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SAP Finance/Data Architect Senior Manager - Retail

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**SAP Finance/Data Architect Senior Manager - Retail** Seniors sought for SAP Finance Data Architect role in Accenture's Retail & Fashion sector. Lead full-cycle SAP transformations, design finance info models supporting business strategy, and govern coding blocks in S/4HANA Finance. Expertise in retail-specific chart of accounts, profit center design, and profitability characteristics needed. Oversee large project teams, advise on AI strategy, and contribute to thought leadership. 10+ years' experience, deep retail industry knowledge required. Travel: 0-100% based on business needs.

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We Are:

Accenture helps the world's leading enterprises reinvent by building their digital core and unleashing the power of AI to create value at speed for organizations across industries. Our strategy is to be the reinvention partner of choice for our clients and lead in the safe, widespread adoption of AI, and to be the most client-focused, AI-enabled, great place to work in the world. We bring together the talent of our approximately 814,000 people with proprietary assets and platforms, deep process and industry expertise, and leading ecosystem relationships to deliver end-to-end solutions and measurable outcomes at scale. Through our Reinvention Services, we offer broad expertise across Cybersecurity, Digital Core, Finance, Industry and Enterprise, Song, Supply Chain and Engineering, and Talent, with advanced capabilities in AI and Data, Industry and Process, and Technology. We serve approximately 9,000 clients and generated approximately $74 billion in FY26 revenue. Visit us at accenture.com.


You Are:

A seasoned SAP Finance Data Architect with deep retail and fashion industry expertise and a passion for designing the finance information model that clients run their business on. You have led clients through full-cycle SAP Finance transformations from initial planning and analysis through build, test, and deployment and you know how to translate ambitious reporting and profitability goals into a clear, governed finance data structure. You are equally comfortable workshopping the chart of accounts with a Corporate Controller, aligning profit center and segment design with a CFO, or coaching a junior consultant through a master data design decision.


You bring specific depth in defining the finance coding block for retail and fashion chart of accounts, cost centers, profit centers, segments, and profitability characteristics and in making design choices that balance statutory requirements, management reporting needs across brands, banners, channels, stores and seasons, and long-term data governance.


The Work:


As an SAP Finance Data Architect in Retail & Fashion you will:


  • Engage senior client Finance executives on how the finance information model supports business strategy, profitability transparency, and reporting current and future.
  • Lead the definition of the finance information model across all phases of full-cycle SAP delivery: Plan, Analyze, Build, Test, and Deploy.
  • Define and govern the finance coding block for S/4HANA Finance: operational and group chart of accounts, company code and controlling area structure, cost center and profit center hierarchies, segments, functional areas, and other account assignment objects.
  • Design profit center and segment structures that deliver P&L visibility by brand, banner, channel (store, wholesale, e-commerce, franchise), region, and category, aligned with merchandise, article, and location hierarchies.
  • Define profitability analysis (Margin Analysis) characteristics and value fields, and the allocation, assessment, and cost-to-serve logic that supports retail and fashion margin reporting, including season and collection views.
  • Establish finance master data governance ownership, standards, naming conventions, and change processes including SAP MDG-F, and lead the mapping and migration of legacy structures to the target model.
  • Lead large, diverse project teams (onshore and offshore), maintaining quality, scope, and stakeholder alignment throughout delivery.
  • Advise on SAP's Business AI strategy identifying where well-structured finance data can enable AI-driven insight, automation, and predictive accounting in Finance and Retail operations.
  • Contribute to thought leadership, reusable assets, and best-practice templates (e.g., retail and fashion reference chart of accounts and profit center models) to grow Accenture's SAP Retail capability.

Travel may be required for this role. The amount of travel will vary from 0 to 100% depending on business need and client requirements

SAP Finance/Data Architect Senior Manager - Retail

Compensation

Not specified

City: Not specified

Country: Not specified

Accenture logo
Consultancies

4 days ago

No clicks

at Accenture

ExperiencedNo visa sponsorship

**SAP Finance/Data Architect Senior Manager - Retail** Seniors sought for SAP Finance Data Architect role in Accenture's Retail & Fashion sector. Lead full-cycle SAP transformations, design finance info models supporting business strategy, and govern coding blocks in S/4HANA Finance. Expertise in retail-specific chart of accounts, profit center design, and profitability characteristics needed. Oversee large project teams, advise on AI strategy, and contribute to thought leadership. 10+ years' experience, deep retail industry knowledge required. Travel: 0-100% based on business needs.

Full Job Description

We Are:

Accenture helps the world's leading enterprises reinvent by building their digital core and unleashing the power of AI to create value at speed for organizations across industries. Our strategy is to be the reinvention partner of choice for our clients and lead in the safe, widespread adoption of AI, and to be the most client-focused, AI-enabled, great place to work in the world. We bring together the talent of our approximately 814,000 people with proprietary assets and platforms, deep process and industry expertise, and leading ecosystem relationships to deliver end-to-end solutions and measurable outcomes at scale. Through our Reinvention Services, we offer broad expertise across Cybersecurity, Digital Core, Finance, Industry and Enterprise, Song, Supply Chain and Engineering, and Talent, with advanced capabilities in AI and Data, Industry and Process, and Technology. We serve approximately 9,000 clients and generated approximately $74 billion in FY26 revenue. Visit us at accenture.com.


You Are:

A seasoned SAP Finance Data Architect with deep retail and fashion industry expertise and a passion for designing the finance information model that clients run their business on. You have led clients through full-cycle SAP Finance transformations from initial planning and analysis through build, test, and deployment and you know how to translate ambitious reporting and profitability goals into a clear, governed finance data structure. You are equally comfortable workshopping the chart of accounts with a Corporate Controller, aligning profit center and segment design with a CFO, or coaching a junior consultant through a master data design decision.


You bring specific depth in defining the finance coding block for retail and fashion chart of accounts, cost centers, profit centers, segments, and profitability characteristics and in making design choices that balance statutory requirements, management reporting needs across brands, banners, channels, stores and seasons, and long-term data governance.


The Work:


As an SAP Finance Data Architect in Retail & Fashion you will:


  • Engage senior client Finance executives on how the finance information model supports business strategy, profitability transparency, and reporting current and future.
  • Lead the definition of the finance information model across all phases of full-cycle SAP delivery: Plan, Analyze, Build, Test, and Deploy.
  • Define and govern the finance coding block for S/4HANA Finance: operational and group chart of accounts, company code and controlling area structure, cost center and profit center hierarchies, segments, functional areas, and other account assignment objects.
  • Design profit center and segment structures that deliver P&L visibility by brand, banner, channel (store, wholesale, e-commerce, franchise), region, and category, aligned with merchandise, article, and location hierarchies.
  • Define profitability analysis (Margin Analysis) characteristics and value fields, and the allocation, assessment, and cost-to-serve logic that supports retail and fashion margin reporting, including season and collection views.
  • Establish finance master data governance ownership, standards, naming conventions, and change processes including SAP MDG-F, and lead the mapping and migration of legacy structures to the target model.
  • Lead large, diverse project teams (onshore and offshore), maintaining quality, scope, and stakeholder alignment throughout delivery.
  • Advise on SAP's Business AI strategy identifying where well-structured finance data can enable AI-driven insight, automation, and predictive accounting in Finance and Retail operations.
  • Contribute to thought leadership, reusable assets, and best-practice templates (e.g., retail and fashion reference chart of accounts and profit center models) to grow Accenture's SAP Retail capability.

Travel may be required for this role. The amount of travel will vary from 0 to 100% depending on business need and client requirements