Associate IT Manager - SAP FICO & Master Data

The Associate Manager SAP FICO & Master Data is responsible for the operation, support and continuous improvement of LOF's SAP Finance & Controlling (FI/CO) landscape, ensuring accurate, timely and controlled financial information in compliance with accounting requirements, management needs and business processes.
As a strategic business partner, the role works closely with Finance, Accounting, Controlling, Supply Chain, Procurement, Sales, Manufacturing and IT stakeholders to translate business requirements into effective SAP solutions, support month-end and year-end closing, resolve complex issues, and improve financial process efficiency and system stability.
The role also supports SAP FICO solution design, configuration, integration, testing, data migration and go-live activities, with a strong focus on SAP standard and Fit-to-Standard approaches. It works with ABAP/technical teams, SAP partners and key users to deliver controlled changes, reliable integrations and continuous improvement while maintaining strong authorization, audit and internal-control requirements.
1. SAP FI - Financial Accounting & Closing
Support and manage General Ledger (GL), Accounts Payable (AP), Accounts Receivable (AR), Asset Accounting, Bank Accounting and related financial processes.
Analyze and resolve posting, account determination, reconciliation, clearing, tax and FI master-data issues.
Support month-end and year-end closing activities, ensuring completeness, accuracy and consistency of financial data and timely resolution of system issues.
Support payment, receivables, payables, asset, banking and reconciliation processes, working closely with Finance and Accounting teams.
Provide fact-based analysis and recommendations to Finance/Accounting for issues affecting financial reporting, controls and closing deadlines.
2. SAP CO - Management Accounting & Profitability
Support Cost Center, Profit Center, Internal Order, Product Costing and CO-PA processes within the assigned scope.
Support cost allocation, assessment/distribution, settlement and CO period-end activities.
Analyze cost, product-cost and profitability variances by product, channel and business unit to support management reporting and business decisions.
Work with Finance/Controlling and Manufacturing to ensure appropriate cost flow, costing logic and profitability reporting.
Provide timely analysis of CO issues and recommendations to improve cost visibility and management accounting effectiveness.
3. Solution Delivery, Integration & Data
Gather and analyze business requirements and translate them into appropriate SAP FI/CO solutions, prioritizing SAP standard and Fit-to-Standard.
Perform SAP configuration, unit testing, integration testing, UAT and go-live/rollout support when assigned.
Support FI/CO integration with MM, SD, PP and external systems; analyze root causes of posting, accounting and interface discrepancies.
Work with ABAP/technical teams on Functional Specifications for enhancements, reports, interfaces, forms and workflows.
Support data migration, data cleansing, reconciliation and validation activities, ensuring financial data integrity.
4. Production Support, Governance & Continuous Improvement
Manage incidents and problems, perform root-cause analysis for recurring or high-impact issues, and ensure resolution within agreed service levels.
Manage SAP changes in accordance with change-control procedures, assess business and financial impacts, and coordinate testing before production deployment.
Maintain SAP configuration, process documentation and user guides; provide support and knowledge transfer to key users and junior team members when required.
Support internal and external audits, financial controls, authorization reviews and provision of system evidence as required; perform other tasks and projects assigned by the line manager in support of department and company objectives.
Responsibilities will cover projects, financial systems, and other tasks assigned by the Line Manager / Head of IT