Finance SAP Program Manager
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Lead SAP S/4HANA Finance implementation for electric vehicle manufacturing, requiring expertise in finance, program management, and high-volume transaction environments.
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Responsibilities
- Own the end to end delivery of SAP S/4HANA Finance modules: FI, CO, COPA, Asset Accounting (AA), and integration with MM, PP, SD, and TM
- Develop and maintain the integrated program plan covering design, build, test, cutover, and hypercare phases
- Lead the Finance Steering Committee reporting cadence and escalation framework
- Manage budget, scope, and resource plan for the Finance SAP workstream
- Drive the design of Product Cost Planning and Cost Object Controlling for high volume repetitive manufacturing
- Configure and validate standard cost rollups, overhead rates, and WIP/variance settlement cycles
- Establish the Chart of Accounts, Profit Center, and Cost Center hierarchies
- Design the Material Ledger / Actual Costing approach for inventory valuation
- Lead configuration of COGS split, production variance categories, and COPA derivation
- Partner with Supply Chain and Procurement to design financial flows for PO to GR to Invoice cycles
- Define treatment of freight, duties, and logistics costs in cost of goods
- Ensure proper integration between Transportation Management (TM) and FI/CO
Requirements
- 12+ years of progressive finance experience, with a minimum of 3 full cycle SAP Finance implementations as lead or program manager
- Deep hands on expertise in SAP FI/CO, Product Costing, Material Ledger, and COPA
- Proven experience in manufacturing environments (automotive, industrial, or EV/battery manufacturing strongly preferred)
- Experience with high volume transaction environments: repetitive manufacturing, JIT supply chains, or assembly line operations
- Strong program management skills: PMP or equivalent; ability to manage a 20+ person, multi workstream team
- Experience with SAP S/4HANA (on premise or RISE); migration from ECC to S/4HANA is an asset
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Position Summary
- The Finance SAP Program Manager leads the end to end implementation of SAP S/4HANA across all finance workstreams for a greenfield Electric Vehicle (EV) manufacturing plant.
- This role serves as the principal bridge between Finance, IT, and Operations ensuring that SAP is configured to handle the plant's high volume, high velocity transaction environment from Day 1 of production.
- This is a critical, time bound leadership role requiring deep SAP Finance domain expertise, manufacturing industry knowledge, and the ability to drive cross functional alignment in a complex, pre production build environment.
- The ideal candidate has led SAP Finance implementations at scale in automotive, industrial, or EV manufacturing settings.
Working Conditions
- This role requires frequent on site presence at the plant location, particularly during design workshops, user acceptance testing, cutover, and hypercare phases.
- Travel of up to 50 70% may be required during peak program milestones.
- Flexibility to support critical go live windows, including weekends and extended hours, is expected.
Responsibilities
- SAP Finance Program Leadership: Own the end to end delivery of SAP S/4HANA Finance modules: FI, CO, COPA, Asset Accounting (AA), and integration with MM, PP, SD, and TM.
- Develop and maintain the integrated program plan covering design, build, test, cutover, and hypercare phases.
- Lead the Finance Steering Committee reporting cadence and escalation framework.
- Manage budget, scope, and resource plan for the Finance SAP workstream.
- Manufacturing Finance Configuration & Design: Drive the design of Product Cost Planning (CK40N / CK11N) and Cost Object Controlling for high volume repetitive manufacturing (REM) and discrete production orders.
- Configure and validate standard cost rollups, overhead rates, and WIP/variance settlement cycles aligned to plant production cadence.
- Establish the Chart of Accounts, Profit Center, and Cost Center hierarchies to support granular plant reporting.
- Design the Material Ledger / Actual Costing approach for inventory valuation under high volume, multi plant scenarios.
- Lead configuration of COGS split, production variance categories, and COPA derivation for management reporting.
- Supply Chain & Logistics Finance Integration: Partner with Supply Chain and Procurement to design the financial flows for PO to GR to Invoice cycles, including ERS (Evaluated Receipt Settlement) for high frequency suppliers.
- Define the treatment of freight, duties, and logistics costs in the cost of goods including standard vs. actual freight cost absorption.
- Ensure proper integration between Transportation Management (TM) and FI/CO for inbound and outbound logistics cost posting.
Minimum Qualifications & Skills
- 12+ years of progressive finance experience, with a minimum of 3 full cycle SAP Finance implementations as lead or program manager.
- Deep hands on expertise in SAP FI/CO, Product Costing, Material Ledger, and COPA.
- Proven experience in manufacturing environments automotive, industrial, or EV/battery manufacturing strongly preferred.
- Experience with high volume transaction environments: repetitive manufacturing, JIT supply chains, or assembly line operations.
- Strong program management skills: PMP or equivalent; ability to manage a 20+ person, multi workstream team.
- Experience with SAP S/4HANA (on premise or RISE); migration from ECC to S/4HANA is an asset.
Preferred
- Experience with SAP Transportation Management (TM) and Logistics Invoice Verification (LIV).
- Familiarity with SAP Activate methodology and agile delivery in an ERP context.
- Understanding of EV specific cost structures: battery raw material costs, cell to pack assembly, software embedded content.
- CPA, CMA, or equivalent finance designation.
- Experience working in a greenfield / pre production plant startup environment.
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