SAP Finance Architect / SME – Payment Gateway Enablement

$70-80/hr

Overview

Provide senior SAP Finance architecture and functional leadership to enable credit card and payment gateway integration within SAP Finance. This role will bridge business requirements and technical delivery, lead client-facing workshops, and guide development teams to ensure a scalable, compliant, and integrated payment solution across Order-to-Cash (OTC), Accounts Receivable (AR), and SAP FI.

Must-Have Requirements

• 10+ years of hands-on experience with SAP Financials, with deep expertise in SAP FI and AR
• Proven experience leading SAP Finance architecture and functional design initiatives
• Strong understanding of Order-to-Cash (OTC) processes, including invoicing, billing, payments, and reconciliation
• Experience enabling or supporting credit card processing and payment gateway integrations within SAP
• Ability to translate functional business requirements into technical specifications for development teams
• Strong integration experience (SAP-to-external systems, middleware, APIs, or payment providers)
• Experience leading client-facing workshops, requirement walkthroughs, and design sessions
• Ability to guide and mentor technical developers toward functional best practices

Plusses

• Experience with third-party payment gateways (e.g., hosted payment links, customer self-service payment portals)
• Exposure to SAP S/4HANA Finance environments
• Knowledge of PCI, security, or compliance considerations related to credit card payments
• Experience working with middleware/integration tools (e.g., PI/PO, CPI, or equivalent)
• Prior experience acting as a functional lead or SME on large SAP Finance programs
• Background supporting high-volume transaction environments or customer-facing payment solutions

Day-to-Day Responsibilities

• Serve as the SAP Finance SME and Architect for payment gateway and credit card enablement initiatives
• Lead functional design workshops with Finance and business stakeholders to validate requirements and solution approach
• Define how customer payments flow from customer-facing payment links into SAP (OTC → AR → FI)
• Translate business and functional requirements into clear technical design artifacts for development teams
• Partner closely with developers to ensure solutions align with SAP Finance best practices
• Provide architectural oversight for end-to-end integration between SAP and external payment systems
• Validate functional designs support accurate posting, clearing, reconciliation, and reporting
• Support testing cycles by reviewing scenarios, edge cases, and financial impacts
• Act as the primary Finance point of contact for payment-related solution decisions
• Ensure alignment with existing SAP Finance architecture and future-state roadmap