Job Title: SAP Solution Specialist Finance (Accounting and Tax)
Job Level: Individual Contributor
Department: GIT Business Solutions
Location: Bengaluru, India
Reports to: Manager, GIT Business Solutions
Job Summary
The SAP Solution Specialist will provide hands-on functional support for the global implementation and support of Finance and Controlling (FI/CO) business processes in the ECC, AFS, SAP system. This role involves collaborating with global teams, supporting solution development, and ensuring integration and standardization across business processes. The specialist will partner closely with global functional and development teams within GIT and with global business stakeholders.
Key Responsibilities
- Support global SAP FI/CO business solution implementations across end-to-end business processes
- Collaborate with business stakeholders to gather and analyze requirements that add measurable business value
- Conduct fit-gap analysis and propose functional solutions promoting global standards, integration, and simplicity
- Prepare and maintain detailed functional specification documents
- Configure SAP FI/CO modules based on approved business requirements
- Analyze and debug configuration or process issues, and work with technical teams to resolve them
- Monitor batch jobs, interfaces, and SAP system health, with a focus on proactive issue resolution
- Conduct solution testing and support business users in completing UAT and obtaining approvals
- Ensure smooth deployment of solution changes into production environments with minimal disruption
- Document all work clearly and assist with user training and post-go-live support
- Coordinate testing cycles and maintain adherence to GIT's solution manger and documentation protocols
- Assist in special projects as assigned, providing regular updates and identifying potential timeline risks
- Respond to service requests efficiently and provide timely communication to end users
- Leverage and deploy Generative AI-assisted data analytics and apply logical constructs to custom programming steps to design efficient, scalable business solutions with minimal reliance on development resources
- Design, Test and Implement business solutions by integrating SAP with Non-SAP systems/applications working in collaboration with appropriate development teams
Area of Focus
- SAP ECC AFS FI/CO configuration
- Finance and Controlling processes including:
o General Ledger (GL), Accounts Payable (AP), Accounts Receivable (AR),
o Taxation, Costing, Credit Management, Fixed Assets, CO-PA
o Movement Types, Pricing, Billing, and Payment Card Processing
o Integration of FICO with other SAP modules
o eDocument cockpit or DRC modules
- Other assigned SAP business solution areas
Qualifications
Education
- Required: Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, Business Applications, Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field
- Preferred: MBA or comparable postgraduate qualification
Experience
- Minimum 2 full life cycle SAP implementation experience
- Minimum of 1 year of experience working across multiple countries or in a global/multinational environment
- At least 5 years of experience in SAP FI/CO process design and configuration
- Strong knowledge of global finance processes and business solution alignment
- Strong knowledge of US and EU VAT and Sales tax setup and troubleshooting.
- Demonstrated ability in troubleshooting, problem-solving, and functional debugging
- Designed and architected solutions to support Order-to-Cash (OTC) and Procure-to-Pay (P2P) business processes, including integration of SAP systems with internal and external applications
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to work independently with minimal supervision and collaboratively in a virtual team
- Detail-oriented, self-motivated, and results-driven
- Customer-focused mindset
