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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 Business Analyst
Align your degree to PERM job requirements
PERM requires the employer to define minimum education requirements before filing. If your role lists a bachelor's in information systems or computer science, your foreign degree must map to that field exactly, a business degree alone may trigger an RFE at the I-140 stage.
Target employers with active EB-3 PERM filings
Search the DOL's OFLC disclosure data for companies that have filed PERM applications specifically for SAP Business Analyst or related IT analyst roles. Firms with repeated filings already have internal processes and outside counsel in place, reducing your onboarding friction.
Use Migrate Mate to find sponsoring employers
Filter your SAP Business Analyst job search on Migrate Mate to surface employers with documented green card sponsorship history. This saves you from applying to roles where sponsorship is advertised but the employer has never actually completed a PERM filing.
Negotiate sponsorship timing before accepting an offer
Ask specifically whether the employer will initiate PERM within your first year of employment. Some companies defer filing until a probationary period ends, which matters if you're transitioning off H-1B visa status and need to protect your priority date timeline.
Verify your SAP role qualifies as a specialty occupation
USCIS and DOL both evaluate whether the position genuinely requires a bachelor's degree in a specific field. SAP configuration and functional analyst roles typically qualify, but generalist IT support roles carrying the same title may not, review the O*NET occupation profile for SAP analysts before applying.
Confirm prevailing wage tier before PERM is filed
Your employer submits a prevailing wage determination request to DOL before advertising the role. Use the OFLC Wage Search to check the Level I through Level IV wage for your SAP Business Analyst job zone and metro area, your offered salary must meet or exceed the certified wage or DOL will reject the PERM application.
Green Card SAP Business Analyst: Frequently Asked Questions
Does an SAP Business Analyst role qualify for EB-2 or EB-3 green card sponsorship?
Most SAP Business Analyst positions qualify under EB-3 as skilled workers requiring a bachelor's degree, which is the most common sponsorship path. EB-2 applies if the role requires an advanced degree or the employer can demonstrate the position normally requires a master's. Your employer defines the minimum requirements in the PERM job description, so the classification depends on how the role is structured, not just your personal credentials.
How is green card sponsorship different from H-1B sponsorship for SAP Business Analyst roles?
H-1B grants temporary status with a six-year base limit and an annual lottery, while a PERM-based green card leads to permanent residency with no annual renewal requirement. For SAP Business Analysts from most countries outside India and China, EB-3 priority dates are current or near-current, meaning the path to a green card can move faster than many candidates expect. The PERM filing itself also locks in a priority date, protecting your place in line even if you change employers later under AC21 portability.
How long does the PERM green card process take for an SAP Business Analyst?
The PERM stage alone currently takes around 12 to 18 months from prevailing wage determination through DOL labor certification, though analyst review timelines vary. After PERM is approved, your employer files the I-140 immigrant petition with USCIS, which can be expedited with premium processing. For applicants from most countries, concurrent I-485 filing for adjustment of status is possible once a visa number is available, compressing the overall timeline.
What documentation should I prepare before asking an employer to sponsor my green card?
Gather your academic transcripts and a foreign credential evaluation that maps your degree to a U.S. bachelor's equivalent, since DOL and USCIS both scrutinize educational equivalency for SAP roles. You'll also want a clear record of your SAP module experience, functional area, project scope, and implementation methodology, because the PERM job description must reflect duties you actually perform. Employers use this documentation to build the prevailing wage request and the recruitment record required before filing.
Where can I find SAP Business Analyst jobs that actually offer green card sponsorship?
Migrate Mate lets you search specifically for SAP Business Analyst roles from employers with verified green card sponsorship history, so you're not relying on job postings that mention sponsorship without a PERM track record. Filtering by sponsorship type and employer history narrows your search to companies that have completed the PERM and I-140 process before, which is a strong signal they'll follow through for you.