SAP Business Process Mgr - Finance

Parker; Cleveland (OH); On-site; USD 107,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) Plan matching

Tuition reimbursement

Paid time off

Job summary

Parker is seeking a strategic finance leader to own SAP S/4HANA finance processes, including planning, reporting, and costing. You will drive standardization, govern deployments, and ensure sustained adoption across divisions and locations.

You will collaborate with Corporate SAP, IT, and finance leaders to align design, testing, training, cutover, go-live, and post-go-live support, while balancing enterprise standards with division needs.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Business, Information Systems.
• Eight or more years of progressive experience in finance, accounting, controlling, cost accounting, financial reporting, or ERP-enabled business process leadership.
• Strong knowledge of financial accounting, management reporting, cost accounting, internal controls, and manufacturing finance.

Responsibilities

• Lead the deployment and adoption of SAP S/4HANA finance, accounting, controlling, and reporting processes.
• Provide functional leadership for controlling, cost accounting, product costing, cost centers, profit centers, standard costing, and manufacturing finance.
• Ensure finance processes support accurate, timely, compliant reporting; reliable financial data; internal controls; and effective business decisions.
• Partner with operations, supply chain, procurement, manufacturing, sales, and customer service to align finance processes across order-to-cash, procure-to-pay, plan-to-produce, inventory, distribution, and intercompany activities.

Skills

Strategic finance leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

SAP knowledge

Financial process governance

Education

Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Business, Information Systems

Tools

SAP S/4HANA

Job description

Org Marketing Statement

Are you ready to shape a brighter future?

Parker's newly combined Motion and Flow Group provides integrated technologies that enable customers to control, connect, and move power and fluids reliably in demanding applications. Its capabilities span electromechanical motion, hydraulics, pneumatics, filtration, fittings, hoses, tubing, quick couplings, and related engineered systems.

Serving a broad range of industrial, mobile, transportation, energy, and life sciences markets, the group partners with customers to solve complex application challenges through high-performance components, subsystems, and engineered solutions. Its broad technical capabilities support complete, efficient, and sustainable solutions that improve productivity, reliability, safety, and total cost of ownership.

The Motion and Flow Group operates with a strong focus on customer relationships, operational excellence, innovation, and talent development, advancing Parker's purpose of enabling engineering breakthroughs that lead to a better tomorrow.

We believe that our team members are our key assets and that a diverse workforce is a driving force to bring our purpose to life. We foster a culture where every team member feels safe, included and empowered.

We all belong, we all matter, and we all make a difference.

Position Summary

Who We Are Looking For

• We are seeking a strategic finance leader to serve as the group functional owner and decision authority for SAP S/4HANA finance processes, including financial planning and reporting, controlling, accounting, costing, and related business processes. Reporting to the Group VP Controller, this role will lead SAP business-process strategy, deployment governance, fit-to-standard adoption, and long-term sustainment across group divisions and locations.

• The successful candidate will drive adoption of Parker standard SAP processes and ensure consistent financial process execution. They will partner with Corporate SAP Business Process Leaders, Group SAP IT, division controllers, finance leaders, and cross-functional stakeholders to align solution design, testing, deployment readiness, adoption, and post-go-live support.

• This role requires the ability to work effectively in a complex, matrixed environment-balancing enterprise SAP standards with division-specific requirements, resolving cross-functional issues, mitigating implementation risks, and supporting business continuity throughout deployment and stabilization.

Responsibilities

What we are expecting from you:

SAP S/4HANA Deployment and Process Leadership

• Lead the deployment and adoption of SAP S/4HANA finance, accounting, controlling, and reporting processes.
• Assess current-state processes, identify gaps, risks, control impacts, data needs, and organizational changes, and drive fit-to-standard adoption.
• Partner with Corporate SAP Business Process Leaders, finance, IT, and business stakeholders to align process design, testing, training, cutover, go-live, and stabilization.
• Provide post-go-live support to ensure business continuity, stable adoption, reporting integrity, and process compliance.

Finance, Accounting, and Controlling

• Lead and standardize SAP-enabled financial accounting, close, consolidation, management reporting, and financial reporting processes.
• Provide functional leadership for controlling, cost accounting, product costing, cost centers, profit centers, standard costing, and manufacturing finance.
• Ensure finance processes support accurate, timely, compliant reporting; reliable financial data; internal controls; and effective business decisions.
• Partner with operations, supply chain, procurement, manufacturing, sales, and customer service to align finance processes across order-to-cash, procure-to-pay, plan-to-produce, inventory, distribution, and intercompany activities.

Governance, Controls, and Continuous Improvement

• Serve as the functional business process leader for assigned SAP finance processes and support applicable governance forums and deployment reviews.
• Ensure alignment with Parker SAP standards, accounting policies, internal controls, segregation-of-duties requirements, and audit expectations.
• Communicate deployment readiness, key risks, decision needs, and recommendations to leadership; elevate significant issues as appropriate.
• Lead stakeholder engagement, training, and change-management activities for process owners, implementation teams, super users, and end users.
• Monitor adoption, transaction quality, reporting accuracy, compliance, and performance after deployment; prioritize enhancements and continuous-improvement opportunities with Corporate SAP and IT.

Qualifications

Preferred Qualifications Include:

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Business, Information Systems, Operations, or a related field.
• Eight or more years of progressive experience in finance, accounting, controlling, cost accounting, financial reporting, or ERP-enabled business process leadership.
• Strong knowledge of financial accounting, management reporting, cost accounting, internal controls, and manufacturing finance, including standard costing, inventory valuation, and margin analysis.
• Direct SAP implementation experience required; SAP S/4HANA experience strongly preferred, with expertise in SAP Finance and Controlling processes.
• Demonstrated experience leading cross-functional process standardization, fit-to-standard adoption, deployment readiness, and change-management activities.
• Strong analytical, communication, facilitation, problem-solving, and stakeholder-influence skills within a complex, matrixed organization.
• Ability to travel 25%-50%, with increased travel during deployment, cutover, go-live, and hypercare periods.

Pay, Benefits, Work Schedule

Competitive Compensation

• Pay Range: $107,000 to $160,000 annually
• Participation in Annual Incentive Program

Benefit & Retirement Plans

Parker offers competitive benefit programs, including:

• Comprehensive coverage for medical, prescription drugs, dental, vision, voluntary optional life, accident insurance, hospital indemnity insurance and critical illness insurance with competitive premium cost.
• 401(k) Plan with company matching contributions at 100% of the first 5% of pay.
• Company provided defined-contribution retirement plan with annual contribution equal to 3% of pay.
• Career development and tuition reimbursement.
• Other benefits including paid parental leave, short and long-term disability programs, adoption assistance, a Care.com membership and financial planning assistance are provided at no cost to you.
• Supplemental benefit programs including identity protection, legal protection, and pet wellness are available at competitive rates.
• Paid Time Off and Company-Paid Holidays.

Equal Employment Opportunity

Additional Comments:

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