Deloitte—Associate Director | SAP CO | Bengaluru | SAP | DSA CoE

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Description: Associate Director | SAP CO | Bengaluru | SAP | DSA CoE • Job requisition ID : 113433 • Location: Bengaluru • Entity: Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu India LLP The team Enterprise technology must do much more than keep the wheels turning; it is the engine that drives functional excellence and the enabler of innovation and long-term growth. Learn more about ET&P Your work profile - The team must do much more than keep the wheels turning; it is the engine that drives functional excellence and the enabler of innovation and long-term growth. - Lead large-scale SAP S/4HANA Finance and Controlling transformation programs across global clients and ensure successful end-to-end delivery. - Serve as a senior SAP CO subject matter expert and functional leader, providing strategic direction and guidance on complex Controlling requirements. - Lead multidisciplinary teams comprising SAP functional consultants, solution architects, technical teams, and business stakeholders across global implementations. - Own the SAP CO solution architecture and ensure that solutions are scalable, standardized, integrated, and aligned with SAP S/4HANA best practices. - Provide expertise across key SAP CO areas, including Cost Center Accounting, Profit Center Accounting, Internal Orders, Product Costing, Profitability Analysis, Material Ledger, Allocations, Settlement, Planning, and Period-End Closing. - Ensure effective integration of SAP CO with SAP FI, MM, SD, PP, PS, and other enterprise applications. - Drive global template design, fit-to-standard workshops, localization, testing, cutover, deployment, and post-go-live stabilization activities. - Ensure adherence to SAP S/4HANA architecture principles, SAP Activate methodology, clean-core standards, and industry best practices. - Manage program delivery by overseeing scope, timelines, quality, risks, dependencies, resources, and overall delivery performance. - Act as the senior escalation point for complex SAP Finance and Controlling functional, architectural, and business-process issues. - Build and maintain strong relationships with senior client stakeholders, including CFOs, Finance Controllers, CIOs, and business leadership teams. - Act as a trusted advisor to clients by understanding their business challenges and defining effective SAP Finance and Controlling transformation strategies. - Lead executive-level workshops, solution discussions, design reviews, steering committee meetings, and transformation roadmap discussions. - Support pre-sales and business development activities, including RFP/RFI responses, proposals, solution design, effort estimation, presentations, and client demonstrations. - Identify opportunities for account growth and contribute to developing new SAP Finance and Controlling solutions, offerings, accelerators, and methodologies. - Contribute to SAP Finance practice growth by establishing delivery standards, reusable assets, frameworks, and industry best practices. - Mentor and develop senior SAP CO consultants, functional leads, and solution architects while building high-performing global teams. Key skills required - 12+ Years of overall SAP experience, with extensive experience in SAP CO/Controlling and SAP S/4HANA Finance. - Strong experience in leading large-scale SAP S/4HANA implementations, global rollouts, and Finance transformation programs. - Deep functional expertise across SAP CO, Product Costing, CO-PA, Cost Center Accounting, Profit Center Accounting, Internal Orders, and Material Ledger. - Strong understanding of SAP FI-CO integration and integration with MM, SD, PP, PS, and other SAP modules. - Strong knowledge of SAP S/4HANA Finance architecture, Universal Journal (ACDOCA), and Material Ledger. - Hands-on experience with SAP Activate, Fit-to-Standard, Global Template, and Clean Core approaches. - Proven experience in solution architecture, program governance, delivery management, and stakeholder management. - Demonstrated ability to lead large, geographically distributed and multidisciplinary teams. - Strong experience in client engagement, executive communication, consulting, and strategic advisory. - Proven experience in SAP pre-sales, RFP/RFI responses, solutioning, estimation, proposal development, and business development. - Strong problem-solving, decision-making, negotiation, and presentation skills. - Experience with SAP Central Finance, SAP Group Reporting, SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC), and SAP Fiori is preferred. - Experience with SAP Finance transformation across global organizations and multiple geographies is highly desirable. - Industry experience in Manufacturing, Retail, Consumer Products, Life Sciences, Energy, or Financial Services would be an advantage. - SAP S/4HANA Finance & Controlling (Management Accounting) certification would be an added advantage. - Bachelor’s or master’s degree in finance, Accounting, Information Technology, Business Administration, or a related discipline is preferred.