SAP S/4HANA Finance Transformation & Process Excellence Lead

Boston Scientific; Kerkrade; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Boston Scientific in the Netherlands is seeking a subject-matter expert to support its global SAP S/4HANA transformation within Global Business Services. You will partner with Service Delivery, Local Finance, Digital/IT and the Magellan Program to drive deployment readiness, standardization and continuous improvement across Finance operations.

The role emphasizes strong accounting and SAP expertise to implement and sustain global business processes, develop documentation and training, and act as

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting.
• 5+ years of experience in accounting or finance operations.
• Strong knowledge of inventory accounting processes.
• SAP ECC and SAP S/4HANA experience.
• Experience supporting ERP implementations or large-scale transformations is a plus.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to work across multiple stakeholders and geographic regions.
• Strong verbal & written communication skills and focus on building relationships.
• Self-motivated yet team player and takes ownership in all responsibilities.
• Change agent that focuses on a high level of quality.
• Continuous Improvement and analytical mindset.
• Fluent in English, additional language capabilities are a plus.

Responsibilities

• Support SAP S/4HANA deployments from design through hypercare by conducting fit-gap assessments and gathering, validating, and prioritizing business requirements.
• Partner with deployment teams and represent GBS ATR in solution design discussions to ensure process and business readiness.
• Drive adoption of global standard processes and controls while identifying opportunities to simplify and close process gaps in S4.
• Develop and maintain process documentation, work instructions, and deployment playbooks, and promote best practices across entities and regions.
• Develop and execute business test scenarios and coordinate user acceptance testing activities.
• Validate system functionality against business requirements and partner with technical teams to investigate and resolve testing defects.
• Develop training materials and job aids, and deliver training to GBS ATR users.
• Drive stakeholder engagement and business readiness, serving as a trusted advisor throughout deployment and hypercare.
• Analyze deployment issues and operational defects, serving as the escalation point for complex process and system matters.
• Coordinate resolution efforts across Magellan, IT, and Service Delivery teams, monitoring issue logs and driving timely closure of assigned actions.
• Identify and implement automation and process-efficiency opportunities using SAP S/4HANA capabilities to reduce manual effort.
• Prioritize enhancement requests and drive sustainable solutions across global Finance operations.

Skills

Analytical skills

English fluency

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s degree in accounting

Tools

SAP ECC

SAP S/4HANA

Job description

Additional Locations:

Netherlands-Kerkrade; Costa Rica-Heredia; Poland-Warsaw

Diversity - Innovation - Caring - Global Collaboration - Winning Spirit - High Performance

At Boston Scientific, we’ll give you the opportunity to harness all that’s within you by working in teams of diverse and high-performing employees, tackling some of the most important health industry challenges. With access to the latest tools, information and training, we’ll help you in advancing your skills and career. Here, you’ll be supported in progressing – whatever your ambitions.

Global Business Services

The Global Business Services (GBS) team is a function established within Boston Scientific, designed to improve the efficiency of key business processes by taking opportunities to drive standardization, leverage resources, knowledge and skills and monitor the effectiveness of service delivery against benchmarks and service level agreements. Our team has a great diversity of personalities with an international background and functional expertise.

GBS is designed to deliver significant business benefits to employees and customers of Boston Scientific and is championing the development of a continuous improvement culture. We are developing a performance-based culture supported by tools, training and well-defined accountability, where people can build their career or prepare for a role in the wider business or elsewhere within GBS.

About The Role

This role serves as a subject matter expert supporting Boston Scientific's global SAP S/4HANA transformation program. This role partners closely with Service Delivery, Global Process Leads, Local Finance, Digital/IT teams, and the Magellan Program to drive deployment readiness, process standardization, issue resolution, and continuous improvement across Finance operations.

The role applies strong accounting and SAP expertise to ensure successful implementation and sustainment of global business processes while advancing standardization, automation, and operational excellence.

Key responsibilities include:

• Support SAP S/4HANA deployments from design through hypercare by conducting fit-gap assessments and gathering, validating, and prioritizing business requirements.
• Partner with deployment teams and represent GBS ATR in solution design discussions to ensure process and business readiness.
• Drive adoption of global standard processes and controls while identifying opportunities to simplify and close process gaps in S4.
• Develop and maintain process documentation, work instructions, and deployment playbooks, and promote best practices across entities and regions.
• Develop and execute business test scenarios and coordinate user acceptance testing activities.
• Validate system functionality against business requirements and partner with technical teams to investigate and resolve testing defects.
• Develop training materials and job aids, and deliver training to GBS ATR users.
• Drive stakeholder engagement and business readiness, serving as a trusted advisor throughout deployment and hypercare.
• Analyze deployment issues and operational defects, serving as the escalation point for complex process and system matters.
• Coordinate resolution efforts across Magellan, IT, and Service Delivery teams, monitoring issue logs and driving timely closure of assigned actions.
• Identify and implement automation and process-efficiency opportunities using SAP S/4HANA capabilities to reduce manual effort.
• Prioritize enhancement requests and drive sustainable solutions across global Finance operations.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting
• 5+ years of experience in accounting or finance operations
• Strong knowledge of inventory accounting processes
• SAP ECC and SAP S/4HANA experience.
• Experience supporting ERP implementations or large-scale transformations is a plus
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to work across multiple stakeholders and geographic regions
• Strong verbal & written communication skills and focus on building relationships
• Self-motivated yet team player and takes ownership in all responsibilities
• Change agent that focuses on a high level of quality
• Continuous Improvement and analytical mindset
• Fluent in English, additional language capabilities are a plus

Requisition ID: 634775 Boston Scientific transforms lives through innovative medical technologies that improve the health of patients around the world. As a global medical technology leader for more than 45 years, we advance science for life by providing a broad range of high-performance solutions that address unmet patient needs and reduce the cost of healthcare. Our portfolio of devices and therapies helps physicians diagnose and treat complex cardiovascular, respiratory, digestive, oncological, neurological and urological diseases and conditions. Learn more atwww.bostonscientific.comand follow us onLinkedIn.