SAP S4/HANA Finance Functional Consultant

About the role

We are seeking an experienced SAP S/4HANA professional to support key phases of our SAP S/4HANA Public Cloud Edition (PCE) implementation. This is a one-year project running from September 2026 through Summer 2027, based in San Francisco with a four-day-per-week on-site requirement. The role spans the Explore, Realize, and Deploy phases, focusing on business process understanding, integration expertise, data migration governance, and testing execution. As a client-side advisor, you will provide functional expertise, governance, and validation while working closely with the business organization and the selected System Integrator.

Responsibilities

• Explore Phase (Design & Requirements)
  • Workshop Facilitation: Participate in business workshops and support the business in collecting inputs for workshop preparation.
  • Requirements Management: Bridge the gap between business and the system integrator by helping the integrator understand complex business requirements.
  • Organizational Structure & Golden Rules: Support the business in defining organizational data structures (e.g., plants, sales organizations, cost centers) and establishing golden rules.
  • Solution Enablement: Assist the business in fully understanding the SAP S/4HANA solution, end-to-end processes, and S/4 PCE WRICEF (Workflows, Reports, Interfaces, Conversions, Enhancements, Forms) targets.
  • Design Challenge & Validation: Actively challenge the system integrator during the design phase to ensure optimal solution architecture and validate final target business processes.
  • Demo Preparation: Prepare test data for system and solution demonstrations.
  • Integration & Interface Scope: Participate in integration workshops, validate integration designs, and support the definition of SAP interface requirements, including business logic, field mapping, transformation rules, routing principles, and target interface mappings. Validate the overall data migration scope, strategy, methods, and tools.
• Realize Phase (Configuration, Testing & Migration)
  • SAP Interface Management: Define, review, and validate interface business logic, source-to-target mappings, transformation rules, error-handling requirements, and routing rules for application and SAP S/4 interfaces on mediation layers. Participate in integration design reviews and support end-to-end interface testing across applications and S/4 PCE prior to UAT.
  • Testing & Test Data: Prepare applications and systems for test data alignment. Support the business in writing test cases, execute and validate integration tests, and validate the scope of automatic tests (including test cases, APIs, and end-to-end scenarios).
  • Data Migration Execution: Design, develop, and test extractors and mapping tools to fit target migration templates. Define and validate mapping rules, data cleansing procedures, and data quality checks. Execute data extraction from source systems (iterative cycles) and validate migration results for unit and integration testing. Support the business in validating data migration outputs.
• Deploy & Tool Kit Phase (Change Management & Testing)
  • Change Management & Training: Assist in specialized training on SAP S/4HANA PCE (led by external partners) and support Key Users (KU) during end-user training sessions.
  • Toolkit & Planning: Contribute to the definition and execution of comprehensive testing plans.

Requirements

• Experience: 5+ years of hands-on SAP configuration experience, with at least 2–3 full-lifecycle SAP S/4HANA implementations or conversions.
• Core Knowledge: Deep expertise in SAP FI/CO architecture, cross-module integration, financial close cockpit, and statutory/management reporting requirements. Strong functional knowledge of core SAP modules (MM, SD, PP, etc.) and organizational data definition.
• SAP Interface & Data Migration: Demonstrated experience in SAP interface management, including business logic definition, source-to-target mapping, transformation rules, middleware/mediation mapping, error handling, and end-to-end interface testing. Solid background in SAP Data Migration methodologies, extraction tools, data quality, and cleansing governance.
• Testing: Experience in test management, including writing test cases, automated testing validation, and execution across integrated environments.
• Certifications: SAP Certified Application Associate – SAP S/4HANA for Financial Accounting Associates (or related S/4HANA Finance certification) preferred.
• Technical Literacy: Familiarity with SAP Fiori apps, CDS views, and integration with SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC).
• Soft Skills: Strong analytical mindset, excellent cross-functional communication skills, and the ability to bridge business finance needs with technical configurations. Proven stakeholder management skills to effectively collaborate with business teams and external system integrators.

Benefits

• Insurance: Medical, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance plans.
• Retirement & Savings: 401K program with company match after 12 months of tenure. Employee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP).
• Health Savings: HSA (Health Savings Account) on the HDHP plan.
• Employee Assistance: SupportLinc Employee Assistance Program (EAP) with up to 8 free counseling sessions.
• Discounts: Corporate discount savings program and other discounts.
• Professional Development: On-demand training program, access to certification prep, and a library of technical and leadership courses/books/seminars after 6+ months of tenure. Certification discounts and perks for associations including CompTIA and IIBA.
• Support: Dedicated customer service team for benefits and resources, and access to a certified Career Coach.