Assistant Sap Fico Manager

Role Purpose

The Assistant Manager SAP FICO will be responsible for managing, supporting, enhancing, and optimising SAP Finance & Controlling solutions across the organization. The role involves leading SAP FICO implementation, support, enhancements, integrations, and business transformation initiatives while ensuring system stability, compliance, and high availability.

The incumbent will closely work with Finance, Procurement, Sales, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, and external implementation partners to improve business processes using SAP S/4HANA.

Key Responsibilities

SAP Implementation & Project Management

• Lead SAP FICO implementation, rollout, enhancement, and support projects.
• Participate in end-to-end SAP S/4HANA implementation and migration initiatives.
• Prepare project plans, effort estimation, timelines, and resource planning.
• Coordinate with business users, consultants, and vendors for successful project delivery.
• Ensure projects are delivered within agreed timelines, scope, and budget.

SAP Functional Support

• Provide Level-2 and Level-3 support for SAP FICO issues.
• Analyze business requirements and design SAP solutions.
• Perform configuration, testing, deployment, and production support.
• Ensure smooth month-end and year-end financial closing activities.
• Resolve critical production issues within defined SLA.

SAP Configuration

Configure and support:

• General Ledger (GL)
• Accounts Payable (AP)
• Accounts Receivable (AR)
• Bank Accounting
• Asset Accounting (AA)
• Cost Center Accounting
• Internal Orders
• Profit Center Accounting
• Product Costing
• COPA (Profitability Analysis)
• GST
• Withholding Tax
• Electronic Bank Reconciliation
• Financial Closing Processes

Business Process Improvement

• Understand finance business processes and recommend best SAP practices.
• Identify automation opportunities.
• Improve operational efficiency through SAP enhancements.
• Drive process standardization across locations.

Integration Management

Work closely with cross-functional teams for integration with:

• MM
• SD
• PP
• QM
• Third-party applications
• PIPO

Compliance & Governance

• Ensure statutory compliance including GST, E-Invoicing, E-Way Bill, TDS, and other Indian taxation requirements.
• Maintain SAP documentation.
• Support Internal Audit and Statutory Audit activities.
• Follow SAP change management processes.

Vendor & Stakeholder Management

• Coordinate with SAP implementation partners.
• Manage AMS support vendors.
• Interact with Finance leadership for requirement gathering.
• Conduct UAT and user training.

System Performance & Support

• Monitor SAP performance and system health.
• Ensure high system availability.
• Reduce recurring incidents.
• Participate in DR drills and business continuity planning.

Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)

• SAP Project Delivery within Timeline
• Budget Adherence
• Production System Availability (>99.9%)
• SLA Compliance
• Critical Incident Resolution Time
• Successful Month-End Closing
• Number of Process Improvements Delivered
• Audit Compliance
• Documentation Completeness
• Change Request Delivery
• Reduction in Manual Finance Processes

Required Technical Skills

Mandatory

• SAP S/4HANA Finance
• General Ledger
• Accounts Payable
• Accounts Receivable
• Asset Accounting
• Cost Center Accounting
• Internal Orders
• Profit Center Accounting
• Product Costing
• COPA
• GST
• E-Invoicing
• E-Way Bill
• Financial Closing
• SAP Transport Management
• Integration with MM, SD and PP