Hybrid Finance Solution Architect

at Nokia

• Job title: Finance Solution Architect
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior, Lead
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: Cloud
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Bangalore, India

About the role

• Finance Solution Architect responsible for creating Finance solutions at Nokia. Collaborating with teams to define and manage architecture and design for customer requirements.

Responsibilities

• Creates solution architecture and provides technical Solution Design with focus on the Finance Intercompany domain area.
• Works together with technology leads, developers, and partners to design solutions based on customer requirements.
• Captures and manages customer requirements using industry best practice.
• Manages complex assignments independently for the specific domain including consultancy to stakeholders.
• Ensures cross-BU co-ordination in solution definition & development.
• Defines and manages detailed architectural requirements for solution design and build work during delivery phase for projects.
• Develops and deploys the solution architecture capabilities, tools and techniques. Ensures that overall technical solution and architecture is aligned and based on the enterprise architecture.
• As a recognised expert, represents company externally to supplier and partners.
• Presents solution architecture & design to stakeholder for verification and makes required adaptations.
• Acts as permanent consultant in respective competence area. It requires knowledge on Logistic Chain (MM and SD) module requirements linked from E2E process flow.
• Keeps the alignment between enterprise architecture blueprint and recommendations and solution design implementation.
• Provides system architecture and design specifications as well as solutions to support business and operating models and other architectural or security aspects.
• May be assigned to a particular project or program in an enterprise to ensure technical/architectural integrity and consistency of the solution on every stage of its lifecycle.
• Evaluates the new needed capabilities and business requirements against platform capabilities.
• Creates and maintains E2E data architecture incl. Version management considerations.
• Provides proven methods for functionality enablement.
• Determines approach for system- and data migration.

Requirements

• BSc or MSc in relevant field with 7-10 years of relevant experience of business transformation work with subject matter expertise and advanced knowledge in third party sales processes; intercompany sales and business processing; intercompany Stock Transfer Orders; intercompany pricing and billing; Sales Orders; and Deliveries. Good knowledge and exposure to the concept of Transfer pricing and value flow.
• Very good knowledge of the Business and business processes in your given domain beyond the borders of SAP; more than just a knowledge of how to configure SAP
• Strong Business application knowledge of SAP S/4 HANA and SAP ECC solution
• Exposure to both IFRS and USGAAP and SAP FICO and Customer/Vendor master data knowledge.
• Capability to validate system solutions, design and propose alternatives from process, change, business viewpoints to best implement standard solutions.
• Experience evaluating the change management impact of a proposed solution.
• Ability to understand the process and solution architecture E2E across multiple technologies.
• Comfortable with agile, DevOps and waterfall methodologies.
• Can guide external and internal project teams.
• Understanding of the relationship between costs, schedule, quality, speed in a defining a solution and make trade-off recommendations.
• Understanding Cloud, SaaS, Mobile concepts, architectures, and standard deployment models.

Benefits

• Flexible and hybrid working schemes
• A minimum of 90 days of Maternity and Paternity Leave, with the option to return to work within a year following the birth or adoption of a child (based on eligibility)
• Life insurance to all employees to provide peace of mind and financial security
• Well-being programs to support your mental and physical health
• Opportunities to join and receive support from Nokia Employee Resource Groups (NERGs)
• Employee Growth Solutions to support your personalized career & skills development
• Diverse pool of Coaches & Mentors to whom you have easy access
• A learning environment which promotes personal growth and professional development - for your role and beyond