Solution Manager - Group Reporting / FI Integration

Location

Pune | India

Job description

• Grade GResponsible for managing a team to support the business with accounting issues, including controlling, performance reporting and integrated business planning, advising on policy and compliance, working with relevant teams across the business to effectively coordinate a range of finance activities and assisting in the delivery of the financial strategy to drive outstanding business results

Entity: Finance

Job Family Group: Finance Group

Key Accountabilities

• Be the authority on template solutions within the functional area and participate in design authorities.
• For approved demand, understand business requirements and complex business processes and scenarios and translate / break these down into a simplified set of requirements for which solutions can be investigated.
• Design global standard solutions to meet business needs.
• Explain concepts and solutions to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Prepare, review and/or approve functional specifications for solution design.
• Lead the preparation, structure, and delivery of presentation materials for template familiarization, template fit-gap, solution design, user training and team knowledge sharing.
• Lead template fit gap and user training sessions.
• Provide expertise and constructive feedback to peer s design work.
• Identify, analyze, and delineate problems.
• Investigate and resolve solution incidents and conduct root cause analysis.
• Provide expertise for designs that cross functional areas in order to achieve end to end solutions that meet our customers needs.
• Advise others on integration considerations for interfaces coming from external systems.
• Review and signoff cross-system cutover plans and integration testing scenarios.
• For new designs or changes to design, provide testing scenarios to ensure the solution is robust.
• Understand, adopt, and embrace agile principles and agile ways of working.
• Where agreed, act as Solution Integration Lead for specific projects, providing support to the project teams and their interaction and solution needs with the rest of the solutions team.Work with individuals to set performance goals in focus at bp and regularly check-in on goal progress.
• Schedule regular 1:1 catch-ups with team members and provide support and coaching when needed.
• Discuss career aspirations with team members and ensure everyone has a development plan with focus areas identified, including training needs and stretch assignments.

Essential Education & Experience

Suitably qualified professional with degree or similar education background.

Accountancy qualification or working towards one (e.g. CIMA, CPA, ACA, ACCA)

Strong presentation and communication skills, including the ability to articulate complex processes and influence a wide range of stakeholders.

Passion and experience in capturing business requirements and improving processes and systems.

General understanding of systems deployment activities.

Ability to work and collaborate within a virtual global team environment.

Ability to priorities effectively for yourself and the team.

5+ years of experience of system design

Ability to learn and be the authority on template solutions.

Ability to formulate and solve problems.

Ability to build strong relationships with business stakeholders, technical teams and delivery teams.

Product Experience & Expertise

• Deep knowledge and significant experience with Group and statutory reporting and consolidation processes
• Good knowledge of group reporting technologies such as SAP S/4 Group Reporting and SAP BPC
• Deep knowledge and experience of integrating external systems and technologies into SAP FI such as Workday and Blackline
• Knowledge of financial data migration and financial reconciliations
• Knowledge of data integration tools, such as Informatica
• Significant experience with SAP and BW including a general working knowledge of transactional processes in an SAP environment.

Desirable Criteria

• 12+ years of relevant work experience with systems and process design.
• Experience working in a multi-national organization.
• Experience of Agile ways of working

Travel Requirement No travel is expected with this role

Relocation Assistance: This role is eligible for relocation within country

Skills: Accounting policy, Accounting policy, Accounting processes and financial systems, Agility core practices, Agility tools, Analytical Thinking, Business Acumen, Business process control, Business process improvement, Collaboration, Commercial acumen, Communication, Creativity and Innovation, Credit Management, Customer centric thinking, Data Analysis, Data visualization and interpretation, Decision Making, Digital fluency, Financial accounting and reporting, Influencing, Internal control and compliance, Management Reporting, Managing change, Presenting + 4 more

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