IT&DATA Chapter Manager SAP Finance

Job Description:

• The Chapter Manager for SAP Finance Expertise serves as a recognized authority within the organization on SAP Finance processes, solutions, and integrations.
• This position offers advanced functional guidance and practical expertise to Product Teams when they encounter complex topics that extend beyond their current knowledge base.
• The role assists teams in diagnosing issues, evaluating potential solutions, understanding configuration and integration impacts, and making informed, sustainable functional design choices.
• By being part of the Finance Chapter, this role facilitates the sharing of specialized expertise across various products.
• The Chapter Manager is responsible for retaining and nurturing critical knowledge, advocating for standards and reuse, challenging external recommendations, and minimizing reliance on individual specialists and vendors.
• Product Teams maintain ownership of their business relationships, product decisions, backlogs, and delivery processes.
• The Finance Architect is accountable for the overall structure of the Finance architecture.
• The Chapter Manager provides the in-depth SAP Finance knowledge necessary to guide these decisions.

Key Responsibilities:

• Core responsibilities
• Diagnose intricate functional and integration challenges, identify underlying causes, and suggest sustainable solutions.
• Review and critically assess essential functional designs and external recommendations, promoting the reuse of standard SAP functionalities and adherence to Finance core model principles.
• Recognize broader architectural implications and collaborate with the Finance Architect when issues affect the overall landscape, end-to-end integration, data flows, or architectural guidelines.
• Foster and energize a community of practice that facilitates knowledge transfer, cross-product learning, and consistent methodologies.
• Accountable for managing a distinct pool of resources within areas of expertise to support various Products across the organization.
• Delivery and operational responsibilities
• Provide expert, hands-on support during complex discovery, design, implementation, testing, deployment, stabilization, and problem resolution phases without becoming a permanent resource for any Product Team.
• Ensure functional quality assurance for significant changes by evaluating process data, control configurations, and integration ramifications.
• Independently scrutinize work produced by AMS providers, system integrators, and other external specialists or consultants.
• Transform implementation incidents and operational insights into reusable guidance, standards, and capability development initiatives.
• Identify systemic risks, dependencies, and improvement opportunities that could impact product roadmaps or portfolio execution.
• Maintain comprehensive and accessible capability documentation while progressively enhancing expertise and autonomy within the Chapter.
• Stakeholder and collaboration responsibilities
• Collaborate with the Finance Chapter Lead, Product Owners, Senior Product Owners, Product Analysts, Senior Product Analysts, Product Builders, architects, Business Partners, and delivery teams.
• Assist the Chapter Lead in translating the needs of the Product Group into priorities for skills and capability development.
• Engage in business discussions only through or at the request of the Product Team, ensuring that the Product Team remains the primary interface for business interactions.
• Work in conjunction with the Finance Architect and other Chapter Managers when topics intersect capability or solution boundaries.
• Mentor Chapter members and ensure the retention of critical expertise.

Technical Requirements:

• Experience with Finance transformation, standardization, core model, or multi-entity initiatives.
• Knowledge of related domains such as tax, treasury, statutory reporting, controlling, master data, financial controls, data governance, or SaaS solutions.
• Experience in defining standards, design principles, reusable patterns, communities of practice, or capability frameworks.
• Familiarity with product-centric operating models, Agile methodologies, and product roadmap or portfolio discussions.
• Experience mentoring specialists and functioning effectively within a matrix and evolving organizational landscape.

Additional Responsibilities:

• Extensive expertise in end-to-end Finance processes, business rules, controls, and SAP Finance functionalities.
• Proficiency across multiple SAP Finance process areas and a comprehensive understanding of the broader Finance application ecosystem.
• Demonstrated ability to translate complex business requirements into viable solution alternatives while assessing functional design, configuration, data control, and integration impacts.
• Capability to diagnose complex issues, differentiate between justified requirements and unnecessary customizations, and propose sustainable solutions.
• Solid understanding of SAP Finance integration with adjacent SAP and non-SAP solutions, core model principles, and solution reuse.
• Aptitude for reviewing functional specifications, configuration proposals, and integration designs, while credibly challenging experienced external consultants.

Preferred Skills:

Foundational->Development process generic->SaaS Development Process->SaaS