SAP Business Process Mgr - Finance

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Parker's newly combined Motion and Flow Group provides integrated technologies that enable customers to control, connect, and move power and fluids reliably in demanding applications. Its capabilities span electromechanical motion, hydraulics, pneumatics, filtration, fittings, hoses, tubing, quick couplings, and related engineered systems.

Serving a broad range of industrial, mobile, transportation, energy, and life sciences markets, the group partners with customers to solve complex application challenges through high-performance components, subsystems, and engineered solutions. Its broad technical capabilities support complete, efficient, and sustainable solutions that improve productivity, reliability, safety, and total cost of ownership.

The Motion and Flow Group operates with a strong focus on customer relationships, operational excellence, innovation, and talent development, advancing Parker's purpose of enabling engineering breakthroughs that lead to a better tomorrow.

We believe that our team members are our key assets and that a diverse workforce is a driving force to bring our purpose to life. We foster a culture where every team member feels safe, included and empowered.

We all belong, we all matter, and we all make a difference.

• We are seeking a strategic finance leader to serve as the group functional owner and decision authority for SAP S/4
  
  HANA finance processes, including financial planning and reporting, controlling, accounting, costing, and related business processes. Reporting to the Group VP Controller, this role will lead SAP business-process strategy, deployment governance, fit-to-standard adoption, and long-term sustainment across group divisions and locations.

• The successful candidate will drive adoption of Parker standard SAP processes and ensure consistent financial process execution. They will partner with Corporate SAP Business Process Leaders, Group SAP IT, division controllers, finance leaders, and cross-functional stakeholders to align solution design, testing, deployment readiness, adoption, and post-go-live support.

• This role requires the ability to work effectively in a complex, matrixed environment-balancing enterprise SAP standards with division-specific requirements, resolving cross-functional issues, mitigating implementation risks, and supporting business continuity throughout deployment and stabilization.

• Lead the deployment and adoption of SAP S/4
  
  HANA finance, accounting, controlling, and reporting processes.
• Assess current-state processes, identify gaps, risks, control impacts, data needs, and organizational changes, and drive fit-to-standard adoption.
• Partner with Corporate SAP Business Process Leaders, finance, IT, and business stakeholders to align process design, testing, training, cutover, go-live, and stabilization.
• Provide post-go-live support to ensure business continuity, stable adoption, reporting integrity, and process compliance.

• Lead and standardize SAP-enabled financial accounting, close, consolidation, management reporting, and financial reporting processes.
• Provide functional leadership for controlling, cost accounting, product costing, cost centers, profit centers, standard costing, and manufacturing finance.
• Ensure finance processes support accurate, timely, compliant reporting; reliable financial data; internal controls; and effective business decisions.
• Partner with operations, supply chain, procurement, manufacturing, sales, and customer service to align finance processes across order-to-cash,…