SAP Ariba Lead Consultant
Contract W2
18 Months
No Travel Required
Remote
$75 - $80/hr
Saim Technologies
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Skills
- Ariba
- Acceptance Testing
- Accounts Payable
- Auditing
- Blueprint
- Communication
- Data Migration
- Business Process
- Business Readiness
- Change Management
- Invoice Verification
- Cloud Computing
- End-user Training
- Finance
- Functional Design
- Middleware
- IDoc
- Inventory
- Invoices
- Payment Processing
- Process Integration
- Procurement
- Leadership
- Purchasing
- ROOT
- Regulatory Compliance
- Replication
- SAP
- Management
- SAP FI AP
- SAP GRC
- SAP HANA
- SAP MM
- SAP MM-PUR
- Master Data Management
- Network
- Onboarding
- Production Support
- SAP ERP
- SAP PI
- SOD
- Sourcing
- Spanning Tree Protocol
- Stakeholder Engagement
- Stakeholder Management
- Supplier Relationship Management
- Taxes
- Workflow
Summary
Role- SAP Ariba Lead Consultant
Location- Remote
JD-
We are looking for an experienced SAP Ariba Lead Consultant to lead the design, configuration, and business readiness of our SAP Source-to-Pay (STP) landscape. This is a hands-on leadership role sitting at the intersection of procurement business processes and SAP technology. You will own the end-to-end solution across the SAP Ariba suite and its integration with SAP ERP (S/4HANA or ECC), driving successful adoption from blueprint through hypercare.
Location- Remote
JD-
We are looking for an experienced SAP Ariba Lead Consultant to lead the design, configuration, and business readiness of our SAP Source-to-Pay (STP) landscape. This is a hands-on leadership role sitting at the intersection of procurement business processes and SAP technology. You will own the end-to-end solution across the SAP Ariba suite and its integration with SAP ERP (S/4HANA or ECC), driving successful adoption from blueprint through hypercare.
Key Responsibilities Solution Design & Delivery
- Lead the functional design, configuration, and deployment of the SAP Ariba solution across the Source-to-Pay value chain.
- Own the end-to-end process integration between SAP Ariba and SAP ERP (MM and FI-AP), ensuring master data, transactional documents, and financial postings flow correctly across systems.
Ariba Modules Knowledge
Lead delivery across the SAP Ariba and SAP Business Network modules, including:
Lead delivery across the SAP Ariba and SAP Business Network modules, including:
- SAP Ariba Sourcing (RFx, e-auctions, sourcing events and awards)
- SAP Ariba Contracts (contract authoring, workspaces, compliance)
- SAP Ariba Buying & Invoicing and Guided Buying (catalogs, requisitions, PO management)
- SAP Ariba Supplier Lifecycle & Performance (SLP) / Supplier Management (registration, qualification, segmentation, risk)
- SAP Ariba Commerce Automation / Invoice-to-Pay (invoice reconciliation, exception handling)
- SAP Business Network (formerly Ariba Network) supplier onboarding and enablement
- Integration via SAP Ariba Cloud Integration Gateway (CIG) / mediated and direct connectivity to SAP ERP
End-to-End Issue Resolution
- Act as the lead for complex, cross-functional STP issues, tracing root causes across Ariba, integration middleware, SAP MM, and FI-AP.
- Diagnose and resolve issues spanning requisition-to-PO, PO-to-goods-receipt, and invoice-to-payment, including three-way match failures, IDoc/CIG errors, tax and account assignment defects, and workflow breakdowns.
Business Readiness & Adoption
- Lead change management activities, stakeholder engagement, and communications to drive user adoption across procurement, finance, and the wider business.
- Design and deliver end-user training (materials, sessions, train-the-trainer) tailored to buyer, approver, and supplier audiences..
Controls, Compliance & Post-Go-Live.
- Ensure the solution meets SAP GRC / Segregation of Duties (SoD) requirements, working with risk and audit stakeholders to remediate conflicts.
- Lead post-go-live hypercare support, stabilising the solution, resolving production incidents, and transitioning to business-as-usual support.
Required Skills & Experience
- Proven experience as a Lead / Senior SAP Ariba Consultant delivering full-lifecycle Source-to-Pay implementations.
- Deep functional expertise across the procurement lifecycle: Sourcing, Purchasing, Supplier Management, and Invoice-to-Pay.
- Strong hands-on knowledge of SAP MM (purchasing, inventory, invoice verification) and SAP FI-AP (accounts payable, vendor master, payment processing).
- Demonstrated ability to resolve end-to-end, cross-module issues across Ariba and SAP ERP integrations.
- Practical experience with Ariba SAP integration (CIG, IDocs, master and transactional data replication).
- Track record delivering change management, user training, UAT, data migration, and cutover on major SAP programmes.
- Working knowledge of procurement controls, approval workflows, and SAP GRC / SoD compliance.
- Experience providing hypercare and production support post-deployment.
- Excellent stakeholder management, communication, and leadership skills
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- Dice Id: 91131463
- Position Id: 9048049
- Posted 4 hours ago
Company Info
About Saim Technologies
Saim Technologies provides a variety of services related to Information Technology and out sourcing and has been recognized as a one of the emerging leader in software solutions. We provide custom software development, Staffing, Training and engineering services. We offer Enterprise level web based applications, web services, technical resources, Enterprise level database, software hosting, technical support services, routine programming, and more.
Our IT services focus on providing you with increased business performance by leveraging our technological expertise, business knowledge, process quality, and people. Our dedicated Centers of Excellence and practices around each of our service offerings enable us to continuously improve processes, retain project learning, and expand knowledge repositories to deliver consistent value.
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