SAP Finance Process Leader — S/4HANA Deployment

Parker Hannifin Corporation; Mayfield Heights (OH); On-site; USD 107,000 - 188,000; Full time

Job summary

Parker Hannifin Corporation is seeking a senior SAP S/4HANA Deployment Lead for finance, controlling, and reporting processes. You will drive adoption of Parker standard SAP processes, lead deployment governance, and ensure consistent financial process execution across divisions and locations.

You will collaborate with Corporate SAP, IT, and business leaders to align requirements, design, testing, and adoption, while balancing enterprise standards with site needs.

Qualifications

• Four-year degree in accounting, finance, business, information systems, operations.
• 8+ years of progressive experience in finance, accounting, controlling, cost accounting, financial reporting, ERP-enabled business processes.
• 2+ years of experience leading cross-functional project teams, implementation teams, or process improvement initiatives.
• Direct SAP implementation experience; SAP S/4HANA implementation experience strongly preferred.
• CPA, CMA, MBA, or related professional certification preferred.
• Ability to travel 25%-50% with increased travel during deployment, cutover, go-live, and hypercare.

Responsibilities

• Lead finance, accounting, controlling, and reporting process deployment for group SAP S/4HANA implementations.
• Support divisions and locations with deployment preparation, readiness activities, and fit-to-standard adoption.
• Assess current-state processes, identify gaps, risks, data needs, control impacts, and organizational changes.
• Facilitate workshops for process standardization, readiness, testing, training, cutover, go-live, hypercare, and stabilization.
• Provide post-go-live support to ensure business continuity, stable adoption, and reporting integrity.
• Lead alignment of controlling, product costing, standard costing, cost center, profit center, and manufacturing finance processes.

Skills

SAP S/4HANA deployment

Cross-functional leadership

Process standardization

Change management

Stakeholder influence

Project management

Financial process governance

Education

Bachelor's degree in accounting/finance/business/IS/operations

CPA/CMA/MBA preferred

Tools

SAP

Job description

Parker Hannifin Corporation is seeking a senior SAP S/4HANA Deployment Lead for finance, controlling, and reporting processes. You will drive adoption of Parker standard SAP processes, lead deployment governance, and ensure consistent financial process execution across divisions and locations.

You will collaborate with Corporate SAP, IT, and business leaders to align requirements, design, testing, and adoption, while balancing enterprise standards with site needs.