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Role Overview:
The E2E Finance Architect will own the enterprise Finance solution architecture across SAP Financial Accounting and Controlling (FICO), subledger accounting, product costing, fixed assets, Project Accounting, SAP Profitability and Performance Management (PaPM), and SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC) for Financial Planning and Analysis (FP and A).
This role will provide architecture leadership for the current IAO transformation and maintain long-term ownership of the Finance technology roadmap after implementation. The architect will partner with Accounting, Manufacturing Finance, FP and A, business process owners, IT, and implementation partners to deliver integrated, scalable, and controlled Finance solutions.
Key Responsibilities:
End-to-end solution architecture ownership: Define and govern the Finance target architecture, solution designs, integration patterns, and architectural standards. Resolve cross-functional design issues and ensure consistency across accounting, costing, profitability, planning, and reporting.
Accounting and subledgers: Lead solution architecture across general ledger, accounts payable, accounts receivable, intercompany accounting, bank accounting, financial close, and subledger-to-general-ledger reconciliation. Ensure consistent financial data, reporting dimensions, and auditability.
- Product costing and manufacturing finance: Solution Architect standard and actual costing, Material Ledger, inventory valuation, work in process, overhead allocation, production variances, and profitability analysis. Address semiconductor requirements across wafer fabrication, assembly and test, yield and scrap impacts, and internal or outsourced manufacturing.
- Fixed assets and Project Accounting: Own solution architecture for asset acquisition, assets under construction, capitalization, depreciation, transfers, and retirement. Integrate project structures, budgeting, commitments, cost collection, and settlement with fixed assets and financial accounting.
- SAP PaPM: Define solution architecture for cost allocations, profitability models, business-driver calculations, and scenario analysis. Ensure transparent calculation logic, traceable results, and reconciliation with financial source systems.
- SAC for FP and A: Lead solution architecture for budgeting, forecasting, long-range planning, and management reporting, including operating expenses, capital expenditures, workforce costs, and integrated financial statements. Connect planning models with actuals and operational drivers.
- Treasury: Lead solution architecture for cash and liquidity management, bank account management, payments and bank connectivity, cash forecasting, and treasury risk management. Ensure integration with financial accounting, banking platforms, and FP and A to support accurate cash visibility, treasury accounting, and financial controls.
- Tax with ONE SOURCE: Own solution architecture and integration between SAP and Thomson Reuters ONESOURCE for indirect tax determination, calculation, and compliance reporting, including sales and use tax, VAT, and GST. Ensure accurate tax postings, reconciliation, and auditability across procurement, sales, and intercompany transactions.
- Current business transformation: Provide design authority through solution validation, build, integration testing, user acceptance testing, data migration, cutover, and stabilization. Review partner deliverables, resolve critical design gaps, and ensure business and operational readiness.
- Post-transformation ownership: Maintain the Finance architecture roadmap, govern enhancements and releases, guide resolution of complex production issues, reduce technical debt, and drive continuous improvement. Establish effective knowledge transfer and support ownership.
- Integration, controls, and leadership: Ensure Finance integration with procurement, sales, manufacturing, supply chain, projects, and enterprise data platforms. Embed financial controls, data governance, security requirements, and reconciliation into designs. Mentor solution leads and communicate solution architectural decisions and trade-offs to senior stakeholders.
- Successful delivery of at least one end-to-end SAP Finance transformation in the semiconductor industry, serving as a Finance architect or equivalent design lead, with involvement from design through go-live and stabilization.
- Deep functional and architectural expertise in SAP FICO, including SAP S/4HANA Finance, accounting and subledgers, product costing, fixed assets, and Project Accounting.
- Demonstrated solution design and delivery experience with both SAP PaPM and SAC Planning for FP and A, including integration with core Finance systems.
- Strong understanding of semiconductor manufacturing economics, inventory and product costing, capital-intensive operations, and their impact on accounting and planning.
- Experience governing cross-functional integrations, financial data migration and reconciliation, testing, cutover, and post-production stabilization.
- Ability to translate accounting policies and business requirements into solution designs, lead design decisions across teams, and influence senior Finance and IT stakeholders.
- Successful delivery of at least one end-to-end SAP Finance transformation in the semiconductor industry, serving as a Finance architect or equivalent design lead, with involvement from design through go-live and stabilization.
- Deep functional and architectural expertise in SAP FICO, including SAP S/4HANA Finance, accounting and subledgers, product costing, fixed assets, and Project Accounting.
- Demonstrated solution design and delivery experience with both SAP PaPM and SAC Planning for FP and A, including integration with core Finance systems.
- Strong understanding of semiconductor manufacturing economics, inventory and product costing, capital-intensive operations, and their impact on accounting and planning.
- Experience governing cross-functional integrations, financial data migration and reconciliation, testing, cutover, and post-production stabilization.
- Ability to translate accounting policies and business requirements into solution designs, lead design decisions across teams, and influence senior Finance and IT stakeholders.
Qualifications:
Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related discipline, or equivalent relevant professional experience.
- 12+ years of SAP Finance experience, including 5+ years leading solution architecture or enterprise Finance design for complex, global organizations.
Nice-to-Have Qualifications:
- Experience across multiple semiconductor operating models, such as integrated device manufacturing, foundry, fabless, or outsourced assembly and test.
- Advanced hands-on expertise in PaPM allocation and profitability models or SAC planning models, data actions, and scenario simulations.
- Experience with SAP Group Reporting, SAP Datasphere, BW/4HANA, SAP BTP, or integration with enterprise planning and data platforms.
- Experience with global Finance templates, multi-country deployments, parallel accounting, intercompany processes, and transfer-pricing integration.
- Experience establishing a Finance architecture practice or center of excellence and delivering measurable improvements in close efficiency, costing accuracy, planning effectiveness, and system reliability.
Job Type:
Experienced Hire
Shift:
Shift 1 (United States of America)
Primary Location:
US, Arizona, Phoenix
Additional Locations:
US, California, Folsom, US, California, Santa Clara, US, Oregon, Hillsboro
Posting Statement:
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, religious creed, sex, national origin, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, military and veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, gender, gender expression, gender identity, sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by local law, regulation, or ordinance.
Position of Trust
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Benefits
We offer a total compensation package that ranks among the best in the industry. It consists of competitive pay, stock bonuses, and benefit programs which include health, retirement, and vacation. Find out more about the benefits of working at Intel.
Annual Salary Range for jobs which could be performed in the US: $188,330.00-363,860.00 USD
The range displayed on this job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target compensation for the position across all US locations. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific compensation range for your preferred location during the hiring process.
Work Model for this Role
This role will be eligible for our hybrid work model which allows employees to split their time between working on-site at their assigned Intel site and off-site. * Job posting details (such as work model, location or time type) are subject to change.
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