SAP S/4HANA Debt & Collection SME (Principal)
Location: Remote / Maryland | Hybrid – Onsite as Needed for Workshops & Key Events
Consultant must reside in MD, VA, DC area.
Employment Type: Full-Time Contract
Start Date: ASAP
End Date: April 30, 2027
Target Rate: $100/hour
Level: Principal / Subject Matter Expert
Citizenship Requirement: U.S. Citizenship is required. Foreign nationals and individuals with dual citizenship are prohibited from consideration for this engagement.
Position Overview
Our client is seeking a Principal SAP S/4HANA Debt & Collection SME to provide architecture, process design, and strategic advisory expertise supporting a large-scale SAP S/4HANA transformation.
This individual will serve as the lead subject matter expert for Debt & Collection, with responsibility for defining the target architecture and future-state processes across incoming order acceptance, advance payment processing, reimbursable billing, revenue collection, and the complete federal debt lifecycle.
The ideal candidate will bring deep expertise in SAP S/4HANA, FI/Accounts Receivable, Public Sector Management, billing, and federal debt and Treasury processes, with the ability to operate at both the strategic architecture and detailed process-design levels.
Key Responsibilities
- Serve as the Principal SAP S/4HANA Architect and SME for Debt & Collection.
- Define the target architecture, process design, controls, and integration requirements for Debt & Collection capabilities.
- Design and advise on processes including:
- Incoming order acceptance
- Advance payment processing
- Reimbursable billing
- Revenue collection
- Accounts receivable and debt management
- Federal debt identification and servicing
- Treasury referral and offset processes
- Debt write-off
- Define end-to-end integration across SAP FI/AR, Public Sector Management, billing, and Treasury-related processes.
- Lead fit-to-standard workshops with business and technical stakeholders.
- Facilitate current-state to future-state process mapping and identify opportunities for standardization and process improvement.
- Define data quality, controls, compliance, and reporting requirements supporting the Debt & Collection lifecycle.
- Advise stakeholders on SAP S/4HANA standard capabilities, architectural decisions, dependencies, and implementation considerations.
- Identify process and solution gaps and recommend appropriate approaches while maintaining alignment with fit-to-standard principles.
- Provide Debt & Collection solution input into the overall solution blueprint, ROM estimates, and Phase 1 mobilization activities.
- Partner closely with functional, technical, architecture, finance, billing, and federal business stakeholders throughout the engagement.
Required Qualifications
- Expert-level experience with SAP S/4HANA, with deep functional and architectural expertise in Debt & Collection / Accounts Receivable.
- Strong hands-on knowledge of SAP FI/AR and related financial processes.
- Experience with SAP Public Sector Management and public-sector financial processes.
- Deep understanding of billing, collections, accounts receivable, revenue, and debt-management processes.
- Experience designing complex end-to-end SAP architectures and integrations across multiple financial and business functions.
- Demonstrated experience leading fit-to-standard workshops, process design sessions, and current-to-future-state mapping.
- Ability to translate complex business, regulatory, and compliance requirements into scalable SAP S/4HANA solutions.
- Strong understanding of data quality, internal controls, compliance, and financial process governance.
- Experience contributing to solution blueprints, ROM estimates, implementation planning, and mobilization activities.
- Strong communication and stakeholder-management skills with the ability to advise senior business and technical leaders.
Highly Preferred
- Experience supporting U.S. federal government SAP implementations or transformation programs.
- Knowledge of the federal debt lifecycle, including debt identification, servicing, collection, Treasury referral/offset, and write-off.
- Experience with federal reimbursable billing and revenue collection processes.
- Experience working across SAP FI/AR, Public Sector Management, billing, and Treasury-related integrations.
Work Arrangement
This is a full-time contract engagement expected to run through April 30, 2027. The position is primarily remote, with onsite travel to Maryland as needed for workshops, key meetings, and project events.
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