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About the Role

The SAP Finance Domain Architect is Talan’s functional authority for SAP finance processes, covering the value chain from planning and budgeting through transactional execution, consolidation, close, and integration with every module that posts to the general ledger. The role involves shaping solutions, approving functional designs, arbitrating gaps against standard, and safeguarding the coherence of postings, master data, and process handoffs.

Responsibilities

Provide deep functional expertise to shape solutions by distinguishing standard capabilities, genuine gaps, and the choice among configuration, extension, or process change.
Lead Finance workstreams in digital discovery and readiness assessments, presenting recommendations, estimates, assumptions, and trade-offs.
Assess the financial implications of adjacent process designs, including revenue recognition, intercompany activity, inventory valuation, fixed assets, and period close.
Define and uphold the functional architecture for Finance, including universal journal, the SAP S/4HANA data model, consolidation, planning, costing, margin analysis, asset accounting, project systems, and treasury touchpoints.
Configure and prototype complex scenarios to confirm end-to-end behavior of postings, master data, and interfaces.
Advise clients on IFRS and statutory requirements in Canada and the United States and on the integration of tax engines and e-invoicing.
Review and approve functional designs, specifications for reports, interfaces, enhancements, forms, and workflows, and critical test strategies and scripts.
Support defect analysis during testing and resolve domain escalations through cutover, hypercare, and transition into AMS.
Guide data migration and cutover decisions, including opening balances, open items, and master-data quality thresholds.
Act as the Finance design authority across multiple concurrent engagements and serve as the quality gate before deliverables reach clients.
Coach functional consultants through design reviews, contribute to interviews and onboarding, and identify practice development needs.
Track the SAP roadmap for the domain and brief the practice on changes affecting the standard approach, clean core, and cloud solutions.
Create and maintain reusable process models, configuration accelerators, demo environments and scripts, guides, and design patterns.
Capture engagement lessons and patterns in practice intellectual property and contribute domain content to AI-enabled delivery tools and the internal knowledge base.

Requirements

At least twelve (12) years of SAP experience, including at least ten (10) years of hands-on configuration in Finance, with a track record as the domain escalation point.
Participation in at least four (4) SAP S/4HANA projects on current releases, including at least one greenfield implementation or selective transition where the candidate owned domain design.
At least three (3) years reviewing and approving other people’s functional designs, with demonstrated experience supporting multiple concurrent engagements.
Expertise in universal journal and the SAP S/4HANA Finance data model, Group Reporting or a comparable consolidation tool, SAP Analytics Cloud Planning, product costing, and margin analysis.
Hands-on experience with asset accounting, project systems, capital project accounting, and integration points involving revenue recognition, intercompany activity, inventory valuation, fixed assets, and period close.
Working knowledge of IFRS and local statutory requirements in Canada and the United States and of the integration of tax engines and e-invoicing.
Working credibility in at least two of Mining, Oil and Gas, Consumer Packaged Goods, and Industrial Manufacturing.
Good oral and written communication skills in English.

Skills

SAP
SAP S/4HANA
Finance
Universal Journal
SAP S/4HANA Finance data model
Group Reporting
SAP Analytics Cloud Planning
Product Costing
Margin Analysis
Asset Accounting
Project Systems
Capital Project Accounting
Revenue Recognition
Intercompany Activity
Inventory Valuation
Fixed Assets
Period Close
IFRS
Canadian statutory requirements
US statutory requirements
Tax Engines
E-invoicing
Mining industry
Oil and Gas industry
Consumer Packaged Goods industry
Industrial Manufacturing industry
Consulting
Big Four firm experience
SAP partner experience
Reusable accelerators
SAP public cloud
Clean-core constraints
Central Finance
SAP Datasphere
SAP Business Data Cloud
SAP S/4HANA certification
CPA
CMA

Location

Canada

Work Type

Remote
Hybrid
Permanent contract

Experience Level

12+ years SAP experience
10+ years hands-on configuration in Finance
4+ SAP S/4HANA projects
3+ years reviewing and approving functional designs

Education Level

Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field.

Salary/Compensations

CAD 170000 - CAD 200000

Benefits

Professional development
Profit sharing
Health & well-being insurance on your first day
RPDP, Deferred Profit-Sharing Regime
Flexible work in hybrid mode
Allowance for public transit and cell phone
Generous employer participation to your RRSP.

About the Company

Talan is an international group that supports clients in their end-to-end Data & AI transformation by combining management consulting with technological expertise.
With over 6,000 employees across five continents, Talan accelerates client transformations through long-term partnerships, creating measurable and sustainable impact.
Talan's value proposition is built on a structured innovation ecosystem: 2,500 Data & AI experts, proprietary solutions built on advanced models, and an applied research, experimental development, and innovation laboratory.
In Americas, Talan's multidisciplinary teams bring over 30 years of experience helping business leaders across key industries achieve measurable performance and strong ROI, designing, building, and scaling solutions that enable companies to grow more efficiently.

Equal Opportunity

Talan offers competitive salaries and equal opportunities for all.
For the purposes of this job offer, the feminine and masculine genders designate indistinctly the staff of both sexes and do not establish any distinction based on sex.
Talan is committed to employment equity.