SAP Fico Consultant at Ford Motor Company

The SAP Functional Lead will provide functional leadership across SAP

implementation, transformation, and enhancement initiatives while ensuring

solutions align with business objectives and enterprise IT standards.

The role will lead requirements workshops, Fit-Gap analysis, functional solution

design, testing, data migration support, deployment, and post-go-live

stabilization. The SAP Functional Lead will work closely with business

stakeholders, technical teams, and implementation partners to resolve issues,

improve business processes, and deliver sustainable SAP solutions.

The successful candidate will combine strong SAP functional expertise with

project leadership, analytical problem-solving, and stakeholder management

skills. The individual must be able to communicate effectively with both

business and technical audiences and guide cross-functional teams through

complex SAP transformation initiatives.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Responsibilities

SAP Leadership & Project Delivery

* Lead SAP implementation and enhancement initiatives from requirements

gathering through go-live and hypercare.

* Facilitate requirements workshops, Fit-Gap analysis, solution design,

testing, deployment, and end-user readiness activities.

* Lead functional design discussions and drive timely resolution of functional

and cross-functional issues.

* Partner with business stakeholders, IT teams, system integrators, and other

project teams to deliver solutions aligned with agreed scope and business

objectives.

* Identify project risks, dependencies, and delivery issues and communicate

them clearly to relevant stakeholders.

* Promote effective collaboration and accountability across cross-functional

teams.

Solution Design & Functional Delivery

* Translate business requirements into scalable SAP functional solutions.

* Partner with system integrators and technical teams to design, document,

configure, and deliver SAP solutions.

* Define functional requirements for enhancements, interfaces, reports,

workflows, and data-conversion solutions.

* Review functional designs and ensure solutions meet business, integration,

and enterprise IT requirements.

* Evaluate relevant SAP capabilities and release enhancements and recommend

opportunities that improve business processes or system effectiveness.

Business Analysis & Documentation

* Facilitate stakeholder workshops to understand existing processes, pain

points, requirements, and future-state needs.

* Develop and maintain business requirements, process flows, use cases, user

stories, functional specifications, and acceptance criteria.

* Maintain appropriate project artifacts in Jira or a comparable Agile delivery

platform.

* Provide clear reporting on project status, risks, dependencies, issues, and

key decisions.

Testing, Data Migration & Release Management

* Plan and coordinate functional, integration, security, regression, and user

acceptance testing.

* Drive defect triage, resolution, retesting, and business validation.

* Support data profiling, extraction, cleansing, migration, reconciliation, and

validation activities.

* Contribute to release planning, cutover readiness, deployment, and go-live

activities.

* Lead or support post-production stabilization and hypercare activities.

Continuous Improvement & Operational Support

* Perform root cause analysis for recurring functional or process issues and

coordinate corrective and preventive actions.

* Identify opportunities to simplify and improve SAP-enabled business

processes.

* Support sustainable operating procedures, knowledge transfer, and team

capability development.

Define, validate, and support business and operational reporting requirements

QUALIFICATIONS

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

* Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Business,

Engineering, or a related discipline, or equivalent relevant professional

experience.

* Demonstrated experience leading SAP implementations, transformations, or

major enhancement programs.

* Strong functional knowledge of [insert required SAP module(s)/solution area]

and related end-to-end business processes.

* Experience facilitating requirements workshops, Fit-Gap analysis, process

design, functional solution design, testing, and user readiness activities.

* Experience working with business stakeholders, IT teams, system integrators,

and cross-functional delivery teams.

* Experience developing functional specifications, business requirements,

process flows, user stories, and acceptance criteria.

* Experience supporting SAP testing, defect management, cutover, and

post-go-live stabilization.

* Working knowledge of Jira or a comparable Agile project-management platform.

* Strong analytical, troubleshooting, root cause analysis, and decision-making

skills.

* Experience working within Agile, iterative, or hybrid delivery methodologies.

* Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to

communicate technical concepts to business stakeholders.

* Demonstrated ability to lead and influence cross-functional teams.

Preferred Qualifications

* Experience with SAP S/4HANA implementations or transformations, if applicable

to the environment.

* Experience delivering large-scale SAP programs across multiple business

functions, sites, or regions.

* Experience with SAP reporting and analytics solutions relevant to the

functional area.

* Experience with data migration, cutover, release management, and hypercare.

* Relevant SAP functional certification for the applicable module or solution

area.

* Experience with [replace "IERP" with the confirmed platform/product and

define it where necessary].