IT&DATA Chapter Manager SAP Finance

Responsibilities :

.Core responsibilities- - Diagnose complex functional and integration issues, identify root causes and recommend sustainable resolutions. - Review and challenge critical functional designs and external recommendations, promoting standard SAP functionality, reuse and alignment with Finance core-model principles. - Identify wider architectural implications and engage the Finance Architect when topics affect the overall landscape, end-to-end integration, data flows or architectural guardrails. - Build and animate a community of practice that enables knowledge transfer, cross-product learning and consistent ways of working. - Responsible for maintaining a specific pool of resources within the areas of expertise to support the different Products within the organization. Delivery and operational responsibilities - Provide hands-on expert support during complex discovery, design, implementation, testing, deployment, stabilization and problem resolution, without becoming a permanent Product Team resource. - Provide functional quality assurance for high-impact changes by assessing process, data, control, configuration and integration consequences. - Independently challenge work produced by AMS providers, system integrators and other external specialists and/or consultants. - Convert implementation, incident and operational learning into reusable guidance, standards and capability-development actions. - Raise systemic risks, dependencies and improvement opportunities that may affect product roadmaps or portfolio execution. - Maintain accessible capability documentation and progressively increase expertise and autonomy across the Chapter. Stakeholder and collaboration responsibilities - Partner with the Finance Chapter Lead, Product Owners, Senior Product Owners, Product Analysts, Senior Product Analysts, Product Builders, architects, Business Partners and delivery teams. - Support the Chapter Lead in translating Product Group needs into skills and capability-development priorities. - Participate in business discussions only through or at the request of the Product Team, ensuring the Product Team remains the primary business interface. - Collaborate with the Finance Architect and other Chapter Managers when topics cross capability or solution boundaries. - Coach Chapter members and ensure critical expertis

Additional Responsibilities:

- Deep expertise in relevant end-to-end Finance processes, business rules, controls and SAP Finance capabilities. - Expertise across several SAP Finance process or solution areas and understanding of the wider Finance application landscape. - Proven ability to translate complex business needs into viable solution options and assess functional design, configuration, data, control and integration implications. - Ability to diagnose complex issues, distinguish justified requirements from unnecessary customization and recommend sustainable solutions. - Strong understanding of SAP Finance integration with adjacent SAP and non-SAP solutions, core-model principles and solution reuse. - Ability to review functional specifications, configuration proposals and integration designs and to challenge experienced external consultants credibly.

Technical and Professional Requirements:

- Experience with Finance transformation, standardization, core-model or multi-entity initiatives. - Knowledge of connected domains such as tax, treasury, statutory reporting, controlling, master data, financial controls, data governance or SaaS solutions. - Experience defining standards, design principles, reusable patterns, communities of practice or capability frameworks. - Familiarity with product-centric operating models, Agile ways of working and product-roadmap or portfolio discussions. - Experience coaching specialists and operating effectively in a matrix and evolving organizational environment.