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Job ID: 527317

Position Overview

We are seeking an experienced SAP Manager to own the Record to Report (R2R) process landscape, spanning Finance (FI)/Banking, Controlling (CO), and Financial Reporting. The ideal candidate is a strong business partner who can align technology initiatives with strategic finance objectives and drive digital transformation, backed by deep hands-on expertise across accounts payable, month-end close, asset accounting, banking and cash application, product costing, inventory valuation, Material Ledger, CO-PA, tax, and FP&A/corporate and management reporting. The candidate must also bring proven, hands-on experience integrating SAP FI/CO with upstream and downstream modules (MM, SD) and with external banking, tax, and treasury systems.

This is a business-facing role: the successful candidate will spend significant time directly with Finance, Controllership, Tax, and FP&A leaders, understanding how they work today and co-designing how they should work tomorrow. This person will lead discovery and design workshops, map current- and future-state processes, and drive continuous improvement across the record-to-report value chain. The role also leads a team of SAP R2R functional resources, driving system enhancements, hands-on configuration, and integration delivery, and ensuring an accurate, well-controlled, and continuously improving financial close and reporting process across the organization.

Key Responsibilities (Essential Duties and Functions)

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily.

Business Process Design & Improvement

• Act as the primary business-facing process owner for R2R — spending regular, recurring time with business leads in Finance, Controllership, Tax, and FP&A.
• Partner directly with business stakeholders to understand gaps and pain points, translate business needs into functional requirements, and design scalable, efficient R2R processes.
• Define and track KPIs and process performance metrics jointly with business owners, and report progress back to them on a regular cadence.
• Establish and run a standing business process governance forum (e.g., monthly R2R process review) to surface emerging issues, prioritize backlog items, and keep process design decisions transparent and business-led.

Driving Design Workshops & Business Engagement

• Own end-to-end workshop planning and delivery: define objectives, identify the right stakeholders, build the agenda, and drive the session to concrete, documented decisions and next steps.
• Plan and facilitate requirements-gathering and process design workshops with cross-functional stakeholders across Finance, Controllership, Tax, and FP&A — driving discussions toward decisions rather than open-ended brainstorming.
• Run fit-gap and solution design sessions with business and technical teams, presenting options, trade-offs, and recommendations, and driving alignment on process decisions and configuration approaches.
• Use visual facilitation techniques (process maps, whiteboarding, journey maps) in live sessions to help business stakeholders see and agree on the proposed design in real time.
• Manage constructive conflict in workshops — surfacing and resolving competing priorities between functions (e.g., Finance, Controllership, Tax, and FP&A) to reach a workable, business-endorsed outcome.

Finance (FI)/Banking

• Own the end-to-end SAP FI process, including accounts payable, month-end close activities, asset accounting, and banking.
• Oversee leasing accounting and administration, including integration with Costar for lease data management.
• Drive banking process design, including bank statement processing, payment processing, and reconciliation.
• Own the cash application process, ensuring incoming payments are matched and posted accurately and timely, and driving automation to reduce unapplied cash and manual effort.
• Partner with Treasury and Accounting to streamline payables, banking, and cash application, reducing exceptions and improving DPO/DSO-related metrics.

Controlling (CO)

• Own the SAP Controlling process landscape, including Product Costing, Inventory Evaluation, Material Ledger, and Profitability Analysis (CO-PA).
• Provide strong hands-on functional expertise in standard costing, actual costing, and inventory valuation to ensure accurate product cost and margin reporting.
• Partner with Tax to ensure Controlling processes and postings support accurate direct and indirect tax reporting and compliance.
• Ensure accurate integration between CO, FI, MM, and SD so that cost, inventory, and profitability data remain consistent end-to-end.

Financial Reporting & FP&A

• Own the SAP-enabled Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) process, including corporate reporting and management reporting.
• Partner with FP&A and Corporate Accounting on budgeting and forecasting processes, ensuring SAP data and reporting tools support accurate, timely planning cycles.
• Drive standardization and continuous improvement of corporate and management reporting packages, including consolidation and variance analysis.
• Ensure financial reporting outputs comply with corporate accounting policy, SOX, and audit requirements.

Systems Integration

• Own hands-on design and support of integrations between SAP FI/CO and MM, SD, and Treasury systems, ensuring consistent, reconciled financial data end-to-end.
• Lead integration of SAP with banking platforms, payment gateways, and tax engines, resolving interface and mapping issues in partnership with technical teams and vendors.
• Ensure integration reliability, monitoring, and error handling across the R2R technology and interface landscape.
• Partner with enterprise architecture and middleware teams to maintain a scalable, well-governed integration framework for R2R.

Team & Stakeholder Management

• Lead, mentor, and develop a team of SAP functional analysts/consultants supporting R2R.
• Act as primary liaison between business stakeholders (Finance, Controllership, Tax, FP&A) and technical teams.
• Manage vendor and implementation partner relationships for R2R-related projects and integrations.
• Prepare and present status updates, roadmaps, and risk assessments to senior leadership.

Project & Change Management

• Lead SAP R2R enhancement projects, upgrades, and rollouts, including requirements gathering, solution design, testing, and deployment.
• Ensure proper documentation of business processes, configuration, and support procedures.
• Drive adherence to change management, testing, and release governance standards.
• Support audits and ensure compliance/internal controls across R2R processes.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Information Technology, or a related discipline; equivalent experience considered.
• 15+ years of overall SAP experience, with 5+ years in a managerial or team lead capacity.
• Strong hands-on functional experience across SAP FI, including accounts payable, month-end close, asset accounting, and banking/cash application.
• Hands-on experience with SAP CO, including Product Costing, Inventory Evaluation, Material Ledger, and CO-PA.
• Hands-on experience integrating SAP FI/CO with MM, SD, and Treasury, along with external banking and tax engine platforms.
• Working knowledge of Tax processes and requirements as they relate to Controlling and financial reporting.
• Experience supporting FP&A, corporate reporting, management reporting, and budgeting/forecasting cycles.
• Experience with lease accounting and lease administration tools such as Costar.
• Excellent stakeholder management, communication, and leadership skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with SAP S/4HANA and the Universal Journal.
• SAP certification(s) in FI, CO, or related modules.
• Hands-on experience with Material Ledger and Actual Costing.
• Familiarity with Costar or similar lease accounting/administration platforms.
• Experience with middleware/integration tooling (e.g., SAP PI/PO, SAP CPI, or third-party iPaaS) supporting FI/CO integrations.
• Experience working in an Agile/Scrum delivery environment.
• Prior experience in a shared services or global SAP Center of Excellence (COE) model.

Key Competencies

• Strategic and process-oriented thinking with strong attention to detail and financial accuracy.
• Ability to manage multiple concurrent projects and priorities across functional areas.
• Strong cross-functional collaboration across IT, Finance, Controllership, Tax, and FP&A.
• Vendor and stakeholder management skills.
• Team leadership and mentoring capability.

The statements included in this job description are not intended to be all-inclusive. They represent typical elements and criteria necessary to successfully perform the job. Other duties may be assigned as required. Requirements for this job are subject to modification by the Company and its designees, and reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.