SAP FICO PM

Key Responsibilities
Demand & Solution Design
Own the end-to-end SAP Finance change pipeline, including requirement intake, qualification, prioritization, solution analysis, and release planning.
Evaluate business requirements and recommend scalable solutions, prioritizing standard SAP, global templates, and reusable solutions over custom developments.
Review and approve functional specifications, solution designs, and architecture decisions.
Ensure solutions align with the S/4HANA roadmap, global template, and enterprise architecture standards.
Assess cross-functional impacts across O2C, P2P, R2R, Tax, Treasury, Costing, Intercompany, Statutory and Group Reporting.
Maintain the product backlog, roadmap, and release calendar.
Partner & Delivery Management
Manage the partner delivery team, including solution managers, functional consultants, developers, and testers.
Own work allocation, estimates, sprint/release commitments, dependencies, and delivery tracking.
Review and challenge estimates, scope, timelines, and delivery quality.
Drive governance activities including design reviews, sprint/release reviews, defect triage, go/no-go decisions, and escalations.
Own quality gates covering design, development, SIT, UAT, cutover, and hypercare.
Ensure proper documentation, knowledge transfer, and reduction of key-person dependency.
Integration & Cross-Functional Management
Work closely with SAP BTP / Integration Suite (CPI) teams on interface requirements, iFlows, APIs, events, error handling, monitoring, and testing.
Coordinate with Data/MDM teams on master data readiness, data quality, migration, and conversion activities.
Partner with Security/GRC teams on role design, segregation of duties, access approvals, and audit/SOX requirements.
Coordinate with Basis, infrastructure, transport management, and other functional teams.
Manage dependencies with global template owners, third-party applications, banking systems, tax engines, consolidation platforms, and reporting systems.
Own the Finance product dependency and risk register and ensure timely resolution of issues.
Stakeholder Management
Act as the primary point of contact for European Finance leadership, Controllers, Shared Service Centres, and country Finance teams.
Communicate solution options, design trade-offs, timelines, risks, and constraints to senior stakeholders.
Own delivery plans, timelines, status reporting, and release commitments.
Ensure SAP changes do not negatively impact month-end, quarter-end, or year-end financial close.
Represent the Finance product in architecture forums, CABs, change governance, and release management meetings.
Required Skills & Experience
10-14 years of overall SAP experience with strong functional expertise in SAP FICO.
Strong knowledge of:
General Ledger (GL)
Accounts Payable (AP)
Accounts Receivable (AR)
Asset Accounting
Banking
Taxation
Product Costing
CO-PA
Intercompany
Period-End Close
Strong SAP S/4HANA experience.
Proven experience owning solution design and end-to-end delivery through a third-party system integrator such as Accenture, TCS, Infosys, Capgemini, IBM, or similar.
Experience managing partner teams comprising solution managers, functional consultants, developers, and testers.
Experience working in large-scale global FMCG/CPG environments, preferably involving multiple countries, company codes, currencies, and global templates.
Strong understanding of SAP BTP / Integration Suite (CPI), IDocs, APIs, and event-based integrations.
Strong cross-functional knowledge across FI/CO, MM, SD, PP, reporting, and consolidation.
Experience with product backlog, roadmap, prioritization, requirement management, and release planning.
Experience with Agile/Scrum, SAFe, and stage-gated project delivery.
Hands-on familiarity with Jira, Azure DevOps, and ServiceNow.
Strong understanding of ChaRM, SAP Solution Manager, Cloud ALM, transport management, CAB, and change governance.
Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
Ability to independently drive decisions, challenge solution designs, and manage senior business and technology stakeholders.

Work arrangement
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