Finance Solution Architect

**Come create the technology that helps the world act together**

Nokia is committed to innovation and technology leadership across mobile, fixed and cloud networks. Your career here will have a positive impact on people’s lives and will help us build the capabilities needed for a more productive, sustainable, and inclusive world.

We challenge ourselves to create an inclusive way of working where we are open to new ideas, empowered to take risks and fearless to bring our authentic selves to work.

**The team you'll be part of**

Strategy and Technology lays the path for Nokia’s future technology innovation and identifies the most promising areas for Nokia to create new value. We set the company’s strategy and technology vision, offer an unparalleled research foundation for innovation, and provide critical support infrastructure for Nokia.

As a highly experienced** Finance Solution Architect **professional, you will be responsible for supporting in translating business requirements into standard/customer solutions on Finance&Controlling focusing the skillsets on the area of your domain: S2P

You will be responsible for working with Technical Solution Architects who code, develop, build and propose technical solutions.

**What you will learn and contribute to**

Are you passionate about solving problems?
As part of our team, you will:

- Create solution architecture and provide technical Solution Design.
- Work together with technology leads, technical solution architects and partners to design solutions from stakeholder requirements, capturing and managing using industry best practices.
- Manage complex assignments independently for the specific domain including solution support to stakeholders.
- Ensure cross-BU co-ordination in solution definition & development.
- Define and manage detailed architectural requirements for solution design and executes some of the build work during delivery phase for projects when applicable.
- Develop and deploy the solution architecture capabilities, tools and techniques and ensures that overall technical solution and architecture is aligned and based on the enterprise architecture as also compliance and security company standards.
- Evaluate new capability needs against platform capabilities
- Create or maintain e2e solution architecture

As a recognized expert, you will represent company externally in front of suppliers and partners. You will present solution architecture & design to stakeholder for verification and make required adaptations. You will keep the alignment between enterprise architecture blueprint and solution design. You will provide system architecture/design functional specifications as well as can improve support business models through proposals. Will be assigned to projects to ensure technical/architectural integrity and consistency of the solution on every stage of its lifecycle.

**Your skills and experience**

You have:

- BSc or MSc in relevant field
- Experience in the area of S/4 Finance functional capability and Central Finance. Understanding of supply chain requirements from E2E perspective and its integration with Finance functionality.
- 5-10 years of relevant experience in ERP solution and good E2E overview of the FI/CO module and it’s integration points to SD/MM/PP.
- Keep a dedicated focus to one area of your domain: S2P
- S2P - Ability to understand Direct and Indirect procurement flows focused on Accounts Payable Invoice integration. Good perception of 2way and 3way matching and understand the integration with tools such as Process Director and Ariba Network. Good understanding of Payment run creation and outgoing file creation.
- Capability to validate system solutions, design and propose alternatives from process, change, business viewpoints to best implement standard solutions.
- Understanding of the relationship between costs, schedule, quality, speed in a defining a solution and make tradeoff recommendations.

It would be nice if you also had:

- Experience working on third party integrations and EDI integrations.
- Understanding Cloud, SaaS, Mobile concepts, architectures, and standard deployment models
- Good understanding on Fiori apps, role design for Fiori apps
- Nice to have basic ABAP debugging experience.

**What we offer**

Nokia offers flexible and hybrid working schemes, continuous learning opportunities, well-being programs to support you mentally and physically, opportunities to join and get supported by employee resource groups, mentoring programs and highly diverse teams with an inclusive culture where people thrive and are empowered.

**Nokia is committed to inclusion and is an equal opportunity employer**

Nokia has received the following recognitions for its commitment to inclusion & equality:

- One of the World’s Most Ethical Companies by Ethisphere
- Gender-Equality Index by Bloomberg
- Workplace Pride Global Benchmark
- LGBT+ equality & best place to work by HRC Foundation

At Nokia, we act inclusiv