SAP FICO Lead

Job Title: SAP Finance and Costing Lead

Location: Hyderabad, India

Commitment: Full-time

Industry: Pharmaceuticals & Biotech

Seniority Level: Lead / Principal

Overview

The SAP FICO Lead will lead the design, configuration, implementation, optimization, and support of SAP Finance and Controlling processes for pharmaceutical business operations. The role owns end-to-end FICO solution delivery across financial accounting, controlling, product costing, statutory compliance, financial reporting, and integration with procurement, sales, manufacturing, quality, warehouse, and third-party systems.

The role will work with Finance, Accounts, Costing, Taxation, Procurement, Sales, Manufacturing, Quality, IT, and external partners to support SAP S/4HANA transformation, RISE migration, process standardization, automation, audit readiness, digital finance initiatives, and implementation.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead SAP FICO functional consulting, solution design, configuration, implementation, and support across business units and manufacturing locations.
• Own core SAP FI processes, including:
  • General Ledger (GL)
  • Accounts Payable (AP)
  • Accounts Receivable (AR)
  • Asset Accounting
  • Bank Accounting
  • Tax Accounting
  • Closing Cockpit
  • Financial Reporting
• Lead SAP CO processes, including:
  • Cost Center Accounting
  • Profit Center Accounting
  • Internal Orders
  • Product Costing
  • COPA
  • Material Ledger
  • Profitability Analysis
• Work with Finance and Costing teams to strengthen standard costing, actual costing, variance analysis, inventory valuation, and manufacturing cost visibility.
• Ensure strong integration of FICO with MM, SD, PP, QM, PM, WM/EWM, taxation, banking, and other critical applications.
• Support Indian statutory and regulatory requirements, including GST, TDS, TCS, e-invoicing, e-way bill, audit schedules, internal controls, and financial compliance reporting.
• Lead the FICO workstream for SAP S/4HANA transformation, SAP RISE migration, finance process improvement, and digital finance initiatives.
• Drive standardization of finance and controlling processes across plants, business units, and legal entities while improving governance and control effectiveness.
• Prepare and review functional specifications, process flows, configuration documents, test scripts, user manuals, SOPs, validation documents, and training materials.
• Coordinate with ABAP, Basis, integration, security, and infrastructure teams for developments, interfaces, enhancements, authorizations, and issue resolution.
• Support integrations through IDOCs, APIs, SAP CPI, bank interfaces, tax interfaces, middleware, and third-party application connections.
• Lead month-end, quarter-end, and year-end closing support, ensuring timely issue resolution, data accuracy, and business continuity.
• Drive master data governance for GL accounts, cost centers, profit centers, internal orders, assets, tax codes, cost objects, and related finance master data.
• Mentor junior SAP FICO team members, provide user training, and build internal SAP Finance capability.
• Support audit and compliance activities.
• Support Finance and Costing reporting for analytics applications and SAP.
• Support Material Ledger activities.

Required Qualifications

• Chartered Accountant (CA) qualification is mandatory.
• Minimum 10 years of SAP FICO experience with hands-on configuration, implementation, support, and solution ownership.
• 2–5 years of hands-on experience in the Finance and Controlling domain.
• Strong experience with:
  • SAP FI
  • SAP CO
  • Product Costing
  • Material Ledger
  • COPA
  • Asset Accounting
  • Taxation
  • Financial Closing Processes
• Experience in SAP S/4HANA Finance, Universal Journal, SAP RISE migration, and large-scale SAP transformation programs.
• Strong understanding of Indian statutory requirements, audit-related finance controls, and compliance-driven operating environments.
• Good understanding of pharma manufacturing, batch costing, process orders, production variances, inventory valuation, and audit readiness.
• Experience with cross-module integration involving MM, SD, PP, QM, PM, WM/EWM, and external applications.
• Ability to translate business requirements into SAP solutions, functional specifications, process flows, test scenarios, and user documentation.
• Strong stakeholder management skills with Finance leadership, plant finance teams, business users, auditors, consultants, and IT teams.
• Basic ABAP debugging awareness and ability to work with technical teams for issue analysis and development validation.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, communication, documentation, and team leadership skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• ICWA / CMA qualification.
• Experience with finance and costing reporting for analytics applications and SAP.