SAP Cloud ERP Finance Configuration Lead
SAP Cloud ERP Finance Configuration Lead Chicago, IL – Remote Job ( Travel on needed basis) 12+ months contract Role Overview SAP Cloud ERP finance configuration lead owns the functional configuration, stabilization, and continuous improvement of SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition Finance across financial accounting, management accounting/controlling, cash and treasury-related processes, and event-based revenue recognition. Serve as the senior configuration authority connecting Finance process owners, enterprise architecture, integration, data, security, and support teams after go-live. Operational Responsibilities Own Finance production stabilization, incident triage, recurring-problem elimination, and functional service health. Establish post-go-live controls for close readiness, revenue-recognition exceptions, failed postings, interface-related finance errors, and configuration drift. Maintain a prioritized continuous-improvement roadmap aligned to quarterly/biannual cloud release cycles and business close calendars. Ensure production changes follow change control, segregation-of-duties, regression testing, deployment, and hypercare standards. Cross-Functional Collaboration Finance/Controllership, Treasury, Tax, Billing, Professional Services operations, Procurement, Data, Integration, Security/IAM, Enterprise Architecture, QA/Release Management, SAP support, and implementation partners.
Required Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree in finance, Accounting, Information Systems, Engineering, or related discipline, or equivalent experience. 8+ years of SAP Finance delivery experience, including significant hands-on configuration leadership. Hands-on experience with SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition or comparable S/4HANA cloud delivery, including post-go-live support. Demonstrated experience translating accounting policy and professional-services business requirements into SAP configuration and controls. Strong understanding of integrated financial postings, period close, reconciliation, and production support. Required Technical / Functional Skills SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition Finance; Financial Accounting; Management Accounting/Controlling; Asset Accounting. Event-Based Revenue Recognition for project-based services; WIP/revenue/cost recognition concepts. Cash and Liquidity Management, bank/house-bank concepts, payments, and treasury-related process integration. SAP Fiori, configuration lifecycle, business roles, testing, defect analysis, and release impact assessment. Cross-functional integration with project billing, procurement, time/expense, tax, and reporting.
Preferred Qualifications
Professional services or project-based enterprise experience. Experience with SAP Activate, fit-to-standard workshops, clean-core governance, and SAP Cloud ALM. Current SAP certification or learning credential aligned to SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition Financial Accounting and/or Management Accounting is preferred.