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Talan

Agile IT transformation consulting and delivery

SAP Finance Architect - Finance

Pre-Sales Solution Engineering +1Confirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeMontreal, QC, Canada

About the Job

Requirements

  • Minimum of twelve years of SAP experience, including at least ten years of hands-on configuration experience in the finance domain and experience serving as an escalation point.
  • Participation in at least four SAP S/4HANA projects on current versions, including at least one greenfield implementation or selective transition in which the candidate led domain design.
  • At least three years of reviewing and approving other people's functional designs while supporting multiple engagements in parallel.
  • Demonstrated experience with opportunity qualification, discovery meetings, solution design, estimates, commercial proposals, demonstrations, and client presentations.
  • Expertise in the SAP S/4HANA Finance universal journal and data model, Group Reporting or a comparable consolidation tool, SAP Analytics Cloud Planning, cost accounting, and margin analysis.
  • Hands-on experience with fixed-asset accounting, project systems, capital-project accounting, and integration points related to revenue recognition, intercompany operations, inventory valuation, fixed assets, and financial close.
  • Practical knowledge of International Financial Reporting Standards and local statutory requirements in Canada and the United States, including integration of tax engines and electronic invoicing.
  • Professional credibility in at least two of the following sectors: mining, oil and gas, consumer goods, and industrial manufacturing.
  • A bachelor's degree in business administration, finance, engineering, information technology, or a related field.
  • The position is based in Canada and requires travel to clients in North America approximately 20% to 40% of the time.
  • Strong oral and written communication skills in French and English to communicate with clients across North America.

Responsibilities

  • Spend up to 50% of the time on presales activities, including opportunity qualification, discovery workshops, and client presentations.
  • Design SAP Finance solutions, prepare estimates, and contribute to commercial proposals with sales and delivery teams.
  • Develop demonstrations, accelerators, and reusable offerings to support practice growth.
  • Provide deep functional expertise for solution shaping by distinguishing standard functionality, actual gaps, and choices between configuration, extension, or process evolution.
  • Lead the finance portions of digital discovery and readiness assessments and present recommendations, estimates, assumptions, and trade-offs during workshops, proposals, and client presentations.
  • Evaluate the financial impacts of related process designs, including revenue recognition, intercompany operations, inventory valuation, fixed assets, and financial close.
  • Define and enforce the functional architecture for the finance domain, including the universal journal, SAP S/4HANA data model, consolidation, planning, costing, margin analysis, fixed assets, project systems, and treasury.
  • Configure and prototype complex scenarios when design choices cannot be resolved on paper, then confirm end-to-end behavior of postings, master data, and interfaces.
  • Advise clients on Canadian and United States IFRS and statutory requirements and on the role of tax engines and electronic invoicing in the solution.
  • Review and approve functional designs, report specifications, interfaces, enhancements, forms, workflows, and critical testing strategies for the domain.
  • Support defect analysis during integration, user acceptance, and regression testing, and resolve domain-related escalations during go-live, hypercare, and transition to application management services.
  • Guide data-migration and cutover decisions, including opening balances, open items, and master-data quality thresholds.
  • Act as the finance domain design authority across multiple simultaneous engagements and serve as a quality checkpoint before deliverables are presented to clients.
  • Support functional consultants through design reviews, contribute to interviews and onboarding, and identify capabilities the practice should develop, train, or recruit.
  • Track the SAP roadmap for the domain and inform the practice about changes affecting the standard approach, clean core, and cloud solutions.
  • Create and maintain process models, configuration accelerators, environments, demonstration scenarios, guides, and reusable design patterns for presales and delivery.
  • Document lessons learned and patterns from engagements in the practice's intellectual property and contribute domain content to AI-based delivery tools and the internal knowledge base.

Desired Qualifications

  • Experience in investment accounting in an asset-intensive sector or in trade spending and deductions in the consumer-goods sector.
  • Experience providing consulting services at a Big Four firm or SAP partner, creating reusable accelerators, and working with SAP public cloud and clean-core constraints.
  • Exposure to Central Finance, SAP Datasphere, or SAP Business Data Cloud.
  • SAP S/4HANA certification in financial accounting or controlling.
  • SAP Group Reporting or SAP Analytics Cloud Planning certification is preferred.
  • CPA, CMA, or equivalent designation is considered an asset.

About the Company

Talan

Agile IT transformation consulting and delivery

Talan is a European consulting and IT services group that helps organizations transform and adapt to fast-changing environments. It offers a full range of services from strategic business consultancy to packaged IT solutions, including production support, software development, business analysis, and nearshore delivery. The company works by deploying multidisciplinary teams across its global offices to guide clients through agile transformations, change programs, and IT modernization. Talan differentiates itself through its international footprint, sector focus on Major Service Operators, and a culture built on transparency, respect, teamwork, entrepreneurial spirit, and commitment. With strong organic growth and a large pool of over 3,500 consultants, its goal is to create and share value for clients while coaching and developing its people—empowering customers to transform and compete more effectively.

Company size
1,001-5,000
Company stage
Late Stage VC
Total funding
$110M
Headquarters
Paris, France
Founded
2002

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