Sr. Finance Systems Architect

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Job Description

As part of the Thermo Fisher Scientific team, you'll discover meaningful work that makes a positive impact on a global scale. Join our colleagues in bringing our Mission to life every single day to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. We provide our global teams with the resources needed to achieve individual career goals while helping to take science a step beyond by developing solutions for some of the world's toughest challenges, like protecting the environment, making sure our food is safe or helping find cures for cancer.

We are seeking a highly experienced Senior SAP S/4HANA Finance (FICO) Architect to lead and provide hands-on functional architecture for enterprise-scale ECC to S/4HANA transformation programs across commercial and manufacturing environments.

The ideal candidate combines deep SAP Finance expertise with strong business acumen, exceptional stakeholder communication, and a proven record of successfully architecting and delivering multiple complex S/4HANA transformations. This individual must be equally comfortable engaging senior Finance leadership, driving cross-functional design decisions, and working hands-on with detailed SAP processes and configuration.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead end-to-end SAP Finance architecture and solution design for ECC to S/4HANA transformations.
• Drive fit-to-standard, process simplification, harmonization, and adoption of S/4HANA capabilities rather than simply replicating legacy ECC processes.
• Provide deep functional leadership across GL, AR, AP, Banking, Cash Management, Asset Accounting, Product Costing, Material Ledger, Intercompany, period-end close, and financial reporting.
• Lead Finance integration across SD, MM, PP, manufacturing, procurement, sales, and other enterprise processes.
• Serve as a key Finance architect for SAP Revenue Accounting and Reporting (RAR), including solution design, integration, accounting, testing, reconciliation, migration, and deployment.
• Represent Finance and business stakeholder interests in major solution and architecture decisions.
• Translate complex business, accounting, compliance, and control requirements into scalable S/4HANA solutions.
• Identify opportunities to improve business processes, automation, controls, compliance, data quality, and operational excellence.
• Lead Finance aspects of data migration, SIT/UAT, reconciliation, cutover, go-live, and stabilization.
• Facilitate executive and working-level design discussions and effectively manage cross-functional teams and implementation partners.

Leadership Profile:

We are looking for a business-focused architect, not simply a configuration specialist—someone who can move seamlessly between executive-level discussions and hands-on SAP solution design. The successful candidate will be a strong communicator and collaborative team player who can challenge legacy processes constructively, represent business stakeholder interests, drive difficult cross-functional decisions, and deliver solutions that improve process efficiency, financial controls, compliance, and overall business excellence.

Required Experience:

• Bachelor's degree in Finance or related field.

Required Experience:

• 8-10 years of proven experience within this related field.
• Extensive SAP FICO/S/4HANA Finance experience with demonstrated senior architect or solution-lead responsibilities.
• Proven delivery of multiple enterprise ECC to S/4HANA conversion/transformation programs, preferably in complex global environments.
• Strong hands-on experience across both commercial and manufacturing Finance processes.
• Expert knowledge of GL, AR, AP, Banking, Cash, Assets, Product Costing, Material Ledger, Intercompany, and Finance integration.
• Strong practical SAP RAR implementation experience is essential, including revenue contracts, performance obligations, allocation, fulfillment, revenue recognition, integration, and accounting.
• Strong understanding of S/4HANA Finance architecture, Universal Journal, Business Partner, and key ECC-to-S/4 process changes.
• Experience with financial controls, compliance, audit requirements, data migration, testing, reconciliation, and cutover.
• Exceptional communication and stakeholder-management skills, with the ability to influence senior Finance, business, IT, and program leadership.

Compensation and Benefits

This position may also be eligible to receive a variable annual bonus based on company, team, and/or individual performance results in accordance with company policy. We offer a comprehensive Total Rewards package that our U.S. colleagues and their families can count on, which includes:

• A choice of national medical and dental plans, and a national vision plan, including health incentive programs

• Employee assistance and family support programs, including commuter benefits and tuition reimbursement

• At least 120 hours paid time off (PTO), 10 paid holidays annually, paid parental leave (3 weeks for bonding and 8 weeks for caregiver leave), accident and life insurance, and short- and long-term disability in accordance with company policy

• Retirement and savings programs, such as our competitive 401(k) U.S. retirement savings plan

• Employees’ Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP) offers eligible colleagues the opportunity to purchase company stock at a discount

For more information on our benefits, please visit: https://jobs.thermofisher.com/global/en/total-rewards