Job Summary
SAP PS Project Systems / EPPM Enterprise Portfolio & Project Management Lead Consultant
Core Responsibilities
Solution Design & Transformation: Lead the architecture, end-to-end configuration, and implementation of SAP EPPM modules (PPM, Commercial Project Management-CPM, and Project Systems-PS) for the ECC-to-S/4HANA migration.
Structure & Bill of Materials (BOM) Control: Work directly with the Product Option Architecture (POA) team to align WBS (Work Breakdown Structures) with manufacturing BOMs and customer-ordered tool configurations.
Financial Process Engineering: Own future-state engineering for project costing, R&D cost-object controlling, capitalization of assets (AUC), and budget tracking in a manufacturing finance environment.
Cross-Functional Integration: Architect and govern seamless integrations across SAP EPPM, FICO (Universal Journal, Asset Accounting), Material Management (MM), Production Planning (PP), and Sales and Distribution (SD).
Data Migration & Go-Live Readiness: Drive the project data migration strategy, ensuring historical financial information, active project configurations, and actual costs match regulatory compliance standards.
System Integration Testing (SIT): Design comprehensive SIT test scripts, lead cross-functional execution cycles, and drive defect resolution across integrated workstreams (FICO, MM, PP, SD) to validate the end-to-end rollout solution.
IDoc & Interface Governance: Architect, monitor, and troubleshoot IDoc interfaces (such as Project/WBS distribution and material master synchronization) between SAP S/4HANA and external product lifecycle management (PLM) or legacy tools.
Minimum & Preferred Qualifications
Experience: Minimum 12 years of hands-on experience in SAP implementation and rollout environments, with at least 5+ years dedicated specifically to S/4HANA or cloud transformation projects.
Industry Knowledge: Deep experience working inside semiconductors, high-tech capital equipment, or heavy manufacturing industries is highly preferred.
Domain Expertise: Advanced configuration skills in SAP Project System (PS) (WBS, Networks, Costing/Settlement) and SAP Portfolio and Project Management (PPM) (Portfolio Structure, Phase/Gate templates).
Order Type Customizing: Configuring settlement profiles, budget profiles, planning profiles, and number ranges for both statistical and real Internal Orders.
Education: Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Finance, Information Systems, or a related field (Master’s degree preferred).
Key Responsibilities
2. To support as an Subject Matter Expert
3. To ensure knowledge up-gradation and work with new technologies so that the solution is current and meets quality standards and the client requirements
4. Ensuring a sufficient pool of skilled professionals in the designated technology, through activities such as conducting interviews, providing training sessions and offering mentorship.
5. To gather specifications and deliver solutions to the client organization based on understanding of a domain or technology.
6. To support competency development with envisioning and articulating propositions â building collaterals/ whitepaper creation, market trend analysis etc.
7. To recommend client value creation initiatives and implement industry best practices (on specific technology/product)