GM/SGM - SAP Functional FICO Lead - Manufacturing Industry

Lead - SAP Functional FICO (GM/SGM) - Manufacturing industry (Need candidates from manufacturing industry)

Key Responsibilities:

Projects & enhancements:

- Finalise solution design in SAP for all new initiatives, enhancements & change requests

- Ensure execution of SAP configuration & related developments as per solution design in adherence to project timelines

- Ensure user acceptance test, regression testing & end user training

- Support change management during implementation of projects & enhancements where required.

Identify improvement opportunities, Strategic inputs/planning:

- Benchmarking (internal and external) to identify opportunities for process improvements

- Understand product roadmap (SAP and other ERPs) to look for best practices relevant in our context

- Gather inputs (from market vendors external peers) critical to make step/exponential improvements in respective functions

- Work with BAs/BRM/Head ASG and prepare business case recommending roadmap & implementation of improvements

Process standardization, drive usage and business KPIs to maximize business value:

- Work with SMEs/FHs to drive standardization of processes, data, controls and reports

- Analyse usage of IT systems and work with FHs to improve usage

- Develop business KPIs with inputs/ help from SMEs

- Analyse business KPIs and make suitable recommendation to FHs for improvements.

SLA management:

- Ensure that SLAs are maintained

- Seek regular updates from the Section Heads on incidents logged for respective application

- To improve usage level by analysing trends of most common issues

- To ensure maximum availability and enhance usage of SAP system by analyzing and Identification of critical/recurring problems by taking corrective steps.

Training Users knowledge transfer:

- Identify end user training needs (each location), develop training calendar.

- Execution of End user training plan

- Continuously develop/strengthen Power Users

- Attend relevant seminars and conferences

- Cultivate and disseminate knowledge of application-usage best practices among his team as well as users

- Remain aware and informed of the latest technical and product knowledge as well as trends and competition for assigned products.

- Keep all documentation updated Knowledge sharing with Other Business in ABG Group where new/existing SAP is implemented/maintained.

Audit compliances:

- Ensure system is aligned with internal, Statutory and control related compliance requirements.