SAP Finance Lead

The Senior Manager, SAP Finance Team Lead will lead mission-critical program and project initiatives in the areas of Finance Systems and Integrations. As the subject matter expert and leader over content, processes, and procedures related to SAP Finance, this individual will oversee a team of internal/external FICO resources and interface with other SAP teams (SD, MM/PP), technology and the finance business teams to successfully deliver robust functionality in a timely fashion.

Additional context: The Enterprise Systems team is currently on a multi-year evolution, moving into a team-of-teams structure (architecture, core/projects, support) and establishing an enterprise architecture practice. This team lead role is planned to evolve into a Solution Architect role in the future, remaining in the core team, but also connecting to the architecture team. Knowledge and experience of enterprise architecture is advantageous.

Responsibilities

Team Management

• Overseas and directs the work efforts of the Finance team members, consisting of both internal and external resources
• Coach and mentor each team member in developing their skills and experience; Support and guides team members along a career track to continuously improve performance; provides regular feedback on performance and defines developments plans to support the continued progress in building individual capabilities
• Collaborates across the ES team to help improve internal teaming, ways of working and practices that helps development of a high performing team
• Supports the ES Lead to develop workforce plans that continues to optimize the ES team capabilities and capacity to delivery to the business need

• Finds ways to identify and prioritize issues or areas for improvement, shares findings with other teams and leaders, create action plans, gain broad support and takes action with the technology group internal processes to execute improvements
• Works with the Architects Team to gathering requirements and opportunities from the business and technology capabilities, including facilitating workshops with multiple stakeholders, to formulate Solution Models that effectively communicate and translate technical concepts for the user community
• Performs detailed analysis of complex business process requirements and provides solution architecture artifacts to align solution capabilities with the enterprise architecture principles and deliver application capabilities to the business that enables successful execution of business transactions
• Develop work scope and request for proposal documentation as appropriate to fully enable and incorporate Technology partners
• Leads the design of finance ES applications, with SAP as the core capability
• Leads the creation of all plan and design documentation and supports the development of all testing and support documentation
• Oversees and quality assures the configuration of all approved ES applications and collaborates with technical and integration subject matter experts on any integrations
• Oversees and quality assures all finance master data in collaboration with the ES master data lead
• Provides full support to the ES Support team for any troubleshooting, incident resolution, enhancements, maintenance, and upgrades

• Certified Public Accountant (CPA) is a mandatory requirement
• Certified Management Accountant (CMA) certification is highly desirable
• Chartered Global Management Accountant (CGMA) is beneficial
• At least 8 years of hands-on experience working with Enterprise System technologies and specifically SAP technologies within Finance in an enterprise environment
• At least 4 years of team leadership experience, managing both internal and external resources
• Familiarity and expertise with existing/future SAP tech stack/platforms: i.e. SAP S/4HANA, SAP Finance (General Ledger, AP, AR, Asset Accounting, Treasure, FP&A, Consolidation)
• Knowledge of connected capabilities desirable, especially Vertex (Tax), Workflow, SAP Payment Gateway, PoS, and international rollouts Knowledge of cross functional processes highly desirable, especially Lead to Cash and Supply Chain
• Knowledge of Integrated Business Planning and Advanced Available to Promise (AATP) is desirable
• Proven track record of evolving an SAP landscape to deliver global business results
• Hands-on, practical experience with building end to end business process solutions leveraging SAP technology and applications
• Experience with cloud native solutions and architectures as well as cloud security principles
• Strong customer facing experience with the ability to communicate to technical and non-technical leaders at all levels
• Demonstrated ability to successfully manage/leverage 3rd parties to deliver on commitments/strategies
• Demonstrate ability to collaborate and team build across entities to achieve results
• High energy level and flexibility to meet a variety of demands while producing superior work products at accelerated pace
• A proven track record of success in a functional role supporting Sales & Distribution and Logistics Execution areas
• A proven track record of evolving and transforming solutions to support the organizations strategy
• A drive for improvement and an inclination to thoughtfully challenge the status quo
• Desire to try things and iterate on them, fail fast, and focus on functionality that matters

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