Senior Specialist, Software Engineering

Overview

Senior Specialist in SAP General Ledger and Operating Expense Management (Product Costing) within the ERP Finance Delivery team of the SAP Platform group under Enterprise Information Technology, responsible for product delivery, support and optimization of global SAP platforms.

What you'll do

• Lead the SAP platform in the Product Costing area and be a team member in the SAP FI/CO platform.
• Collaborate closely with the Finance Value Team to convert user stories into functional specifications for product development.
• Collaborate with cross-functional and technical teams to prioritize and work independently on the delivery of SAP enhancements and new functionalities.
• Analyse and design complex system solutions, set up system configuration and perform testing as part of product team delivery in ECC 6.0 and S/4 global instances.
• Visualize end-to-end integrated business processes and impacts across Financial Business Management, Order to Cash, Source to Settle, Supply Chain Management, Tax and Financial Supply Chain.
• Stay up to date with SAP functionality and identify opportunities for process improvements and automation.
• As part of the regional onsite team, provide expert-level support to the production support/operations team to minimize disruption to business continuity (e.g. financial closing, costing run).
• Be responsible for SAP configuration changes and developments aligned with business requirements, industry standards and regulatory compliance.
• Adhere to change control processes and methodologies to minimize system disruptions and ensure system stability.
• Collaborate closely with business stakeholders, including finance and supply chain, to align SAP solutions with their needs.
• Work with the Product tech/value team lead to prioritize and provide insights on leveraging SAP capabilities for business growth and operational excellence.
• Work in a matrix environment, reporting to Product tech leads in a global setting.
• Participate in review of own work and lead review of colleagues' work as appropriate.

What you'll need

• Master's or bachelor's degree is required.
• 7+ years of SAP solution delivery experience in the area of FI-GL, CO-CCA/PCA/IO/PA/PC.
• Detailed understanding of SAP FI/CO and expert-level understanding of SAP Controlling Product Costing (CO-PC, Material Ledger, Actual Costing), particularly in large-scale pharmaceutical manufacturing environments.
• Product Cost Planning and pharma manufacturing experience: integrate CO-PC with PP/PP-PI, MM and FI across large-scale sites, including period-end closing.
• Cross-functional business process experience.
• Knowledge of interface development, e.g. IDoc, BAPI, Middleware (BTP).
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to interact directly with business process owners and business stakeholders.

Nice to have

• Practical experience with a single ECC/S4 instance in a large-scale corporation with global presence.
• Knowledge of localization within Asia/Europe/US region.
• Experience in SAP S/4HANA.
• Life Sciences industry experience.
• Proficiency with product life cycle tools such as ServiceNow, Jira, Jira Xray.
• Strong interpersonal skills; ability to work with people from different disciplines and time zones with varying technical experience; clear, concise and tactful communication with senior management, clients, peers and team members.
• Agile software development and DevOps settings.

Details

• Location: Hyderabad, Telangana, India (Hitec City Raidurg).
• Employee status: Regular.
• Relocation: Domestic.
• Visa sponsorship: No.
• No travel required.