SAP Business Process Mgr - Finance

Org Marketing Statement Parker's Motion Systems Group provides hydraulic, pneumatic, and electromechanical technologies to create and control motion to customers across major mobile and industrial markets. Parker's best-in-class components and system solutions are known for their durability, reliability, power density, low noise, efficiency, and ease of use. This competitive advantage improves productivity and throughput while reducing energy and fuel consumption for customers worldwide. Position Summary Serves as the group functional owner and decision authority for SAP S/4HANA deployment, adoption, and sustainment for finance, controlling, financial reporting, accounting, costing, and related business processes across the group. Reporting to the Group VP Controller, this role leads group wide SAP business process strategy, deployment governance, fit-to-standard adoption, and sustainment across group divisions and locations. This role serves as the group functional business process leader for assigned SAP enabled finance processes. The position will drive adoption of Parker standard SAP business processes, support fit-to-standard decision making, and ensure consistent financial process execution across group divisions and locations. The role partners closely with Corporate SAP S/4HANA Business Process Leaders, group SAP IT, division controllers, finance leaders, operations, supply chain, customer service, procurement, manufacturing, and site level stakeholders to align solution design, testing, deployment readiness, adoption, and post-go-live sustainment. This role operates in a complex, matrixed environment requiring alignment across Corporate SAP teams, group leadership, division leadership, manufacturing locations, supply chain, procurement, operations, finance, IT, and end users. The position must balance Parker enterprise SAP standards with division-specific operational requirements while driving process standardization, resolving cross-functional conflicts, managing implementation risk, and ensuring business continuity during SAP deployment and stabilization. Responsibilities SAP S/4HANA Deployment Leadership - Lead finance, accounting, controlling, and reporting process deployment for group SAP S/4HANA implementations. - Support divisions and locations with deployment preparation, readiness activities, and fit-to-standard adoption. - Assess current-state processes, identify gaps, risks, data needs, control impacts, and organizational changes. - Facilitate workshops for process standardization, readiness, testing, training, cutover, go-live, hypercare, and stabilization. - Provide post-go-live support to ensure business continuity, stable adoption, and reporting integrity. Business Process Leadership and Governance - Serve as group business process leader for SAP-enabled finance, controlling, accounting, and reporting processes. - Partner with Corporate SAP S/4HANA Business Process Leaders to align requirements, design, testing, deployment readiness, and adoption. - Support governance forums, business process teams, and cross-functional deployment reviews. - Ensure processes align with Parker's SAP ERP strategy, finance standards, accounting policies, and internal controls. - Present readiness status, risks, decisions, and recommendations to group leadership. Accounting, Close, and Financial Reporting - Lead SAP-enabled accounting, close, consolidation, and reporting processes. - Standardize general ledger, journal entry, reconciliation, close, financial reporting, and management reporting practices. - Partner with finance teams to ensure accurate, timely, and compliant reporting. - Improve close efficiency, reporting consistency, and financial data integrity. Controlling, Cost Accounting, a