SAP Functional SME

Databricks; California (MO); On-site; USD 160,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Databricks is seeking an SAP Functional SME to own end-to-end design for core finance processes on S/4HANA, shaping the AI-driven automation layer and process intelligence strategy. You will bridge Finance and Engineering, define AI-enabled requirements, and lead workshops to validate value and ROI.

You will configure S/4HANA, manage master data, and collaborate with architects to ensure governance, data flows, and deterministic rules while driving adoption across the organization.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of SAP functional consulting experience across at least one S/4HANA lifecycle.
• Process discovery, mapping and mining using SAP Process Intelligence or equivalent tools.
• Strong bias toward standard, clean-core S/4HANA design and governance.
• Practical experience applying AI and agentic capabilities to enterprise processes with governance.
• Familiarity with SAP integration patterns and data flows for analytics and AI platforms.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end process discovery and AS-IS/TO-BE design for core finance processes.
• Own functional configuration, business rules, and master-data strategy for your domain.
• Drive process intelligence to identify root causes and prioritize improvements.
• Define requirements for AI-assisted and agentic process improvements with governance.
• Bridge finance process owners and engineering to embed AI safely.
• Run workshops to validate value, define acceptance criteria, and lead UAT.
• Measure outcomes with KPIs like cycle time, touchless rate, and ROI.
• Coach process owners on process intelligence and change readiness.

Skills

SAP functional consulting

Process Intelligence

Clean-Core mindset

AI & agentic automation

Integration patterns

Governance & SOX

Stakeholder leadership

Business-first mindset

Tools

SAP Process Intelligence

SAP Integration Suite

SAP BTP

Celonis

Databricks AI

Job description

GAQ126R41

About Databricks

At Databricks, our mission is to help data teams solve the world's toughest problems-and that begins with empowering our own employees with exceptional internal products. The Databricks IT organization is a product-led engineering team building intelligent, AI-powered platforms that simplify how work gets done across the company. For Finance, our vision is to eliminate manual, repetitive work by automating complex business processes, surfacing actionable insights, and orchestrating end-to-end workflows. We are reimagining finance operations so teams spend less time processing transactions, chasing approvals, and resolving exceptions, and more time delivering strategic insights that accelerate the business.

We're looking for an SAP Functional SME to own the functional design of our core finance processes on S/4HANA and to shape how AI and agentic automation reimagine them. In this role, you'll be the deep functional authority for your domain—translating how the business actually runs into standard, clean-core S/4HANA solutions, using process intelligence to find what's broken, and defining where AI belongs in a controlled, auditable process. You'll work at the intersection of SAP and AI, bridging Finance and Engineering to deliver a simpler, smarter, more automated experience.

The Opportunity

SAP will serve as the foundation for Databricks' core finance processes, including Record-to-Report, Source-to-Pay, and Order-to-Cash. As the SAP Functional SME, you'll own the functional blueprint for those processes—leading discovery and AS-IS/TO-BE design, configuring S/4HANA, and defining the requirements for the intelligent, agentic layer that automates routine work and guides users through exceptions and approvals. You'll use process mining and business process intelligence to quantify opportunity and prioritize what to build, and you'll make the call on where AI-driven recommendations belong versus deterministic rules. Your mission is to combine deep functional expertise with the power of Databricks AI to create a modern, highly automated finance experience that lets the business scale.

What You'll Do

• Own Functional Design: Lead end-to-end process discovery and AS-IS/TO-BE design for major finance processes (Record-to-Report, Source-to-Pay, Order-to-Cash), define S/4HANA solution scope, and design to standard, clean-core capabilities wherever possible.

• Configure S/4HANA: Own functional configuration, business rules, and master-data strategy for your domain, and partner with developers on extensions, APIs, and orchestration where standard functionality falls short.

• Drive Process Intelligence: Use process mining and business process intelligence (leveraging SAP Process Intelligence and related tools) to identify root causes, quantify opportunity, and prioritize improvements; translate those findings into concrete S/4HANA requirements.

• Shape the AI & Agentic Layer: Define the requirements for AI‑assisted and agentic process improvements—task automation, intelligent recommendations, anomaly detection, and generative assistants—and make clear judgments about where AI belongs in a controlled, auditable process, where human-in-the-loop is required, and where a deterministic rule is the better answer.

• Bridge Business and Engineering: Serve as the connective tissue between Finance process owners and the engineering pods, partnering with architects and developers to embed AI safely and to define the data flows between S/4HANA, process intelligence tools, SAP BTP, and Databricks AI.

• Run Workshops and Validate Value: Facilitate stakeholder workshops to validate business value, define acceptance criteria, and lead user acceptance testing for both functional and AI features.

• Measure Outcomes: Define KPIs and track ROI for process improvements—cycle time, touchless transaction rate, exception and manual-touch reduction, adoption—and build the business cases for prioritized automation and AI initiatives.

• Enable Adoption: Coach and upskill process owners and functional teams on process intelligence, best practices, and AI adoption, and drive readiness and change management for what you ship.

What You Bring

• 6+ years of SAP functional consulting experience, with hands‑on delivery across at least one full S/4HANA lifecycle and deep expertise in one or more finance domains—Record-to-Report, Source-to-Pay, or Order-to-Cash—plus working fluency in adjacent areas and in master‑data governance.

• Process Intelligence: Demonstrated experience leading process discovery, process mapping, and process mining using SAP Process Intelligence or equivalent BPI tools, and translating mining outputs into solution requirements.

• Clean-Core Mindset: Strong bias toward standard, clean-core S/4HANA design, with sound judgment about when a requirement genuinely warrants an extension versus a change in process.

• AI & Agentic Automation: Practical experience applying Databricks AI and agentic capabilities to enterprise processes, with strong judgment on where AI can drive automation and decision support while maintaining appropriate governance, controls, auditability, and human oversight.

• Integration Awareness: Solid understanding of integration patterns (APIs/OData, IDoc, SAP Integration Suite / BTP) and the data requirements that feed process mining and AI models.

• Governance Rigor: Working knowledge of SAP authorizations, SoD, SOX and audit requirements, and the ability to design processes and automation that satisfy them.

• Stakeholder Leadership: Excellent workshop facilitation, stakeholder management, and change-management skills, and the ability to present executive-level ROI and translate technical capability into measurable business value.

• Business-First Mindset: Pragmatic, outcome-driven approach to reducing process waste and risk, and comfort leading through ambiguity across complex business and IT landscapes.

Preferred Qualifications

• SAP S/4HANA Associate or Professional certification for a relevant module, and SAP Activate methodology experience.

• Certification or training in SAP Process Intelligence, or experience with Celonis or other process mining vendors.

• Hands‑on experience delivering at least one AI‑assisted process improvement in production.

• Familiarity with the SAP AI and extension stack (BTP, AI Core, Joule) and a point of view on build-versus-adopt tradeoffs against a Databricks-native approach.

• Experience working alongside data teams to make ERP data usable for analytics and AI on modern data platforms (such as Databricks), and prior work in a high-growth technology company where ERP had to scale quickly.

About Databricks

Databricks is the Data and AI company. More than 20,000 organizations worldwide - including adidas, AT&T, Bayer, Block, Mastercard, Rivian, Unilever, and 70% of the Fortune 500 - rely on the Databricks Data + AI Platform to build and scale data and AI apps, analytics and agents. Headquartered in San Francisco with 30+ offices around the globe, Databricks offers a unified platform that includes Genie, Lakebase, Agent Bricks, Lakeflow, Lakehouse, and Unity Catalog. To learn more, follow Databricks on LinkedIn, X, YouTube, and Instagram.

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