Senior SAP S/4HANA Finance & Process Leader

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

Benefits offered by this job

Annual incentive program

401(k) Plan with company match

Career development and tuition reimbur

Job summary

Parker’s Motion and Flow Group seeks a senior SAP finance leader to deploy and sustain SAP S/4HANA across finance, controlling, reporting, and costing. Reporting to the Group VP Controller, this role drives standard processes and governance while coordinating with Corporate SAP IT, finance, operations, and procurement.

This position balances Parker standards with division needs, ensuring compliant, timely financial processes and strong internal controls across locations.

Qualifications

• 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.

Responsibilities

• 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.
• 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.

Skills

Finance/ERP leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Change management

Stakeholder influence

Travel 25%–50%

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Business, Information Systems, Operations, or related field

Tools

SAP

SAP S/4HANA

Job description

Parker’s Motion and Flow Group seeks a senior SAP finance leader to deploy and sustain SAP S/4HANA across finance, controlling, reporting, and costing. Reporting to the Group VP Controller, this role drives standard processes and governance while coordinating with Corporate SAP IT, finance, operations, and procurement.

This position balances Parker standards with division needs, ensuring compliant, timely financial processes and strong internal controls across locations.