SAP FICO Functional Consultant

The role holder is responsible for planning and managing multiple aspects of application development

projects at Allstate in collaboration with the Managing Engineer and Delivery Head. The incumbent is

expected to lead a team of SAP and Non-SAP professionals and support with project scoping, planning,

resourcing, staffing, progress reporting, issue resolution and people management with a mandate to optimize

delivery of projects to translate customer's requirements.

Key Responsibilities

Engage with business and product stakeholders to understand the client requirements and actively

participate in cross-functional conversations to support the development of product roadmaps and

the technical and architectural solutioning process

Provide strategic insights at enterprise level on all aspects of Integrated Financial System and a

thought leader in contemporary finance tools.

A courageous business leader driving business results with conviction and partnering with diverse

business portfolios and models in promoting short term and long-term operating plans.

Strong ability to produce new technology specifications, solutions, designed for optimal access.

Demonstrate strong ability to gain buy-in on proposed solutions. Lead research and development

efforts (proofs of concept, prototypes).

Provide data Solution Design for Complex Initiatives and perform data feasibility studies.

Manage SAP teams with strong focus on team management, functional transformation and drive

multiple organizational objectives in areas of global process standards deployment, business

process transitions

Establish relevant KPIs and performance drivers and analyse performance with improvement

recommendations

Part of the Enterprise Shared Services leadership team responsible for Finance, Talent

Acquisition, Development and Retention

Lead internal efforts to build knowledge assets for the team to ensure optimal productivity and asset

utilization. Proactively engage with team members and help them in translating the requirements into

a product.

Support senior team members with project and financial management activities such as project

planning, development of product roadmaps, budgeting, and cost estimation

Take end-to-end ownership of project quality and delivery for select modules, adopt Agile

methodologies to lead and guide a team of full-stack developers on project delivery; closely

reviewing all solutions and deliverables from a functionality and technical standpoint and driving on-

time completion in alignment with established standards

Drive the quality management process, actively participating in code reviews, providing timely feedback to team members to improve the solution design and ensure application deployment is risk free. Support Senior managers in identifying and mitigating project risks to ensure alignment of project delivery with defined timelines, cost estimates and client expectations. Provide regular feedbacks to team members and help managers and functional heads in making decisions. Facilitate the team's progress by periodically taking up capability building sessions for the team members, playing an important role in enhancing their technical skills and keeping the team focused on the goals of the project Support Hiring Team in examining new candidates and testing their functional knowledge and capability to smoothen the hiring process, play an active role in developing subordinates and providing suggestions for superior employee experience and retention of critical employees across the team. Should be ready to play the role of an architect for an individual contributor

Supervisory Responsibilities

Manages Team and Team Leads in an Agile environment

Intermediate people management responsibility including work allocation, learning and

development initiatives and feedback reviews

Role Interfaces

External Stakeholders Internal Stakeholders

SAP Clients

Cross Functional Team Leaders SAP Product Managers SAP Business Partners

Preferred Qualifications

Education and Experience

Bachelor's degree / University degree in Engineering / Technology (B.Tech / B.E. / BCA), Master's

Degree is a must

10+ Years of working experience in application development domain.

4 to 6 Years of experience of leading a team in an agile environment.

Technical Skills Proficiency

General Ledger & Basic Controlling in S4 Hana, ECC Expert

Fixed Assets in S4 Hana, ECC Expert

Accounts Payable in S4 Hana, ECC Expert

Bank & Cash Management in S4 Hana, ECC Expert

Basic ABAP Knowledge Practitioner

Knowledge of project management frameworks like Agile and SCRUM Expert

General Ledger & Basic Controlling in S4 Hana, ECC Specialist