SAP Cloud ERP Finance Configuration Lead

Role Overview

SAP Cloud ERP finance configuration lead owns the functional configuration, stabilization, and continuous improvement of SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition Finance across financial accounting, management accounting/controlling, cash and treasury-related processes, and event-based revenue recognition. Serve as the senior configuration authority connecting Finance process owners, enterprise architecture, integration, data, security, and support teams after go-live.

 

Key Responsibilities

• Own the Finance configuration backlog and translate approved business requirements into fit-to-standard configuration decisions.
• Lead configuration and functional design across General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Asset Accounting, organizational/controlling structures, allocations, and period-end processes within deployed scope.
• Own management accounting configuration including cost centers, profit centers, internal reporting dimensions, settlement/allocation concepts, and profitability-relevant design within Public Cloud capabilities.
• Lead functional ownership of Event-Based Revenue Recognition for project-based services, including recognition methods, accounting treatment, issue analysis, period-end activities, and reconciliation with source transactions.
• Support cash and liquidity management, bank account/house bank design, payment-related configuration, and treasury processes included in the enterprise scope.
• Assess defects and enhancement requests, distinguishing configuration, master-data, integration, authorization, data, and product-standard causes.
• Drive root-cause analysis for finance posting, derivation, valuation, revenue recognition, and closing issues; coordinate resolution through the correct delivery team.
• Maintain configuration documentation, decision records, test evidence, operating procedures, and traceability from requirement through production deployment.
• Define functional acceptance criteria and lead unit, regression, release, and business validation for Finance changes.
• Partner with data teams on finance master and transactional data quality, mapping, reconciliation, and migration/cutover corrections.
• Partner with integration teams on upstream/downstream accounting impacts and API/interface error handling.
• Support Finance business users during close, billing/revenue recognition cycles, and high-severity production incidents.
• Review SAP release changes and feature impacts for Finance and recommend adoption, regression scope, or mitigation actions.
• Enforce clean-core and fit-to-standard principles, escalating custom requirements that materially increase operational complexity.
• Provide functional leadership to analysts/configurators and external system integrator resources, including quality review of deliverables.