Lead SAP S/4HANA Cloud Professional Services

The Planet Group; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

The Planet Group is seeking an experienced SAP Cloud ERP Professional Services Functional Lead to own the functional design, configuration, stabilization, and optimization of SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition Professional Services processes for a project-based organization.

This role focuses on the customer project lifecycle, project billing, time and cost capture, profitability, and operational controls, in close partnership with Finance.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of SAP Project Systems / Professional Services functional experience, including S/4HANA delivery.
• Experience with SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition Professional Services and customer projects (hands-on configuration strongly preferred).
• Knowledge of project lifecycle, work packages, project master data, and project financial controls.
• Experience with project billing, billing plans, and billing elements.
• Experience integrating with Finance/Controlling and Event-Based Revenue Recognition.
• Understanding of project-based services economics, including time and cost capture, billing, margin, and revenue recognition dependencies.
• Familiarity with time/expense and resource management integration concepts.
• Experience with SAP Fiori, testing, defect triage, configuration governance, and release impact assessment.
• Production support experience following an ERP go-live.
• Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, Information Systems, Engineering, or equivalent experience

Responsibilities

• Own the post-go-live functional roadmap and configuration backlog for SAP Professional Services and customer project capabilities.
• Configure and support customer project structures, stages, work packages, roles, planned effort, cost, and revenue inputs, and lifecycle controls.
• Lead functional design for billing preparation, billing plans, billing elements, and billing requests, including handoffs to billing and accounting.
• Support project financial planning, visibility into actual costs and revenue, margin analysis, and integration with Finance and Event-Based Revenue Recognition.
• Define and maintain project master data standards, templates, derivation rules, validation controls, and governance.
• Partner with resource management and time systems so project, role, assignment, budget, and time data are ready for downstream processing.
• Analyze production defects tied to customer projects, billing, time and cost postings, master data, workflow, or integrations.
• Lead acceptance criteria, test scenarios, regression packs, and business validation for Professional Services changes.
• Maintain end-to-end process documentation from project setup through time and cost capture, billing, revenue recognition, and closure.
• Drive fit-to-standard decisions and limit unnecessary custom extensions.
• Support business teams during billing cycles, project setup peaks, period-end activities, and critical incidents.
• Review SAP release changes to assess business impact, test scope, and adoption opportunities.
• Coordinate functional dependencies across Finance, Billing, HR/time, resource management, CRM/engagement systems, data, and integration teams.
• Lead backlog refinement and prioritize changes based on operational risk, business value, and stabilization needs.
• Provide quality oversight of system integrator deliverables, including configuration, test evidence, and production fixes.
• Own stabilization of customer project and billing processes using severity- and SLA-based triage.
• Monitor recurring errors in project setup, time and cost postings, billing preparation, project closure, and integrated master data.
• Maintain operating procedures, support playbooks, known-error records, and release regression scenarios.
• Drive continuous improvement in project setup cycle time, billing readiness, data quality, and user adoption.

Skills

SAP Project Systems

S/4HANA Cloud

Project lifecycle

Project billing

Revenue recognition

Time & cost capture

Resource management integration

SAP Fiori

ERP go-live support

Education

Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, Information Systems, Engineering, or equivalent

Tools

Deltek Replicon

Dayshape

SAP Certification (S/4HANA Cloud PS)

Job description

The Planet Group is seeking an experienced SAP Cloud ERP Professional Services Functional Lead to own the functional design, configuration, stabilization, and optimization of SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition Professional Services processes for a project-based organization.

This role focuses on the customer project lifecycle, project billing, time and cost capture, profitability, and operational controls, in close partnership with Finance.