SAP FICO Team Lead

Description

Lead the design, implementation, and ongoing enhancement of SAP Finance modules (FI/CO), ensuring seamless integration with other business functions. Serve as the key liaison between business stakeholders and the technical SAP team to optimize financial processes, maintain compliance, and align solutions with organizational goals.

• Oversee project planning, timelines, deliverables, and coordination across IT and business teams.
• Customize and enhance financial functionalities to align with evolving business needs.
• Monitor system performance and user feedback to identify and implement process optimizations.
• Monitor the plan performance and initiate action to strengthen results and take the corrective action accordingly.
• Partners with Finance, Controlling, and Audit teams gather requirements and deliver SAP-based solutions.
• Promote the automated systems and using them fully, to spread its culture.
• Develop, coordinate well-defined written systems, policies, procedures, and seek automations opportunities as much as possible.
• Lead the design, configuration, and support of SAP FI/CO modules, including General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Asset Accounting, and Cost Center Accounting.
• Ensure availability of delegation of authority matrix to have sufficient delegations as per company policy.
• Deliver the required results in timely manner with required quality and cost.
• Provide periodic work progress reports.
• Act as the finance workstream leads to SAP implementations, upgrades, and rollouts.
• Stay informed about SAP advancements (e.g., S/4HANA, Fiori) and provide recommendations for strategic adoption.
• Facilitate workshops, user training sessions, and prepare supporting documentation for end users.
• Develop the organizational structure according to the current requirements taking into consideration future and development plans.
• Ensure a safe, secure, and legal work environment as per the standard regulations.
• Ensure SAP Finance processes adhere to local statutory requirements, accounting principles (e.g., IFRS, GAAP), and internal policies.
• Ensure effective issue resolution, risk mitigation, and adherence to change control processes.
• Manage integration of SAP Finance with other modules such as MM, SD, HR, and PP.
• Ensure availability of job descriptions for all job roles and deployment.
• Responsible for monitoring and controlling budgets and expenses to achieve the optimum cost efficiency.
• Must take full responsibility for his operation as per the job description and the required deliverables from this position, taking into consideration the general company guidelines.
• Support audit activities by providing necessary system documentation and access as required.

Requirements

• Ability to recruit, recognize and cultivate high performers and expose them in order to create a robust second line of management.
• Able to Plan, follow-up and execute those plans, whether they are annual or development plans.
• Able to transform the corporate goals into business plans.
• Ability to recognize low performers and guide them to improve or release them.
• Should be conversant and able to navigate through IT solutions especially those relevant to his job and business.
• Able to anticipate problems and make the necessary proactive steps to prevent them
• Adapt to new and alternative techniques, technologies, management structures, and business models.
• Ability to take necessary and proper timely decisions.
• Ability to treat subordinates equally without any discrimination.

Benefits

Training + Development

Interview process

Visa Sponsorship

Security clearance