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Business development professionals seeking U.S. permanent residency through EB-2 or EB-3 sponsorship go through PERM labor certification before the employer files an I-140 petition. Roles requiring a bachelor's degree in business, marketing, or a related field typically qualify, and many large employers in technology, finance, and consulting have established PERM pipelines for this occupation.
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Get Access To All JobsSAP Cloud ERP Professional Services Functional Lead
Chicago, IL – Remote Job (Travel on needed basis)
12+ months contract
Role Overview
SAP Cloud ERP professional services functional lead Own the functional design, configuration, stabilization, and optimization of SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition Professional Services processes for a project-based enterprise. Focus on customer project lifecycle, work packages, staffing-relevant project structures, time/cost capture integration, project billing, profitability, and operational controls while partnering closely with Finance and adjacent workforce/resource systems.
Key Responsibilities
- Own the post-go-live functional roadmap and configuration backlog for SAP Professional Services/customer project capabilities.
- Configure and support customer project structures, project stages, work packages, roles, planned effort/cost/revenue inputs, and project lifecycle controls within deployed scope.
- Own functional design for project billing preparation, billing plans, billing elements, project billing requests, and handoffs to billing/accounting.
- Support project financial planning, actual cost/revenue visibility, project margin analysis, and integration with Finance and Event-Based Revenue Recognition.
- Define and maintain project master-data standards, templates, derivation rules, validation controls, and governance.
- Partner with resource-management and time systems to ensure project, role, assignment, budget, and time data are fit for downstream processing.
- Analyze production defects involving customer projects, project billing, time/cost postings, master data, workflow, or integration dependencies.
- Lead functional acceptance criteria, test scenarios, regression packs, and business validation for Professional Services changes.
- Maintain end-to-end process documentation from project setup through time/cost capture, billing, revenue recognition, and closure.
- Drive fit-to-standard decisions and minimize unnecessary custom extensions around project operations.
- Support business teams during billing cycles, project setup peaks, period-end activities, and critical incidents.
- Review SAP release changes affecting Professional Services and determine business impact, test scope, and adoption opportunities.
- Coordinate functional dependencies with Finance, Billing, HR/time, resource management, CRM/engagement systems, data, and integration teams.
- Lead backlog refinement and prioritize changes based on operational risk, business value, and go-live stabilization needs.
- Provide quality oversight for SI-delivered configuration, test evidence, and production fixes.
SAP / Product-Specific Responsibilities
- SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition Professional Services / customer project management capabilities.
- Plan Customer Projects and project lifecycle concepts, work packages, billing elements, billing plans, and project billing.
- Manage Project Billing and related billing request/document handoffs.
- Integration with Event-Based Revenue Recognition, General Ledger/Controlling, time recording, expenses, and enterprise resource-management solutions.
- SAP Fiori role-based applications, configuration lifecycle, and Public Cloud release adoption.
Operational Responsibilities
- Own stabilization of customer-project and project-billing processes, with clear severity and SLA-based triage.
- Monitor recurring errors in project setup, time/cost postings, billing preparation, project closure, and integrated master data.
- Maintain business-ready operating procedures, support playbooks, known-error records, and release regression scenarios.
- Drive continuous improvement in project setup cycle time, billing readiness, data quality, and user adoption.
Cross-Functional Collaboration
Professional Services operations, Project/Engagement Management, Finance/Controllership, Billing, Revenue Accounting, HR/time, resource management, Data, Integration, Security, QA/Release, and implementation partners.
Required Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in Business, Finance, Information Systems, Engineering, or related discipline. 8+ years of SAP project systems/professional-services functional experience, including S/4HANA-era delivery. Hands-on configuration experience with SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition Professional Services/customer project processes strongly preferred. Strong understanding of project-based services economics, time/cost capture, billing, margin, and revenue-recognition dependencies. Experience supporting production operations after ERP go-live.
Required Technical / Functional Skills
- SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition Professional Services/customer projects.
- Project lifecycle, work packages, project billing, billing plans, project master data, and project financial controls.
- Integration with Finance/Controlling and Event-Based Revenue Recognition.
- Time/expense and resource-management integration concepts.
- Fiori applications, testing, defect triage, configuration governance, and release impact assessment.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience in consulting, accounting, engineering, legal, or other project-based professional-services firms.
- Experience integrating SAP with workforce/resource planning or time systems such as Deltek Replicon and Dayshape.
- Current SAP credential aligned to SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition Professional Services or related implementation learning is preferred.
SAP Cloud ERP Professional Services Functional Lead
Chicago, IL – Remote Job (Travel on needed basis)
12+ months contract
Role Overview
SAP Cloud ERP professional services functional lead Own the functional design, configuration, stabilization, and optimization of SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition Professional Services processes for a project-based enterprise. Focus on customer project lifecycle, work packages, staffing-relevant project structures, time/cost capture integration, project billing, profitability, and operational controls while partnering closely with Finance and adjacent workforce/resource systems.
Key Responsibilities
- Own the post-go-live functional roadmap and configuration backlog for SAP Professional Services/customer project capabilities.
- Configure and support customer project structures, project stages, work packages, roles, planned effort/cost/revenue inputs, and project lifecycle controls within deployed scope.
- Own functional design for project billing preparation, billing plans, billing elements, project billing requests, and handoffs to billing/accounting.
- Support project financial planning, actual cost/revenue visibility, project margin analysis, and integration with Finance and Event-Based Revenue Recognition.
- Define and maintain project master-data standards, templates, derivation rules, validation controls, and governance.
- Partner with resource-management and time systems to ensure project, role, assignment, budget, and time data are fit for downstream processing.
- Analyze production defects involving customer projects, project billing, time/cost postings, master data, workflow, or integration dependencies.
- Lead functional acceptance criteria, test scenarios, regression packs, and business validation for Professional Services changes.
- Maintain end-to-end process documentation from project setup through time/cost capture, billing, revenue recognition, and closure.
- Drive fit-to-standard decisions and minimize unnecessary custom extensions around project operations.
- Support business teams during billing cycles, project setup peaks, period-end activities, and critical incidents.
- Review SAP release changes affecting Professional Services and determine business impact, test scope, and adoption opportunities.
- Coordinate functional dependencies with Finance, Billing, HR/time, resource management, CRM/engagement systems, data, and integration teams.
- Lead backlog refinement and prioritize changes based on operational risk, business value, and go-live stabilization needs.
- Provide quality oversight for SI-delivered configuration, test evidence, and production fixes.
SAP / Product-Specific Responsibilities
- SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition Professional Services / customer project management capabilities.
- Plan Customer Projects and project lifecycle concepts, work packages, billing elements, billing plans, and project billing.
- Manage Project Billing and related billing request/document handoffs.
- Integration with Event-Based Revenue Recognition, General Ledger/Controlling, time recording, expenses, and enterprise resource-management solutions.
- SAP Fiori role-based applications, configuration lifecycle, and Public Cloud release adoption.
Operational Responsibilities
- Own stabilization of customer-project and project-billing processes, with clear severity and SLA-based triage.
- Monitor recurring errors in project setup, time/cost postings, billing preparation, project closure, and integrated master data.
- Maintain business-ready operating procedures, support playbooks, known-error records, and release regression scenarios.
- Drive continuous improvement in project setup cycle time, billing readiness, data quality, and user adoption.
Cross-Functional Collaboration
Professional Services operations, Project/Engagement Management, Finance/Controllership, Billing, Revenue Accounting, HR/time, resource management, Data, Integration, Security, QA/Release, and implementation partners.
Required Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in Business, Finance, Information Systems, Engineering, or related discipline. 8+ years of SAP project systems/professional-services functional experience, including S/4HANA-era delivery. Hands-on configuration experience with SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition Professional Services/customer project processes strongly preferred. Strong understanding of project-based services economics, time/cost capture, billing, margin, and revenue-recognition dependencies. Experience supporting production operations after ERP go-live.
Required Technical / Functional Skills
- SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition Professional Services/customer projects.
- Project lifecycle, work packages, project billing, billing plans, project master data, and project financial controls.
- Integration with Finance/Controlling and Event-Based Revenue Recognition.
- Time/expense and resource-management integration concepts.
- Fiori applications, testing, defect triage, configuration governance, and release impact assessment.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience in consulting, accounting, engineering, legal, or other project-based professional-services firms.
- Experience integrating SAP with workforce/resource planning or time systems such as Deltek Replicon and Dayshape.
- Current SAP credential aligned to SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition Professional Services or related implementation learning is preferred.
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding Green Card Sponsorship in Business Development Professional
Document your degree's field alignment
PERM requires the job's minimum requirements to match your credentials. A business development role tied to a specific industry may need your degree field on record. Gather official transcripts and a credential evaluation before applying.
Target employers with active PERM filings
Use the OFLC Wage Search to filter DOL disclosure data by occupation and employer. Business development roles at technology firms, management consultancies, and financial services companies appear most frequently in PERM filings for this job title.
Search green card sponsorship jobs on Migrate Mate
Migrate Mate surfaces business development roles at employers with documented EB-2 and EB-3 sponsorship history, so you spend less time cold-applying to companies with no established PERM process.
Clarify the EB-2 versus EB-3 route early
If your role requires only a bachelor's degree, most employers file under EB-3. If you hold a master's degree or can show the position genuinely requires one, ask the employer's counsel whether an EB-2 filing is viable before the PERM job description is drafted.
Understand how PERM timing affects your offer
PERM labor certification currently takes around 12 to 18 months at DOL before the I-140 stage begins. Confirm with your prospective employer that their immigration counsel has handled PERM for business development roles before you accept an offer contingent on sponsorship.
Use O*NET to align your resume language
The O*NET occupation profile for business development roles lists core tasks and required skills that often appear verbatim in PERM job descriptions. Aligning your resume to these terms strengthens the match between your background and the certified position USCIS will review.
Green Card Business Development Professional: Frequently Asked Questions
Does a business development role qualify for EB-2 or EB-3 green card sponsorship?
Most business development positions qualify under EB-3 when the role requires a bachelor's degree in business, marketing, or a related field. EB-2 is available if the position genuinely requires an advanced degree or if you can demonstrate advanced-degree credentials and the employer is willing to file at that preference level. Your employer's immigration counsel will determine the appropriate category based on the actual job requirements.
How does green card sponsorship through PERM differ from H-1B sponsorship for this role?
H-1B visa sponsorship is temporary and subject to an annual lottery, which creates uncertainty for both you and the employer. PERM-based green card sponsorship leads to permanent residency and has no annual cap at the EB-3 level for most countries outside India and China. The tradeoff is time: PERM labor certification at DOL, followed by I-140 and adjustment of status, typically takes two to four years before you receive your green card.
What does the PERM labor certification process require from a business development employer?
The employer must conduct a supervised recruitment campaign, post the role publicly, and demonstrate no qualified U.S. workers applied. DOL reviews the process to ensure the job's minimum requirements are legitimate and that your credentials match exactly. The job description filed with DOL becomes the controlling document for all downstream USCIS filings, so precision in the initial draft matters significantly.
How do I find business development employers who sponsor green cards?
Migrate Mate is built specifically for this search: it indexes employers with documented EB-2 and EB-3 sponsorship history and lets you filter by job title so you can focus on companies that have completed PERM filings for business development roles before. You can also cross-reference by reviewing DOL PERM disclosure data through the OFLC Wage Search tool to verify an employer's filing history independently.
Can I negotiate the terms of green card sponsorship during the offer stage?
Yes, and you should. Clarify whether the employer pays all PERM and I-140 filing fees, who covers premium processing if used, and what happens to the sponsorship if you change roles within the company during the multi-year process. USCIS allows you to port a pending I-140 to a similar role under AC21 portability after 180 days, which gives you some flexibility, but the terms should be discussed and ideally documented before you sign.