SAP S/4HANA Finance Team Lead

Role Overview

The SAP S/4HANA Finance Team Lead will be responsible for leading the finance functional workstream, providing specialist SAP expertise, and supporting the successful implementation and integration of SAP S/4HANA Finance, Controlling and Asset Accounting within the Public sector.

The role requires a strong combination of SAP functional and configuration expertise, public sector experience, and team leadership capability. The successful candidate will work closely with client stakeholders, technical teams and other functional workstreams to ensure that solutions meet business requirements, comply with contractual obligations, and align with project objectives and timelines.

Key Responsibilities

• Functional Leadership: Lead the SAP Finance functional workstream, providing direction and oversight across SAP FI, CO and Asset Accounting (AM).
• Business and Functional Support: Provide high-quality business and functional support for SAP Finance, with particular emphasis on integration between FICO and Funds Management (FM).
• Solution Design and Configuration: Oversee and contribute to SAP configuration, solution design and the delivery of functional solutions aligned with business and public sector requirements.
• Requirements Management: Elicit, document and validate functional and technical requirements, ensuring traceability from business needs through to solution delivery.
• Team Leadership: Manage and coordinate a joint team of SAP consultants and client personnel, promoting effective collaboration, knowledge sharing and delivery across the project lifecycle.
• Project Delivery: Ensure that deliverables and work products are of a high standard and meet agreed quality criteria, contractual obligations and project milestones.
• Project Planning and Reporting: Provide timely and accurate input to the management team to maintain and update the integrated master project schedule, highlighting dependencies, risks and potential delivery issues.
• Data Migration and Conversion: Support data conversion activities, including finance data mapping, validation, reconciliation and migration into SAP S/4HANA.
• SAP Activate Delivery: Apply SAP Activate methodology to support project planning, fit-to-standard workshops, design, configuration, testing, deployment and transition to business-as-usual operations.
• Stakeholder Management: Work closely with finance business stakeholders, project management, technical teams and other SAP workstreams to resolve issues and ensure successful integration.
• Quality Assurance: Ensure functional deliverables, configuration decisions and supporting documentation comply with agreed standards and project governance.

Essential Requirements: Candidates must demonstrate the following experience and capabilities:

Desirable Requirements: The following skills and experience would be advantageous:

Key Competencies: The successful candidate will demonstrate:

Outcomes: The SAP S/4HANA Finance Team Lead will be expected to: