Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. ABB is a company that helps industries run leaner and cleaner, and they are seeking a SAP S/4HANA Public Cloud Lead in Finance. In this role, you will co-own the SAP S/4HANA Public Cloud unit, leading finance end-to-end and driving AI adoption and automation in financial processes.
Responsibilities
- Co-owning the unit as one value stream and owning finance end to end — record-to-report, invoice-to-cash, and acquire-to-retire, run as connected flows, not FI/CO silos — with full accountability for a single shared outcome alongside the Operations co-owner
- Driving AI adoption at scale and stretching automation to its limit — beginning with automating the close and regression-testing financial processes against the continuous Public Cloud release cadence, then automating the finance flows themselves — all while keeping the financial core correct and auditable
- Running finance fast and lean — assessing every S/4 Public Cloud release for fit and new functionality, adopting what adds value while keeping the core clean, and drawing on the central team's Developer, Integration, and Reporting services to deliver (directing and consuming them, not duplicating them)
- Co-owning the cross-functional seams with the Operations owner — order-to-cash and procure-to-pay run across both of you — so the end-to-end flow holds and the numbers reconcile
Skills
- You have hands-on SAP S/4HANA Public Cloud experience — not Private, not ECC alone. You know the clean-core model, the release cadence, and what the Public Cloud will and will not allow
- A degree in finance, accounting, or a related field
- You are driven to adopt AI at scale and push automation — automating the close and the testing of every release first — to its absolute limit; you treat a clean, fast-moving unit as a place to find the ceiling of what can run with no manual effort, not to hold a steady state
- You are deep across S/4 Finance — FI (GL, AP, AR, AA), CO (cost and profit centers, product costing, margin analysis), period close, tax, and financial/group reporting — and you think in flows (record-to-report, order-to-cash), not isolated configuration
- You have a demonstrated track record of extreme ownership — owning an outcome end to end (build and run) — you share a single outcome with an equal peer without building turf, and you keep the financial core correct and auditable even while automating aggressively (statutory, tax, and governed truth are not optional)
- You are passionate about learning and intellectually honest — comfortable with ambiguity, quick to say 'I don't know' or 'I was wrong,' and curious enough to outpace your own defensiveness
- You are at ease communicating in English
- You hold a valid work authorization for the European market
- A professional accounting qualification (CPA / ACCA / local equivalent) is a plus
- An additional European language is a plus
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