SAP Finance IT Principal Business Analyst

Role & responsibilities

• Provide functional leadership for SAP Record to Report process, ensuring seamless integration with upstream and downstream systems.
• Design, review, and govern SAP FICO processes, including General Ledger (GL), Accounts Payable (AP), Accounts Receivable (AR), Asset Accounting (AA), Bank Accounting and Cash Management
• Gather, analyse, and document business requirements, functional specifications, and process designs.
• Support SAP implementations, rollouts, upgrades, and production support, including defect resolution and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Manage incident resolution, change requests, and enhancements, ensuring timely and highquality delivery.
• Lead functional design reviews, prepare solution documentation, and ensure adherence to SAP best practices and enterprise standards.
• Provide mentorship and guidance to senior and junior functional consultants, ensuring highquality delivery and knowledge continuity.
• Collaborate closely with technical teams on interface design, enhancements, and performance optimization.
• Collaborates with Business Relationship Manager (BRM), business stakeholders and IT Product Owners / Managers to develop business requirements for product or system changes.

Preferred candidate profile

• Minimum 10+ years of hands-on experience in SAP RecordtoReport (R2R) area.
• Strong handson expertise in SAP FI modules - General Ledger (GL), Accounts Payable (AP), Accounts Receivable (AR), Asset Accounting (AA), Bank Accounting and Cash Management
• Strong understanding of RecordtoReport (R2R) and financial close processes.
• Proven experience in SAP FI integrations with MM, SD, CO, and external systems.
• Exposure to tax, compliance, and statutory reporting requirements across regions.
• Experience working with interfaces, IDocs, and financial postings from thirdparty or upstream systems.
• Experience in leading Record to Report area in multiple implementation and support projects.
• Should have strong SAP Standard configuration knowledge and good SAP project process knowledge. Must have excellent knowledge on end-to-end Record to Report scenarios.
• S/4 implementation experience is mandatory
• Experience in gathering business requirements, providing conceptual and detailed designs to meet business needs, performing necessary SAP configurations, writing detail specifications for development of custom programs, testing, co-ordination of transports to production and post-go live support
• High business sensitivity, result oriented with ability to manage stakeholders and contractors.
• Ability to work with teams across geographical locations with various functional & technical expertise. Ability to work globally with diverse nationalities in a matrix environment
• Proactive, self-starter and able to take initiative
• Fluent English. Strong written and verbal communication skills