Finance Business Analyst Job Description
| Role |
Finance Business Analyst |
| SAP Finance |
(ECC, S/4HANA and Central Finance) |
| Location |
Bengaluru |
| Experience |
8+ years (8-12 preferred) |
| Employment |
Full-time |
Role Summary
We are seeking an experienced, business-oriented Finance Business Analyst with
strong SAP FICO expertise to support existing finance solutions and contribute
to enhancement and transformation initiatives across SAP ECC, SAP S/4HANA and
Central Finance landscapes. The role combines day-to-day application support,
functional analysis, configuration, process improvement and project delivery.
The successful candidate will work closely with Finance stakeholders, the
Application Management Services (AMS) team, enterprise architects and
technical delivery teams to resolve operational issues, translate business
requirements into practical solutions, and maintain scalable, controlled and
supportable finance processes.
Key Responsibilities
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Support SAP ECC and SAP S/4HANA Finance transformation initiatives across
global enterprise landscapes, partnering with business stakeholders, finance
leadership, enterprise architects, and cross-functional teams to deliver
scalable and standardized finance solutions across core business processes
including Record-to-Report (R2R), Procure-to-Pay (P2P), Order-to-Cash (O2C),
Treasury, and Controlling.
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Configure, implement, and support core SAP FICO functionalities including
General Ledger (GL), Accounts Payable (AP), Accounts Receivable (AR), Asset
Accounting (AA), Banking & Treasury, Cost and Profit Centre Accounting,
Product Costing, CO-PA / Margin Analysis, Intercompany Accounting, Material
Ledger, Actual Costing, and Universal Journal (ACDOCA), while supporting
financial closing, reconciliation, statutory reporting, taxation,
compliance, and continuous process improvement initiatives.
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Coordinate SAP and non-SAP enterprise integrations across finance
ecosystems, including banking, procurement, tax, treasury, and shared
services platforms, while collaborating with ABAP, Integration, Basis,
Security, Testing, and Data Migration teams to ensure seamless
transformation delivery and operational stability.
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Contribute to finance capabilities and transformation programs involving SAP
Central Finance (CFIN), Group Reporting, Financial Consolidation,
Intercompany Eliminations, Embedded Analytics, SAP Fiori finance
capabilities, and S/4HANA finance innovations, including support for global
rollout, governance, production support, audit readiness, and stabilization
activities.
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Promote SAP S/4HANA finance best practices by supporting Clean Core
principles, SAP standard processes, SAP Fiori finance capabilities,
Analytics, and simplification initiatives to enable scalable,
upgrade-friendly, and future-ready enterprise finance solutions.
Required Qualifications and Experience
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8+ years of relevant SAP FICO implementation, enhancement and
production-support experience; candidates with approximately 8-12 years of
experience are preferred.
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Hands-on configuration and support experience in SAP Finance across both SAP
ECC and SAP S/4HANA environments.
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Strong functional knowledge of General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Accounts
Receivable, Asset Accounting, banking, cost and profit center accounting,
Product Costing, CO-PA / Margin Analysis and intercompany processes.
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Demonstrated experience supporting incidents and service requests in an IT
service-management environment; practical experience with ServiceNow and an
AMS delivery model is strongly preferred.
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Experience across the solution lifecycle, including requirements analysis,
functional design, configuration, testing, deployment, documentation and
post-go-live support.
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Experience troubleshooting integrations and collaborating with technical
teams across SAP and non-SAP platforms.
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Ability to work effectively with global stakeholders and cross-functional
delivery teams.
Preferred Experience
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SAP Central Finance implementation or support experience.
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Experience with BlackLine, Coupa, ONESOURCE, Kyriba and/or GetPaid,
including related SAP integrations.
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Experience supporting global rollouts, finance transformation programs,
upgrades or complex multi-system landscapes.
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Working knowledge of SAP Fiori finance capabilities, Clean Core principles
and SAP standardization practices.
Document Reference: Finance Business Analyst Job Description