The Associate Manager SAP FICO & MasterData is responsible for the operation, support and continuous improvement of LOF's SAP Finance & Controlling (FI/CO) landscape, ensuring accurate, timely and controlled financial information in compliance with accounting requirements, management needs and business processes.
As a strategic business partner, the role works closely with Finance, Accounting, Controlling, Supply Chain, Procurement, Sales, Manufacturing and IT stakeholders to translate business requirements into effective SAP solutions, support month-end and year-end closing, resolve complex issues, and improve financial process efficiency and system stability.
The role also supports SAP FICO solution design, configuration, integration, testing, data migration and go-live activities, with a strong focus on SAP standard and Fit-to-Standard approaches. It works with ABAP/technical teams, SAP partners and key users to deliver controlled changes, reliable integrations and continuous improvement while maintaining strong authorization, audit and internal-control requirements.
1. SAP FI – Financial Accounting & Closing
- Support and manage General Ledger (GL), Accounts Payable (AP), Accounts Receivable (AR), Asset Accounting, Bank Accounting and related financial processes.
- Analyze and resolve posting, account determination, reconciliation, clearing, tax and FI master-data issues.
- Support month-end and year-end closing activities, ensuring completeness, accuracy and consistency of financial data and timely resolution of system issues.
- Support payment, receivables, payables, asset, banking and reconciliation processes, working closely with Finance and Accounting teams.
- Provide fact-based analysis and recommendations to Finance/Accounting for issues affecting financial reporting, controls and closing deadlines.
2. SAP CO – Management Accounting & Profitability
- Support Cost Center, Profit Center, Internal Order, Product Costing and CO-PA processes within the assigned scope.
- Support cost allocation, assessment/distribution, settlement and CO period-end activities.
- Analyze cost, product-cost and profitability variances by product, channel and business unit to support management reporting and business decisions.
- Work with Finance/Controlling and Manufacturing to ensure appropriate cost flow, costing logic and profitability reporting.
- Provide timely analysis of CO issues and recommendations to improve cost visibility and management accounting effectiveness.
3. Solution Delivery, Integration & Data
- Gather and analyze business requirements and translate them into appropriate SAP FI/CO solutions, prioritizing SAP standard and Fit-to-Standard.
- Perform SAP configuration, unit testing, integration testing, UAT and go-live/rollout support when assigned.
- Support FI/CO integration with MM, SD, PP and external systems; analyze root causes of posting, accounting and interface discrepancies.
- Work with ABAP/technical teams on Functional Specifications for enhancements, reports, interfaces, forms and workflows.
- Support data migration, data cleansing, reconciliation and validation activities, ensuring financial data integrity.
4. Production Support, Governance & Continuous Improvement
- Manage incidents and problems, perform root-cause analysis for recurring or high-impact issues, and ensure resolution within agreed service levels.
- Manage SAP changes in accordance with change-control procedures, assess business and financial impacts, and coordinate testing before production deployment.
- Maintain SAP configuration, process documentation and user guides; provide support and knowledge transfer to key users and junior team members when required.
- Support internal and external audits, financial controls, authorization reviews and provision of system evidence as required; perform other tasks and projects assigned by the line manager in support of department and company objectives.
- Responsibilities will cover projects, financial systems, and other tasks assigned by the Line Manager / Head of IT
Education & Experience
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Auditing, Information Systems, IT or a related field. SAP FI/CO certification or S/4HANA Finance training is preferred.
- Minimum 5 years of hands-on SAP FI/CO experience in implementation, rollout, AMS or production support; S/4HANA experience is preferred.
- Experience in manufacturing or FMCG is highly preferred, with practical understanding of business processes and cross-functional integration.
- Proven ability to translate Finance and business requirements into practical SAP solutions, solve complex issues, and influence business decisions through reliable system and financial information.
SAP Functional & Technical Skills
- Strong knowledge of GL, AP, AR, Asset Accounting, Bank/Cash, financial closing, Cost Center, Profit Center, Internal Order, Product Costing and CO-PA.
- Understanding of SAP S/4HANA Finance, Universal Journal and FI/CO integration with MM, SD and PP; ability to perform configuration/IMG, troubleshooting, testing and data reconciliation.
- Ability to prepare Functional Specifications and work effectively with ABAP/technical teams; understanding of Fit-to-Standard, change management, incident/problem management and SAP operational controls.
