SAP Functional SME

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In the posting’s own words

SAP will serve as the foundation for Databricks' core finance processes, including Record-to-Report, Source-to-Pay, and Order-to-Cash. As the SAP Functional SME, you'll own the functional blueprint for those processes—leading discovery and AS-IS/TO-BE design, configuring S/4HANA, and defining the requirements for the intelligent, agentic layer that automates routine work and guides users through exceptions and approvals. You'll use process mining and business process intelligence to quantify opportunity and prioritize what to build, and you'll make the call on where AI-driven recommendations belong versus deterministic rules. Your mission is to combine deep functional expertise with the power of Databricks AI to create a modern, highly automated finance experience that lets the business scale.

What it asks for · 6

• 6+ years of SAP functional consulting experience , with hands-on delivery across at least one full S/4HANA lifecycle and deep expertise in one or more finance domains—Record-to-Report, Source-to-Pay, or Order-to-Cash—plus working fluency in adjacent areas and in master-data governance.
• Process Intelligence: Demonstrated experience leading process discovery, process mapping, and process mining using SAP Process Intelligence or equivalent BPI tools, and translating mining outputs into solution requirements.
• Governance Rigor: Working knowledge of SAP authorizations, SoD, SOX and audit requirements, and the ability to design processes and automation that satisfy them.
• Stakeholder Leadership: Excellent workshop facilitation, stakeholder management, and change-management skills, and the ability to present executive-level ROI and translate technical capability into measurable business value.
• Certification or training in SAP Process Intelligence, or experience with Celonis or other process mining vendors.
• Familiarity with the SAP AI and extension stack (BTP, AI Core, Joule) and a point of view on build-versus-adopt tradeoffs against a Databricks-native approach.

Also a plus

• SAP S/4HANA Associate or Professional certification for a relevant module, and SAP Activate methodology experience.
• Certification or training in SAP Process Intelligence, or experience with Celonis or other process mining vendors.
• Hands-on experience delivering at least one AI-assisted process improvement in production.
• Familiarity with the SAP AI and extension stack (BTP, AI Core, Joule) and a point of view on build-versus-adopt tradeoffs against a Databricks-native approach.
• Experience working alongside data teams to make ERP data usable for analytics and AI on modern data platforms (such as Databricks), and prior work in a high-growth technology company where ERP had to scale quickly.

What the job covers

• Own Functional Design: Lead end-to-end process discovery and AS-IS/TO-BE design for major finance processes (Record-to-Report, Source-to-Pay, Order-to-Cash), define S/4HANA solution scope, and design to standard, clean-core capabilities wherever possible.
• Configure S/4HANA: Own functional configuration, business rules, and master-data strategy for your domain, and partner with developers on extensions, APIs, and orchestration where standard functionality falls short.
• Drive Process Intelligence: Use process mining and business process intelligence (leveraging SAP Process Intelligence and related tools) to identify root causes, quantify opportunity, and prioritize improvements; translate those findings into concrete S/4HANA requirements.
• Shape the AI & Agentic Layer: Define the requirements for AI-assisted and agentic process improvements—task automation, intelligent recommendations, anomaly detection, and generative assistants—and make clear judgments about where AI belongs in a controlled, auditable process, where human-in-the-loop is required, and where a deterministic rule is the better answer.
• Bridge Business and Engineering: Serve as the connective tissue between Finance process owners and the engineering pods, partnering with architects and developers to embed AI safely and to define the data flows between S/4HANA, process intelligence tools, SAP BTP, and Databricks AI.
• Run Workshops and Validate Value: Facilitate stakeholder workshops to validate business value, define acceptance criteria, and lead user acceptance testing for both functional and AI features.
• Measure Outcomes: Define KPIs and track ROI for process improvements—cycle time, touchless transaction rate, exception and manual-touch reduction, adoption—and build the business cases for prioritized automation and AI initiatives.
• Enable Adoption: Coach and upskill process owners and functional teams on process intelligence, best practices, and AI adoption, and drive readiness and change management for what you ship.

Degree language

• 6+ years of SAP functional consulting experience , with hands-on delivery across at least one full S/4HANA lifecycle and deep expertise in one or more finance domains—Record-to-Report, Source-to-Pay, or Order-to-Cash—plus working fluency in adjacent areas and in master-data governance.

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Words the posting leans on

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• s/4hana8×
• requirements7×
• design6×
• agentic5×
• automation5×
• data5×
• define5×
• finance5×
• process mining5×
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