SAP Finance and Controlling Solution Architect
Smith & Nephew14 hours ago
Pune, IndiaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Design and deliver SAP Finance solutions and customizations aligned with business requirements and enterprise architecture standards.
- Lead development and governance of the global finance template across countries, regions, business units, releases, projects, and transformation programs.
- Design streamlined, scalable, standardized, automated, compliant, and future-ready finance processes.
- Provide architectural leadership, governance, technical validation, and deployment-readiness approval across the delivery lifecycle.
- Ensure solutions satisfy quality, security, scalability, performance, and technical compliance requirements.
- Provide leadership and governance to internal and HCL functional experts and manage solution changes through Design Authority processes.
- Provide expert Level 3 support for live countries and maintain the stability, reliability, and performance of business-critical SAP applications.
- Champion continuous improvement and adoption of emerging SAP capabilities and industry best practices.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Computer Science, IT, or a related subject, or equivalent experience is preferred.
- At least 12 years of IT experience, including 8 or more years delivering SAP full-cycle ERP implementations and global template deployments.
- At least seven years of SAP functional consulting and solution delivery experience in complex multinational environments.
- Deep expertise in General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Asset Accounting, Banking, Cost Center Accounting, Internal Orders, Product Costing, Profit Center Accounting, and Profitability Analysis.
- Experience designing and governing Record-to-Report, Procure-to-Pay, Order-to-Cash, and Financial Planning and Analysis integrations.
- Strong understanding of SAP Finance integration with Sales and Distribution, Materials Management, Production Planning, and Supply Chain processes.
- Experience with solution architecture, global template design, fit-gap analysis, business process harmonization, and deployment governance.
- Experience leading complex multi-system, cross-module, and global template transformation programs.
- Extensive experience with SAP ECC 6.0 EHP7 or later, Universal Journal, Central Finance, and Financial Closing processes; SAP HANA and SAP S/4HANA exposure is highly desirable.
- SAP certification in a related module is preferred, and ITIL qualifications are a plus.
- Experience in regulated industries such as Medical Devices, Pharmaceuticals, or Life Sciences is preferred.
- Demonstrated ability to design and support cross-functional solutions, manage stakeholders and vendors, and collaborate across geographies, cultures, and time zones.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, collaboration, organization, prioritization, and stakeholder-management skills.
Benefits
- Pune hybrid work model with two days per week working from the office.
- Major medical coverage, policy exclusions and insurance non-medical limit, parents and parents-in-law insurance, and an Employee Assistance Program.
- Educational assistance, hands-on training, team-customized training, and mentorship.
- Flexible personal/vacation time off, privilege leave, floater leave, and parental leave.
- Free cab transportation for all employees, one meal per shift, and night-shift allowances.
About Smith & Nephew
Smith+Nephew is a global medical-technology company that designs and manufactures devices for orthopaedics, sports medicine, ENT, and advanced wound management. It sells implants, trauma fixation systems, arthroscopy instruments, surgical robotics (such as the CORI system), and wound dressings/therapies to hospitals and surgeons worldwide through direct sales and distributors. Founded in 1856 and headquartered in Watford, UK, it is a public company listed on the London and New York stock exchanges.