Solution Manager - SAP Finance

bp; Pune District; On-site; INR 1,800,000 - 2,400,000; Full time

Job summary

bp is seeking a Solution Manager (General Ledger) to design and govern the template solutions for procurement templates and to drive the Global Financial template rollout across the globe.

You will align designs with bp's template principles, ensure standardization of processes, and collaborate with deployment teams to achieve end-to-end solutions. The role calls for deep SAP FI/BW experience, multinationals exposure, and strong stakeholder management.

Qualifications

• Degree or equivalent education background.
• Accountancy qualification ongoing (CIMA/CPA/ACA/ACCA).
• Strong presentation and communication skills.
• Experience assembling business requirements and improving processes.
• Broader understanding of systems deployment activities.
• 2+ years of system design experience.
• 12+ years of relevant work experience with systems and process design.
• Experience in a multi-national organisation.
• Experience with Agile, Product Experience & Expertise.
• Deep SAP FI knowledge including revaluation, reclassification, currencies.
• SAP BW knowledge with transactional processes.
• Knowledge of SAP MDG integration.

Responsibilities

• Design global standard solutions to meet business needs.
• Prepare, review and approve functional specifications for solution design.
• Lead template fit-gap and user training sessions.
• Explain concepts and solutions to technical and non-technical collaborators.
• Review cross-system cutover plans and integration testing scenarios.
• Advise on interfaces from external systems.
• Guide designs across functional areas to deliver end-to-end solutions.
• Translate business requirements into simplified, actionable requirements.
• Adopt agile principles and ways of working.
• Act as Solution Integration Lead for projects.

Skills

Presentation skills

Communication skills

Agile methodologies

SAP FI

SAP BW

ERP systems

Stakeholder management

Problem solving

Team collaboration

Multi-national experience

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Accountancy qualification ongoing (CIMA/CPA/ACA/ACCA)

Tools

SAP FI

SAP BW

SAP MDG

Job description

Our purpose is to deliver energy to the world, today and tomorrow. For over 100 years, bp has focused on discovering, developing, and producing oil and gas in the nations where we operate. We are one of the few companies globally that can provide governments and customers with an integrated energy offering. Delivering our strategy sustainably is fundamental to achieving our ambition to be a net zero company by 2050 or sooner!

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform crucial job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

Additional Information

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

About Role:

As Solution Manager (for General Ledger) you will use your business and procurement knowledge to design and govern the solution design of bp's template solutions for procurement as well as advising on the systems requirements relating to procurement templates. In addition, you'll work closely with project deployment teams to ensure the successful implementation of bp's Global Financial template solution for general ledger across the globe.

As design lead for the templates, you will ensure that solutions proposed by yourself and your team are aligned to our template principles and that these drive standardization of processes and designs across the bp group.

The Solution Manager collaborates with the Solution & Portfolio Senior Manager

Be the authority on template solutions within the functional area and participate in design authorities.

• For approved demand, understand business requirements and complex business processes and scenarios and translate / break these down into a simplified set of requirements for which solutions can be investigated.
• Design global standard solutions to meet business needs.
• Explain concepts and solutions to technical and non-technical collaborators.
• Prepare, review and/or approve functional specifications for solution design.
• Lead the preparation, structure, and delivery of presentation materials for template familiarisation, template fit-gap, solution design, user training and team knowledge sharing.
• Lead template fit gap and user training sessions.
• Guide and constructive feedback to peer’s design work.
• Identify, analyse, and delineate problems.
• Investigate and resolve solution incidents and conduct root cause analysis.
• Guide for designs that multi-functional areas in order to achieve end to end solutions that meet our customers' needs.
• Advise others on integration considerations for interfaces coming from external systems.
• Review and signoff cross-system cutover plans and integration testing scenarios.
• For new designs or changes to design, provide testing scenarios to ensure the solution is robust.
• Understand, adopt, and embrace agile principles and agile ways of working.
• Where agreed, act as Solution Integration Lead for specific projects, providing support to the project teams and their interaction and solution needs with the rest of the solutions team.
• Work with individuals to set performance goals in focus@bp and regularly check-in on goal progress.
• Schedule regular 1:1 catch-ups with team members and provide support and coaching when needed.

Discuss career aspirations with team members and ensure everyone has a development plan with focus areas identified, including training needs and stretch assignments.

• Suitably qualified professional with degree or similar education background.
• Accountancy qualification or working towards one (e.g. CIMA, CPA, ACA, ACCA)
• Strong presentation and communication skills, including the ability to articulate complex processes and influence a wide range of partners.
• Passion and experience in assembling business requirements and improving processes and systems.
• General understanding of systems deployment activities.
• Ability to work and collaborate within a virtualdistributed teamm environment.
• Ability to prioritise effectively for yourself and the team.
• 2+ years of experience of system design
• Ability to learn and be the authority on template solutions.
• Ability to formulate and solve problems.
• Ability to build strong relationships with business collaborators, technical teams and delivery teams.
• 12+ years of relevant work experience with systems and process design.
• Experience working in a multi-national organisation.
• Experience of Agile ways of working, Product Experience & Expertise
• Deep knowledge and significant experience of SAP FI processes and functionality including revaluation, reclassification and managing currencies
• Significant experience with SAP and BW including a general working knowledge of transactional processes in an SAP environment.
• Knowledge of integration with SAP MDG
• Significant experience of system and process design and system deployment for General Ledger.

The enabling solutions team is part of the Digital Solutions & Transformation organisation in Global Business Services. It provides services to all functions within Finance (R2R, Procurement, Customer,Data) and partners with Global Process Owners and transformation delivery teams to drive the strategy and transformation agenda. It also supports the end user community through sustain processes, trainingsessions and user groups.

The team also works directly with other functions, enablers and businesses in bp, to provide solutions to their business needs and to enable their own transformation agendas.

Enabling solutions operates in a fully agile framework and is located primarily in the global business service hubs across three locations.