Senior SAP S/4HANA Public Sector Lead – Army

SMX; Lansing (MI); On-site; USD 144,000 - 225,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Paid leave

Retirement plan

Job summary

SMX seeks a skilled SAP configurator to implement Army business scenarios in SAP S/4HANA, configuring organizational structures, rules, and integration per design standards. You will use IMG/SPRO, validate results, and document decisions and dependencies during prototype execution for informed delivery planning.

You will collaborate with analysts and SMEs to map Army requirements into executable SAP flows, assess standard capabilities for financial and logistics processes, and document

Qualifications

• Experience configuring multiple US Government agency’s SAP ECC and/or S/4HANA solutions, preferably Department of War.
• Demonstrated hands-on SAP configuration experience in SAP ECC and/or SAP S/4HANA Financial Accounting (FI), Public Sector Management (PSM Funds Management), and US Federal Financials.
• Ability to independently configure assigned functionality and validate its behavior through SAP transaction execution.
• Ability to describe specific configuration settings personally implemented, the business requirements they supported, and how the results were validated.
• Experience translating business requirements into configuration decisions, process flows, and supporting functional documentation.
• Working knowledge of SAP enterprise structures, master data, transaction processing, and configuration dependencies.
• Experience supporting at least one end-to-end SAP business process and coordinating its integration with related functional areas.
• Experience developing and executing functional tests, investigating defects, implementing configuration corrections, and performing retesting.
• Ability to analyze system behavior and distinguish among configuration issues, data issues, authorization issues, and potential development needs.
• Ability to communicate configuration decisions and validation results to technical and nontechnical stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Perform hands-on SAP S/4HANA configuration of Army business scenarios.
• Configure organizational structures, business rules, process controls, and integration with SAP components, consistent with agreed solution design and program standards.
• Use the SAP Implementation Guide (IMG/SPRO) and other applicable configuration tools to implement and maintain configuration settings.
• Identify configuration prerequisites and collaborate with shared settings and dependencies with other functional configurators.
• Apply SAP standard functionality, best practices, and clean-core principles when evaluating solution options.
• Identify requirements that cannot be satisfied through standard configuration and document potential integration, extension, or development needs.
• Maintain configuration documentation that captures settings, rationale, assumptions, dependencies, and known limitations.
• Collaborate with SAP Business Analysts and functional stakeholders to translate Army requirements into executable SAP process flows and configuration tasks.
• Assess how SAP standard capabilities support assigned financial, logistics, or other Army business processes.
• Perform fit-to-standard and fit-gap analysis using hands-on system exploration, configuration, and demonstrations.
• Identify the effects of configuration decisions on upstream and downstream processes, master data, organizational relationships, and financial postings, as applicable.
• Contribute to functional specifications, user stories, acceptance criteria, and backlog refinement.
• Use prototype findings to clarify requirements, identify gaps, and support solution design recommendations.
• Support knowledge transfer through configuration walkthroughs, demonstrations, and clear technical and functional documentation.
• Prepare the configuration, master data, and transaction data required to execute assigned prototype scenarios.
• Develop and execute functional validation scenarios with clear prerequisites, steps, expected results, and evidence requirements.
• Compare expected and actual results, document findings, and explain system behavior.
• Investigate defects, identify root causes, correct configuration issues, and perform retesting.
• Document validated capabilities, unresolved issues, workarounds, and prototype limitations to inform subsequent design and delivery activities.
• Identify configuration conflicts, missing prerequisites, and integration blockers, and elevate issues to the SAP Configuration Validation Prototype Lead.
• Incorporate applicable auditability, internal control, security, and Federal compliance requirements into configuration and validation activities.

Skills

US Government SAP config

End-to-end SAP process knowledge

Translate requirements to config

Independent SAP configuration

Configure FI/PSM in SAP

Stakeholder communication

Tools

SAP ECC

SAP S/4HANA

IMG/SPRO

SCoUT prototype system

Job description

SMX seeks a skilled SAP configurator to implement Army business scenarios in SAP S/4HANA, configuring organizational structures, rules, and integration per design standards. You will use IMG/SPRO, validate results, and document decisions and dependencies during prototype execution for informed delivery planning.

You will collaborate with analysts and SMEs to map Army requirements into executable SAP flows, assess standard capabilities for financial and logistics processes, and document