SAP Finance Program Manager

Job Summary

The Project Manager, Program Management - SAP S/4HANA Business Transformation, supports a multi-year, enterprise SAP S/4HANA business transformation by coordinating a portfolio of initiatives across Business Owners, SAP/IT teams, and third-party partners. This role focuses on end-to-end Finance capabilities which includes General Accounting (Core R2R), AP, AR, Product Costing, FP&A, Tax, Treasury and Consolidations.

Essential Duties

• Maintain the transformation portfolio plan, spanning Business readiness projects and SAP activities including initiative sequencing, dependencies, milestones, and key risks with specific focus on Finance and cross-process dependencies.
• Support intake, prioritization, and scope governance aligned to transformation strategy and value drivers.
• Ensure initiatives comply with defined governance, stage gates, and decision frameworks.
• Prepare executive-ready materials for Steering Committees and portfolio reviews.
• Partner with Business Owners and Enterprise Process Owners to clarify objectives, scope, success measures, and decision ownership across the Finance business processes.
• Build EPO and business participation plans with EPOs, Deployment, Change and Training Lead.
• Track business participation commitments and identify capacity or engagement risks.
• Support cross-functional alignment when priorities or dependencies conflict.
• Work closely with SAP, Data and IT teams to align business priorities with technical delivery plans and release sequencing.
• Provide visibility into SAP delivery progress, risks, and dependencies impacting business readiness.
• Ensure integration across process, data, reporting, and technology considerations at the portfolio level.
• Carefully coordinate with System Integrators and third-party partners to ensure alignment to the Finance portfolio priorities and program governance standards.
• Track high-level partner deliverables, dependencies, and risks.
• Support issue escalation and reinforce expectations for quality, documentation, and knowledge transfer.
• Coordinate enterprise-level business readiness activities, including readiness baselining, planning, milestone tracking, and participation in design, testing, and training.
• Partner with Data, Change, Training, and Communications leads to align readiness activities across initiatives.
• Identify and escalate readiness risks related to timing, capacity, or adoption.
• Maintain a portfolio-level view of risks, issues, and cross-initiative dependencies.
• Support tracking of business benefits, KPIs, and value realization.
• Shift reporting from task completion to business capability and outcome visibility.

Key Interfaces

• Business Owners;
• Process Owners;
• SAP / IT Teams;
• Deployment Directors;
• Data, Change, Training Leads;
• System Integrators;
• Transformation Program Director

Under This Roof We Require

• Bachelor's degree required;
• 8+ years project/program management experience, including 3-5 years supporting SAP ERP (ECC or S/4HANA) transformations with focus on Finance;
• Experience working with business leaders, IT teams, and system integrators;
• A strong understanding of end-to-end business processes;
• Ability to manage cross-functional dependencies and readiness risks;
• Direct experience supporting Finance business processes in an SAP environment;
• An understanding of the different perspectives within Finance i.e. R2R, FP&A, Tax and Treasury.

Under This Roof We Also Value

• An integrator and orchestrator: Connects strategy to execution across functions, SAP and third parties.
• A proactively risk-focused: Anticipates dependencies and readiness issues before they become delivery problems.
• A business-first operator: Prioritizes adaptations, readiness, and outcomes over task completion.
• An influence without authority: Drives alignment and progress through collaboration, clarity, and credibility.
• A steward of program integrity: Takes ownership of accuracy, consistency, and discipline in reporting, tracking, and governance artifacts to ensure leaders are working from a single, trusted source of truth.