SAP Lead - Accounting and Finance

Location: Vasanthanagar

About

The Role

Job Title:

SAP Lead - Accounting and Finance
Job Purpose/Scope The SAP Senior Analyst - Accounting and Finance is a senior functional leader responsible for supporting, optimizing, and expanding SAP S/4

HANA Finance capabilities across the enterprise. This role is expected to provide expert-level production support for the existing environment while also leading SAP Finance work streams for new market implementations, rollouts, and major business transformation initiatives. The ideal candidate brings deep FI/CO expertise, hands-on configuration capability, and a consultative mindset to partner with Finance, Accounting, FP&A, Operations, and IT stakeholders to solve complex business challenges, define scalable solutions, and guide the business toward SAP best practices rather than simply maintaining what is already in place.

Core Skills & Expertise
 SAP S/4

HANA Finance (FI) and Controlling (CO):
General Ledger, AP, AR, Asset Accounting, banking/cash management, period-end close, and core controlling processes.
 S/4

HANA Finance architecture concepts, including Universal Journal, parallel ledgers, and document splitting (as applicable to multi-entity/global reporting).
 Payments and banking:
Automatic Payment Program (F110) concepts, bank accounting/cash management, and banking interface support and reconciliation.
 Interfaces and integration patterns with external financial planning and consolidation platforms (including One Stream and Adaptive Planning) and related reconciliation/data-quality controls.
 SAP Fiori launchpad and modern SAP user experience (UI5), including adoption of new Fiori-delivered finance innovations and embedded analytics where applicable.
 Global, matrixed support model experience (supporting U.S. and international entities across time zones); strong stakeholder management and communication skills.  Senior-level SAP project leadership, including leading FI/CO work streams through fit-to-standard workshops, solution design, configuration, testing, data migration, cutover, go-live, and hypercare for new market implementations or major rollouts.  Ability to evaluate business challenges, identify gaps, recommend future-state process improvements, and design scalable SAP solutions beyond the current configuration baseline.

Duties/Responsibilities
1. Serve as the senior SAP Finance functional lead for assigned business areas, owning support and continuous improvement of SAP S/4

HANA Finance and Accounting processes while partnering with Finance, Accounting, FP&A, Operations, and IT stakeholders to define business outcomes and translate them into SAP solutions.
2. Lead the design, configuration, testing, deployment, and stabilization of SAP S/4

HANA Finance solutions aligned to fit-to-standard principles, internal controls, and scalable global process design.
3. Support and enhance integrations between SAP and external finance systems, including interfaces to One Stream and Adaptive Planning; ensure data accuracy, reconciliation, and operational monitoring.
4. Apply S/4

HANA Finance architecture concepts (e.g., Universal Journal, parallel ledgers, and document splitting where applicable) to support accurate global reporting and scalable design decisions.
5. Support payments and banking processes, including configuration/support concepts for the Automatic Payment Program (F110), bank accounting/cash management, and banking interface troubleshooting and reconciliation.
6. Provide day-to-day production support using ITIL-aligned incident/problem/change management practices; perform root-cause analysis and deliver sustainable corrective actions.
7. Develop, standardize, and help roll out test automation for SAP Finance (where applicable), including regression test…