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Finance SME - SAP OpenText VIM S/4HANA Greenfield
LONDON, United Kingdom
Only remote
MSc Digital MediaSAP HANASAP BTPOpenTextSAP SEMSAP BRIM (Billing and Revenue Innovation Management)
End-to-End P2P Process Design
Ownership of the procure-to-pay process and control design across requisitioning, PO, GR, invoice receipt, approvals, payment, and period-end close on live S/4HANA greenfield and 56-country transformation programmes. Definition of finance outcomes, including accruals accuracy, compliant payment processing, GR/IR control, and audit trail.
OpenText VIM Solution Leadership
Definition of VIM invoice processing models covering PO/Non-PO handling, touchless processing, BRF+ approval workflows, exception routing, duplicate prevention, and invoice blocking/release as the senior Finance SME and business design owner accountable to Finance and AP leadership.
AP Controls Framework & Audit Alignment
Design and embedding of AP controls for SoD, 2/3-way match principles, blocked invoice handling and resolution routes, tolerance/variance rules, and GR/IR management in FCA regulated and HMRC government-grade financial control environments with clear audit trail, evidence, and records integrity.
SAP S/4HANA Greenfield & Migration
Governance of AP open item and GR/IR migration across 12 countries; migration of 180k+ live VIM invoices to S/4HANA Cloud with zero downtime; definition of cutover steps and reconciliation controls across large-scale greenfield and transformation programmes.
Touchless Processing & VIM Analytics
Delivery of 28% auto-posting rate and 50% AP backlog reduction in 6 weeks through BRF+ routing, approval workflows, duplicate checks, and EHF exception handling; use of VIM Analytics as a Finance management tool for bottleneck identification and cycle-time improvement.
Cross-Workstream Integration (MM/Procurement/Finance)
Leadership of integration design across Procurement/MM, Logistics, and Finance covering vendor/Business Partner master data, PO and receiving flows, tax determination, GR/IR, and financial posting logic including RTR integration into GL and reporting.
Data Migration (BODS) & Cutover Management
Ownership of P2P data migration and cutover across multiple countries including AP open items, GR/IR migration, vendor/BP readiness, and go-live validation sign-off criteria using SAP BODS and structured reconciliation controls.
SIT/UAT Test Design
Design of P2P test scenarios for SIT/UAT covering posting logic and accounting entries, match exceptions, blocked invoice routes, period-end processing impacts; leadership of defect triage and root-cause resolution with Finance validation ownership.
SAP BTP / RISE & Clean Core / Activate
Programme delivery experience aligned to SAP BTP/RISE and Clean Core/Activate methodology across S/4HANA greenfield and transformation programmes.
PRINCE2 / PMP Programme Governance
Structured programme governance, risk escalation, and decision forum leadership across complex multi-workstream SAP transformation programmes, underpinned by PRINCE2 Practitioner and PMP (PMI) certifications.
Experience
Professional experience5 - 10 years
Freelancer since2021
Languages
EnglishNative speaker
Project history
Acting as Finance SME for P2P on the HMRC S/4HANA greenfield programme; owning business-design decisions across the full P2P lifecycle from requisitioning through payment processing and period-end close. Defined Finance-facing VIM invoice processing model, embedded Finance controls framework for P2P, led DMLT workshops, designed cross-workstream integration, built cutover and hypercare model.
Led Finance-facing P2P process design for SAP and xECM integration across multiple business units; defined validation rules, workflow orchestration, approval routing and exception handling aligned to Finance policy. Designed BAU support and control model achieving first-call resolution of 20%.
Owned end-to-end P2P Finance design and VIM solution leadership for a 56-country, 30+ entity industrial group. Defined Finance controls embedded in VIM, drove touchless processing at scale achieving 28% auto-posting rate and 50% AP backlog reduction in 6 weeks. Led cross-workstream integration with MM/Procurement, Logistics, Master Data and Tax teams. Governed P2P data migration and cutover across 12 countries, migrating 180k live VIM invoices to S/4HANA Cloud with zero downtime.