Finance Systems Integration Manager, SAP B1

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United Kingdom.

📋 Description

• Supervise, mentor, and prioritize the tasks of a small team consisting of developers and one infrastructure engineer, ensuring an even distribution of workload, adherence to delivery timelines, knowledge sharing, and professional growth.

• Take ownership of the functional and process solutions for SAP Business One integrations with both internal and external systems, ensuring that modifications are feasible, scalable, supportable, and in alignment with global finance process standards.

• Lead the discovery and impact assessment for new integrations, enhancements, and defect-driven changes, while identifying implications for SAP B1, impacts on finance processes, data dependencies, infrastructure considerations, controls, and consequences for downstream reporting/accounting.

• Convert business requirements into functional specifications, integration requirements, process flows, acceptance criteria, test scenarios, and handover documentation for developers, infrastructure teams, external partners, and vendors.

• Coordinate the efforts of internal developers, the infrastructure engineer, and external partners throughout the design, build, System Integration Testing (SIT), User Acceptance Testing (UAT), release planning, cutover, and hypercare phases.

• Serve as the Finance Systems integration subject matter expert for SAP B1 connected services, including Hub, Noosh, Tipalti, Tungsten, Concur, Blackline, journaling services, tax payloads, and reporting/data warehouse feeds, among others.

• Collaborate with FIS Support to ensure that Business as Usual (BAU) incidents are managed through the support front door, while complex integration escalations are examined for root causes, permanent fixes, prevention strategies, and knowledge transfer.

• Work with the FIS Senior Project Manager on project intake, roadmap planning, and release governance when an item impacts integration, contributing sizing input, dependency analysis, and delivery risk assessments.

• Partner with the ERP FIS Manager and functional consultants on the accounting implications of systems, SAP B1 process design, and control considerations for finance changes, whether upstream or downstream.

• Establish and uphold standards for integration documentation, including functional overview documents, solution notes, payload/process mappings, known error playbooks, operational runbooks, and release handover packs.

• Oversee alignment with external vendors and partners for integration changes, ensuring that statements of work, estimates, dependencies, assumptions, issue resolution, and delivery dates are credible and effectively managed.

• Promote continuous improvement in integration ownership by minimizing bottlenecks, cross-training developers, enhancing documentation, strengthening monitoring, and embedding repeatable delivery practices.

• Ensure that all integration changes comply with change control, auditability, segregation of duties, release governance, and production stability expectations for global finance systems.

⛳️ Requirements

• Extensive experience with SAP Business One / SAP B1 in roles related to finance systems, systems accounting, business analysis, integration delivery, or solution delivery.

• Demonstrated experience in managing or leading technical teams, including developers, integration specialists, infrastructure engineers, or external development partners.

• Experience in delivering or supporting finance system integrations involving ERP, ordering platforms, AP/AR automation, payment platforms, tax engines, data warehouses/reporting, or middleware/API services.

• Ability to lead developers from a functional/process standpoint and critically assess solution approaches, estimates, dependencies, and release readiness, even without being a hands-on developer.

• Competence in translating finance process requirements into functional specifications, integration requirements, test cases, and supportable production solutions.

• Strong understanding of finance operations processes, including invoicing, credit/re-invoicing, accounts payable, accounts receivable, payments, journals, tax, period-end activities, and reporting dependencies.

• Experience in managing integration defects through root-cause analysis, workaround formulation, permanent fix design, regression testing, and support handover.

• Experience working in a global or multi-entity finance environment with various stakeholder groups, competing priorities, and significant control expectations.

• Practical experience with project/change governance, including intake assessment, prioritization input, testing coordination, release planning, and post-release support.

🏝️ Benefits

• Flexible working arrangements