SAP Solutions Architect

We are looking for an experienced SAP HANA Solution Architect to support a strategic third-party spend control and recovery initiative.

The role will focus on identifying and preventing spend leakage across procurement and invoicing processes, including unapplied credits and rebates, off-rate-card and off-PO spend, invoicing outside approved utilisation, and unclaimed contractual penalties.

You will build and maintain a spend leakage register , prioritise opportunities based on financial exposure, define control requirements, and work with SAP, Ariba, Sirion CLM and analytics teams to implement effective controls.

The successful candidate will be hands-on and able to take requirements through functional design, configuration, testing and implementation .

Key Responsibilities

• Identify, analyse and prioritise third-party spend leakage opportunities based on financial exposure.
• Build and maintain a leakage/control register covering credits, rebates, rate-card compliance, PO compliance and invoice discrepancies.
• Define functional and system requirements for procurement and invoice controls.
• Design controls across SAP, Ariba, Sirion CLM and/or detection analytics .
• Produce detailed functional specifications for SAP configuration and development teams.
• Support configuration, integration, testing and implementation of the required controls.
• Implement delivery-before-payment validation , invoice controls and exception-handling processes.
• Work closely with Procurement, Finance, Accounts Payable, Contract Management and Technology teams.
• Support contract compliance and recovery activities, including invoice reconciliation and recovery of missed credits, rebates and penalties.
• Ensure controls are tested and operational before the end of the engagement.

Must-Have Skills & Experience

• Strong hands-on experience with SAP P2P (Procure-to-Pay) .
• Expertise in SAP S/4HANA or ECC – MM/FI .
• Strong knowledge of:
• Purchase Orders and release strategies
• Goods Receipt (GR) / Service Entry Sheets (SES)
• 3-way and 4-way invoice matching
• Invoice blocking and tolerance configuration
• Invoice validation and exception handling
• Hands-on experience with SAP Ariba and/or VIM (Vendor Invoice Management) invoice-validation configuration.
• Ability to write detailed functional specifications and work directly with SAP configuration teams.
• Experience taking requirements through design, configuration, testing and implementation .
• Strong understanding of contract compliance and recovery audit processes.
• Experience with rate cards, T&M returns, SOWs, credits, rebates and invoice reconciliation .
• Strong Business Analysis and requirements elicitation skills.
• Demonstrable experience delivering process and system changes through to completion.