Senior Manager — SAP Finance Solution Architect (RTR & Global Tax Compliance)

Overview

Own the design and governance of Record-to-Report processes, financial controls, consolidation, statutory reporting and global tax compliance capabilities on the S/4HANA finance template.

What you'll do

• Own the end-to-end RTR design across the S/4HANA global template: Universal Journal, General Ledger, Asset Accounting, Controlling, Product Costing, Profitability Analysis, Intercompany and Consolidation.
• Own the global enterprise structure and finance master data design, including chart of accounts, company codes, ledgers, controlling areas, profit and cost center hierarchies and reporting dimensions, keeping it stable as segments and acquisitions are added.
• Design the financial close: period-end architecture, close task orchestration, intercompany reconciliation and elimination, foreign currency valuation, allocations and close cycle time optimization.
• Own parallel accounting design across group and local GAAP requirements, including ledger strategy, valuation approaches and the treatment of statutory differences.
• Design product costing and margin analysis for a manufacturing and engineered-products environment, including standard costing, variance analysis, WIP, and service and project cost flows.
• Ensure finance design integrity across integration points (order-to-cash, source-to-pay, plan-to-manufacture and project systems).
• Own the global tax architecture across indirect tax (VAT, GST, sales and use), withholding tax, and the tax determination logic embedded in transactional processes.
• Design and govern integration with tax engines and e-invoicing and e-reporting platforms, including country mandates for real-time and near-real-time reporting.
• Own statutory and legal reporting design per country, including local ledgers, statutory chart requirements, document numbering, audit file formats and regulatory submissions.
• Maintain the localization roadmap across deployment waves, tracking mandate changes and ensuring the template absorbs them without fracturing.
• Partner with corporate tax, transfer pricing and treasury on design decisions with financial and compliance consequence, translating their requirements into system design.
• Ensure finance controls and SOX requirements are designed in, working with the GRC architect so control evidence is produced by the system.
• Act as the design authority for finance: approve or reject template deviations, hold the standardization line and escalate when a segment pushes for local variation without statutory basis.
• Lead fit-to-standard workshops with global process owners and segment finance leadership, and drive process harmonization decisions to closure.
• Support deployment waves through localization design, testing strategy, cutover finance validation, opening balance verification and hypercare defect resolution.
• Partner with the Data Migration and MDG leads on finance data (GL balances, open AR and AP, fixed assets and cost object conversion), where accuracy is audited, not merely tested.
• Lead a team of finance functional architects and consultants, and hold system integrator delivery accountable for finance design quality.

What you'll need

• 15+ years in SAP finance.
• At least 8 years in S/4HANA Finance.
• 5+ years as a solution architect on global programs.
• Deep expertise across S/4HANA Finance: Universal Journal, GL, Asset Accounting, Controlling, product costing, margin analysis, and Group Reporting or consolidation.
• Proven RTR solution ownership on at least two global S/4HANA implementations, including multi-country, multi-ledger, multi-currency design.
• Strong global tax and statutory compliance background: indirect tax determination, withholding tax, localization and e-invoicing mandates across multiple regions.
• Demonstrated experience integrating an external tax engine (Vertex, OneSource, Avalara, or equivalent) and e-invoicing platforms.
• Accounting foundation (CA, CPA, MBA Finance, or equivalent) sufficient to hold a substantive conversation with a controller, not only with a consultant.
• Track record of defending a global finance template against local pressure, with the judgment to distinguish genuine statutory requirement from preference.
• Experience with financial close optimization and measurable close cycle reduction.

Nice to have

• SAP Group Reporting, Central Finance, or BPC consolidation experience.
• SAP Analytics Cloud or Datasphere for financial planning and reporting.
• Treasury, in-house cash, or bank communication management.
• Project System and service cost accounting for an installed-base and aftermarket business.
• Manufacturing and engineered-products costing complexity: variant configuration, make-to-order and long-cycle projects.
• Experience integrating acquisitions into a common finance template and chart of accounts.

Details

• Location: Bangalore.