The Position

Slate is seeking a senior SAP S/4HANA solution architect to own the finance design backbone of Slate’s migration from NetSuite to SAP, with product costing as the center of gravity. This role is the client-side counterpart to the implementation partner’s solution architect and owns the controlling and product costing design. It also owns the SAP design of the general ledger beneath the corporate accounting lead’s record-to-report and procure-to-pay work. This is a permanent role on a team that will launch a minimum viable product and then own years of follow-on build, not a project assignment that ends at go-live.

Requirements

• 10+ years of SAP FI/CO experience with deep, hands-on CO-PC and material ledger expertise across multiple full-cycle S/4HANA implementations.
• Discrete manufacturing experience, ideally automotive, including standing up product costing at a company moving from pre-production to production.
• Strong FI breadth: new general ledger, document splitting, multi-entity intercompany processing, and consolidation (SAP Group Reporting or comparable).
• A clear, defensible point of view on clean-core and fit-to-standard design, with the credibility to serve as the implementation partner's counterpart and hold the line against unnecessary customization.
• Experience writing functional specifications, leading finance-side user acceptance testing, and partnering with implementation partners and IT through go-live and stabilization.
• Familiarity with SOX requirements for finance systems, ideally in a pre-IPO or recently public-company environment.
• Comfortable in a fast-paced, growth-stage environment building a system rather than maintaining one.

Nice To Haves

• CPA or equivalent preferred, given the controls weight of the role and Slate's IPO trajectory.

Responsibilities

• Own product cost planning, including standard cost estimates and BOM and routing cost rollups, which tie into Windchill PLM and the MES.
• Own the material ledger decision, inventory valuation, COGS, manufacturing variance design, and WIP, standing this up correctly ahead of start of production.
• Own the finance integration points into Materials Management (procurement valuation, GR/IR) and Production Planning (production orders, confirmations).
• Design the controlling backbone: cost center and profit center structure, internal orders, overhead allocations, and account-based profitability analysis (CO-PA).
• Partner with FP&A on the management reporting and planning views that draw on the controlling structure.
• Own the SAP design of the general ledger beneath the corporate accounting lead, who owns the business design: chart of accounts, ledger strategy, document splitting, intercompany processing, consolidation, and fixed assets.
• Coordinate the FloQast close, the treasury touchpoints into the TMS, and the tax engine integration (Avalara).
• Provide the SAP design for AP, GR/IR, and vendor master in support of the corporate accounting lead’s procure-to-pay ownership, including the finance requirements for the Zip integration.
• Serve as the finance configuration decision-maker within agreed design principles, defending a fit-to-standard, clean-core posture and escalating customization exceptions rather than rebuilding NetSuite inside SAP.
• Validate inventory valuation and standard costs across every mock conversion cycle, and embed SOX-ready controls and segregation of duties into the configuration and into user acceptance testing.

Benefits

• Permanent role with years of follow-on build
• Remote eligible

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed