- The Chapter Manager SAP Finance Expertise is a recognized internal expert in SAP Finance processes solutions and integrations
- The role provides advanced functional guidance and hands on expertise to Product Teams when complex topics exceed the team s existing knowledge
- It helps teams diagnose issues evaluate solution options understand configuration and integration impacts and make sustainable functional design decisions
- Sitting in the Finance Chapter allows scarce expertise to be shared across products
- The role retains and develops critical knowledge promotes standards and reuse challenges external recommendations and helps reduce dependency on individual specialists and suppliers
- Product Teams retain ownership of the business relationship product decisions backlog and delivery
- The Finance Architect retains accountability for the overall Finance architecture
- The Chapter Manager provides the deep SAP Finance expertise required to inform those decisions
Key Responsibilities:
- Core responsibilities
- Diagnose complex functional and integration issues identify root causes and recommend sustainable resolutions
- Review and challenge critical functional designs and external recommendations promoting standard SAP functionality reuse and alignment with Finance core model principles
- Identify wider architectural implications and engage the Finance Architect when topics affect the overall landscape end to end integration data flows or architectural guardrails
- Build and animate a community of practice that enables knowledge transfer cross product learning and consistent ways of working
- Responsible for maintaining a specific pool of resources within the areas of expertise to support the different Products within the organization
- Delivery and operational responsibilities
- Provide hands on expert support during complex discovery design implementation testing deployment stabilization and problem resolution without becoming a permanent Product Team resource
- Provide functional quality assurance for high impact changes by assessing process data control configuration and integration consequences
- Independently challenge work produced by AMS providers system integrators and other external specialists and or consultants
- Convert implementation incident and operational learning into reusable guidance standards and capability development actions
- Raise systemic risks dependencies and improvement opportunities that may affect product roadmaps or portfolio execution
- Maintain accessible capability documentation and progressively increase expertise and autonomy across the Chapter
- Stakeholder and collaboration responsibilities
- Partner with the Finance Chapter Lead Product Owners Senior Product Owners Product Analysts Senior Product Analysts Product Builders architects Business Partners and delivery teams
- Support the Chapter Lead in translating Product Group needs into skills and capability development priorities
- Participate in business discussions only through or at the request of the Product Team ensuring the Product Team remains the primary business interface
- Collaborate with the Finance Architect and other Chapter Managers when topics cross capability or solution boundaries
- Coach Chapter members and ensure critical expertis
Technical Requirements:
- Experience with Finance transformation standardization core model or multi entity initiatives
- Knowledge of connected domains such as tax treasury statutory reporting controlling master data financial controls data governance or SaaS solutions
- Experience defining standards design principles reusable patterns communities of practice or capability frameworks
- Familiarity with product centric operating models Agile ways of working and product roadmap or portfolio discussions
- Experience coaching specialists and operating effectively in a matrix and evolving organizational environment
Additional Responsibilities:
- Deep expertise in relevant end to end Finance processes business rules controls and SAP Finance capabilities
- Expertise across several SAP Finance process or solution areas and understanding of the wider Finance application landscape
- Proven ability to translate complex business needs into viable solution options and assess functional design configuration data control and integration implications
- Ability to diagnose complex issues distinguish justified requirements from unnecessary customization and recommend sustainable solutions
- Robust understanding of SAP Finance integration with adjacent SAP and non SAP solutions core model principles and solution reuse
- Ability to review functional specifications configuration proposals and integration designs and to challenge experienced external consultants credibly
Preferred Skills:
Foundational->Development process generic->SaaS Development Process->SaaS