📍 Location: JBT Marel Shared Services Center Madrid
🕒 Employment Type: Full-Time, Hybrid (2-3 days a week at the office)
💼 Department: IT – Global Business Applications
💥 Lead the Future of Work at JBT Marel
Help shape the core of our global SAP Finance landscape. As our Lead SAP Specialist, you will be the senior subject‑matter expert for SAP Finance within the Global SAP team. This is a content‑driven expert role, not a people‑management, consultant or architecture position. You will work closely within the SAP management team and play a key role in ensuring high‑quality, standardized SAP deliveries across the organization.
This is a senior, high‑visibility position with significant stakeholder exposure, and therefore strong English and Spanish communication skills are needed. This is a hybrid role requiring 2–3 days per week onsite in Madrid, structural and full-time remote working will not be accepted.
🔍 About the RoleYou bring deep hands‑on knowledge of SAP Finance and ideally additional understanding of Sales and Procurement. You will coordinate across different SAP domains, guide integrated solution design and support internal initiatives that improve standardization and harmonization within S/4HANA.
A strong part of your focus will be designing and improving key Finance processes, including entity creation, permanent establishments, AP/AR, and tax and treasury‑related flows.
🧠 What You’ll Do- Act as the senior SAP (Finance) specialist within the global team
- Coordinate content, requirement gathering and delivery across Finance and related domains (Sales, Service and Procurement desirable)
- Design and optimize SAP Finance processes in S/4HANA
- Lead internal initiatives focused on standardization and simplification
- Translate business requirements into feasible SAP solutions
- Guide testing, documentation and knowledge transfer
- Support integrated cross‑domain deliverables and ensure end‑to‑end quality
- Strong hands‑on expertise in SAP FI/CO, including configuration and integration
- Solid understanding of Finance processes including AP, AR, treasury, entity creation and tax‑related structures
- Experience with S/4HANA (greenfield or brownfield)
- Ability to coordinate across SAP areas and ensure cohesive end‑to‑end solutions
- Excellent communication skills in English
- Knowledge of Sales and Procurement processes is a plus
- Experience with tools like Vertex, Ariba, Concur and invoice automation solutions as Esker is desirable
- Strong English communication skills for working with international teams.
- Excellent collaboration skills and a proactive, solution‑oriented mindset.
🏬 Why Join Us?
- A role with visible impact and direct access to decision‑makers
- Freedom to influence SAP standards and contribute to global initiatives
- A collaborative team of finance and IT specialists
- Opportunities for professional growth and continuous learning
- Flexible working arrangements and attractive benefits
- Make a Real Impact: Shape how over 12,000 employees work every day.
- Competitive Rewards: Travel allowance, working form home allowance, 25 paid holiday days, 14 paid Bank Holiday days, Health insurance discount, unlimited access to learning platform
- Join JBT Marel and help shape the future of our global SAP Finance landscape.
We’re excited to learn how you can contribute to our mission of smarter, safer food inspection. Apply now and join a team transforming the future of food processing.
📧 Questions? Contact: Maarten Krepel – [email protected]
🌐 Learn more at: jbtmarel.com
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Connect with Talent Acquisition Specialist: www.linkedin.com/in/maartenkrepel
JBT Marel is an equal opportunity employer and values diversity in the workplace. We encourage all qualified individuals to apply.
Join us — and be the driving force behind smarter, leaner food production.
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Skills Required
- Strong hands-on expertise in SAP FI/CO (configuration and integration)
- Experience with S/4HANA (greenfield or brownfield)
- Solid understanding of finance processes including AP, AR, treasury, entity creation and tax structures
- Strong English and Spanish communication skills
- Ability to coordinate across SAP areas and ensure cohesive end-to-end solutions
- Excellent collaboration skills and a proactive, solution-oriented mindset
- Hybrid role: must be onsite in Madrid 2-3 days per week (no full-time remote)
- Knowledge of Sales and Procurement processes
- Experience with Vertex, Ariba, Concur and invoice automation solutions such as Esker
What We Do
JBT Marel is a leading global provider of integrated technology, equipment, software, and services for the food and beverage industry. Formed by the merger of JBT Corporation and Marel hf in January 2025, the company specializes in advanced automation and processing solutions to help customers optimize performance, ensure traceability, and increase yield across the global food chain.
