SAP Solution Architect

Ahold Delhaize is one of the world's largest food retail groups, with a strong presence in Europe, the United States, and Indonesia. Our family of great local brands serves over 50 million customers each week, employing more than 420,000 associates in over 7,000 grocery and specialty stores.

We are seeking an experienced SAP Solution Architect to join our Global Support Office (GSO) team. As a key member of our finance team, you will be responsible for driving finance innovations in SAP S/4HANA and BPC applications.

• Participate in the process of gathering business requirements and lead in design, validation, and implementation of SAP S/4HANA Financial Implementation.
• Produce list of deliverables, cost estimates, and time estimates related to the assigned project(s) to assist with effective project/initiative management.
• Participate with key stakeholders (business and IT) to document business requirements for the projects and translate those requirements into detailed design documentation.
• Interface with IT, PMO, Finance Business, SAP, and System Integrator for Ahold Delhaize efforts to maximize returns from SAP System in support of delivering timely, qualitative, robust, and scalable solutions.
• Help determine integration needs and design/development/solution patterns that can be reused optimally.
• Interfaces with and guides software engineers and/or vendor partners in providing clarifications on design patterns, as needed.
• Perform solution verification to ensure the solution is built in accordance with the specifications meeting business and technical requirements.
• Involved in the effort to build out legacy integrations with new S/4HANA Finance.
• Partner with Quality Assurance to make sure appropriate System Integration and User Acceptance Testing is performed.
• Design, Development & Transition:
  • Supports the Business by designing, developing, and transitioning the S/4HANA Finance solution aligned with strategic Finance Transformation roadmap.
  • Provide S/4HANA Finance solution expertise in the analysis, design, and preparation of technology solutions to meet business needs.
  • Recommends components for S/4HANA Finance solution that will work well together across business domains, partner with domain architect to ensure adherence to the architectural roadmap.
  • Ensures project and operational artifacts are developed as required, this includes working with support organizations and suppliers to ensure proper documentation is created and stored in the procedures manual or document repository.
  • Acts as the primary communication point keeping IT and business partners informed of infrastructure changes, application changes, data changes, or upcoming implementations and ensures business-specific impacts are addressed.
  • Ensures all deliverables are met related to the change management process.
  • Ensures integration and consideration of assigned business areas against critical business processing, freeze periods, schedule changes, weather events, and significant refresh activities.
  • As required, responsible for delivery of project management role for smaller projects from inception to completion including all project artifacts, executive status reports, etc.
  • Adheres to published design and development standards.
  • Maintain the integrated portfolio FIT roadmap based on latest program and project changes.
  Business Relationship Management:
  • Supports the Business Consultant in the process of leading the relationship with business leads to define the Finance Transformation roadmap.
  • Work collaboratively with Global Finance and IT peers to maintain the strategic IT objectives.
  • Participate in workshops to build out a Global Template that will be used in other Ahold Delhaize implementations.
  • Continuously evaluate, prioritize, and optimize IT investment based on strategic value, business needs, cost/benefits, and critical risk.
  • Provides consulting/direction to solve business problems or needs arising from everyday events or unexpected/catastrophic events. This includes recognizing the problem, resources needed to resolve as well as managing to process needed for proper completion, including executive management updates as required.
  • Thorough understanding of the business strategy, operations, markets, and key stakeholders.
  • Reviews business processes to understand the capability gaps and opportunities. Recommends Innovations and business processes/systems simplifications.
  • Prioritizes and plan delivery in each function with the key stakeholders, manage conflicts between functional priorities as required.
  • Ensures integration and consideration of assigned business areas against critical business processing, freeze periods, holiday schedule changes, weather events, and significant refresh activities.
  • Acts as third level of support.
  Financial & Risk:
  • Forecast and plan for approved demand, supporting the Solution Development leadership in ensuring the group has the available resources to support on-time and on-budget project delivery. Establish strong habitual risk management practices in the organization.
  • Participates in the scheduling of IT projects based on financial and strategic justifications in close cooperation with business and IT stakeholders.
  • Participates in the overall scheduling of programs and projects that best support the strategic intent of Ahold Delhaize IT in the areas of Solution Development Finance & Accounting.
  • Assists Portfolio Manager in managing resources to support demand for the strategic projects.
  • Partners with Solutions Senior Directors to ensure the Solution Development group has the internal and external resources required to address demand that has been committed to, and optimize allocation of resources across projects in an efficient manner.
  • Liaise with Business Support, Architecture, and Solutions Senior Directors to understand the types of technology that may be implemented in the near term and the capabilities that are needed to implement these technologies.
  Leadership:
  • Partners with IT Solutions Development management team to establish and support a high-performance, service-oriented culture that enables the operating unit Ahold Delhaize to drive sales growth and productivity performance across the organization.
  • Seeks opportunities to drive efficiency to release resource to deliver more and support the business better.
  • Proactively continuously improving their system portfolio.
  • Maintains a high level of individual contribution, professional growth, and ability to function effectively and independently, challenges others to do the same.

Basic Qualifications:

• B.S. in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
• Experience in SAP S/4HANA Finance and BPC.
• Successfully implemented SAP S/4HANA and maintained it for multibillion-dollar organization.
• 10+ years' experience.
• Retail or manufacturing experience is an asset.
• Experience working with cloud or hosted solutions.
• Experience with full life cycle of complex program (from estimation - business requirements - testing - deployment).
• Experience documenting business requirements and translating those into design.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Develops and maintain high-quality software products supporting the organization's standards.
• Ability to manage own work time and priorities in accordance with aggressive timelines and budgets.