SAP Finance Project Manager

Job Description

The LUCA program

LUCA is METRO’s strategic SAP S/4HANA Finance transformation program. It safeguards business continuity and addresses security and compliance risks while enabling greater standardization, harmonization and centralization across Finance. Alongside new-country rollouts, the program continuously evolves and supports the productive solution used by countries already live on LUCA.

Purpose of the role

Based in Düsseldorf, Germany, the SAP Finance Project Manager will lead the delivery of change projects for LUCA countries already operating on the productive SAP S/4HANA Finance solution. Typical assignments include the implementation of new electronic-invoicing mandates, other legal and regulatory requirements, and business-driven changes that affect Finance processes, integrations, data, controls and operational procedures.

The role is designed for an experienced SAP Financials professional who has moved into project coordination and delivery management. The Project Manager must understand Finance requirements and SAP solution implications well enough to structure work, challenge plans, connect the correct experts and drive decisions, while remaining accountable for scope, schedule, budget, quality, risk and stakeholder alignment in a large international SAP landscape.

Your responsibilities

End-to-end project delivery

• Own the delivery of assigned SAP Finance projects for LUCA live countries from initiation and scoping through design, build, testing, deployment, hypercare and closure.
• Translate legal, regulatory and business change requests into structured projects with clear objectives, scope boundaries, deliverables, milestones, governance, resource needs and acceptance criteria.
• Develop and maintain integrated project plans covering functional design, technical implementation, interfaces, data, testing, cutover, communication, training and operational readiness.
• Manage scope, schedule, budget, quality, risks, issues, dependencies, assumptions and change control, ensuring that deviations are visible and addressed early.
• Prepare concise status reporting, decisions and recommendations for LUCA governance, country stakeholders and management.

Regulatory and business change delivery

• Coordinate the implementation of country-specific electronic-invoicing mandates and other legal or tax-driven changes, working with Finance local, central, system implementors, and partner-system specialists.
• Lead business-change projects that enhance or adapt live SAP Finance processes, ensuring alignment with the LUCA global template and the needs of productive operations.
• Ensure requirements are sufficiently clear, approved and traceable, and that legal effective dates and business deadlines are translated into realistic delivery plans.
• Coordinate impact assessments across SAP Finance, SAP Ariba where relevant, master data, reporting, authorizations, interfaces and non-SAP partner systems.
• Protect productive operations by ensuring controlled releases, appropriate regression testing, cutover planning, support readiness and post-go-live monitoring.

Functional and technical coordination

• Use prior SAP Financials experience to understand end-to-end process impacts, ask informed questions and facilitate productive alignment between business and technology teams.
• Coordinate solution architects, functional consultants, developers, integration teams, test teams, release management, AMS, country organizations and external partners.
• Identify interdependencies across processes, systems, countries and concurrent initiatives, assign ownership and drive decisions and actions to closure.
• Challenge delivery proposals, estimates and solution approaches constructively, while relying on accountable architects and specialists for detailed design authority.
• Ensure project outputs are documented, supportable and handed over effectively to the relevant live-country and service-management organizations.

Testing, deployment and stakeholder management

• Work with LUCA Test Management to define the test approach, business participation, environments, data, entry and exit criteria, defect governance and acceptance evidence for each project.
• Coordinate country UAT and business acceptance, ensuring the right stakeholders are mobilized and that open defects and residual risks are transparent before deployment.
• Plan and govern cutover and production deployment activities with clear responsibilities, sequencing, readiness checks, fallback considerations and management communication.
• Act as the central project contact for country Finance stakeholders, LUCA teams, METRO Digital, the System Integrator and other delivery partners.
• Build trust across cultures and time zones through transparent communication, dependable follow-up, pragmatic issue resolution and timely escalation.

Qualifications

Required key competencies and qualifications:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Informatics, Information Systems, Computer Science or a related discipline.
• At least 8 years of relevant experience in SAP Finance delivery, including substantial earlier experience in SAP Financials followed by a successful move into project coordination or project management.
• Solid functional understanding of SAP S/4HANA Finance processes and integration points, with experience in one or more areas such as General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Asset Accounting, Controlling, tax or financial interfaces.
• Proven experience delivering SAP changes or projects in a large, international and multi-country SAP landscape.
• Experience managing legal, regulatory, tax, electronic-invoicing or other deadline-driven change initiatives is highly advantageous.
• Experience coordinating cross-functional teams, country organizations, AMS providers, System Integrators and technology partners without relying solely on direct authority.
• Experience across testing, UAT, cutover, release, deployment and hypercare in productive SAP environments.
• Working knowledge of SAP Ariba, invoice-management solutions, integration platforms or partner-system landscapes is advantageous.
• Confident use of project planning, collaboration and reporting tools such as Jira, Confluence, Microsoft Project, PowerPoint and Excel.
• PMP, PRINCE2, Agile or SAP certification is advantageous but not required; retail or wholesale experience is beneficial.
• Visible “can-do” attitude, with the energy and persistence to move complex topics forward, remove obstacles and find pragmatic paths to delivery.
• Strong ownership and accountability, combined with disciplined planning, follow-up, risk management and escalation.
• Ability to understand functional and technical discussions, structure ambiguity and translate complex issues into clear actions and decisions.
• Confident, articulate communication and stakeholder-management skills across business, Finance, technology, vendors and senior management.
• Collaborative and culturally aware working style suited to distributed international teams and multiple country stakeholders.
• Calm and solution-oriented under pressure, particularly when managing fixed legal deadlines or production-critical changes.
• Excellent written and spoken English; willingness and ability to travel when required.

Additional Information

What do we offer at METRO.digital?

• Hybrid and agile work: thrive in a flexible, multicultural environment. 

At METRO.digital, we promote work-life balance through a hybrid working model. You’ll be part of self-organizing, multicultural teams that collaborate in an agile setup. 

• People development: when you grow so do we! 

We want you to become the best version of yourself with individual and company-wide programs and trainings for people development. Focused among other on development, leadership, appreciation ... it´s time to upskill your career. 

• Support with individual solutions: we are people-caring! 

We offer support whenever you need it - at every stage of your professional journey. 

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Position grade within our career framework: Project Manager Grade 3 (Md9).