Senior IT Platform Analyst – SAP FICO & S/4HANA

Job Description

Are you an experienced SAP Finance professional looking to make a global impact? As a Senior IT Platform Analyst – SAP FICO & S/4HANA you will play a key role in shaping and evolving our SAP Finance landscape, helping to drive digital transformation across a complex international organization. You will work closely with business and IT stakeholders to design, deliver, and optimize innovative SAP S/4HANA solutions that support critical financial processes and enable business growth. This role offers a unique opportunity to combine deep functional expertise with strategic thinking, influence technology decisions, lead continuous improvement initiatives, and leverage emerging technologies—including Generative AI—to deliver meaningful business value.

Your role:

• Partner with Business Process Owners, Product Owners, Solution Architects, and other stakeholders to translate business requirements into scalable SAP Finance solutions.
• Lead solution design activities and ensure alignment with SAP best practices, architecture standards, and business objectives.
• Support Agile planning and delivery processes, including backlog refinement, estimation, prioritization, and release planning.
• Drive the successful implementation of new SAP FICO capabilities while ensuring high-quality and maintainable solutions.
• Own and continuously improve end-to-end solution development processes in collaboration with DevOps teams and business stakeholders.
• Ensure solutions meet functional and non-functional requirements with a strong focus on performance, security, reliability, compliance, and scalability.
• Define and oversee testing strategies, including automation, regression testing, validation, and release readiness activities.
• Drive business adoption through training, deployments, stakeholder engagement, onboarding activities, and change management support.
• Provide expert guidance during operational support, incident management, business continuity events, and critical issue resolution across global regions.
• Identify opportunities to reduce technical debt, improve process efficiency, and enhance platform monitoring and operational excellence.
• Collaborate across teams to manage dependencies, mitigate risks, and ensure successful end-to-end solution delivery.
• Contribute to platform innovation by evaluating new technologies, supporting upgrades, and recommending improvements that maximize business value.
• Foster knowledge sharing and capability building by mentoring colleagues, maintaining solution documentation, and staying current with market and technology trends.

You are the right fit if you have:

• 10+ years of SAP FICO and SAP S/4HANA Finance experience, including a strong understanding of integrations with other SAP modules.
• Proven experience delivering at least two end-to-end SAP implementation projects in complex enterprise environments.
• Deep expertise across core Finance processes, including General Ledger, Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable, FSCM, Asset Accounting, Product Costing, Profitability Analysis, Taxation, Consolidation, and Financial Reporting.
• Strong functional expertise in at least one key Finance domain, such as Revenue & Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable, or Product Costing.
• Experience with SAP S/4HANA innovations such as BRIM, RAR, Extension Ledger, Universal Ledger, and New Asset Accounting is highly desirable.
• Hands-on experience with Fiori applications, third-party integrations, RICEF objects, and SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP).
• A Master's degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related discipline; CMA and SAP certifications are a plus.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence and collaborate across global teams and business functions.
• A proactive, innovative, and solution-oriented mindset, with a passion for continuous improvement and leveraging Generative AI to enhance productivity and business outcomes.
• You are currently living in The Netherlands.

Compensation & benefits

Doing meaningful work should come with fair, transparent rewards. The base salary range for this role is € 78,187 –€ 130,312. We determine pay within the range using objective factors, like the skills the role requires, your relevant experience and the responsibility you'll have in this role, alongside internal equity and local market considerations.

This role is eligible for 3% annual bonus with your rewards linked to KPIs and the company’s performance. Benefits include generous paid leave, paid parental leave, employer pension contributions, health and wellbeing programs and discounts on Philips products.

About Philips

We are a health technology company.

If you’re interested in this role and have many, but not all, of the experiences needed, you may still be the right candidate for this or other opportunities at Philips.