Duration: Until end of July 2027 as a first contract

Workload: Full time, 5 days per week

Travel Requirements: Remote, with travel to northern Italy around twice a month until the end of January 2027, less frequently after that

Context: A functional specialist looking after SAP S/4HANA Finance and Controlling for the business units, keeping it running well and pushing it forward. A lot of the job is direct contact with the Local Process Owners, and the client wants someone who comes back with something workable rather than something theoretical.

Responsibilities:

Act as the day to day point of contact for the Local Process Owners

Handle functional queries from the units already running on the system

Investigate FI and CO faults and see them through to a fix

Own the ticket queue, chasing corrections with internal IT and outside suppliers

Keep turnaround inside the service levels that have been agreed

Plan the acceptance testing, write the scenarios, and sit with key users while they work through them

Sign off fixes, enhancements and new releases before anything reaches production

Work alongside the release and change process

Bring further business units onto S/4HANA: set up their org structure, move their data over, prove the processes hold

Be part of the cutover, the go-live itself and hypercare afterwards

Look after Product Costing and the management accounting side,



keeping standard costs right and updates clean

Run and check cost rolls, work through variances, and support margin and profitability reporting

Join up Controlling, Finance, Supply Chain and Operations so cost is visible and reported the same way everywhere

Spot where a process could be simplified or automated

Steer the units towards common ways of working and SAP standard where it fits

Take on enhancement work as it comes up

Keep user guides, procedures and functional documentation current

Train key users and end users, and help the business actually adopt what gets delivered

Required profile:

SAP S/4HANA Finance and Controlling functional expertise

Used to dealing directly with Local Process Owners

Looking after live business users, including fault analysis and ticket handling

Planning acceptance testing, writing scenarios, guiding key users through them

Taking new business units live on an existing system: org structure, data, process proving

Cutover, go-live and hypercare

Product Costing and management accounting, standard costs, cost rolls, variances, margin reporting

Writing user guides and delivering training

Comes back with workable answers rather than theory

Fluent English, Italian an advantage

Able to travel to northern Italy around twice a month early on

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