Change Manager with S/4 Hana

Job Title: Change Manager with S/4 Hana

Location: San Jose, CA

Duration: 12 Months Contract

Job Description:

Role Overview

We are seeking an experienced Change Management Consultant to support a large-scale SAP S/4HANA transformation program. The ideal candidate will bring strong organizational change management expertise combined with hands-on experience supporting SAP transformation initiatives within Finance.

The role will focus primarily on the Quote-to-Cash (Q2C) process and related Finance functions, including Corporate Accounting, Revenue Accounting, and/or Treasury. The consultant will partner with business, Finance, SAP functional teams, and program stakeholders to drive business readiness, stakeholder alignment, communications, training, and user adoption.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and execute the Change Management strategy and plan for the SAP S/4HANA Finance transformation.
• Conduct change impact assessments to identify how new SAP processes, roles, systems, and ways of working affect business users.
• Support change activities across the Q2C / Quote-to-Cash lifecycle, particularly where processes interface with Finance and Accounting.
• Partner with Finance stakeholders across areas such as:
  • Corporate Accounting
  • Revenue Accounting / Revenue Recognition
  • Treasury
  • Accounts Receivable
  • Billing and invoicing
  • Financial close and reporting
• Perform stakeholder analysis and stakeholder engagement, identifying impacted groups and developing appropriate engagement strategies.
• Develop and execute change communications for different stakeholder and user groups.
• Coordinate with SAP functional leads, business process owners, Finance SMEs, training teams, and program leadership.
• Support business readiness assessments leading up to testing, deployment, cutover, and go-live.
• Identify potential adoption challenges and resistance and develop appropriate mitigation strategies.
• Support the development and execution of training and enablement plans for impacted Finance and Q2C users.
• Facilitate workshops, stakeholder sessions, change-impact discussions, and readiness reviews.
• Track adoption and change-readiness activities and provide updates to program leadership.
• Help ensure that process, organizational, role, and technology changes are understood and adopted across impacted business teams.

Required Skills & Experience:

• Strong experience in Organizational Change Management (OCM) supporting enterprise transformation programs.
• Demonstrated experience supporting SAP S/4HANA implementations or transformations.
• Experience with Finance transformation programs involving SAP.
• Understanding of Quote-to-Cash (Q2C) processes and their integration with Finance.
• Experience in at least one or more of the following areas:
  • Corporate Accounting
  • Revenue Accounting
  • Treasury
• Strong experience with:
  • Change Impact Assessments
  • Stakeholder Analysis & Management
  • Business Readiness
  • Communications
  • Training / Enablement
  • Adoption & Resistance Management
• Ability to translate complex SAP/process changes into clear business impacts and user-focused communications.
• Strong communication, facilitation, and stakeholder-management skills.
• Ability to work effectively across business, Finance, IT, SAP functional, and program management teams.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Previous experience on a large-scale SAP S/4HANA Finance transformation.
• Experience supporting global or enterprise-wide SAP deployments.
• Familiarity with SAP Finance processes and integration across Q2C.
• Experience with structured change methodologies such as Prosci / ADKAR is advantageous.
• Experience working through implementation stages including design, testing, training, cutover, go-live, and post-go-live adoption.