SAP Finance Functional Senior Manager

Overview

In this role you’ll lead as the SAP finance design authority on large transformation programmes, shaping end-to-end finance design and setting project standards. You will run SAP-enabled finance transformations with minimal oversight, collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver CFO-focused outcomes. The role blends deep SAP expertise with strategic stakeholder engagement to drive performance, control, and trusted reporting. A key hook is applying AI-enabled delivery to accelerate finance reinvention in a global client context.

Pay / Benefits

• 30 days’ holiday per year
• private medical insurance
• charitable leave
• competitive salary and package

Responsibilities

• Act as the finance design authority across the SAP programme, ensuring coherent end-to-end design from discovery to run
• Lead large, multi-workstream SAP finance programmes with client-facing accountability
• Balance SAP fit-to-standard with business differentiation and guide informed trade-offs
• Oversee integration landscapes (SAP-to-SAP, SAP-to-non-SAP) and collaborate with enterprise architects and data teams
• Shape propositions, support bids, and articulate value of SAP finance transformation to senior stakeholders
• Coach and develop the project team and lead senior client forums and steering committees
• Drive adoption of AI-enabled delivery models and digital accelerators within the programme
• Grow project scope and opportunities by connecting SAP capabilities to enterprise value

Key requirements

• 10+ years leading large-scale, multi-workstream SAP finance programmes end to end
• Deep knowledge of SAP FI/CO modules and how they fit together (GL, AR, AP, Asset Accounting; CO-PA, Cost Centre/Profit Centre Accounting, allocations, product costing)
• Experience with R2R processes, consolidation readiness, and finance controls by design
• S/4HANA-enabled finance operating model experience; ability to guide legacy to S/4HANA transitions
• SAP certification and a professional finance or accounting qualification (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent experience)
• Strong stakeholder management and ability to lead design workshops and executive governance
• Commercial acumen with scope and contractual awareness

• leadership and authority in senior forums
• trust-building with executive stakeholders
• collaboration and team development
• SAP FI/CO modules
• Group Reporting, Central Finance, Project Systems
• Record-to-Report and consolidation processes

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