SAP Cloud ERP Professional Services Functional Lead

Job Title: SAP Cloud ERP Professional Services Functional LeadLocation: Remote with Travel (20%)Duration: 12 Months Contract

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RequirementsContracts run through December 2027, with conversion planned for 2028.Priority roles (in order)Remote, working EST or CST hours. Pacific is acceptable only if the candidate works Eastern or Central hours.40 hours a week, with 10 to 20% travel to Chicago for workshops (1 to 2 times a month). Travel is reimbursed.Hands-on S/4HANA Public Cloud experience is required. On-prem only won’t work.
Role Overview SAP Cloud ERP professional services functional lead Own the functional design, configuration, stabilization, and optimization of SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition Professional Services processes for a project-based enterprise. Focus on customer project lifecycle, work packages, staffing-relevant project structures, time/cost capture integration, project billing, profitability, and operational controls while partnering closely with Finance and adjacent workforce/resource systems.
Key Responsibilities Own the post-go-live functional roadmap and configuration backlog for SAP Professional Services/customer project capabilities.Configure and support customer project structures, project stages, work packages, roles, planned effort/cost/revenue inputs, and project lifecycle controls within deployed scope.Own functional design for project billing preparation, billing plans, billing elements, project billing requests, and handoffs to billing/accounting.Support project financial planning, actual cost/revenue visibility, project margin analysis, and integration with Finance and Event-Based Revenue Recognition.Define and maintain project master-data standards, templates, derivation rules, validation controls, and governance.Partner with resource-management and time systems to ensure project, role, assignment, budget, and time data are fit for downstream processing.Analyze production defects involving customer projects, project billing, time/cost postings, master data, workflow, or integration dependencies.Lead functional acceptance criteria, test scenarios, regression packs, and business validation for Professional Services changes.Maintain end-to-end process documentation from project setup through time/cost capture, billing, revenue recognition, and closure.Drive fit-to-standard decisions and minimize unnecessary custom extensions around project operations.Support business teams during billing cycles, project setup peaks, period-end activities, and critical incidents.Review SAP release changes affecting Professional Services and determine business impact, test scope, and adoption opportunities.Coordinate functional dependencies with Finance, Billing, HR/time, resource management, CRM/engagement systems, data, and integration teams.Lead backlog refinement and prioritize changes based on operational risk, business value, and go-live stabilization needs.Provide quality oversight for SI-delivered configuration, test evidence, and production fixes.
SAP / Product-Specific Responsibilities SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition Professional Services / customer project management capabilities.Plan Customer Projects and project lifecycle concepts, work packages, billing elements, billing plans, and project billing.Manage Project Billing and related billing request/document handoffs.Integration with Event-Based Revenue Recognition, General Ledger/Controlling, time recording, expenses, and enterprise resource-management solutions.SAP Fiori role-based applications, configuration lifecycle, and Public Cloud release adoption.
Operational Responsibilities Own stabilization of customer-project and project-billing processes, with clear severity and SLA-based triage.Monitor recurring errors in project setup, time/cost postings, billing preparation, project closure, and integrated master data.Maintain business-ready operating procedures, support playbooks, known-error records, and release regression scenarios.Drive continuous improvement in project setup cycle time, billing readiness, data quality, and user adoption.
Cross-Functional Collaboration Professional Services operations, Project/Engagement Management, Finance/Controllership, Billing, Revenue Accounting, HR/time, resource management, Data, Integration, Security, QA/Release, and implementation partners.
Required Qualifications Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in Business, Finance, Information Systems, Engineering, or related discipline.8+ years of SAP project systems/professional-services functional experience, including S/4HANA-era delivery.Hands-on configuration experience with SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition Professional Services/customer project processes strongly preferred.Strong understanding of project-based services economics, time/cost capture, billing, margin, and revenue-recognition dependencies.Experience supporting production operations after ERP go-live.
Required Technical / Functional Skills SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition Professional Services/customer projects.Project lifecycle, work packages, project billing, billing plans, project master data, and project financial controls.Integration with Finance/Controlling and Event-Based Revenue Recognition.Time/expense and resource-management integration concepts.Fiori applications, testing, defect triage, configuration governance, and release impact assessment.
Preferred Qualifications Experience in consulting, accounting, engineering, legal, or other project-based professional services firms.Experience integrating SAP with workforce/resource planning or time systems such as Deltec Replicon and Day shape. xzbcwsv Current SAP credential aligned to SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition Professional Services or related implementation learning is preferred.