Description

Key Skills: SAP FICO, Program Management

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Lead end-to-end SAP project and program management for assigned IT initiatives from planning through successful delivery.
• Manage project scope, timelines, budgets, resources, risks, and quality to ensure successful execution.
• Drive SAP implementation, migration, rollout, and conversion projects while ensuring alignment with business objectives.
• Collaborate with business stakeholders, customers, and cross-functional teams to define project goals and deliverables.
• Build and maintain strong customer relationships while identifying opportunities for business growth within existing accounts.
• Lead SAP project teams and provide guidance, mentoring, coaching, and performance management.
• Oversee financial management of projects including budgeting, forecasting, profitability analysis, and cost control.
• Identify project risks and issues proactively and implement mitigation strategies to minimize business impact.
• Communicate project status, milestones, risks, and escalations effectively to senior management and stakeholders.
• Ensure compliance with project governance standards, methodologies, and SAP best practices.
• Prepare and maintain project management documentation using SAP standard templates and tools.
• Coordinate with internal and external stakeholders to manage scope changes, resource allocation, and delivery expectations.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives and promote standardized project management processes.
• Support data governance initiatives and ensure implementation of best practices across SAP platforms.
• Deliver projects within agreed schedules, budgets, and quality standards.
• Travel to customer locations as required based on project needs.

Skills Required:

• 10 to 15 years of overall experience in SAP.
• Minimum 5+ years of experience in SAP Project Management or Program Management.
• Experience managing 3-5 end-to-end SAP implementation projects as Project Lead or Project Manager.
• Experience in at least one SAP conversion project with strong knowledge of RISE with SAP.
• Hands-on functional consulting experience in at least one SAP module such as FICO, MM, SD, PP, QM, WM, PM, PS, or EWM.
• Strong expertise in SAP implementation methodologies and project lifecycle management.
• Experience in SAP S/4HANA implementation, migration, or transformation projects.
• Strong knowledge of project planning, estimation, budgeting, scheduling, and resource management.
• Expertise in stakeholder management, customer engagement, and executive communication.
• Ability to manage project financials including budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, and profitability.
• Strong risk management, issue resolution, and escalation management skills.
• Experience in leading geographically distributed and cross-functional teams.
• Excellent leadership, mentoring, coaching, and team management capabilities.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, negotiation, and decision-making skills.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to build trusted relationships across all organizational levels.
• Strong executive presence with customer-facing experience.
• Knowledge of SAP Activate methodology.
• PMP certification or SAP Activate certification is an added advantage.
• Willingness to travel based on project requirements.

Education: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business Administration, or a related field.

• Master's degree is preferred.
• SAP Activate Certification and/or PMP Certification is an added advantage

Key Skills

Education

Any Graduate