SAP Functional Lead
- Location: Toronto, ON – Hybrid – (2 days per week in office + 4th Friday of every month onsite)
- Pay Rate:
- Contract Length: 6 Months with a possibility of extension.
We at Raise are hiring a SAP Functional Lead for one of our top clients. After establishing themselves as an industry leader, they’re now expanding their team to meet rising demand. We’re hiring right now; if you’re interested, apply below for your chance to join a great place to work.
Responsibilities:
- Manage SAP platform enhancements (not daily production fixes) in
- alignment with banking policies.
- Gather, analyze, and document business requirements.
- Partner with Technology to design and validate functional and technical
- solutions.
- Evaluate solution options, performing pros/cons analysis and making
- recommendations.
- Create or review functional specifications for SAP changes and enhancements.
- Act as the main liaison between business and technology teams.
- Promote SAP platform usage with senior leaders, business owners, and third-party partners. Build and maintain vendor/third-party relationships.
- Communicate effectively to manage expectations and negotiate solution outcomes.
- Provide project updates and contribute to business case development.
- Analyze impacts and risks, and propose mitigation actions.
- Support multiple concurrent projects and enhancement initiatives.
CROSS-FUNCTIONAL RELATIONSHIPS
- Business stakeholders, Technology, consulting partners, contingent workers
- Finance team and LOB leadership (senior to executive) · Key corporate functions: Technology, Legal, Compliance, Privacy, Internal Audit · External suppliers delivering SAP and related solutions
Must Have Requirement:
- 10–15 years of experience in project environments or equivalent
- Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills
- Ability to simplify complex information for senior management
- Strong organizational and multiproject management skills
- Strong analytical and problem-solving capability
- Systems development lifecycle and testing lifecycle experience
- Ability to influence cross-functional decision-making
- Adaptability in fast-paced, changing environments
- SAP Functional & Technical Expertise
- At least one end-to-end implementation and one production support project
- Strong functional knowledge of SAP modules, specifically:
- S/4HANA Finance (GL, AR)
- Chart of Account data mapping & multi-GAAP
- SAP Group Reporting (close & consolidation)
- Intercompany eliminations
- SAC reporting with CDS views
- SAP MDG (configuration, workflow, master data modeling)
- Fiori MDG UI
- Data load configuration
- Average Daily Balance, multicurrency accounting
- Financial services subledgers (FPSL, FCL)
- Integration with upstream/downstream non-SAP systems
- SAP SDI data mapping
- Understanding of enterprise data structures in S/4HANA Finance
- ABAP enhancements, BRF+, BW—hands-on is an asset
- Understanding of SAP HANA DB concepts, SQL, data transformation
Other Technical Skills
- Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
- Preferred: MS Project, Teams, SharePoint
- Knowledge of the bank’s technology infrastructure is an asset
- Familiarity with the bank’s EDF (Enterprise Delivery Framework)
Nice-to-Have Skills
- Microsoft Project, Microsoft Teams, and SharePoint experience preferred.
- FPSL
- FCL
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Raise is an established hiring firm with over 65 years of experience. We believe strongly in making the world a better place through work, which is why we’re a certified B Corporation and donate 10% of our profits to charity.
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