Senior Architect

About the job

Who We Are

Welcome to TELUS Digital — where innovation drives impact at a global scale. As an award-winning digital product consultancy and the digital division of TELUS , one of Canada's largest telecommunications providers, we design and deliver transformative customer experiences through cutting-edge technology, agile thinking, and a people-first culture.

With a global team across North America, South America, Central America, Europe, and APAC, we offer end-to-end expertise across eight core service areas: Digital Product Consulting, Digital Marketing Services, Data & AI, Strategy Consulting, Business Operations Modernization, Enterprise Applications, Cloud Engineering, and QA & Test Engineering.

From mobile apps and websites to voice UI, chatbots, AI, customer service, and in-store solutions, TELUS Digital enables seamless, trusted, and digitally powered experiences that meet customers wherever they are — all backed by the secure infrastructure and scale of our multi-billion-dollar parent company.

Location: This role will operate remotely in Canada in Vancouver, BC, or Toronto, ON locations.

Job Description:

We are implementing a new billing system that must accurately calculate, recognize, and report revenue into SAP.

We are looking for a senior/architect-level resource with deep expertise in revenue recognition and finance reporting to design and govern the revenue architecture for this program. This role sits at the intersection of Finance and IT, ensuring the new billing platform is built to produce revenue outcomes that are accurate, auditable, and compliant with accounting standards, and that data flows correctly and reconciles cleanly into SAP.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead the end-to-end architecture and design of revenue recognition logic within the new billing system, including deferred revenue, contract modifications, and multiple performance obligations.
• Define the integration architecture between the billing system and SAP (FI/CO, Revenue Accounting and Reporting, and/or BRIM), covering data flow, timing, and reconciliation.
• Translate ASC 606 / IFRS 15 revenue recognition requirements into functional and technical design specifications.
• Partner with Finance, Accounting, Controllership, and IT teams to validate revenue treatment across billing scenarios (new contracts, amendments, cancellations, usage-based charges, bundles/promotions).
• Design and review interface specifications (IDocs, APIs, BAPIs, middleware) for revenue and billing data exchange with SAP.
• Establish and oversee reconciliation processes between the billing sub-ledger and the SAP general ledger, including month-end close support. • Provide architectural governance across the program: review designs for scalability, data integrity, auditability, and SOX/internal controls compliance. • Support SIT/UAT test strategy and execution for revenue reporting scenarios, including edge cases and exception handling.
• Proactively identify risks and gaps related to revenue leakage, reporting accuracy, and financial controls, and drive remediation.
• Produce clear documentation of data mappings, business rules, and technical designs for audit and knowledge transfer.
• Act as subject matter expert on revenue recognition and finance reporting, mentoring other architects/analysts on the program.

Required Skills & Experience:

Revenue Recognition & Finance Reporting

• Working knowledge of ASC 606 / IFRS 15 revenue recognition standards, applied in a real implementation (not just theoretical).
• Experience with deferred revenue, contract assets/liabilities, revenue waterfalls, and multiple-element/performance-obligation accounting.
• Understanding of finance close processes: month-end/quarter-end close, journal entries, sub-ledger to GL reconciliation.
• Familiarity with internal financial controls and SOX compliance requirements for revenue reporting.

SAP & Systems Architecture

• Hands-on experience with SAP FI/CO; direct experience with SAP Revenue Accounting and Reporting (RAR) strongly preferred.
• Experience with SAP BRIM (Convergent Invoicing/Charging) or similar billing-to-SAP integration patterns is a strong plus.
• Experience architecting integrations between billing platforms (e.g., Zuora, Amdocs, CSG, Salesforce Billing, or custom billing systems) and SAP.
• Solid understanding of data integration methods: IDocs, APIs, BAPIs, ETL, and middleware
• Strong SQL and data analysis skills to trace revenue data through complex system-to-system flows.

Program & Leadership Skills

• 10+ years of experience in finance systems, revenue/billing systems, or financial reporting roles.
• 5+ years operating at a senior/architect/lead level on billing or revenue system implementations.
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