Job Title: Change Manager with S/4 Hana
Location: San Jose, CA
Duration: 12 Months Contract
Job Description:
Role Overview
We are seeking an experienced Change Management Consultant to support a large-scale SAP S/4HANA transformation program. The ideal candidate will bring strong organizational change management expertise combined with hands-on experience supporting SAP transformation initiatives within Finance.
The role will focus primarily on the Quote-to-Cash (Q2C) process and related Finance functions, including Corporate Accounting, Revenue Accounting, and/or Treasury. The consultant will partner with business, Finance, SAP functional teams, and program stakeholders to drive business readiness, stakeholder alignment, communications, training, and user adoption.
Key Responsibilities
- Develop and execute the Change Management strategy and plan for the SAP S/4HANA Finance transformation.
- Conduct change impact assessments to identify how new SAP processes, roles, systems, and ways of working affect business users.
- Support change activities across the Q2C / Quote-to-Cash lifecycle, particularly where processes interface with Finance and Accounting.
- Partner with Finance stakeholders across areas such as:
- Corporate Accounting
- Revenue Accounting / Revenue Recognition
- Treasury
- Accounts Receivable
- Billing and invoicing
- Financial close and reporting
- Perform stakeholder analysis and stakeholder engagement, identifying impacted groups and developing appropriate engagement strategies.
- Develop and execute change communications for different stakeholder and user groups.
- Coordinate with SAP functional leads, business process owners, Finance SMEs, training teams, and program leadership.
- Support business readiness assessments leading up to testing, deployment, cutover, and go-live.
- Identify potential adoption challenges and resistance and develop appropriate mitigation strategies.
- Support the development and execution of training and enablement plans for impacted Finance and Q2C users.
- Facilitate workshops, stakeholder sessions, change-impact discussions, and readiness reviews.
- Track adoption and change-readiness activities and provide updates to program leadership.
- Help ensure that process, organizational, role, and technology changes are understood and adopted across impacted business teams.
Required Skills & Experience:
- Strong experience in Organizational Change Management (OCM) supporting enterprise transformation programs.
- Demonstrated experience supporting SAP S/4HANA implementations or transformations.
- Experience with Finance transformation programs involving SAP.
- Understanding of Quote-to-Cash (Q2C) processes and their integration with Finance.
- Experience in at least one or more of the following areas:
- Corporate Accounting
- Revenue Accounting
- Treasury
- Strong experience with:
- Change Impact Assessments
- Stakeholder Analysis & Management
- Business Readiness
- Communications
- Training / Enablement
- Adoption & Resistance Management
- Ability to translate complex SAP/process changes into clear business impacts and user-focused communications.
- Strong communication, facilitation, and stakeholder-management skills.
- Ability to work effectively across business, Finance, IT, SAP functional, and program management teams.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Previous experience on a large-scale SAP S/4HANA Finance transformation.
- Experience supporting global or enterprise-wide SAP deployments.
- Familiarity with SAP Finance processes and integration across Q2C.
- Experience with structured change methodologies such as Prosci / ADKAR is advantageous.
- Experience working through implementation stages including design, testing, training, cutover, go-live, and post-go-live adoption.
