Lead, Finance Platform Engineering

The Estée Lauder Companies Inc. is one of the world’s leading manufacturers, marketers, and sellers of quality skin care, makeup, fragrance, and hair care products, and is a steward of luxury and prestige brands globally. The company’s products are sold in approximately 150 countries and territories under brand names including:
Estée Lauder, Aramis, Clinique, Lab Series, Origins, M
· A·C, La Mer, Bobbi Brown Cosmetics, Aveda, Jo Malone London, Bumble and bumble, Darphin Paris, TOM FORD, Smashbox, AERIN Beauty, Le Labo, Editions de Parfums Frédéric Malle, GLAMGLOW, KILIAN PARIS, Too Faced, Dr.Jart+, the DECIEM family of brands, including The Ordinary and NIOD, and BALMAIN Beauty.

Description The Lead, Finance Platform Engineering is responsible for leading the day-to-day engineering delivery, technical execution, and continuous improvement of the enterprise Finance platform portfolio. This role serves as a hands-on engineering leader accountable for the successful realization of Finance technology solutions across SAP ECC and related enterprise Finance platforms, translating approved business requirements and solution designs into high-quality engineering solutions while ensuring technical excellence, platform stability, and production readiness.

Reporting to the Senior Manager, Finance Platform Engineering, this role partners closely with Finance Product and Technology leaders, Enterprise Architecture, Enterprise Business Services (EBS), Operations & Infrastructure, Cyber Security, and strategic technology partners to deliver secure, scalable, and reliable Finance capabilities that support global business operations.

The Lead provides technical leadership for engineering teams and Enterprise Business Services (EBS) resources, overseeing engineering realization across core Finance capabilities including General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Fixed Assets, Controlling, Treasury, Financial Close, and Finance integrations. The role is responsible for coordinating engineering delivery, developing and reviewing technical solutions to ensure alignment with approved solution designs, mentoring engineers, resolving complex technical challenges, and ensuring solutions align with enterprise architecture standards, engineering best practices, and long-term platform sustainability.

This leader also contributes to Finance platform modernization initiatives by supporting SAP ECC and S/4

HANA transformation activities, cloud and SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP) adoption, AI-enabled engineering practices, and the integration of enterprise Finance technologies such as One Stream and other modern financial planning, consolidation, reporting, and automation capabilities.

Experience with technologies including SAP Fiori, Open Text Vendor Invoice Management (VIM), SAP Concur, SAP Ariba Finance integrations, SAP Global Trade Services (GTS), and SAP Profitability and Performance Management (PaPM) is highly desirable.

The ideal candidate combines deep SAP Finance engineering expertise with strong technical leadership, engineering governance, and delivery management skills while fostering collaboration, continuous improvement, and engineering excellence across a complex global enterprise Finance landscape.

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Roles & Responsibilities Engineering Delivery, Technical Leadership & Platform Stewardship (40%)Lead the day-to-day engineering delivery of enterprise Finance platform initiatives, ensuring successful realization of approved business requirements and solution designs through high-quality technical execution, delivery predictability, and production readiness. Provide hands-on technical leadership across SAP Finance engineering activities, including engineering realization, code reviews,…