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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 as a SAP Analyst
Align your credentials to PERM job requirements
The DOL-approved PERM job description must match your actual qualifications. If your SAP experience spans multiple modules, document each separately so your resume and education records map cleanly to the employer's minimum requirements during audit review.
Target employers with active PERM filing history
SAP Analyst roles at large ERP implementation firms and Fortune 500 companies appear frequently in DOL PERM disclosure data. Prioritize employers who have filed PERM applications for this exact occupation code, not just general IT roles.
Search sponsoring employers using Migrate Mate
Use Migrate Mate to filter SAP Analyst openings by employers with verified green card sponsorship history. This cuts out roles where sponsorship is listed as possible but no PERM activity exists in public DOL records.
Clarify EB-2 versus EB-3 eligibility before accepting an offer
If the role requires a master's degree or your SAP specialization is narrowly defined, your employer may file under EB-2. EB-3 covers most bachelor's-level SAP Analyst positions. The category affects your priority date and wait time, so confirm the filing tier upfront.
Request the prevailing wage determination early in negotiations
Your employer must obtain a prevailing wage determination from OFLC before filing PERM. Use the OFLC Wage Search to check the DOL wage level for your SAP Analyst job zone in your metro area before salary discussions, so you can flag mismatches before filing begins.
Maintain continuous work authorization through the I-485 stage
PERM and I-140 approval can take two or more years before you reach adjustment of status. If you're on H-1B visa, confirm your employer plans to extend your status in parallel. A lapse in work authorization pauses the green card process regardless of PERM approval.
Green Card SAP Analyst: Frequently Asked Questions
Do SAP Analyst roles typically qualify for EB-2 or EB-3 green card sponsorship?
Most SAP Analyst positions are filed under EB-3, which covers professionals with a bachelor's degree in a relevant field such as computer science, information systems, or engineering. EB-2 applies when the role genuinely requires an advanced degree or when you qualify under the National Interest Waiver track as a self-petitioner. Your employer's PERM job description determines which category applies, so reviewing the minimum education and experience requirements before the filing begins is essential.
How does PERM green card sponsorship differ from H-1B for SAP Analysts?
H-1B is temporary, capped at 85,000 new visas annually, and subject to a lottery at the general category. PERM sponsorship leads to permanent residency with no annual cap at the EB-3 level for most countries outside India and China. The tradeoff is time: PERM requires a full DOL recruitment cycle, typically six months or more, before USCIS can adjudicate your I-140 petition. For SAP Analysts with long-term U.S. career plans, green card sponsorship provides stability that H-1B cannot.
Which industries hire SAP Analysts and actively sponsor green cards?
Manufacturing, healthcare systems, retail operations, and financial services companies running SAP ERP platforms are consistent PERM filers for this occupation. Large consulting firms that deploy SAP implementations for enterprise clients also sponsor, though their filing patterns depend on client engagement length and internal headcount needs. DOL PERM disclosure data shows this occupation appears under SOC code 15-1299, covering software and ERP specialists.
How can I find SAP Analyst jobs where the employer will actually sponsor a green card?
Migrate Mate filters job listings by verified green card sponsorship history, letting you focus on employers who have filed PERM applications for SAP and related ERP roles rather than companies that only indicate sponsorship is possible. Searching by occupation and sponsorship track saves significant time and avoids offers that fall through at the PERM filing stage.
Can an SAP Analyst use O*NET data to strengthen a PERM application?
O*NET provides the occupation profile for SAP and ERP analyst roles, including typical tasks, required knowledge areas, and education levels. Employers and immigration attorneys reference O*NET when drafting the PERM job description to confirm the role meets specialty occupation standards and aligns with the correct DOL wage level. Reviewing your job duties against the O*NET profile before PERM filing helps identify any gaps between your actual work and the description DOL will evaluate.