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The person occupying this position is part of the SAP Product Management group for Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) within the Digital Products team. Their mandate is to evolve finance and SAP products.

Air Canada is looking for a highly motivated and experienced Solutions Product Lead to join the ERP Products team.

The SAP FICO Functional Solutions Manager is responsible for the overall functional solutions strategy, design, governance, and delivery of SAP finance and controlling solutions. The person in this position acts as the link between financial management, enterprise IT architects, functional product owners, and technical implementation teams to ensure that SAP solutions support the business objectives of the company while maintaining a scalable, compliant, and Clean Core architecture.

The person leads transformation, improvement, integration, operational support, and continuous improvement program initiatives related to SAP S/4HANA Finance. The successful candidate will define solution direction, oversee the implementation of complex projects, mentor functional product owners and advisors, and ensure that finance processes deliver business value.

They must have experience in creating high-level cutting-edge solutions for ERP in addition to being customer and data-driven, and passionate about the travel industry. The ideal candidate excels in a collaborative, highly dynamic, fast-paced environment, following a delivery model focused on continuous improvement.

Responsibilities:





Strategy and Solution Design

- Define a comprehensive SAP Finance solutions strategy aligned with company standards.
- Lead solution design for general ledger, accounts payable, accounts receivable, asset accounting, cost center accounting, profit center accounting, internal orders, product costing, profitability analysis, project management systems, treasury and cash management, taxation, and compliance.
- Ensure compliance with S/4HANA best practices and Clean Core principles.
- Perform gap-fit analyses and recommend optimal solutions.
- Design integration points with SAP and non-SAP applications.
- Review and approve functional solution designs and WRICEF requirements.
- Evaluate and integrate SAP AI capabilities (e.g. SAP Business AI, Joule, intelligent invoice matching, predictive accounting) into financial solution design.
- Define functional solution models for integrating AI-based automation into finance and control processes.

Stakeholder Engagement

- Collaborate with the functional Product Owner, process owners, and Finance managers.
- Translate business requirements into scalable SAP solutions.
- Facilitate workshops and design sessions.
- Present solution recommendations to executive committees and steering committees.




- Encourage the adoption of standard SAP capabilities wherever possible.
- Collaborate with Product Owners to train Finance stakeholders on finance and control functionalities and S/4HANA AI-based capabilities.
- Ensure that Finance-specific AI use cases comply with company AI governance policies.

Implementation and Project Leadership

- Lead functional design within projects, programs, and enhancements.
- Provide solution guidance during requirements analysis, design, implementation, testing, go-live, hypercare, and stabilization stages.
- Ensure the quality of functional specifications and expected test results.
- Support release planning and roadmap implementation.
- Review AI readiness assessments during project discovery phases: data quality, process maturity, and organizational readiness for AI adoption by Finance.

Governance, Risk, and Compliance

- Ensure compliance with Regulation 52-109, financial reporting requirements, auditing standards, and security and segregation of duties requirements.
- Understand and stay abreast of regulatory and technology trends to assess their potential impacts; apply these learnings at Air Canada.
- Participate in review committees.
- Implement solution governance and define design standards.
- Define AI governance guardrails for Finance processes, ensuring that AI model outcomes are verifiable, explainable, and compliant with financial rules.
- Monitor and evaluate new rules and ethical frameworks concerning AI that impact Finance processes and compliance in the airline industry.

Operational Support and Continuous Improvement

- Provide Level 3 functional expertise for critical incidents as

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