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SAP S4/HANA Operations Functional Consultant

Apex Systems · San Francisco, CA · 4 days ago
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One-year SAP implementation project running from September 2026 through Summer 2027, West Coast-based with four days per week in the San Francisco office.

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 client-side advisory role spans the Explore, Realize, and Deploy phases, requiring a strong combination of business process understanding, integration expertise, data migration governance, and testing execution. The consultant will provide functional expertise, governance, and validation while working closely with the selected System Integrator and business organization.

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 change management specialized training on SAP S/4 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

  • 5+ years of consulting or industry experience in SAP S/4HANA supply chain implementations, including a minimum of 2–3 full-lifecycle deployments.
  • Proven hands-on experience implementing SAP S/4HANA (preferably Public Cloud Edition).
  • Strong functional knowledge of core SAP modules (FI/CO) and organizational data definition, and basic understanding of the MM, SD, PP modules.
  • 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.
  • Experience in test management, including writing test cases, automated testing validation, and execution across integrated environments.
  • Strong stakeholder management and communication skills to effectively bridge business teams and external system integrators.

Qualifications

  • Deep expertise in SAP MM, PP, and EWM/WM configurations, stock transport orders (STO), batch management, and serial number management.
  • Proficiency with SAP Fiori apps, master data governance (MDG), EDI/IDoc interfaces, and basic understanding of analytics tools like SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC).
  • SAP Certified Application Associate for S/4HANA Sourcing and Procurement, Production Planning, or Extended Warehouse Management preferred.
  • Excellent problem-solving abilities, strong stakeholder management, and clear cross-functional communication bridging warehouse floor operators and supply chain executives.

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance plans.
  • Employee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP) and 401K program with company match after 12 months of tenure.
  • Health Savings Account (HSA) on the HDHP plan.
  • SupportLinc Employee Assistance Program (EAP) with up to 8 free counseling sessions.
  • Corporate discount savings program and other discounts.
  • 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.
  • Dedicated customer service team and certified Career Coach for consultants.

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