SAP Industry Consultant (SAP ECC)

SAP Industry Consultant

Program Type: Post-Merger Finance Stabilization (SAP ECC)

Experience: 12-15 years Maximum

Client Context: A Global Agribusiness and Food leader (B2B/Retail). This is an ECC Merger project, not S/4HANA.

Role Summary

The SAP Industry Consultant will execute stabilization activities for trading and contract functionality within a multi-entity, multi-instance SAP ECC landscape following a merger. The role is accountable for protecting commodity contract integrity, pricing accuracy, settlement processing, and margin visibility during company code consolidation and first consolidated close.

This is a senior, hands-on execution role requiring direct participation in mock conversions, cutover execution, and post-conversion contract and settlement validation.

This is not AMS support and not a greenfield implementation.

Required Experience (10–15 Years)

• 10–15 years of SAP experience with deep expertise in SAP ECC industry solutions
• Strong hands-on experience with SAP GTM (Global Trade Management) supporting commodity contracts and settlement processes
• Direct hands-on participation in 2+ legal entity consolidations, carve-ins/outs, or post-merger ERP integrations involving trading functionality
• Demonstrated experience stabilizing SAP GTM in multi-instance or multi-template SAP environments
• Strong understanding of GTM integration with SD, MM, FI, and CO
• Experience validating open contracts, provisional settlements, exposure balances, and related financial postings during integration efforts
• Experience validating GTM-related interfaces in PI/PO or comparable middleware environments
• Active involvement in mock conversion cycles and cutover weekends in live production environments
• Experience supporting period-end close where trading and settlement postings impacted margin reporting
• Experience operating in imperfect data conditions requiring pragmatic resolution

Success Profile

• Understands margin sensitivity in commodity trading environments
• Quickly identifies contract, pricing, and settlement discrepancies
• Protects transaction continuity and exposure reporting during consolidation
• Communicates effectively with Commercial, Trading, Operations, and Finance leadership
• Maintains high accountability during conversion and first consolidated close

Environment Expectations

• Multi-entity stabilization within a multi-instance SAP landscape
• High trading, settlement, and margin exposure visibility
• Extended hours during mock conversions and cutover
• Onsite presence required with significant travel

Key Responsibilities

• Align and consolidate commodity trading and contract structures across merged company codes and instances
• Validate open purchase and sales commodity contracts during migration
• Ensure continuity of provisional billing, final settlement, and pricing adjustments
• Protect exposure reporting and margin integrity impacted by contract and valuation postings
• Identify and resolve discrepancies in contract balances, pricing conditions, and settlement postings
• Validate integration between SAP GTM, SD, MM, FI, and CO during mock conversions
• Validate GTM interfaces and settlement postings across integrated systems and batch processes
• Lead industry validation checkpoints during conversion cycles and cutover execution
• Support post-cutover stabilization of trading, settlement, and exposure reporting processes