SAP Cloud ERP Professional Services Functional Lead

• Contracts 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/4
  
  HANA Public Cloud experience is required. On-prem only won’t work.

SAP Cloud ERP professional services functional lead Own the functional design, configuration, stabilization, and optimization of SAP S/4

HANA 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.

• 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 S/4
  
  HANA 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.

• Own stabilization of customer-project and project-billing processes, with clear severity and SLA-based triage.
• Monitor recurring errors…