SAP FI/CO Team Lead & Architect CO

About the Role

What you will be doing

Team Leadership & Resource Management

• People Management: Assist the S4 OTC & FI Delivery Manager with resource planning, recruitment, onboarding, and performance management for your team (up to 5 team members)
• Workstream Facilitation: Drive weekly functional and project stream meetings to discuss progress, log actions/decisions, and prioritize cross-project Change Requests alongside SAP Solution Architects and Business Process Owners (BPO)

Delivery & Project Execution

• Planning & Monitoring: Partner with Project Managers to align team deliverables with the overarching project roadmap
• Quality Assurance: Oversee and review core team deliverables — including requirements analysis, configuration, testing, documentation, defect resolution, training, and hyper-care support — for completeness and accuracy
• Reporting: Provide comprehensive weekly status updates and oversee time-tracking validation across multi-project initiatives
• Customizing in SAP CO, functional analysis and testing (WRICEF), participate in data design and validations (especially around sales order costing), train Business Key Users and provide users support during hyper-care

Stakeholder & Template Alignment

• Global Template Governance: Specifically for Finance & Controlling, work closely with Global SAP Solution Architects to maintain global template consistency across diverse business units

What will make you successful?

Experience:

• 8+ years of experience as an SAP FI/CO functional consultant with 3 years in a Team Lead role
• Proven success in driving SAP S/4HANA implementation lifecycle phases (Greenfield, Brownfield, or Rollouts) using SAP Activate and Agile methodologies
• Hands-on SAP CO customizing and implementation experience
• Worked in enterprise-level, global SAP project environments
• Strong understanding of end-to-end finance and controlling business processes
• Demonstrated track record of leading small teams of around 5 people
• Experience with designing and implementing SAP FI/CO solutions in S/4 HANA environments
• Strong domain experience in manufacturing industries (preferably Metal and/or Automotive), preferably in a MTO (Make to Order) environment

Technical & Functional Expertise:

• Expert-level understanding of the SAP product suite, customization, and underlying module architecture within your functional workstream
• Solid grasp of SAP integration (iDocs, eDocs, EDI) and basic ABAP debugging
• General understanding of environment management, release control, code versioning, and deployment best practices
• Working experience with Fiori and SAP Analytics Cloud. Interested to learn about SAP Joule
• Knowledge of VIM is a plus

Education & Soft Skills:

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in IT, Business Administration, or an equivalent combination of education and experience
• Tools: Proficiency with project tools (MS Project, ServiceNow, Microfocus ALM, Project for the Web) and MS Office 365
• Languages: Fluent in spoken and written English
• Mobility: Must possess a valid driving license and be willing to travel up to 30%
• Competencies: Strong leadership, structured planning, clear written and oral communication, and a collaborative team-first mindset

What we offer you

• Working at the world’s only fully integrated aluminum and leading renewable energy company
• Diverse, global teams
• Flexible work environment/home office
• We provide you the freedom to be creative and to learn from experts
• Possibility to grow with the company, gain new certificates
• Attractive benefit package