Senior SAP Project Manager

Role: Senior SAP Project Manager

Location: Newark, NJ (Hybrid – 3 days per week on-site)

Position Type: Full-time / W2

About the Role

We are seeking a high-caliber Senior SAP Project Manager with robust SAP FICO expertise to lead our enterprise-level SAP S/4HANA migration initiatives. In this critical role, you will bridge the gap between financial business strategy and technical execution, taking ownership of the project lifecycle from business case through to final implementation.

The ideal candidate will combine hands-on SAP Finance knowledge with exceptional governance, budgeting, forecasting, and risk management capabilities to ensure delivery remains on scope, on time, and within budget.

Key Responsibilities

• End-to-End Delivery: Lead large-scale SAP S/4HANA migration programs from early-stage business case development through deployment and hypercare.
• Project Governance: Oversee core project management functions including resource allocation, project planning, execution, vendor management, quality assurance, and change control.
• Financial Tracking: Perform actual vs. planned financial analysis at the project level, manage project budgets, and accurately forecast the total cost of completion.
• Performance Metrics: Develop, monitor, and submit weekly status reports tracking critical project health indicators, including ETC, EAC, SPI, and CPI .
• Schedule Management: Build, maintain, and track progress on resource-loaded schedules, monitoring milestones and critical dependencies.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Facilitate governance meetings and workshops with both technical and non-technical resources to document requirements, establish timelines, and monitor actionable tasks.
• Risk & Issue Management: Proactively identify, track, and mitigate project risks, issues, assumptions, and dependencies to prevent project slippage.

Required Skills & Qualifications

• Experience: Minimum of 10 years of experience in large-scale IT Project/Program Management , with at least 10 years dedicated specifically to managing SAP environments .
• SAP S/4HANA Expertise: Proven track record of successfully leading complex SAP S/4HANA migration or transformation projects.
• SAP FICO Knowledge: Deep functional and technical understanding of SAP FICO across both legacy ECC and S/4HANA environments.
• Finance Transformation: Strong familiarity with SAP Central Finance , financial close processes, regulatory reporting, audit controls, and compliance standards.
• Stakeholder Management: Exceptional communication skills with the ability to partner closely with Finance executives, business sponsors, and system integrators.
• Metric Mastery: Demonstrated hands-on experience utilizing project performance metrics ( ETC, EAC, SPI, CPI ) and managing resource-loaded project schedules.

Preferred Qualifications

• Active Project Management Professional ( PMP ) certification.
• Certified SAP S/4HANA Finance professional.
• Prior experience managing finance-centric global rollouts or large financial system integrations.