Manager / AVP Business Applications & ERP

A Finance professional with strong ERP/application orientation. The person should understand business requirements, translate them into system/process solutions and work effectively with both Business functions and IT teams. The ideal candidate will be a Finance professional who understands technology and ERP applications, rather than a pure accounting or pure IT professional.

The person should be capable of understanding a business problem from the user's perspective, translating it into a technology/application requirement, and working with IT or implementation teams to deliver the solution. The person should have an aptitude to learn and take responsibilities of other functional modules of ERP including the applications that are seamlessly integrated with ERP systems.

Key Responsibilities:

• Act as a business SPOC for ERP applications and other business applications
• Analyse business processes and drive process standardisation, automation and continuous improvement
• Project management: Manage business requirements, functional specifications, system enhancements, testing/UAT and implementation in coordination with IT and external consultants.
• Provide functional support for ERP applications, integration with other business applications.
• Work cohesively with business and IT team for development of MIS, dashboards, and other reports for management decision-making.
• Coordinate with Business Functions, ERP Functional and Technical Consultants for resolution of process and application issues.
• Manage Change management, Track project activities, milestones and deliverables
• Support in user training and preparation of process documentation/SOPs.
• Co-ordinate with technical and functional consultants for patch management, upgrades, back-up management, review and monitoring of ERP applications and database
• Support in audit, compliances and other Committee meetings
• Assist in formulation of Policies, Procedures and Guidelines, Frameworks
• Other IT activities as assigned from time to time

Academic Qualification:

• CA / CA-Inter / CMA / MBA-Finance or equivalent with ERP application experience (preferably in SAP/S4 HANA)

Experience:

• 10+ years of experience in Finance & Accounts with significant exposure to ERP applications and business process management. Good exposure to SAP S/4HANA and SAP ECC is preferred.
• Strong Finance domain knowledge with hands-on experience in accounting, MIS, reconciliations, controls and reporting.
• Experience in ERP implementation/support, system enhancements, requirement gathering, UAT and coordination with IT/technical teams. Implementation of / Exposure on SAP FI; and SAP S/4HANA is preferred
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, communication and stakeholder-management skills.