SAP Finance Manager

Role: SAP Finance Manager

Location: Hyderabad

Experience: 8+ years

Role Overview:

Seeking an SAP Finance expert to provide advanced functional guidance, resolve complex SAP Finance issues, review solution designs, and drive standardization and knowledge sharing across product teams.

Key Responsibilities:

• Act as the subject matter expert for complex SAP Finance functional and integration issues.
• Advise Product Owners and teams on solution design, configuration, risks, controls, and downstream impacts.
• Review and challenge functional designs, configuration proposals, and external consultants recommendations.
• Support discovery, implementation, testing, deployment, stabilization, and complex issue resolution.
• Promote standard SAP functionality, reusable solutions, and alignment with Finance core-model principles.
• Assess the impact of changes on Finance processes, data, controls, and integrations with SAP and non-SAP systems.
• Maintain functional standards, documentation, design rationale, and lessons learned.
• Build a community of practice, coach team members, and facilitate knowledge transfer from external partners.
• Collaborate with Finance Architects, Product Owners, Chapter Leads, and cross-functional delivery teams.

Required Skills & Experience:

• Deep expertise in end-to-end Finance processes, business rules, controls, and SAP Finance capabilities.
• Strong hands-on experience across multiple SAP Finance process or solution areas.
• Expertise in functional analysis, configuration, solution design, implementation, and integration.
• Ability to diagnose complex issues and recommend sustainable solutions while avoiding unnecessary customization.
• Experience reviewing functional specifications, configuration proposals, and integration designs.
• Strong understanding of SAP Finance integration with SAP and non-SAP applications.
• Excellent problem-solving, stakeholder management, communication, coaching, and knowledge-sharing skills.
• Ability to influence stakeholders and challenge external consultants through functional expertise.

Experience & Qualification:

• Total Experience: 8+ years in SAP Finance, Finance Technology, Functional Consulting, or related areas.
• Relevant Experience: Minimum 5 years of hands-on SAP Finance experience.
• Education: Degree in Finance, Accounting, Information Systems, Business, Engineering, Technology, or a related discipline.
• Good to Have: SAP Finance certification, Finance transformation, standardization, multi-entity/core-model initiatives, data governance, Agile methodologies, or product-centric operating models.