TEAM LEAD, FINANCE APPLICATIONS

Alfanar; Riyadh; On-site; SAR 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in the region is seeking an SAP Finance Lead to oversee and enhance SAP Finance modules. This dynamic role involves managing integration with business functions, ensuring compliance, and delivering optimal financial processes. Candidates should have a Bachelor's degree and considerable experience in SAP solutions.

Qualifications

• Experience in leading SAP Finance modules (FI/CO).
• 6 to 10 years of relevant work experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and configuration of SAP FI/CO modules.
• Ensure compliance with local statutory requirements and policies.
• Deliver results in a timely manner with required quality and cost.

Skills

Financial Processes

Issue Resolution

Risk Mitigation

Stakeholder Collaboration

Education

Bachelor Degree in Computer Science or Any relevant field

Job description

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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.

Key Accountability Areas

SAP Finance (FI/CO) Solution Ownership:

• Lead the design, configuration, and support of SAP FI/CO modules, including General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Asset Accounting, and Cost Center Accounting.
• Manage integration of SAP Finance with other modules such as MM, SD, HR, and PP.
• Customize and enhance financial functionalities to align with evolving business needs.
• Act as the finance workstream leads to SAP implementations, upgrades, and rollouts.
• Oversee project planning, timelines, deliverables, and coordination across IT and business teams.
• Ensure effective issue resolution, risk mitigation, and adherence to change control processes.

Stakeholder Collaboration:

• Partners with Finance, Controlling, and Audit teams gather requirements and deliver SAP-based solutions.
• Facilitate workshops, user training sessions, and prepare supporting documentation for end users.

Compliance & Controls:

• Ensure SAP Finance processes adhere to local statutory requirements, accounting principles (e.g., IFRS, GAAP), and internal policies.
• Support audit activities by providing necessary system documentation and access as required.
• Monitor system performance and user feedback to identify and implement process optimizations.
• Stay informed about SAP advancements (e.g., S/4HANA, Fiori) and provide recommendations for strategic adoption.

Role Accountability

• Ability to recruit, recognize and cultivate high performers and expose them in order to create a robust second line of management.
• Ability to recognize low performers and guide them to improve or release them.
• Ability to treat subordinates equally without any discrimination.
• Assessment criteria of subordinates is performance that leads to planned results.
• Ensure availability of delegation of authority matrix to have sufficient delegations as per company policy.

Responsibility:

• 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.
• Able to anticipate problems and make the necessary proactive steps to prevent them
• Ability to take necessary and proper timely decisions.

Delivery:

• Deliver the required results in timely manner with required quality and cost.
• Making a Tangible Difference:
• Must make a tangible difference to his area of operation. and exceed business expectations.

Business Planning and Performance:

• Able to transform the corporate goals into business plans.
• Able to Plan, follow-up and execute those plans, whether they are annual or development plans.
• Monitor the plan performance and initiate action to strengthen results and take the corrective action accordingly.
• Provide periodic work progress reports.
• Responsible for monitoring and controlling budgets and expenses to achieve the optimum cost efficiency.

Organizational Development:

• Develop the organizational structure according to the current requirements taking into consideration future and development plans.
• Ensure availability of job descriptions for all job roles and deployment.

Business Process Improvements:

• Develop, coordinate well-defined written systems, policies, procedures, and seek automations opportunities as much as possible.
• Should be conversant and able to navigate through IT solutions especially those relevant to his job and business.
• Promote the automated systems and using them fully, to spread its culture.

Quality:

• Quality is considered as alfanar’s prime competitive advantage as such, managers are expected to act accordingly.

Adaptation:

• Adapt to new and alternative techniques, technologies, management structures, and business models.

Health, Safety and Environment:

• Ensure a safe, secure, and legal work environment as per the standard regulations.

Academic Qualification

Bachelor Degree in Computer Science or Any relevant field

Work Experience

6 to 10 Years

Technical / Functional Competencies

Applications Development Standards and Procedures