SAP S/4HANA Experts in Switzerland
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Meet FRATCH Experts in Switzerland, who have recently used SAP S/4HANA
Pedro M.
Last position:
SAP FI/CO Inhouse Consultant at Helvetia Versicherungen
Engaged by one of Switzerland’s largest insurance groups for spanish SAP rollout following the acquisition of Caser (Spain), for ongoing support and S/4HANA transformation initiatives covering all Market Units (CH, ES, DE, AT, FR, IT).
Key areas: FI-AP, FI-AR, Payments, Bank Accounting, Cash Management, S/4HANA transformation, eInvoicing, eReporting, Business Partner
- SAP Rollout: Led end-to-end FI-AP, FI-AR, Payments, and Bank Reconciliation rollout for acquired Caser entities in Spain (Dec 2020 – Mar 2022), including full Spanish localisation.
- Integration with FSCD: Redesigned bank statement incoming payments integration in FSCD from custom to SAP standard solution, significantly increasing straight-through processing rates.
- Payments: Retired legacy custom payment trees; implemented SAP standard CGI payment trees and executed migration from ISO 20022 v2009 to v2019.
- Implemented a 1 GL account per House Bank (HBKID) concept with multiple Bank Account IDs (HKTID), reducing the total number of bank GL accounts by over 90%.
- Spanish localization: Configured and deployed Mod 180, 190, 347, 349 and SII Reporting for Spain mainland and Canary Islands using SAP eDocument (DRC) and SAP BTP Webservice, processing 2 million invoices annually, Spanish Direct & Indirect Method Cash Flow Statements (Insurance & Non-Insurance) fully reconciled
- Migration: Used SAP AIF to migrate AR/AP master data, open items, SEPA mandates, and complete GL documents for multiple company code merges (hundreds of thousands of records); leveraged Power BI/Power Query for data transformation.
- Bank Reconciliation: Achieved 60%+ automatic bank reconciliation across MU ES, CH, and DE using CSB43, MT940, and CAMT.053/054 formats, including custom improvements (tax-number-based customer/vendor matching, fuzzy search), and co-implemented the bank statement interface cockpit in SAP AIF. Integrated MX Camt from Swift Finplus and made transition from ISO20022 v2009 to v2019
- Worked on S/4HANA convergence and wrote concept work for SAP Cash Management & Treasury and eInvoicing/eReporting transformation.
- Currently leading the design for Business Partner Migration using SAP DRF and SAP AIF for Helvetia Baloise Integration Project and Harmonization of all BP interfaces.
- Currently leading Requirements Engineering for eInvoicing & eReporting for Italy, France and Spain, modelling Flows in SAP Signavio.
Michael R.
Last position:
Project Manager, Hustler, & Hound “Project KPIs on the Internet” at Global-KPI
- Project management, Hustler (identifying the complete financial operations, including Sales, Pitching, Financial Analysis, & Business Models) and Hound (identifying real customer needs, including Research, & Analysis) to build an online project KPI system.
- The system enables users to make well-founded decisions to keep projects on track according to their key parameters or bring them back on track when there are negative deviations from the plan.
- Provision of a forecast in addition to the current status.
- Automatic calculation and display of KPIs based on project key parameters entered by the user.
- Skills: Project Management, Project KPIs.
- Problem Space: Co-Innovation Builder (CIB), Corporate Innovation Team Set Up, Team Profile/ Team Canvas, Design Thinking, highlighting people, creating customer personas, researching the market, defining the problem.
- Solution Space: Narrowing down the problem, how to turn ideas into solutions, how to turn solutions into a concept, customer journey, Business Model Canvas, Value Proposition Canvas, prototyping, fine-tuning the prototype and Business Model Canvas, final pitch.
Greg M.
Last position:
S/4HANA Transformation & Stabilization Lead at FANUC AG
- Led cross-functional IT teams across international regions to deliver post-go-live system stabilization and integration alignment across ERP, PLM, and legacy J.D. Edwards platforms.
- Managed complex interface mapping, end-to-end data flows, OData services, and electronic invoicing workflows across distributed teams.
- Directed defect triage, root-cause analysis, and risk mitigation strategies to ensure system reliability and operational readiness.
Paulo M.
Last position:
Power BI / Fabric & SAP BI Consultant at Financial Bank
- Developed Power BI semantic models, DAX and RLS, improving reporting performance and security.
- Designed Fabric Lakehouse with Medallion Architecture (Bronze/Silver/Gold), accelerating data processing and improving maintainability and scalability.
- Built Fabric Data Factory pipelines and PySpark transformations, reducing processing time by 40%.
- Delivered automated Power BI KPI dashboards, accelerating reporting and decision-making.
- Supported SAP BO 4.3 → 2025 migration across 2,000+ Webl reports and 34 universes, reducing testing effort by 35% and improving migration quality and reliability.
- Optimized UNX universes, reducing query execution time by 40%.
- Optimized SAP BO reporting solutions, improving reliability and reducing manual effort.
Environment: Power BI, Microsoft Fabric (Lakehouse, Warehouse, Pipelines, PySpark), Tabular Editor, DAX Studio, SAP BI (BO 4.3/2025, Webl, UNX Universes), 360Suite, InfoBurst, GitHub, JIRA.
Nik G.
Last position:
Executive Interim & Transformation Partner at Audoban & Co. GmbH
- Stepped into a senior interim mandate with hands-on accountability for a complex business model transformation, taking ownership of execution, operating decisions, and delivery within a highly regulated and complex regional environment.
- Led market access, launch, and go-to-market transformation work, aligning commercial, operational, and governance structures to support entry into new markets under time and regulatory pressure.
- Supported post-merger integration as well as divestiture shaping assignments, working hands-on with executive teams to align operating realities, decision rights, and accountability with transaction intent.
- Took interim ownership of critical transformation and integration programs, resetting priorities, sequencing, and leadership expectations where delivery risk or organizational friction had emerged.
- Acted as a trusted interim partner to CEOs and senior leaders during periods of structural change, providing clear judgement, hands-on leadership, and execution discipline.
Inga S.
Last position:
Senior PMO + Change Management Lead at ICIG Business Services GmbH
- Support for a carve-in project involving 5 sites worldwide (3 in Germany, 3 in the US) as part of a global M&A project
- SAP S/4HANA
- Introduction of structures and best practices, as well as a consistent project management methodology for a global carve-in program
- Optimization of tracking, monitoring, and communication
- Development of a change and communication concept to engage the carve-in sites
- Implementation management, stakeholder management
- Coaching and support for the project team regarding project management and communication
- Establishment of a sustainable communication cascade and structures to support the transformation
- Advising and supporting the client project lead
Sebastiano G.
Last position:
Interim Manager & Strategic Advisor | Organization, People, Process & Digitalization at Sebastiano Guzzanti Solutions
- Strategic consulting: End-to-end optimization of SCM, processes, and structures based on 30 years of industry experience.
- Interim management: Leadership responsibility to bridge vacancies and stabilize teams during transformations.
- Transformation & Assets: Support for restructurings, asset utilization & brokerage (surplus assets), and digitalization (SAP S/4HANA).
Witali H.
Last position:
Founder & CEO at aiFEX
- Built an AI operating model in which specialized agents work with clear roles, precise briefings, review standards and governance boundaries; decision-making responsibility remains with humans.
- AI Transformation Lab as a real-world validation environment for agentic workflows, local/cloud AI models, automation and human-in-the-loop governance (details above).
- Applied transformation principles to AI: ownership, risk control, stakeholder alignment, quality review, traceability, delivery discipline; DEV/TEST/PROD mindset.
Klaus S.
Last position:
Senior Finance Consultant and Project Manager at Start Up
- Establishment of a licensing model
- Preparation of the documents required to attract investors (business plan, liquidity calculation, ROI etc.)
- Marketing simulation of market development, evaluation of market potential etc.
- Definition and implementation of KPIs to measure market penetration
- Establishment of project planning, project controlling and business processes
Nadine B.
Last position:
Program Responsibility & Innovation at Industry
- Management of security and governance initiatives
- Development of SAP BTP as an innovation platform
- Trusted advisor to executive management
Stefan U.
Last position:
Workstream Lead Solution Delivery / IT Operations Manager SAP S4/HANA Private Cloud Edition - RISE at Munich Re
- Lead Solution Delivery workstream
- Serve as IT Operations Manager ad interim
- Define, implement, and continuously optimize the Target Operating Model
- Design and implement incident and problem management processes
- Develop, maintain, and execute business continuity and disaster recovery plans, including DR testing
- Ensure system availability, performance, scalability, and compliance with SLAs
- Liaise between business stakeholders, SAP Basis teams, managed service providers, and cloud vendors
- Oversee incident, change, and problem management processes per ITIL best practices
- Lead service reviews and vendor performance evaluations
- Coordinate patching, upgrades, and enhancement cycles with SAP AG and application operations teams
- Monitor system health, performance, and security using SAP for Me
- Collaborate with IT security, infrastructure, and network teams to ensure system integrity
- Create, track, and manage project-related firewall requests
- Develop, coordinate, and deliver cutover activities for targeted system lines
Alexander S.
Last position:
Senior ABAP OO Developer at Die Schweizerische Post AG
«ZLF – Future Billing Solution»
Cross-module S/4HANA (MDG, HCM, SD, FI-CA, FI-CO)
- Technical consulting and development in S4 Master Data Governance (MDG-BP)
- Development in HR-BP integration, O2C, CAR analytics data modeling, contract accounts, controlling and interfaces. (native HANA, CDS, RAP, Fiori Elements, OData)
Thorsten M.
Last position:
Managing Director at Morschheuser Consulting GmbH
- Building, developing and auditing ISMS and IAM/IDM structures (SAP & Non-SAP)
- Developing, optimizing and reviewing authorization concepts, role models and interfaces (including SAP IDM/NetWeaver/S/4HANA, as well as cloud & AD)
- Managing and documenting audit, compliance and certification projects (ISO 27001, TISAX, KRITIS)
Marco C.
Last position:
Global Process Owner Business Intelligence at Interroll SA
- Cover the role of Global Process Owner of the Business Intelligence area and contribute to designing the Data Strategy
- Responsible for the global BI platform based on SAP BW4/HANA, SAP Analytics Cloud, Datasphere, Analysis for Office and Power BI
- Collaborate with the FICO team due to acquired skills in this area
- Work closely with the business worldwide to build dashboards, data models and reports to provide useful insights
- Coordinate international analytics teams as project manager and report project progress to the Board
- Participated in the two-year S/4 implementation project with SAP Schweiz, coordinating the SAP implementation team in Portugal and ensuring go-live with all dashboards and reports working and data matched S/4
- Managed BI projects in Sales, Finance, Global KPIs, Manufacturing and Purchasing as project manager; developed and coded when necessary
- Led the migration of reports from BusinessObjects and Lumira to Analysis for Office and BW4/HANA
- Developed Spend Analytics data models and dashboards to analyze purchasing across 30+ entities, achieving 8% savings on purchasing volume and increased group profitability
- Defined data strategy for the group
- Created the global Business Intelligence site on Viva Engage, published stories and built the BI website containing links to training, BI directive list of reports and dashboards
- Created success stories as business use cases, published on Viva Engage
- Led the Business Intelligence function globally, coordinating BI development teams in Switzerland and abroad
- Personally developed data models, reports and dashboards
- Involved in privacy and security topics to guarantee correct compliance of data management
- Coded using different programming languages
- Managed more than 15 BI projects over 5 years using agile methodology, delivered on time, on budget and on quality
- Wrote the BI directive on correct usage of BI tools in the company
Razvan-Mihail I.
Last position:
Senior SAP EWM Implementation Consultant at Hoffman Roche
- Processes re-engineering (Outbound for production, Inbound from production, Putaway in different temperature controlled areas)
- Re-implementation of the outbound process for Basel’s warehouse
- RF functionalities workshops and RF implementation
- Kit-to-order process implementation with VAS order
- Customer-Vendor integration customizing
- Re-configuration of the integration model
- Testing coordinator and trainer for key users
Discover over 15,000 top freelancers
Statistics of experts using SAP S/4HANA
Aggregated from the professional profiles of matched freelancers.
Experience
25 years
Position duration
1.9 years
Positions per freelancer
16
Top business areas
Information Technology, Project Management, Operations
Top industries
Information Technology, Professional Services, Manufacturing
Certification focus areas
Information Technology, Project Management, Product Development
Bachelor's degree or higher
80%
Master's degree or higher
53%
Doctorate
7%
Certifications per freelancer
5
Most common languages
German, English, French
Speak two or more languages
98%
Based on our profile pool as of 29 Oct 2026.
Daily rate distribution
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Calculated based on our freelancers’ daily rates as of 29 Oct 2026. Actual rates may vary depending on seniority level, experience, skill specialization, project complexity, and engagement length.
SAP S/4HANA experts industry focus
See which industries our matched freelancers work in most often — every figure is calculated live from the freelancers on FRATCH.
- Information Technology (73%)
- Professional Services (68%)
- Manufacturing (66%)
- Banking and Finance (43%)
- Retail (43%)
- Transportation (41%)
- Telecommunication (41%)
- Food and Beverage (39%)
Please note that freelancers can work across multiple industries, so percentages overlap.
About the technology
Core platform
SAP S/4HANA is SAP’s modern enterprise resource planning suite built on the SAP HANA in-memory database. It brings finance, procurement, sales, manufacturing, supply chain and asset management into one connected system. Companies use it to standardize core processes while keeping operational data available for timely planning and reporting.
Business processes
S/4HANA supports end-to-end workflows rather than isolated departmental tools. Typical work includes:
- Finance, controlling and group reporting
- Procurement, inventory and supplier processes
- Sales, billing and customer fulfillment
- Production planning, quality and plant maintenance
Its scope can cover a global template, a focused business unit or a transition from SAP ECC to a cloud or on-premise S/4HANA environment.
Ecosystem and tools
Strong SAP S/4HANA specialists work across configuration, integration and data. Their toolkit may include SAP Fiori and UI5, SAP BTP, CDS views, ABAP, APIs, IDocs and SAP Integration Suite. They also understand authorization concepts, analytics, transport management, testing and the connections between S/4HANA and systems such as CRM, warehouse or tax solutions.
When companies need help
Companies often bring in freelance expertise during a transformation, rollout or recovery phase. Common signals include:
- A migration from SAP ECC or a fragmented ERP landscape
- Delays in fit-to-standard workshops or process design
- Difficult master-data, interface or testing work
- A need for temporary capacity during a country rollout
In Switzerland, projects may involve several business languages, local operating units and collaboration across remote and on-site teams.
Delivery responsibilities
A freelancer may assess the current landscape, map requirements, configure modules, define extensions and coordinate integration work. Other deliverables include migration objects, data-cleansing rules, test scenarios, training material, cutover plans and post-go-live support. Clear documentation matters because S/4HANA changes affect processes, roles and reporting across the organization.
What strong specialists bring
Quality is more than knowing transaction flows or module settings. Strong professionals connect business outcomes with SAP’s standard capabilities, challenge unnecessary custom code and make decisions traceable. They clarify scope, manage dependencies and communicate risks early. Look for practical delivery evidence in the relevant modules, industry processes and deployment model, plus the ability to work constructively with internal teams and external partners.
Frequently asked questions
Not sure where to start with SAP S/4HANA? These answers cover the essentials.
SAP S/4HANA is used to run integrated enterprise processes such as finance, procurement, sales, manufacturing, supply chain and asset management. It can support a new ERP implementation, a conversion from SAP ECC or a broader business transformation.
SAP S/4HANA uses the SAP HANA database and a more streamlined data model than SAP ECC. It also emphasizes role-based SAP Fiori experiences, real-time analytics and standardized processes, but a move requires careful assessment of custom code, data and integrations.
S/4HANA is often weighed against platforms such as Oracle Fusion Cloud ERP, Microsoft Dynamics 365 and other enterprise suites. The right choice depends on existing SAP assets, process complexity, deployment preferences, integration needs and the organization’s ability to adopt standard workflows.
A strong SAP S/4HANA professional may also understand ABAP, SAP Fiori, SAP BTP, CDS views, APIs, SAP Integration Suite, data migration and authorization design. Functional knowledge of finance, supply chain or manufacturing is equally important for many projects.
The right level depends on the scope, module coverage and deployment model. A focused configuration task may suit a specialist in one process area, while a global rollout or conversion needs experience with architecture, migration, testing, cutover and stakeholder coordination.
SAP S/4HANA work can often be delivered remotely through workshops, configuration sessions, documentation and online testing. On-site collaboration may still help with process discovery, key-user training, cutover planning or plants and offices with complex operational requirements; language expectations should be agreed early.
Ask for concrete examples of comparable module work, deployment environments and deliverables rather than relying only on certifications. Check how the professional handles standardization, data quality, integration dependencies, testing, documentation and communication with business stakeholders.
Before starting, an SAP S/4HANA freelancer should clarify the system edition, modules, project phase, delivery model, client responsibilities and decision process. Access, documentation, transport routes, data ownership and the boundaries between functional and technical work should also be explicit.
The average hourly rate of freelancers in Switzerland who have used SAP S/4HANA in their recent projects is 136 €, which corresponds to a daily rate of about 1,089 € based on an 8-hour working day.
Of the freelancers in Switzerland who have used SAP S/4HANA in their recent projects, 80% hold at least a Bachelor's degree, 53% hold at least a Master's degree, and 7% hold a doctorate.
On average, freelancers in Switzerland who have used SAP S/4HANA in their recent projects have 25 years of professional experience, with a single engagement typically lasting around 1.9 years.
The most common languages among freelancers in Switzerland who have used SAP S/4HANA in their recent projects are German (98%), English (98%), and French (48%).
The most common industries among freelancers in Switzerland who have used SAP S/4HANA in their recent projects are Information Technology (73%), Professional Services (68%), and Manufacturing (66%).
The most common business areas among freelancers in Switzerland who have used SAP S/4HANA in their recent projects are Information Technology (91%), Project Management (86%), and Operations (68%).
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