SAP Finance Lead

SAP Finance Lead

Position Description

This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced SAP Finance professional to take on a highly visible, hands on technical functional leadership role within a large, complex enterprise environment. The position acts as the key interface between finance stakeholders and technical delivery teams, translating business requirements into scalable technical solutions while remaining directly involved in configuration, integrations, troubleshooting, testing, and implementation.

You will work closely with business, architecture, development, infrastructure, security, and onsite/offshore support teams. Using your SAP ECC Finance expertise and strong technical capabilities, you will lead solution analysis, resolve complex production issues, improve application stability, and contribute to automation and AI driven innovation within SAP Application Management Services (AMS).

This position is located in Atlanta, GA at the client site which is located in the south side of the city.

Your future duties and responsibilities

. Serve as the onsite SAP ECC Finance technical functional lead across General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Asset Accounting, Controlling, Cost Center Accounting, Profit Center Accounting, and financial closing processes.

. Act as the primary liaison between accounting, controlling, treasury, tax, procurement, sales, and technical delivery teams, converting business needs into clear functional and technical specifications.

. Lead technical analysis and solution design for SAP Finance enhancements, integrations, interfaces, data flows, reports, forms, workflows, and application changes.

. Perform hands on SAP FI/CO configuration, technical troubleshooting, debugging support, financial data analysis, interface monitoring, and issue resolution.

. Investigate and resolve complex production incidents involving SAP configuration, ABAP developments, background jobs, IDocs, APIs, middleware, payment files, bank interfaces, and upstream or downstream systems.

. Support end to end finance processes including record to report, procure to pay, order to cash, asset accounting, cost allocation, financial consolidation, and period end and year end closing.

. Partner with ABAP developers, integration specialists, Basis, security, and infrastructure teams to design, build, test, deploy, and support technical solutions.

. Review technical designs, development estimates, test results, transport plans, and deployment activities to ensure solutions meet accounting, audit, security, performance, and supportability requirements.

. Lead root cause analysis for recurring or high impact incidents and implement permanent corrective and preventive solutions.

. Coordinate system, integration, regression, and user acceptance testing, including test planning, defect triage, reconciliation, and validation of end to end financial processes.

. Support release management, change management, cutover planning, transports, production deployments, and post implementation stabilization.

. Provide technical guidance to onsite and offshore AMS teams, ensuring effective knowledge transfer, documentation, coding and configuration standards, and adherence to service level commitments.

. Identify and implement opportunities for financial process optimization, monitoring, automation, and AI enabled improvements that increase operational efficiency, data quality, and system reliability.

Required qualifications to be successful in this role

• Experience: Minimum 10+ years of overall SAP experience, including at least 8 years of hands-on SAP ECC FI/CO expertise and 7+ years supporting complex enterprise SAP environments through Application Management Services (AMS).

• Module Expertise: Deep functional and configuration knowledge of SAP ECC Finance, including General Ledger (GL), Accounts Payable (AP), Accounts Receivable (AR), Asset Accounting (AA), Controlling (CO), Cost Center Accounting, Profit Center Accounting, and financial closing processes.

• Technical-Functional Expertise: Minimum 7 years of hands-on SAP FI/CO configuration, troubleshooting, solution analysis, and enhancement support. Strong ability to analyze ABAP developments, background jobs, IDocs, interfaces, payment files, and integration failures.

• Production Support & Incident Management: At least 7 years of experience resolving complex SAP production incidents, conducting root cause analysis, and implementing permanent corrective solutions. Must demonstrate the ability to independently resolve urgent, business-critical financial issues.

• Integration Knowledge: Minimum 5 years of experience with SAP Finance integrations, particularly across Materials Management (MM), Sales and Distribution (SD), banking interfaces, middleware, and upstream/downstream enterprise applications.

• Financial Process Expertise: Strong understanding of end-to-end record-to-report, procure-to-pay, order-to-cash, financial reconciliations, period-end closing, and year-end financial processes.

• AMS & Delivery Practices: Experience supporting enhancements, technical solution design, functional specifications, integration testing, change management, production deployments, and coordination with offshore technical teams.

Professional & Interpersonal Skills

• Education: Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Information Technology, Computer Science, or a related discipline.

• Communication: Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to engage directly with Finance stakeholders and translate complex SAP issues into clear business solutions.

• Leadership & Problem Solving: Strong analytical skills, independent decision-making, ownership of critical production issues, and demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional issue resolution.

• Work Location: Must be available to work onsite in Atlanta, GA, collaborating directly with business stakeholders and distributed delivery teams.

Minimum Education Required:

Bachelors Degree

CGI anticipates accepting applications for this position through November 30, 2026.

Other Information:

CGI is required by law in some jurisdictions to include a reasonable estimate of the compensation range for this role. The determination of this range includes various factors not limited to skill set, level, experience, relevant training, and licensure and certifications. To support the ability to reward for merit based performance, CGI typically does not hire individuals at or near the top of the range for their role. Compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case. A reasonable estimate of the current range for this role in the U.S. is $116,200.00 - $257,400.00.

CGI's benefits are offered to eligible professionals on their first day of employment to include:

. Competitive compensation

. Comprehensive insurance options

. Matching contributions through the 401(k) plan and the share purchase plan

. Paid time off for vacation, holidays, and sick time

. Paid parental leave

. Learning opportunities and tuition assistance

. Wellness and Well being programs

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