Sr. Staff Technical Product Manager

GE Vernova; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 1,500,000 - 2,000,000; Full time

Job summary

A global technology leader is seeking an experienced SAP Finance & Controlling professional in Bengaluru, India. The ideal candidate should have over 12 years of hands-on SAP FI/CO implementation experience, alongside strong expertise in SAP S/4HANA Finance. Responsibilities include leading finance transformation initiatives, cross-functional collaboration, and mentoring junior members. Candidates must hold a bachelor's degree in a relevant field and possess in-depth SAP configuration knowledge, with a proven track record of success.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of hands-on implementation experience in SAP FI/CO modules.
• Experience in finance transformation initiatives using SAP.
• Prior team handling and project management experience is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end SAP FI/CO implementations across business functions.
• Drive finance transformation initiatives using SAP.
• Mentor junior team members.

Skills

SAP S/4HANA Finance

Finance transformation programs

Cross-functional collaboration

Problem decomposition

Stakeholder negotiation

Education

Bachelor's degree in information systems or MBA in Finance

2+ years experience in Finance

10+ years of SAP configuration experience

Tools

SAP FI/CO

Data migration tools

DevOps principles

Job description

Job Description Summary

We are looking for an experienced SAP Finance & Controlling (FI/CO) professional with 12+ years of hands‑on implementation experience in SAP FI/CO modules. The ideal candidate should have strong expertise in SAP S/4HANA Finance, with a proven track record of leading finance transformation programs.

This role requires close collaboration with business stakeholders to understand requirements, design solutions, and drive successful implementation of SAP finance processes aligned with organizational goals.

Job Description

Roles and Responsibilities

In this role, you will:

• Lead end-to-end SAP FI/CO implementations across business functions and demonstrate superior product and industry knowledge and helps organization to gain the competitive edge.
• Interacts with customers/stakeholders to Drive finance transformation initiatives using SAP with Integration to enterprises applications.
• Works with cross‑functional teams to deliver features and major, complex products in SAP.
• Possesses a deep understanding of the SAP Finance and Treasury.
• Conducts customer and stakeholder interviews and elaborates on personas.
• Demonstrates expert persuasion and influencing skills that ensure alignment between customer, product manager and engineering teams.
• Owns the release and sprint backlogs short‑term roadmap for MVPs and quarterly releases.
• Owns and manages the backlog; continuously orders and prioritizes to ensure that 1-2 sprints/iterations of backlog are always ready.
• Prioritize continuously in accordance with the understanding and validation of customer problems and needs.
• Demonstrates strategic expert level skills in problem decomposition and ability to navigate through ambiguity.
• Have hands‑on experience in SAP Finance configuration, S/4 HANA will be an added advantage.
• Solid background in respective SAP module(s) such as Finance, Treasury, Banking and cross‑module integrations.
• Translates unstructured or ambiguous work requests into actionable user stories and work units.
• Partners with Development Leadership to ensure healthy development process.
• Mentors junior team members.

Education Qualification

• Bachelor's degree in information systems, Information Technology (IT), Computer Science, or MBA in Finance is preferred with a minimum of 2+ years of experience along with established leadership credentials across Finance Process and functions.
• A minimum of 10+ years of SAP configuration, data migration, business processes, full life‑cycle implementations experience with wing‑to‑wing knowhow. Previous consultancy experience is preferred.
• Prior team handling experience and Project management experience is preferred.
• Experience with driving delivery execution leveraging DevOps principles across a global team.

Business Acumen

• Demonstrates the initiative to explore alternate technology and approaches to solving problems.
• Skilled in breaking down problems, documenting problem statements and estimating efforts.
• Has the ability to analyze impact of technology choices.
• Skilled in negotiation to align stakeholders and communicate a single synthesized perspective to the scrum team. Balances value propositions for competing stakeholders.
• Demonstrates knowledge of the competitive environment.
• Demonstrates knowledge of technologies in the market to help make buy vs build recommendations, scope MVPs, and to drive market timing decisions.

Leadership

• Influences through others; builds direct and "behind the scenes" support for ideas. Pre‑emptively sees downstream consequences and effectively tailors influencing strategy to support a positive outcome.
• Able to verbalize what is behind decisions and downstream implications. Continuously reflect on successes and failures to improve performance and decision‑making.
• Understands when change is needed. Participates in technical strategy planning.

Personal Attributes

• Able to effectively direct and mentor others in critical thinking skills. Proactively engages with cross‑functional teams to resolve issues and design solutions using critical thinking and analysis skills and best practices. Finds important patterns in seemingly unrelated information.
• Influences and energizes other toward the common vision and goal. Maintains excitement for a process and drives to new directions of meeting the goal even when odds and setbacks render one path impassable.
• Innovates and integrates new processes and/or technology to significantly add value to GE. Identifies how the cost of change weighs against the benefits and advises accordingly. Proactively learns new solutions and processes to address seemingly unanswerable problems.

Additional Information

Relocation Assistance Provided: No

GE Vernova is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.