SAP Finance & Concur Lead (S/4HANA FICO + SAP Concur), Client-Facing

Buying Simplified · Remote, India (Chennai preferred; Bengaluru, NCR, Mumbai, Pune, Hyderabad welcome) · Full-time · US-hours overlap

The short version

We are looking for an SAP finance lead who is as comfortable running a workshop with a US controller as they are in SPRO. You will be the named SAP owner for a US pharmaceutical client that has recently gone live on S/4HANA. The scope covers S/4HANA finance and SAP Concur (expense and invoice). That means leading calls, shaping how finance uses both systems, making the configuration and enhancement changes yourself, and keeping everything audit-clean along the way.

If you have spent your career behind a delivery manager and would rather not be the person on the client call, this isn't the role. If you have been that person and want a client you actually own, keep reading.

Who we are

Buying Simplified is a US-headquartered procurement and finance operations firm founded in 2016. We run embedded finance and procurement teams for biotech, pharma and technology companies in the US, from our teams across India. Our AI platform, GenieWorks.ai, builds AI tools for source-to-pay on Anthropic's Claude. We are remote-first, small enough that you will know the founder, and we have a high client renewal record we are proud of.

What you will own

• Be the client's SAP finance partner. Lead working sessions with the client's Controller and IT Director, and other functional users. Run design and fit-gap workshops. Present options, make a recommendation, and defend it.
• Make the system work for finance. Configure and enhance FI, CO, and the finance side of MM and SD. Fix what's slowing the close. Build the reports, validations and workflows the finance team keeps asking for.
• Own Concur end to end. Administer and enhance SAP Concur Expense and Invoice: policy and audit rules, approval workflows, cost-object mapping, card feeds, and the integration into S/4HANA. Make T&E and invoice capture smooth for the business and defensible for the auditor.
• Keep it compliant. Own change control, ITGC evidence, role and authorization hygiene across S/4 and Concur, and the documentation an auditor will ask for. The client is heading into SOX readiness and an IPO; you will be the reason the SAP side passes.
• Bridge business and technical. Translate what the Controller needs into functional specs. Work with ABAP and integration resources (ours and the client's) and own the outcome, not just your piece.
• Take initiative. Spot the problem before the client raises it. Propose the enhancement before you're asked. We will back you.
• Grow the account. Over time, help scope a second-entity rollout and support a broader finance-systems roadmap. Senior advisors on our side (25+ years of ERP and P2P transformation) will work alongside you.

What we need to see

• 5 to 10 years in SAP FI/CO, with at least one full-cycle S/4HANA implementation or migration and at least one year of post-go-live support and enhancement work.
• SAP Concur experience. At least one Concur Expense or Invoice implementation or a sustained admin/enhancement role, including the S/4HANA financial posting integration. You know your way around audit rules, workflow configuration, and the Concur admin console without a partner on the phone.
• Client-facing track record. You have led workshops and steering calls, not just attended them. Consulting-firm background (Big 4, Accenture, IBM, Capgemini or similar) or an in-house SAP lead role at a US-listed company are both fine. What matters is that a client or CFO would name you as "our SAP person."
• Hands-on configuration. You still open the system yourself. You can write a functional spec, read an ABAP debug session, and unit-test your own changes.
• Controls literacy. SOX or ITGC exposure, change management discipline, authorization design. Pharma or life sciences exposure (GxP, CSV) is a strong plus.
• Communication that holds up under pressure. Clear, structured, fluent spoken and written English. You can say "I don't think that's the right approach" to a client and keep the relationship.
• US-hours overlap. The client is on US Eastern time. Expect a shift that runs into the late evening IST, with a shift allowance on top of base.

Nice to have: Concur Request or Travel, Concur certification, Group Reporting or Central Finance, Fiori app activation, SAP Analytics Cloud, multi-entity or China entity setup, any SAP certification.

How we work

• Remote-first, India. Chennai is home base and we would love you there, but a strong candidate in any major city is welcome. Expect to visit Chennai for onboarding and quarterly team time; travel is on us.
• US-hours shift with shift allowance paid separately from base.
• Managed-service model. You are on our team, deployed to the client. That means backup, senior cover, and a career path here, not a contract that ends when the ticket queue empties.
• Benefits: health cover, wellness allowance, learning budget including SAP certification sponsorship, and paid leave. Details shared at offer stage.

Compensation

We pay market competitive salaries. Pay range, e.g. ₹15– 25 LPA plus shift allowance.

How to apply

Send your CV to hiring@buyingsimplified.com with the subject line "SAP Finance & Concur Lead" and, in the body, answer this in under 200 words:

Tell us about one time you changed a client's mind about how they should use SAP. What did they want, what did you recommend, and what happened.

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