Role: Lead Functional Analyst - SAP Finance

Experience: 8-10 years

Location: Hyderabad

Responsibilities:

1. Excellent understanding of ERP(SAP) technologies.
2. Leads the functional team through build, testing and deployment phases of SAP implementation, including coaching and mentoring a team of IT professionals.
3. Demonstrates extensive-level experience and a proven record of success leading a team in configuration and implementation of Financial Accounting, Managerial Accounting, and Central Finance
4. Builds and maintains cross-functional relationships with stakeholders to ensure the solutions teams meet expectations and contribute to achieving business goals.
5. Develop and sustain effective, “trusted advisor” relationships with stakeholders – including senior leaders to provide credible insight and advice about leveraging technology for business effectiveness and competitiveness
6. Provides leadership to inspire and empower the team to accomplish work and meet business demands and develops workforce strategy to meet the Company’s current and future software engineering needs through hiring and developing talent.
7. Creates and maintains an environment that fosters open communication, learning, collaboration, transparency, and inclusiveness.
8. Define and maintain business requirement documentation standards to ensure sufficient detail and clarity, collaborating with business partners to ensure that these are captured correctly with clear and complete understanding of process and technology implications
9. Manage the Software Development Life Cycle to Ensure that all delivery activities are performed in an efficient, quality, and compliant manner
10. Ensure that all ERP Applications are reliable, resilient, secure, and compliant
11. Maintain effective relationship with strategic vendors (software and Application Maintenance Services)

Qualifications and Background:

1. Experience related to Tier 1 ERP’s preferably SAP.
2. Bachelor’s degree or global equivalent in related discipline
3. 6-7 years SAP experience including large scale implementations with at least 5 years in Financial Accounting and Management Accounting
4. 2+ years management experience.
5. 8+ years working in IT

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

1. Unique combination of being business-minded and highly analytical.
2. Demonstrates extensive-level experience and a proven record of success leading a team in configuration and implementation of Financial Accounting, Managerial Accounting, and Central Finance
3. Experience working with technical and functional resources and following an Agile based delivery methodology.
4. Expertise in configuration and implementation of both Financial Accounting (FI), Managerial Accounting (CO), and Central Finance (CFIN)
5. Deep understanding of Corporate Finance Processes supported by Central Finance such as central payments, open item management, credit management, and shared services
6. Integration of Central Finance with SAP and other non-SAP solutions
7. Have functional expertise in several Finance areas including General Ledger Accounting, Profitability Analysis, Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable, Fixed Assets, Cost Center Accounting, Internal Orders, Profit Center, Treasury
8. Lead teams to design, set-up, test, and deploy Finance solutions and ensure that all the pieces work together seamlessly
9. Previous experience driving process excellence resulting in increasing efficiency and reduced cost
10. Interface and partner with C-level Executives and Senior Management
11. Ability to understand the business, business needs and identify areas that can be optimized.
12. Demonstrated ability working on complex issues of diverse scope where analysis of situations or data requires evaluation of a variety of factors, including an understanding of current business trends.
13. Experience with preparing and adhering to a budget.
14. Ability to think critically, solve problems, make decisions, and build trust across the organization.
15. Ability to guide teams on multiple tasks and deliver results with aggressive timelines.
16. Previous experience of having overall control of planning, staffing, budgeting, managing expense priorities, and recommending, and implementing change.
17. Excellent interpersonal skills, as well as excellent communication skills, verbal and written.
18. Demonstrate self-motivation and the ability to grasp concepts quickly.
19. Moderate travel to business offices across the portfolio.
20. Ability to liaise with stakeholders at all levels
21. Translating requirements into technical solutions
22. Experience in change management and governance
23. Demonstrates continued personal/professional development 
24. Optimizing time management skills to remain organized and on task.
25. Having GSuite/MS office experience is a plus.
26. Using analytical thinking, problem-solving skills and showing attention to detail.