SAP Finance Lead

CGI•Atlanta, GA

13h•$116,200 - $257,400•Onsite

About The Position

This is a hands-on technical-functional leadership role in a large, complex enterprise environment. The SAP Finance Lead serves as the key interface between finance stakeholders and technical delivery teams, translating business requirements into scalable technical solutions while participating directly in configuration, integrations, troubleshooting, testing, and implementation. The role works closely with business, architecture, development, infrastructure, security, and onsite and offshore support teams. Using SAP ECC Finance expertise and technical capabilities, the position leads solution analysis, resolves complex production issues, improves application stability, and contributes to automation and AI-driven innovation within SAP Application Management Services (AMS). The role is based onsite at the client site in south Atlanta, Georgia. The SAP Finance Lead provides technical-functional leadership across SAP ECC Finance modules and end-to-end financial processes. The position supports enhancements, integrations, production operations, testing, release and change management, deployments, and ongoing stabilization, while providing technical guidance to AMS teams and identifying opportunities to optimize financial processes and system reliability.

Requirements

Minimum 10 years of overall SAP experience, including at least 8 years of hands-on SAP ECC FI/CO expertise and 7 or more years supporting complex enterprise SAP environments through AMS.
Deep functional and configuration knowledge of SAP ECC Finance, including GL, AP, AR, AA, CO, Cost Center Accounting, Profit Center Accounting, and financial closing processes.
At least 7 years of hands-on SAP FI/CO configuration, troubleshooting, solution analysis, and enhancement support.
Ability to analyze ABAP developments, background jobs, IDocs, interfaces, payment files, and integration failures.
At least 7 years of experience resolving complex SAP production incidents, conducting root cause analysis, and implementing permanent corrective solutions.
Ability to independently resolve urgent, business-critical financial issues.
At least 5 years of experience with SAP Finance integrations, particularly across MM, SD, banking interfaces, middleware, and upstream or downstream enterprise applications.
Strong understanding of end-to-end record-to-report, procure-to-pay, order-to-cash, financial reconciliations, period-end closing, and year-end financial processes.
Experience supporting enhancements, technical solution design, functional specifications, integration testing, change management, production deployments, and coordination with offshore technical teams.
Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Information Technology, Computer Science, or a related discipline.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to engage directly with Finance stakeholders and translate complex SAP issues into clear business solutions.
Strong analytical skills, independent decision-making, ownership of critical production issues, and demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional issue resolution.
Must be available to work onsite in Atlanta, Georgia, collaborating directly with business stakeholders and distributed delivery teams.

Responsibilities

Serve as the onsite SAP ECC Finance technical-functional lead across General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Asset Accounting, Controlling, Cost Center Accounting, Profit Center Accounting, and financial closing processes.
Act as the primary liaison between accounting, controlling, treasury, tax, procurement, sales, and technical delivery teams, translating business needs into functional and technical specifications.
Lead technical analysis and solution design for SAP Finance enhancements, integrations, interfaces, data flows, reports, forms, workflows, and application changes.
Perform hands-on SAP FI/CO configuration, technical troubleshooting, debugging support, financial data analysis, interface monitoring, and issue resolution.
Investigate and resolve complex production incidents involving SAP configuration, ABAP developments, background jobs, IDocs, APIs, middleware, payment files, bank interfaces, and upstream or downstream systems.
Support end-to-end finance processes, including record to report, procure to pay, order to cash, asset accounting, cost allocation, financial consolidation, and period-end and year-end closing.
Partner with ABAP developers, integration specialists, Basis, security, and infrastructure teams to design, build, test, deploy, and support technical solutions.
Review technical designs, development estimates, test results, transport plans, and deployment activities to ensure solutions meet accounting, audit, security, performance, and supportability requirements.
Lead root cause analysis for recurring or high-impact incidents and implement permanent corrective and preventive solutions.
Coordinate system, integration, regression, and user acceptance testing, including test planning, defect triage, reconciliation, and validation of end-to-end financial processes.
Support release management, change management, cutover planning, transports, production deployments, and post-implementation stabilization.
Provide technical guidance to onsite and offshore AMS teams, supporting knowledge transfer, documentation, coding and configuration standards, and adherence to service-level commitments.
Identify and implement opportunities for financial process optimization, monitoring, automation, and AI-enabled improvements that increase operational efficiency, data quality, and system reliability.