SAP Background Job Services Consultant

STM Consulting, Inc.; St. Louis (MO); On-site; USD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

A consulting firm in St. Louis is seeking an experienced SAP Background Job Services Consultant to ensure the integrity of batch processing and job orchestration during critical financial timelines. The role requires over 10 years of SAP ECC experience, particularly in job management and stabilizing processes during high-stakes periods. Successful candidates will coordinate with technical teams and ensure smooth job operations across multiple SAP modules during conversions and cutovers. Significant travel and onsite presence are mandatory.

Qualifications

• 10–15 years of SAP ECC experience focused on background job management.
• Direct participation in at least 2 legal entity consolidations.
• Strong understanding of job dependencies across multiple SAP modules.

Responsibilities

• Analyze and validate background job schedules.
• Ensure continuity of critical batch jobs.
• Identify and resolve job failures and conflicts.
• Monitor system runs during cutover.

Skills

SAP ECC experience

Batch processing

Job scheduling

Troubleshooting IDoc issues

Financial close knowledge

Job description

Role Summary

The SAP Background Job Services Consultant will execute stabilization activities related to batch processing, background job orchestration, and system run stability within a multi-entity, multi-instance SAP ECC landscape following a merger. The role is accountable for ensuring critical finance, trading, integration, and settlement jobs execute accurately and consistently during mock conversions, cutover, and first consolidated close.

This is a hands-on execution role focused on run-cycle integrity and defect resolution under high-visibility financial timelines.

This is not AMS support and not a greenfield implementation.

Required Experience

• 10–15 years of SAP ECC experience with strong exposure to background job management and batch processing
• Direct participation in at least 2 legal entity consolidations, carve-ins/outs, or ERP integrations
• Demonstrated experience supporting batch scheduling and job stabilization in multi-instance SAP landscapes
• Strong understanding of job dependencies across FI, CO, GTM, SD, MM, and integration flows
• Experience troubleshooting IDoc and interface-related job failures
• Experience supporting mock conversion cycles and cutover execution in live production environments
• Ability to operate in high-accountability environments with strict financial timelines

Success Profile

• Understands financial close dependency on batch execution integrity
• Quickly isolates job failures and sequencing issues
• Maintains composure under cutover pressure
• Communicates clearly across technical and functional teams
• Protects system run stability during high-risk execution windows

Environment Expectations

• Multi-entity stabilization within a multi-instance SAP landscape
• High financial and trading process dependency on batch integrity
• Extended hours during mock conversions and cutover
• Onsite presence required with significant travel

Key Responsibilities

• Analyze and validate background job schedules impacted by company code consolidation
• Ensure continuity of critical batch jobs across FI, CO, GTM, SD, MM, and integration processes
• Identify and resolve job failures, performance issues, and scheduling conflicts
• Support coordination of batch job sequencing during mock conversions and cutover weekends
• Validate integration-related background processes impacting IDocs and data synchronization
• Monitor system runs during cutover and first consolidated close
• Coordinate with ABAP, Integration, and Functional teams to resolve run-cycle defects
• Document run-book procedures and stabilization checkpoints for critical financial jobs