SAP S/4HANA Deployment Lead
Job Summary
The client is seeking an experienced SAP S/4HANA Deployment Lead to spearhead the Singapore implementation of SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition with a planned go-live in Q2 2027. This senior, hands-on role bridges the Singapore business, Global SAP project team, and implementation partners focusing on Finance & Accounting and Procurement. The successful candidate will drive end-to-end deployment, fit-to-standard workshops, stakeholder engagement, and post-go-live optimization.
Responsibilities
- Lead end-to-end SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition deployment in Singapore.
- Manage Finance, Accounting, PR, and PO processes and workshops.
- Oversee project plans, data migration, UAT, cutover, and go-live activities.
Required Skills
- 8+ years of SAP functional consulting and deployment experience.
- Experience with SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition implementations.
- Strong project and stakeholder management capabilities.
Job Details
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the end-to-end Singapore SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition deployment.
- Act as the primary local point of contact for Global SAP teams and implementation partners.
- Provide functional leadership across Finance, Accounting, Purchase Requisition and Purchase Order processes.
- Lead fit-to-standard workshops, process discovery and gap analysis.
- Manage local project plans, milestones, risks, issues, dependencies and budget.
- Coordinate master data preparation, migration, UAT, defect management and readiness activities.
- Drive stakeholder engagement, user training and change adoption.
- Lead cutover, go-live and hypercare activities, including issue resolution and escalation.
- Ensure local business and regulatory requirements are appropriately represented within the global SAP template.
- Identify post-go-live optimisation opportunities while maintaining clean-core principles.
Requirements
- 8+ years of SAP functional consulting, transformation, deployment or programme delivery experience.
- At least 3 full end-to-end SAP implementations or major rollouts.
- At least 2 end-to-end SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition implementations / country deployments. Experience solely in ECC, S/4HANA on-premise or Private Edition is not sufficient.
- Strong functional knowledge of SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition Finance and Sourcing & Procurement.
- Strong understanding of PR, PO, approval workflows, purchasing master data and Finance integration.
- Experience with fit-to-standard, testing/UAT, data migration, cutover, go-live and hypercare.
- Proven experience as a Country Deployment Lead, Local Implementation Lead or Senior Functional Lead within a global SAP programme.
- Strong project management and stakeholder management capabilities.
- Able to communicate complex SAP concepts clearly to both business and technical stakeholders.
- Comfortable working independently and regularly on-site in Singapore.
- Desirable: SAP Public Edition certifications, SAP Activate, Central Business Configuration, Cloud ALM, Signavio, Fiori, Singapore localisation experience, and PMP/PRINCE2 certification.