SAP Finance Integration Architect

At the heart of everything we do is our vision to change lives every day, and our mission to grow The National Lottery responsibly and champion its impact.

We are Allwyn UK, part of the Allwyn Entertainment Group – a multi-national lottery operator with a market-leading presence across the USA (Michigan and Illinois) and Europe, including Czech Republic, Austria, Greece, Cyprus and Italy.

While the main contribution of The National Lottery to society is through the funds to good causes, at Allwyn we put our purpose and values at the heart of everything we do. Join us as we embark on a once-in-a-lifetime, large scale transformation journey by creating a National Lottery that delivers more money to good causes.

We’ll talk a bit more about us further down the page, but for now – let’s talk about the role and who we’re looking for…

• Reporting to the Head of Finance Business Systems, responsible for the ongoing development of principle Finance Systems applications across the Finance department and operating as part of the wider Financial Systems team, the SAP Finance Integration Architect will lead on the design and governance of end-to-end technical architecture for financial solutions (SAP ECC (on HANA), S/4
  
  HANA, FICO, Central Finance modules) and integrating SAP with non-SAP systems, banks, and tax engines.
• These solutions will align business processes like Procure to Pay (P2P) Record-to-Report (R2R) and Order-to-Cash (O2C) with the technical architecture, utilizing tools like SAP BTP, Signavio BPM, API, and CPI to ensure scalable, compliant, and high-performance financial systems and this role will bridge the gap between Finance business requirements and the detailed technical landscape, specifically focusing on how finance data flows between SAP and other Enterprise systems.
• Core responsibilities include translating business requirements into high level solution design options, technical design blueprints and risk and impact assessments, taking account of Finance IT technical debt, collaborating with stakeholders, representing Finance at necessary IT technical forums, developing and maintaining documentation and ensuring the delivery of robust, scalable, financial applications. In summary, the role holder will act as a technical bridge between business objectives and IT execution and will specialise in cloud-native architecture and specialist Finance applications.

• Critical role in supporting Finance develop its modern technology from 2025, including an enhanced SAP Rise (HANA) instance, SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC), Treasury Management System and shift in business reporting to more advanced analytics tools and capabilities. Thereafter continuing to support change as the department undertakes a transformation to harness and realize process, system, data, governance, and analytics improvements
• Lead and champion control in application and database architecture, data reconciliation, data modelling, reporting, and dashboards with appropriate segregation of duties while minimizing risk.
• Provide support and guidance to Finance end users to utilise reports and analytics effectively and help to coordinate developing new functionality, often through communication with the Technology team to ensure existing defects are resolved and changes are properly documented and delivered.
• Subject Matter Expert providing Allwyn UK with expertise in modernizing legacy SAP landscapes and in the conversion to SAP Business Cloud including Datasphere and unified Data models and champion the use of SAP conversion accelerators and automation tools in moving towards a modern integrated cloud architecture.
• Key support for the Head of Finance Business Systems and SAP Finance Systems Manager in the design, testing and deployment of SAP workflows, reporting, integrations into upstream and downstream systems, customizations, extensions, and forms (RWICEFS) as appropriate and assisting the wider business with any issues impacting on Finance processes e.g., O2C, R2R, P2P, H2R
• Knowledge holder of SAP BTP as a platform as a service which will become essential to connecting SAP and non‑SAP systems to our…