Senior SAP Finance (R2R) Functional Lead

Senior Finance (R2R) Functional Lead/ Business Engagement Lead

On behalf of our global consulting client we are looking for an experienced SAP Finance Functional lead to join a Greenfield S/4HANA Transformation project in Paris.

This would require you to be willing to travel to Paris for 3 days per week, with some exceptions during quieter phases of the project.

You should have recent experience of leading a Finance track in an S/4HANA Greenfield implementation, and have a good combination of Business Process expertise across the Finance domain, as well as excellent SAP and S/4HANA knowledge.


Process / Business Domain knowledge:

o Expert in: AR; AP; Asset Accounting; Consolidation, with a good broad solid knowledge across the R2R and Controlling business processes and value chain

o Professional qualifications like Chartered Accountants highly desirable

Responsibilities:

o Leads and oversees the design of the end-to-end SAP functional solution in their respective business/ functional domain.

o Lead Fit-to-Standard and Fit-to-Template workshops in the respective business/ functional domain; support cross-functional Fit-to-Standard and Fit-to-Template workshops on integration topics.

o In the respective business/ functional domain, support the client Global Business Process Owner (GBPO); the Line Of Business (LOB) and Regional Process business representatives; and the Local Business Process Owners (LBPO) and Super Users.

o Drive the definition of a formal value (business) case to justify any non-harmonised processes and/ or any non-standardised SAP solution.

o Collaborate with functional and technical teams at offshore to translate business requirements into system configurations.

o Leverage excellent communication skills to bridge the gap between business and technical teams, effectively translating business language into technical design.

o Authors Functional Specifications and Config Design documents

o Provides functional inputs to data migration, including data mappings.

o Drives SIT for their respective business/ functional domain.

o Contributes to Change Management (OCM) and the business transformation by providing inputs to Change Impact identification for the respective business/ functional domain

o Coordinates and facilitates the UAT which will be executed by the local Business.

o Provide inputs to the Business Cutover Strategy and the Business Cutover Plan

o Coordinates Technical Cutover for their respective business/ functional domain.

o Supports the local Business in the cutover execution in the respective business/ functional domain.


This will be an 18 month contract starting asap, or within the next 4 weeks at least.