Solution Architect SAP Finance & Controlling (R2R)
Kardex · Wexford, PA · 1 mo ago
HybridFull-time
We need to output HTML fragment with sections: headings using for sections like About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. We must not repeat job title as heading. Must include only sections with real specific content. Must not include filler like "commensurate with experience". Must preserve all substantive info. Remove boilerplate, navigation, legal, EEO, scam-warning, duplicated lines, application instructions. Also remove "Is this the right position for you? Then please send us your detailed application..." That's application instructions, remove.
We need to parse the posting.
Let's extract sections:
- About the role: description of role, responsibilities? Actually there is a paragraph: "The Kardex Group is one of the world's leading manufacturers... We are searching for our US entities a Solution Architect Record-to-Report (R2R) for the implementation and further development of S4Hana. In this role you are responsible for the design, implementation, and continuous improvement of Finance, Controlling, and Accounting solutions within Kardex's global SAP S/4HANA landscape. The role acts as a trusted IT partner for Finance business stakeholders and translates business requirements into scalable, standardized, and sustainable SAP solutions aligned with Kardex's ERP strategy and enterprise architecture principles. You are willing and able to commute to one of our US entities on a regular base such as Wexford, Westbrook or West Columbia. Working closely with Senior Solution Architects, Global Process Owners, SAP application teams, and implementation partners, the role supports the harmonization and optimization of global Record-to-Report processes while contributing to the successful execution of the Kardex Transformation Program."
That's about the role.
Then there is "Your tasks" with subheadings: Business & Solution Architecture, SAP Solution Design & Governance, Transformation & Project Delivery, Stakeholder Management, Operational Support & Continuous Improvement. Those are responsibilities.
Then "Your profile" with Education, Experience sections.
Then "We offer" with bullet points: Long-term prospects, Valuable support, Tangible added value, Visible benefits, Attractive extras. Those are benefits.
Pay and Schedule: Not explicitly mentioned. There's no salary figure. There's mention of "Attractive salary" but not specific. According to rule: never create Pay/Schedule sections unless posting actually states them. It says "Attractive salary" but not a number; still it's stating there is an attractive salary, but not a specific figure. The rule says: never emit a heading followed by filler/placeholder text (e.g. "commensurate with experience", "not specified", "N/A", "varies", "TBD") and never create Pay/Schedule/Benefits sections unless the posting actually states them. "Attractive salary" is vague but still states there is an attractive salary. However it's not a specific figure; but it's still stating a benefit. The rule about Pay section: we should only include if posting actually states them (like salary range, pay). Since it's vague, maybe we should not create a Pay section. Instead include salary mention under Benefits? The Benefits section can include "Attractive salary". The rule says we should include a Benefits section only when posting has real specific content for it. It does have "Attractive salary, company pension plan and insured benefits", "Corporate benefits, company and team events". That's specific enough. So we can have Benefits section.
Schedule: Not mentioned. No mention of work hours, remote, etc. There's "Flexible working hours" under Tangible added value. That's schedule info. So we could include Schedule section with "Flexible working hours". The rule: never create Schedule section unless posting actually states them. It does state flexible working hours. So we can include Schedule.
Pay: Not specific; maybe we skip Pay.
Now we need to format.
We need
for sections like About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. We must not repeat job title as heading. Must include only sections with real specific content. Must not include filler like "commensurate with experience". Must preserve all substantive info. Remove boilerplate, navigation, legal, EEO, scam-warning, duplicated lines, application instructions. Also remove "Is this the right position for you? Then please send us your detailed application..." That's application instructions, remove.
We need to parse the posting.
Let's extract sections:
- About the role: description of role, responsibilities? Actually there is a paragraph: "The Kardex Group is one of the world's leading manufacturers... We are searching for our US entities a Solution Architect Record-to-Report (R2R) for the implementation and further development of S4Hana. In this role you are responsible for the design, implementation, and continuous improvement of Finance, Controlling, and Accounting solutions within Kardex's global SAP S/4HANA landscape. The role acts as a trusted IT partner for Finance business stakeholders and translates business requirements into scalable, standardized, and sustainable SAP solutions aligned with Kardex's ERP strategy and enterprise architecture principles. You are willing and able to commute to one of our US entities on a regular base such as Wexford, Westbrook or West Columbia. Working closely with Senior Solution Architects, Global Process Owners, SAP application teams, and implementation partners, the role supports the harmonization and optimization of global Record-to-Report processes while contributing to the successful execution of the Kardex Transformation Program."
That's about the role.
Then there is "Your tasks" with subheadings: Business & Solution Architecture, SAP Solution Design & Governance, Transformation & Project Delivery, Stakeholder Management, Operational Support & Continuous Improvement. Those are responsibilities.
Then "Your profile" with Education, Experience sections.
Then "We offer" with bullet points: Long-term prospects, Valuable support, Tangible added value, Visible benefits, Attractive extras. Those are benefits.
Pay and Schedule: Not explicitly mentioned. There's no salary figure. There's mention of "Attractive salary" but not specific. According to rule: never create Pay/Schedule sections unless posting actually states them. It says "Attractive salary" but not a number; still it's stating there is an attractive salary, but not a specific figure. The rule says: never emit a heading followed by filler/placeholder text (e.g. "commensurate with experience", "not specified", "N/A", "varies", "TBD") and never create Pay/Schedule/Benefits sections unless the posting actually states them. "Attractive salary" is vague but still states there is an attractive salary. However it's not a specific figure; but it's still stating a benefit. The rule about Pay section: we should only include if posting actually states them (like salary range, pay). Since it's vague, maybe we should not create a Pay section. Instead include salary mention under Benefits? The Benefits section can include "Attractive salary". The rule says we should include a Benefits section only when posting has real specific content for it. It does have "Attractive salary, company pension plan and insured benefits", "Corporate benefits, company and team events". That's specific enough. So we can have Benefits section.
Schedule: Not mentioned. No mention of work hours, remote, etc. There's "Flexible working hours" under Tangible added value. That's schedule info. So we could include Schedule section with "Flexible working hours". The rule: never create Schedule section unless posting actually states them. It does state flexible working hours. So we can include Schedule.
Pay: Not specific; maybe we skip Pay.
Now we need to format.
We need for each section heading. Use - for any list of duties/requirements/benefits. Use
for prose.
We must not repeat job title as heading. So no heading like "Solution Architect Record-to-Report (R2R)". We'll just have sections.
We need to preserve all substantive information. Must not invent or summarize away detail. Must keep details like locations (Wexford, Westbrook, West Columbia). Must keep mention of travel, etc.
We need to decide how to structure.
Potential sections:
- About the role (paragraph summarizing role description)
- Responsibilities (list of tasks grouped under subheadings? Could keep subheadings as
? But only allowed headings are for section headings. We could keep subheadings as or just plain text within - . The instruction: use
for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). It doesn't forbid other headings, but we should follow. Probably we can keep subheadings as or . Safer to keep them as within - or as separate
with bold.
We need to include all tasks bullet points.
Similarly for profile: Education and Experience.
We need to decide whether to have separate sections for Education and Experience under Requirements/Qualifications/Skills. The instruction says we can use those headings if posting has real specific content. The posting has Education and Experience under "Your profile". Could map Education to Qualifications, Experience to Requirements, maybe Skills to SAP specific skills. But we must not invent sections that are thin. Better to have a single "Requirements" section that includes both education and experience bullet lists. Or we could have "Qualifications" for education and "Experience" for experience. Both are specific. The instruction: "Prefer a few substantive sections over many thin ones." So maybe combine into one "Requirements" section with sub-sections.
But we need to follow the rule: use
for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). It doesn't say we must use exactly those; they are examples. We can choose which to include.
Thus we can have:
About the role
...
Responsibilities
- Business & Solution Architecture: ...
...
Requirements
- Education: ...
- Experience: ...
Benefits
- Long-term prospects: A secure job in a fast-growing, international company with exciting development opportunities and interesting and varied tasks in a future-oriented environment
- Valuable support: Great team spirit, elaborate onboarding and a wide range of training opportunities in our own academy
- Tangible added value: Flexible working hours
- Visible benefits: Attractive salary, company pension plan and insured benefits
- Attractive extras: Corporate benefits, company and team events
Schedule
Flexible working hours
But note we already included flexible working hours under Benefits; maybe we should not duplicate. The posting lists "Tangible added value: Flexible working hours" under We offer. So we could keep that as a benefit. Then Schedule section may be redundant. However schedule could be just "Flexible working hours". Since we already have it under Benefits, maybe we omit Schedule section to avoid duplication. The rule: prefer few substantive sections over many thin ones. So we can omit Schedule.
Pay: we omit.
Thus final sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Benefits.
Check if we missed any info: travel requirement: "The position requires occasional domestic and international travel. During the first 12-18 months, increased travel is expected to support global transformation, template design, rollout, and deployment activities across Kardex locations." This is substantive; should be included. Where to put? Could be under Responsibilities or About the role. Probably under Responsibilities as a bullet.
Also mention commuting: "You are willing and able to commute to one of our US entities on a regular base such as Wexford, Westbrook or West Columbia." That's also a requirement; could be under Requirements.
We need to preserve all.
Let's extract details:
About the role paragraph: includes description of role, mention of commuting to US entities (Wexford, Westbrook, West Columbia). Actually that sentence is: "You are willing and able to commute to one of our US entities on a regular base such as Wexford, Westbrook or West Columbia." That's a requirement, but it's in the paragraph after role description. We could keep it in About the role paragraph as it's part of role description. Or move to Requirements. To preserve all, we can keep it in About the role paragraph.
Responsibilities: list of tasks under headings.
We need to capture each bullet:
Business & Solution Architecture:
- Analyze and translate finance, controlling, and accounting business requirements into scalable and sustainable SAP S/4HANA solution designs.
- Drive process standardization and identify opportunities to simplify, automate, and optimize Record-to-Report processes.
- Ensure alignment with global architecture principles, SAP standards, and Kardex template requirements.
SAP Solution Design & Governance:
- Design, document, and review SAP S/4HANA Finance solutions aligned with business requirements and architecture standards.
- Contribute to the maintenance and evolution of the global SAP Finance template.
- Ensure adoption of SAP standard functionality and minimize unnecessary custom developments.
- Collaborate with Solution Architects from other process domains to ensure end-to-end process integration.
Transformation & Project Delivery:
- Support the Kardex Transformation Program through workshops, fit-gap analyses, solution design, testing, rollout, and deployment activities.
- Collaborate with implementation partners to ensure high-quality delivery of agreed solutions.
Stakeholder Management:
- Act as trusted advisor to finance, controlling, and accounting stakeholders regarding SAP Finance capabilities and best practices.
- Support through requirements workshops, process improvement initiatives, and solution design discussions.
- Support escalation management and issue resolution for complex business and application topics.
Operational Support & Continuous Improvement:
- Provide expert support for complex Finance-related SAP incidents, problems, and enhancement requests.
- Coordinate and monitor 3rd-level support provided by implementation- and support-partners.
- Ensure solution quality, stability, maintainability, and effective knowledge transfer.
Requirements:
Education:
- Bachelor's or master’s degree in information technology, Business Informatics, Finance, Accounting, Business Administration, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
- Strong understanding of finance, controlling, and accounting business processes
- Fluent in English
- SAP S/4HANA Finance certifications are considered an advantage
Experience:
- Profound experience in SAP Finance and Controlling environments
- Hands-on experience with SAP S/4HANA in Finance-related process areas
- Experience with SAP FI, CO, General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Asset Accounting, Cost Center Accounting, Revenue Accounting & Reporting, Internal Orders, and Financial Reporting
- Experience gathering business requirements and translating them into SAP solution designs
- Experience working with implementation partners and business stakeholders in an international environment
- Experience supporting ERP projects, rollouts, system enhancements, or transformation initiatives
- Knowledge of end-to-end integration points between Finance and cross-functional business processes
- Knowledge about legal finance requirements in the Americas
- Experience with Sovos Tax Solutions for SAP preferred
Additional requirements:
- Willing and able to commute to one of our US entities on a regular basis such as Wexford, Westbrook or West Columbia.
- The position requires occasional domestic and international travel. During the first 12-18 months, increased travel is expected to support global transformation, template design, rollout, and deployment activities across Kardex locations.
Benefits:
- Long-term prospects: A secure job in a fast-growing, international company with exciting development opportunities and interesting and varied tasks in a future-oriented environment
- Valuable support: Great team spirit, elaborate onboarding and a wide range of training opportunities
- for any list of duties/requirements/benefits. Use
for prose. We must not repeat job title as heading. So no heading like "Solution Architect Record-to-Report (R2R)". We'll just have sections. We need to preserve all substantive information. Must not invent or summarize away detail. Must keep details like locations (Wexford, Westbrook, West Columbia). Must keep mention of travel, etc. We need to decide how to structure. Potential sections: - About the role (paragraph summarizing role description) - Responsibilities (list of tasks grouped under subheadings? Could keep subheadings as
? But only allowed headings are
for section headings. We could keep subheadings as or just plain text within
- . The instruction: use
for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). It doesn't forbid other headings, but we should follow. Probably we can keep subheadings as
or . Safer to keep them as within
- or as separate
with bold. We need to include all tasks bullet points. Similarly for profile: Education and Experience. We need to decide whether to have separate sections for Education and Experience under Requirements/Qualifications/Skills. The instruction says we can use those headings if posting has real specific content. The posting has Education and Experience under "Your profile". Could map Education to Qualifications, Experience to Requirements, maybe Skills to SAP specific skills. But we must not invent sections that are thin. Better to have a single "Requirements" section that includes both education and experience bullet lists. Or we could have "Qualifications" for education and "Experience" for experience. Both are specific. The instruction: "Prefer a few substantive sections over many thin ones." So maybe combine into one "Requirements" section with sub-sections. But we need to follow the rule: use
for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). It doesn't say we must use exactly those; they are examples. We can choose which to include. Thus we can have:
About the role
...
Responsibilities
- Business & Solution Architecture: ... ...
Requirements
- Education: ...
- Experience: ...
Benefits
- Long-term prospects: A secure job in a fast-growing, international company with exciting development opportunities and interesting and varied tasks in a future-oriented environment
- Valuable support: Great team spirit, elaborate onboarding and a wide range of training opportunities in our own academy
- Tangible added value: Flexible working hours
- Visible benefits: Attractive salary, company pension plan and insured benefits
- Attractive extras: Corporate benefits, company and team events
Schedule
Flexible working hours
But note we already included flexible working hours under Benefits; maybe we should not duplicate. The posting lists "Tangible added value: Flexible working hours" under We offer. So we could keep that as a benefit. Then Schedule section may be redundant. However schedule could be just "Flexible working hours". Since we already have it under Benefits, maybe we omit Schedule section to avoid duplication. The rule: prefer few substantive sections over many thin ones. So we can omit Schedule. Pay: we omit. Thus final sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Benefits. Check if we missed any info: travel requirement: "The position requires occasional domestic and international travel. During the first 12-18 months, increased travel is expected to support global transformation, template design, rollout, and deployment activities across Kardex locations." This is substantive; should be included. Where to put? Could be under Responsibilities or About the role. Probably under Responsibilities as a bullet. Also mention commuting: "You are willing and able to commute to one of our US entities on a regular base such as Wexford, Westbrook or West Columbia." That's also a requirement; could be under Requirements. We need to preserve all. Let's extract details: About the role paragraph: includes description of role, mention of commuting to US entities (Wexford, Westbrook, West Columbia). Actually that sentence is: "You are willing and able to commute to one of our US entities on a regular base such as Wexford, Westbrook or West Columbia." That's a requirement, but it's in the paragraph after role description. We could keep it in About the role paragraph as it's part of role description. Or move to Requirements. To preserve all, we can keep it in About the role paragraph. Responsibilities: list of tasks under headings. We need to capture each bullet: Business & Solution Architecture: - Analyze and translate finance, controlling, and accounting business requirements into scalable and sustainable SAP S/4HANA solution designs. - Drive process standardization and identify opportunities to simplify, automate, and optimize Record-to-Report processes. - Ensure alignment with global architecture principles, SAP standards, and Kardex template requirements. SAP Solution Design & Governance: - Design, document, and review SAP S/4HANA Finance solutions aligned with business requirements and architecture standards. - Contribute to the maintenance and evolution of the global SAP Finance template. - Ensure adoption of SAP standard functionality and minimize unnecessary custom developments. - Collaborate with Solution Architects from other process domains to ensure end-to-end process integration. Transformation & Project Delivery: - Support the Kardex Transformation Program through workshops, fit-gap analyses, solution design, testing, rollout, and deployment activities. - Collaborate with implementation partners to ensure high-quality delivery of agreed solutions. Stakeholder Management: - Act as trusted advisor to finance, controlling, and accounting stakeholders regarding SAP Finance capabilities and best practices. - Support through requirements workshops, process improvement initiatives, and solution design discussions. - Support escalation management and issue resolution for complex business and application topics. Operational Support & Continuous Improvement: - Provide expert support for complex Finance-related SAP incidents, problems, and enhancement requests. - Coordinate and monitor 3rd-level support provided by implementation- and support-partners. - Ensure solution quality, stability, maintainability, and effective knowledge transfer. Requirements: Education: - Bachelor's or master’s degree in information technology, Business Informatics, Finance, Accounting, Business Administration, or an equivalent combination of education and experience. - Strong understanding of finance, controlling, and accounting business processes - Fluent in English - SAP S/4HANA Finance certifications are considered an advantage Experience: - Profound experience in SAP Finance and Controlling environments - Hands-on experience with SAP S/4HANA in Finance-related process areas - Experience with SAP FI, CO, General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Asset Accounting, Cost Center Accounting, Revenue Accounting & Reporting, Internal Orders, and Financial Reporting - Experience gathering business requirements and translating them into SAP solution designs - Experience working with implementation partners and business stakeholders in an international environment - Experience supporting ERP projects, rollouts, system enhancements, or transformation initiatives - Knowledge of end-to-end integration points between Finance and cross-functional business processes - Knowledge about legal finance requirements in the Americas - Experience with Sovos Tax Solutions for SAP preferred Additional requirements: - Willing and able to commute to one of our US entities on a regular basis such as Wexford, Westbrook or West Columbia. - The position requires occasional domestic and international travel. During the first 12-18 months, increased travel is expected to support global transformation, template design, rollout, and deployment activities across Kardex locations. Benefits: - Long-term prospects: A secure job in a fast-growing, international company with exciting development opportunities and interesting and varied tasks in a future-oriented environment - Valuable support: Great team spirit, elaborate onboarding and a wide range of training opportunities - . The instruction: use