SAP S/4HANA Public Cloud Finance Lead

Salary: £42,000 - 72,500 per year

Requirements

• Strong SAP Finance experience, including recent hands-on delivery with SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition.
• At least one end-to-end Public Cloud implementation in a Finance Lead, Solution Lead, or senior functional capacity.
• Detailed knowledge of Record to Report and Finance integration with Procure to Pay and Order to Cash.
• Strong functional knowledge across General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Asset Accounting, banking, tax, intercompany accounting, closing, and controlling.
• Practical experience of SAP Activate, fit-to-standard workshops, and Public Cloud configuration.
• Experience with SAP Best Practices, Fiori applications, and cloud release processes.
• Strong understanding of Finance integration with Sales, Procurement, Projects, Manufacturing, or Supply Chain.
• Experience supporting data migration, testing, cutover, and go-live.
• Excellent workshop facilitation, presentation, and stakeholder management skills.
• Confidence to advise and challenge senior customer stakeholders while building trusted relationships.
• Strong organisation and leadership skills, with the ability to manage priorities and drive actions to completion remotely.
• SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition certification in Financial Accounting or Management Accounting is desirable.
• Experience with Central Business Configuration and SAP Cloud ALM is desirable.
• Knowledge of SAP Analytics Cloud, Group Reporting, BTP, or wider SAP cloud integrations is desirable.
• Experience delivering projects for mid-market or enterprise customers across sectors such as manufacturing, life sciences, professional services, retail, or distribution is desirable.
• Previous SAP partner or consulting experience, including pre-sales involvement, is desirable.
• Experience leading or mentoring other consultants is desirable.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Finance workstream throughout the full SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition lifecycle, from discovery and fit-to-standard through configuration, testing, deployment, and hypercare.
• Plan and facilitate workshops with Finance Directors, CFOs, process owners, and operational users.
• Translate business requirements into scalable solutions aligned with SAP Public Cloud best practice.
• Promote a fit-to-standard approach, confidently challenging unnecessary customisation and explaining the impact of design decisions.
• Own the finance solution design across General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Asset Accounting, banking, tax, intercompany processing, period-end close, controlling, and reporting.
• Manage finance-related scope, decisions, risks, dependencies, and actions.
• Produce and assure high-quality process designs, solution documentation, workshop outputs, and test materials.
• Coordinate functional consultants and collaborate with project management, data, integration, technical, and change teams.
• Oversee finance testing, data migration, reconciliation, cutover, and go-live readiness.
• Guide customers through decisions involving Fiori applications, organisational structures, master data, controls, roles, and reporting.
• Provide clear updates to customer and internal leadership throughout delivery.
• Support pre-sales and discovery activity, including workshops, estimates, proposals, and demonstrations.
• Coach less experienced consultants and help develop the SAP S/4HANA Public Cloud finance capability.

Technologies

• Cloud
• Support
• LESS
• SAP S/4HANA
• SAP
• SAP Analytics Cloud
• DevOps

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We are an established digital business transformation consultancy expanding our SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition capability. This is a fully remote, senior, hands-on consulting role with occasional travel to UK client sites, with all agreed business travel expenses paid. We are looking for a trusted Finance Lead to take ownership of the finance workstream across customer implementations and help shape our growing SAP Public Cloud practice.

last updated 33 week of 2026