SAP Data Migration Lead

About the Role

We're looking for an experienced SAP Data Migration Lead to own the end-to-end data migration workstream on a major SAP S4 HANA transformation programme.

Working across Finance and Professional Services data, you'll define the migration strategy, lead a team of data analysts, and provide delivery assurance across the SI and internal teams from planning through SIT, UAT and cutover.

This is a hands-on leadership role for a confident self-starter who can drive a multi-country, multi-entity migration to a clean, auditable finish.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead data migration planning and allocate consultants across scope items.
• Help define the migration strategy from source systems into SAP S/4 HANA.
• Provide delivery assurance for the migration scope owned by the SI, and work with the SI data migration lead to maintain a single consistent data plan.
• Co-host data migration workshops aligned to programme planning.
• Ensure data preparation, load and test activities follow the migration plan.
• Monitor and measure the quality of migrated data on the target platform.
• Drive resolution of data issues through SIT, UAT and cutover.
• Co-facilitate data workstream status meetings and programme reporting.
• Manage the internal team's extraction, transformation and delivery of finance and customer data.
• Lead data governance activities and PMO updates.
• Ensure all migration activity master and transactional is auditable and traceable.
• Build strong relationships with business stakeholders and data owners; escalate delivery risks to programme leadership.
• Lead and maximise utilisation of the data analyst team.
• Support capture of client hierarchy where it does not currently exist.

Skills & Experience Required

• Strong knowledge of Finance (R2R, P2P) and Professional Services data (Client Delivery, Order to Cash).
• Proven experience leading data migration, with the ability to plan and manage scope items.
• Solid Finance & Accounting migration background.
• Comfortable in a hybrid delivery model combining waterfall and agile.
• Self-starter able to lead with minimal support, while collaborating with Finance BPOs/SMEs and the SAP S/4 solution architect.
• Confident managing IT vendors and SIs across the project lifecycle.
• Experience running parallel migration across multiple countries and legal entities.
• Able to manage a small internal team handling finance and customer data.

Nice to Have

• Exposure to Informatica (transformation rules and pipelines will likely use this technology).

Reports to: Programme Director