Finance Program Manager, SAP

• 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 EPO’s, 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

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• Coordinate with System Integrators and third-party partners to ensure alignment to the FInance portfolio priorities and program governance standards.
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• Track high-level partner deliverables, dependencies, and risks.
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• Support issue escalation and reinforce expectations for quality, documentation, and knowledge transfer.
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Business Readiness & Adoption Support

• 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.

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• Maintain a portfolio-level view of risks, issues, and cross-initiative dependencies.
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• Support tracking of business benefits, KPIs, and value realization.
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• 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: 

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• Bachelor’s degree required
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• 8+ years project/program management experience, including 3–5 years supporting SAP ERP (ECC or S/4HANA) transformations with focus on Finance
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• Experience working with business leaders, IT teams, and system integrators
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• Strong understanding of end-to-end business processes
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• Ability to manage cross-functional dependencies and readiness risks
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• Direct experience supporting Finance business processes in an SAP environment.
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• An understanding of the different perspectives within Finance i.e. R2R, FP&A, Tax and Treasury
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• The successful candidate will be a high-impact leader who embodies the following attributes:
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• Integrator and orchestrator:  Connects strategy to execution across functions, SAP and third parties.
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• Proactively risk-focused:  Anticipates dependencies and readiness issues before they become delivery problems.
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• Business-first operator:  Prioritizes adaptations, readiness, and outcomes over task completion.
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• Influence without authority:  Drives alignment and progress through collaboration, clarity, and credibility.
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• 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.
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