Senior Manager, SAP Product Costing and Controlling

Job Description
Senior Manager, SAP Product Costing and Controlling
The Opportunity

• Based in Hyderabad, join a global healthcare biopharma company and be part of a 130- year legacy of success backed by ethical integrity, forward momentum, and an inspiring mission to achieve new milestones in global healthcare.
• Be part of an organisation driven by digital technology and data-backed approaches that support a diversified portfolio of prescription medicines, vaccines, and animal health products.
• Drive innovation and execution excellence. Be a part of a team with passion for using data, analytics, and insights to drive decision-making, and which creates custom software, allowing us to tackle some of the world's greatest health threats.

Our Technology Centers focus on creating a space where teams can come together to deliver business solutions that save and improve lives. An integral part of our company's IT operating model, Tech Centers are globally distributed locations where each IT division has employees to enable our digital transformation journey and drive business outcomes. These locations, in addition to the other sites, are essential to supporting our business and strategy.

A focused group of leaders in each Tech Center helps to ensure we can manage and improve each location, from investing in growth, success, and well-being of our people, to making sure colleagues from each IT division feel a sense of belonging to managing critical emergencies. And together, we must leverage the strength of our team to collaborate globally to optimize connections and share best practices across the Tech Centers.

Role Overview
We are seeking a skilled SAP Product Costing and Controlling expert to help analyze, design, implement and support SAP Product Costing and Controlling processes within our organization. The ideal candidate will use their knowledge of SAP Product Costing and Controlling modules to ensure the seamless integration between the various Source to Settle, Order to Cash, Supply Chain, Manufacturing and Financial Closing processes while collaborating closely with these cross-functional teams and business stakeholders.

What Will You Do In This Role
Be a member of Global FBM (Finance Business Management) team of SAP Experts located in India Tech Centre.

SAP Cross-Functional Delivery

• Collaborate with delivery peers to ensure best-in-class delivery from solutioning to business requirements through unit-tested, working solutions.

SAP Functional Expertise

• Possess detailed understanding of SAP Product Cost Controlling (CO-PC), Actual Costing, Material Ledger, Manufacturing Accounting, Variances, Process Orders and general understanding of other Finance and Controlling (FI-CO) modules.
• Collaborate closely with Finance Value Team to convert user stories to functional specifications for product development.
• Be able to analyze/design complex system solution, setup system configuration and perform testing as part of product team delivery in a ECC 6.0 Global instance.
• Ability to visualize end-to-end integrated business processes and impacts across key areas such as Financial Business Management, Order to Cash, Source to Settle, Supply Chain Management, Tax, and Financial Supply Chain.
• Stay up to date with the latest developments in SAP functionality and identify opportunities for process improvements and automation.
• As part of the regional onsite team, providing expert level support to production support/operations team to ensure minimum disruption to business continuity (e.g. Financial Closing).

SAP Configuration and Development Governance

• Responsible for SAP configuration changes and developments align with business requirements, industry standards, and regulatory compliance.
• Adhere to change control processes and methodologies to minimize system disruptions and ensure system stability.
• Collaborate with cross-functional and technical teams to prioritize and work independently on the delivery of SAP enhancements and new functionalities.

Stakeholder Collaboration

• Collaborate closely with business stakeholders, including finance, supply chain, and other functional areas, to understand their needs and align SAP solutions accordingly.
• Work closely with Product tech/value team lead to prioritize, providing insights and recommendations on leveraging SAP capabilities to drive business growth and operational excellence.
• Work in a matrix environment and reporting to Product Tech Leads in a global setting. Participate in review of own work and leads review of colleague's work as appropriate.

Desired Education Level

• Master's or bachelor's Degree is required. Concentration in Accounting, Computer Science, Information Systems or finance related field is preferred.

Required Skills & Experience

• 7+ years of SAP solution delivery experience in Controlling- Product Costing, Actual Costing - required.
• Cross-functional business process experience – required.
• Knowledge of interface development e.g. IDoc, BAPI, Middleware (BTP, TIBCO) – required.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to interact directly with business process owners and business stakeholders – required.
• Practical experience with single ECC instance in a large-scale corporation with global presence – preferred
• Knowledge of localization within Asia/Europe/US region – preferred
• Working knowledge with Automation team (e.g. Bot) - preferred
• SAP FI-CO delivery lead experience - preferred
• Experience in SAP S/4 HANA will be an advantage
• Migration experience from ECC to SAP S/4 HANA - preferred
• Life Sciences Industry experience - preferred
• Proven record of excellent performance - preferred
• Proficiency with product life cycle tools such as ServiceNow, Jira, Jira Xray – preferred.
• Strong interpersonal skills; the ability to work well with people from different disciplines/time zones with varying degrees of technical experience; competence in clear concise and tactful communication with senior management, clients, peers and team members – preferred.

Our technology teams operate as business partners, proposing ideas and innovative solutions that enable new organizational capabilities. We collaborate internationally to deliver services and solutions that help everyone be more productive and enable innovation.

Who We Are
We are known as Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, New Jersey, USA in the United States and Canada and everywhere else. For more than a century, we have been inventing for life, bringing forward medicines and vaccines for many of the world's most challenging diseases. Today, our company continues to be at the forefront of research to deliver innovative health solutions and advance the prevention and treatment of diseases that threaten people and animals around the world.

What We Look For
Imagine getting up in the morning for a job as important as helping to save and improve lives around the world. Here, you have that opportunity. You can put your empathy, creativity, digital mastery, or scientific genius to work in collaboration with a diverse group of colleagues who pursue and bring hope to countless people who are battling some of the most challenging diseases of our time. Our team is constantly evolving, so if you are among the intellectually curious, join us—and start making your impact today.

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Employee Status
Regular

Relocation
VISA Sponsorship
Travel Requirements
Flexible Work Arrangements
Hybrid

Shift
Valid Driving License
Hazardous Material(s)
Required Skills
Data Engineering, Data Visualization, Design Applications, Software Configurations, Software Development, Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Solution Architecture, System Designs, Systems Integration, Testing

Preferred Skills
Job Posting End Date
09/26/2025

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Requisition ID
R366266