Senior SAP FICO Business Process Architect

Zep Inc.•Atlanta, GA

About The Position

The Senior SAP FICO Business Process Architect serves as Zep’s primary IT partner for Finance, Accounting, Treasury, Tax, and Shared Services. The role combines SAP Financials expertise and business acumen to design, support, and continually improve enterprise financial processes. As a trusted advisor to Finance leadership, the position translates business requirements into SAP solutions, supports regulatory compliance and strategic initiatives, and maintains integrations between SAP and critical financial systems. The role leads cross-functional efforts from solution concept through implementation. The architect partners with Finance teams to identify process improvements, designs and supports SAP Finance and Controlling solutions, and maintains financial processes and configurations. The position also supports financial compliance, treasury and banking solutions, system integrations, implementations, acquisitions, upgrades, and ongoing production support. It coordinates requirements, testing, training, deployment, and post-go-live activities, while driving process standardization and automation.

Requirements

At least 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, and 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.

Nice To Haves

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.

Responsibilities

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 improvements and technology solutions; translate business requirements into scalable SAP designs and enhancements.
Advise on process impacts, controls, and best practices.
Lead SAP Finance and Controlling solution design and support, including 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 requirements and develop long-term solution strategies.
Support fixed-asset capitalization, depreciation, retirement, transfer, and reporting; maintain depreciation keys, asset classes, valuation methods, and related accounting configurations.
Assist Finance teams with regulatory, statutory, and tax reporting, and support financial audits and compliance initiatives.
Support electronic payments, lockbox integrations, bank account management, and cash-management functions; maintain SAP house banks, payment methods, bank determination, and banking interfaces.
Partner with banks and internal Finance teams to implement banking solutions, and support treasury transformation and acquisition initiatives.
Lead design efforts for SAP integrations with external financial applications, including banking platforms, BlackLine, Concur, tax systems, reporting platforms, and other enterprise applications; ensure data integrity and process consistency.
Lead Finance-focused implementations, acquisitions, upgrades, and process-improvement initiatives.
Coordinate business requirements, testing, training, deployment, and post-go-live support; work with internal teams, external consultants, managed service providers, and software vendors.
Analyze and resolve complex production issues affecting 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, and drive process standardization and automation opportunities.