Associate Director - SAP General Accounting Architect

Role Summary

Associate Director - SAP General Accounting Architect. The SAP GA Architect collaborates with GA, Tax, Fixed Assets, Capital, Lease Accounting, Product Costing, Treasury, Planning, Forecasting and Reporting partners to influence business processes, tools and operating models within the technical solution and business area. The role works across teams to identify opportunities for using technology and information in new ways.

Responsibilities

• Partner with functional leadership to define future state business processes and supporting technologies to accomplish short- and long-term business goals.
• Collaborate with key Business Partners and Architects to set direction through formation of a strategic roadmap.
• Work with key business partners and other IT business process consultants to identify business problems and evolve the global solution, using SAP and non-SAP systems, to meet the business needs most effectively.
• Leverage a deep understanding of how the IT tools are used by the business and how these tools interact, to influence the business to think in different ways by providing design direction and alternative options to meet business needs.
• Responsible for technical solution design and understanding integration points with SAP and other business applications
• Work with business process owners, other functional consultants, and Enterprise Architecture groups on cross organizational issues. Act as a liaison between IT and business partners on large-scale projects.
• Integration of global design with systems and processes, designing/developing interfaces to/from SAP working with both internal and external resources.
• Lead the development of evolving global design for incremental operational changes to key business processes in SAP, working directly with third party supplier ensuring they have appropriate understanding of business processes and supporting design at Lilly.
• Work directly with application vendors to understand and influence the vendor‚Äôs strategic direction for their product, keeping an outward focus to identify new trends and opportunities.
• Responsible for alignment of business architecture direction with other Tech at Lilly areas.
• Coach and mentor management, team, and others on business processes, technologies and designs as appropriate.
• Readiness and willingness to help guide similar design decisions in other module areas.

Qualifications

• Required: Bachelor‚Äôs degree in computer science, management information systems, information technology or related technical field.
• Required: 5+ years of implementing and maintaining SAP in the area of General Accounting and modules mentioned above.

Skills

• Experience in or knowledge of S/4 HANA implementations.
• Global view and ability to influence others to adopt different viewpoints.
• Understanding of current state and future direction for the area and the enterprise.
• Ability to establish key relationships outside the immediate business area.
• Understanding and influence of integration points with other business areas, processes, and functions.
• Strong initiative and self-management; ability to lead teams, influence others and manage conflict.
• Experience in regulated environments (e.g., GMP).
• Ability to operate at multiple levels (detail and strategic).
• Excellent communication skills across diverse forums.
• Ability to work independently with minimal direction.

Education

• Bachelor‚Äôs degree in computer science, management information systems, information technology or related technical field.

Additional Requirements

• Up to 10% US & OUS travel could be required.
• Located in Indianapolis, IN with a hybrid work model. Relocation required.