Role: SAP S4 HANA Project Manager
Location: San Jose, CA(100% Onsite)
Position: 6+ Months Contract
Job Description:
Lead end-to-end program management of Client's SAP ECC 6.0 to S/4HANA transformation, a mission-critical initiative impacting Finance, Revenue Accounting, Procurement, Supply Chain, and integrated business processes across global operations.
Key Responsibilities
- Own program plan, timeline and delivery across all workstreams (Finance, RAR, MM, Integration, Data, Technical)
- Establish program governance: Steering Committee, Executive Sponsors, workstream leads, SI partner coordination
- Manage vendor/SI partner accountability and program risks, issues, dependencies across 15+ business units
- Align IT, Finance, Revenue, Procurement, Supply Chain stakeholders; drive change management and adoption
- Executive communication: Steering Committee, Board updates, CIO/CFO briefings
- Coordinate 50+ system integrations (Workday, Salesforce, Coupa, HighRadius, EPM, BW) and middleware modernization
- Manage dependencies with Master Data Governance, analytics migration, and infrastructure transition
Required Qualifications
Experience
- 10+ years program/project management in enterprise software implementations
- Minimum 2 full-lifecycle S/4HANA implementations as Program Manager (ECC ? S/4 migrations preferred)
- Revenue-critical systems: implementations impacting revenue recognition, financial close, or SOX processes
- Complex integrations: 50+ system interfaces, middleware platforms, batch/real-time integration patterns
Technical Knowledge
- S/4HANA architecture, deployment models (on-prem, cloud, hybrid)
- SAP Revenue Accounting & Reporting (RAR), FI/CO, MM/Procurement
- Integration technologies (SAP PI/PO, CPI, APIs), data migration, master data governance
- Agile/Waterfall hybrid delivery for ERP transformations
Leadership Skills
- Influence without authority across IT, Finance, Business; executive presence with C-suite/Board
- Vendor/SI management: accountability while maintaining collaboration
- Risk mitigation, conflict resolution, consensus building in matrixed organizations
Certifications (Preferred)
- SAP S/4HANA certification, SAP Project Management certification, or PMP/PgMP
