Finance MT IT Deployment & Integration Lead (Manager)

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Seeking a Finance MT IT Deployment & Integration Lead (Manager) who will work at the intersection of business and technology to lead the deployment, integration, and adoption of strategic Finance transformation solutions across the region. This role combines a deep understanding of finance business processes, deployment methodologies, system integration, and organizational change management to ensure successful delivery of Finance technology initiatives. In this role, you will be responsible for driving end-to-end deployment activities for SAP Finance / S/4HANA and related Finance platforms, ensuring alignment with global standards while meeting regional business needs. You will be part of a team of internal and external technology professionals supporting large-scale Finance transformation programs across the EMEA/APAC/NA region.

Business Deployment Leadership: leading deployment planning and execution activities for Finance transformation programs, ensuring readiness across business processes, technology, data, controls, training, and support models while achieving deployment milestones and value realization objectives.

Integration Management: coordinating and governing end-to-end integration activities across Finance, Supply Chain, Commercial, HR, and external systems to ensure seamless business operations and data integrity throughout deployment lifecycles.

Cutover & Go-Live Readiness: developing and managing deployment, cutover, hyper care, and stabilization plans, ensuring successful transition from project delivery into business operations with minimal disruption.

Stakeholder Engagement: partnering with business leaders, process owners, deployment teams, and technology organizations to align deployment strategies, resolve risks, and ensure adoption of new capabilities.

Governance & Risk Management: establishing deployment governance frameworks, monitoring risks, dependencies, issues, and compliance requirements while ensuring adherence to enterprise standards and controls.

Program Execution: partnering with global program teams, system integrators, and regional stakeholders to ensure deployment activities are delivered on schedule, within scope, and aligned to strategic objectives.

Team Leadership: co-lead a global team of finance technology and deployment professionals across multiple domains and locations.

We believe that experience leading large-scale transformation deployments, managing complex integrations, driving organizational change, agile ways of working, intellectual curiosity, collaboration, and stakeholder engagement are essential to enable success in this role. Furthermore, it is essential that you are a natural collaborator, who has the leadership presence to influence results and build a strong sense of collective team engagement. We desire a candidate who has experience structuring and facilitating workshops with senior stakeholders. In addition to these core skills, we expect you to have the following technical expertise:

• S/4 HANA Finance (Account to Report)
• SAP Central Finance
• Deployment and Cutover Management
• Systems Integration and Data Migration
• SAP Cloud Infrastructure and SAP BTP
• Finance Process Transformation
• Data Strategy, Governance, Technology, and Process Definition
• Financial Accounting, Reporting, Close Optimization, and Continuous Accounting
• Any relevant experience in any of the following processes is a plus:

I2C (Invoice to Cash)

P2P (Procure to Pay)

Asset Management

Project Accounting

Treasury

Finance Master Data Management