SAP Project Manager SAP Finance Transformation

Dice is seeking an experienced SAP Project Manager for a finance transformation project. The role involves coordinating multiple workstreams, managing relationships with consulting partners, and ensuring successful delivery of SAP finance initiatives.

Responsibilities:

• Own coordination of all Client in-house workstreams across BIP, BPC, SAC, DSP, and MDG, ensuring each team understands their responsibilities, timelines, and dependencies relative to the Consulting Team-led S/4HANA and PaPM workstreams
• Maintain a consolidated view of in-house deliverables and readiness milestones across all program phases
• Facilitate regular internal team check-ins to track progress, surface issues, and align on priorities
• Ensure internal teams are prepared and resourced to participate in joint activities including testing, reconciliation cycles, design workshops, and go-live events
• Serve as Client's primary day-to-day liaison to the Consulting Team Project Manager, providing timely responses, decisions, and inputs required to keep SI delivery on track
• Attend and support Consulting Team-led program governance meetings, representing Client's internal perspective and escalating items internally as needed
• Monitor SI progress against agreed milestones and flag risks or gaps to Client leadership proactively
• Coordinate Client participation in Consulting Team-led activities including design transition workshops, reconciliation governance sessions, testing cycles, and knowledge transfer sessions
• Maintain Client's internal RAID log (Risks, Actions, Issues, Decisions), ensuring items are owned, tracked, and resolved in a timely manner
• Identify and manage interdependencies between the Consulting Team-led scope and in-house workstreams, escalating cross-team blockers before they impact the program timeline
• Support Client's governance framework around the House 1 / House 2 parallel assessment, including variance classification, tolerance sign-offs, and reconciliation cycle readiness
• Coordinate Client internal teams' participation in unit testing, integration testing, and UAT cycles alongside Consulting Team and any third parties
• Track internal readiness for Technical Go-Live Step 1, Technical Go-Live Step 2, and Business Go-Live, ensuring in-house teams have completed all prerequisite activities
• Support cutover planning by coordinating internal team tasks, ensuring alignment with Consulting Team's cutover plan
• Coordinate Client's hypercare response following each go-live event, ensuring internal teams are available and responsive during stabilization periods
• Maintain an internal status reporting cadence for Client Finance and IT leadership, translating program progress into clear, business-relevant updates
• Coordinate Client inputs into the joint stakeholder communication plan developed by Consulting Team
• Escalate decisions and risks to appropriate Client leadership in a structured and timely manner
• Facilitate internal alignment sessions to resolve cross-functional issues and drive decisions needed by the program

Requirements:

• Must be great communicator
• Experienced Project Manager to serve as the central coordination hub across a complex, multi-workstream program
• Deep experience managing large-scale SAP finance transformation programs
• Ability to thrive in an environment requiring rigorous cross-functional governance and stakeholder alignment
• Own coordination of all Client in-house workstreams across BIP, BPC, SAC, DSP, and MDG
• Maintain a consolidated view of in-house deliverables and readiness milestones across all program phases
• Facilitate regular internal team check-ins to track progress, surface issues, and align on priorities
• Ensure internal teams are prepared and resourced to participate in joint activities including testing, reconciliation cycles, design workshops, and go-live events
• Serve as Client's primary day-to-day liaison to the Consulting Team Project Manager
• Provide timely responses, decisions, and inputs required to keep SI delivery on track
• Attend and support Consulting Team-led program governance meetings
• Monitor SI progress against agreed milestones and flag risks or gaps to Client leadership proactively
• Coordinate Client participation in Consulting Team-led activities including design transition workshops, reconciliation governance sessions, testing cycles, and knowledge transfer sessions
• Maintain Client's internal RAID log (Risks, Actions, Issues, Decisions)
• Identify and manage interdependencies between the Consulting Team-led scope and in-house workstreams
• Support Client's governance framework around the House 1 / House 2 parallel assessment
• Coordinate Client internal teams' participation in unit testing, integration testing, and UAT cycles
• Track internal readiness for Technical Go-Live Step 1, Technical Go-Live Step 2, and Business Go-Live
• Support cutover planning by coordinating internal team tasks
• Coordinate Client's hypercare response following each go-live event
• Maintain an internal status reporting cadence for Client Finance and IT leadership
• Coordinate Client inputs into the joint stakeholder communication plan developed by Consulting Team
• Escalate decisions and risks to appropriate Client leadership in a structured and timely manner
• Facilitate internal alignment sessions to resolve cross-functional issues and drive decisions needed by the program