SAP Manager, Finance

Summary

You'll lead SAP Finance solutions implementation, focusing on S/4 HANA projects. From overseeing system designs to ensuring timely and seamless project delivery, your role will directly impact Scoot's financial operations and strategic goals. Join us if you excel at leading cross-functional teams and delivering robust financial systems!

Job Description

Key Responsibilities:

Finance Project Management

• Lead and manage SAP S/4HANA full lifecycle implementation projects from initiation to stabilization.

• Coordinate changes and integration requirements with other interfaced systems.

• Oversee the transition and migration of financial data from existing ERP to SAP, ensuring data completeness, accuracy and integrity.

• Drive end-to-end SAP project lifecycles, including planning, execution, monitoring, and closure, applying Agile or Waterfall methodologies.

• Identify and mitigate finance process, integration, and migration risks.

• Support the enhancement of SAP functionalities and provide system oversight post-implementation to ensure operational efficiency.

• Facilitate smooth business-as-usual (BAU) operations by addressing, driving continuous improvement, and supporting finance teams in leveraging SAP system effectively.

• Define and oversee functional and system design, gap analysis to ensure alignment with Scoot’s financial processes.

• Govern application maintenance, enhancement operations, and transition to steady-state support.

Stakeholder & Vendor Management

• Collaborate with SAP consultants and cross-functional teams to ensure seamless system integration.

• Act as the main point of contact for finance teams, internal business units and external partners in project discussions to achieve project objectives

• Facilitate workshops, define requirements, and drive conversations to establish solutions tailored to financial goals

• Manage vendor and consultant relationships, contracts, milestones, and deliverables, ensuring they support the project’s success.

• Represent finance at workshops, steering committee meetings, and project status updates.

• Lead readiness and adoption of new finance processes that align with system changes.

• Drive change management initiatives, preparing stakeholders for new tools, processes, and systems.

• Oversee change management initiatives to ensure smooth project rollouts.

Key Requirements:

• 3-5+ years of experience managing SAP implementation experience (especially S/4HANA Finance) with strong project management focus from a finance perspective.

• Proven experience in finance systems integration and data migration

• Experience with integration technologies like EDI, APIs, and SAP BTP is advantageous.

• Solid understanding of SAP modules (FICO, MM, PM, SD, PP, and QM) and their dependencies preferred.

• Excellent stakeholder management skills to align business objectives with project execution.

• Ability to lead large cross-functional teams, including external vendors and consultants.

• Strong communication skills to simplify and communicate complex technical concepts effectively to non-technical audiences.

• Bachelor's Degree in Finance, Accounting, Computer Science, or Information Technology.

• Familiarity with Agile or hybrid delivery methodologies and SAP integration challenges, including data migration complexities.