ONSITE ON SAN JOSE - CA

Position Summary

Lead end-to-end program management of Cadence''s SAP ECC 6.0 to S/4HANA transformation, a mission-critical initiative impacting Finance, Revenue Accounting, Procurement, Supply Chain, and integrated business processes across global operations.

Key Responsibilities

·        Own program plan, timeline and delivery across all workstreams (Finance, RAR, MM, Integration, Data, Technical)

·        Establish program governance: Steering Committee, Executive Sponsors, workstream leads, SI partner coordination

·        Manage vendor/SI partner accountability and program risks, issues, dependencies across 15+ business units

·        Align IT, Finance, Revenue, Procurement, Supply Chain stakeholders; drive change management and adoption

·        Executive communication: Steering Committee, Board updates, CIO/CFO briefings

·        Coordinate 50+ system integrations (Workday, Salesforce, Coupa, HighRadius, EPM, BW) and middleware modernization

·        Manage dependencies with Master Data Governance, analytics migration, and infrastructure transition

Required Qualifications

Experience

·        10+ years program/project management in enterprise software implementations

·        Minimum 2 full-lifecycle S/4HANA implementations as Program Manager (ECC → S/4 migrations preferred)

·        Revenue-critical systems: implementations impacting revenue recognition, financial close, or SOX processes

·        Complex integrations: 50+ system interfaces, middleware platforms, batch/real-time integration patterns

Technical Knowledge

·        S/4HANA architecture, deployment models (on-prem, cloud, hybrid)

·        SAP Revenue Accounting & Reporting (RAR), FI/CO, MM/Procurement

·        Integration technologies (SAP PI/PO, CPI, APIs), data migration, master data governance

·        Agile/Waterfall hybrid delivery for ERP transformations

Leadership Skills

·        Influence without authority across IT, Finance, Business; executive presence with C-suite/Board

·        Vendor/SI management: accountability while maintaining collaboration

·        Risk mitigation, conflict resolution, consensus building in matrixed organizations

Certifications (Preferred)

·        SAP S/4HANA certification, SAP Project Management certification, or PMP/PgMP