Play a pivotal role in ensuring business data readiness for AstraZeneca's SAP S/4HANA migration.
As Associate Director, S/4HANA Data Transformation - Data Quality & Analysis Finance, you will lead data quality activities and remediation within the Finance domain.
You will collaborate closely with Finance stakeholders and cross-functional teams to cleanse, harmonize, and reconcile financial data, ensuring seamless migration and establishing a sustainable data quality framework for post-deployment success.
Key Responsibilities:
- Data Cleansing and Harmonization: Define scope and guidelines for SAP ECC (ERP Central Component) data cleansing aligned with data design definitions, standards, and migration relevancy across the Finance and Controlling (FI/CO) domain.
- Data Reconciliation: Design, specify, and execute comprehensive data reconciliation reports between SAP ECC (pre-migration) and SAP S/4HANA (post-migration) environments to ensure data migration completeness and accuracy across finance and controlling domains.
- Data Quality Framework Development: Define and implement the S/4HANA data quality framework to ensure data remains fit for purpose post-deployment and can continue to be used with confidence.
- Standards Definition: Partner with Data Design teams to define data standards through analysis of existing SAP ECC data sets and enhance data quality at source for smooth S/4HANA migration.
- Cleanse Strategy and Execution: Scope and implement targeted data cleansing activities for migration readiness; contribute to ECC Cleanse and S/4 Migration strategies and delivery plans.
- Data Profiling and Analysis: Define data profiling requirements and provide business interpretation of profiling outputs, including data reconciliation; identify,



document, and resolve data quality issues.
- Interim State Reporting: Support impact assessments, design, and management of interim state reporting, navigating through the split system landscape of partial S/4HANA and ECC deployment.
- Issue Management: Oversee data quality issue management and drive resolution across Finance data objects.
- Quality Strategy Leadership: Drive the development and execution of the Finance S/4 Data Quality strategy and roadmap; define data quality requirements, metrics, and processes for measuring and reporting.
- Sustainable Framework: Build a sustainable data quality framework for ongoing monitoring and remediation; ensure alignment with S/4 Data Governance framework and embed ongoing data quality measures into business-as-usual processes.
Key Skills and Experience Required:
- SAP Finance Expertise: Working and implementation experience with SAP ECC Finance and Controlling (FI/CO) modules, including data migration activities and deep knowledge of finance business processes, SAP transactions, and reporting.
- Data Migration Proficiency: Experience in SAP data migration processes and tools, with strong analytical and problem-solving skills in data quality management.
- Data Quality Management: Functional experience in data quality management, including data quality rules, reporting, issue management,



and remediation; knowledge of data quality principles and practices (data profiling, discovery, root cause analysis, automated DQ solutions).
- Master Data Knowledge: Good understanding of Master Data Management and Reference Data Management principles.
- Requirements Elicitation: Ability to work with business users to elicit and formally define their requirements; strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities.
- Project Leadership: Ability to lead conflicting priorities and manage complex data quality analysis and improvement projects.
- Global Collaboration: Ability to lead in diverse, global teams within and across functions; experience with global working and across cultures.
- Stakeholder Influence: Strong communication skills with the ability to influence others to achieve objectives; proven ability to lead and manage negotiations across complex groups to target outcomes.
- Delivery Focus: Proven track record of delivery and ability to effectively prioritize to ensure goals and outcomes are achieved.
Qualifications:
Essential:
- SAP Proficiency: Demonstrable working knowledge of SAP ECC Finance and Controlling modules, transactions, and reporting, with understanding of data integration across SAP architectures.
- Transformation Leadership: Proven experience leading complex data quality/data migration initiatives within large-scale transformation programs.
- Complex Project Management: Experience managing complex data quality analysis and improvement projects.
- Global Collaboration: Experience working in diverse, general teams across functions and cultures.
- Influence and Negotiation: Strong communic

📌 Associate Director, S/4Hana Data Transformation (Guadalajara)
🏢 Astrazeneca
📍 Guadalajara