Competence Manager - Finance

• **This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Competence Manager - Finance based in India.**
• This role offers the opportunity to lead and develop a community of SAP Finance specialists within a global technology organisation.
• You will combine deep SAP FICO expertise with people leadership to strengthen technical capabilities and support long-term career growth.
• The position focuses on building high-performing teams, identifying future skill needs, and creating opportunities for continuous development.
• You will work across engineering and business functions to align talent, staffing, and competence strategies with organisational priorities.
• Through coaching, Communities of Practice, workforce planning, and targeted learning initiatives, you will help shape sustainable technical capabilities.
• The role also provides the opportunity to influence engineering practices, talent pipelines, and organisational decisions through data-driven insights.
• It is an ideal opportunity for an experienced SAP Finance leader who enjoys developing people while building capabilities for the future.

### Accountabilities

• Lead a defined community of engineers and technical experts with formal people-management responsibility, fostering an inclusive, psychologically safe, and high-performing environment.
• Coach and mentor team members through career development, individual growth plans, performance reviews, succession planning, and long-term capability building.
• Define and execute a competence development strategy aligned with current delivery requirements and future business needs.
• Build and nurture Communities of Practice that promote knowledge sharing, collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement.
• Partner with Engineering Managers, Technical Project Managers, Area Managers, People Business Partners, and other team leaders to align people, skills, and staffing with business priorities.
• Identify capability gaps and establish targeted development initiatives, including training, certifications, mentoring, internal mobility, and other learning opportunities.
• Contribute to workforce planning, talent pipelines, recruitment, onboarding, retention, and sourcing strategies for critical SAP Finance capabilities.
• Support resource planning and cost efficiency, including budgets associated with competence development and community activities.
• Represent the engineering community in organisational discussions and act as an escalation point for people-related matters that may affect delivery.
• Use workforce and competence data to understand capability coverage, development needs, emerging skills, and future organisational requirements.

**Requirements:**

• 14+ years of experience in SAP Finance (FICO), including 3–4 years of hands-on people management experience with direct reports, performance management, and career development responsibilities.
• Strong expertise across core SAP FICO modules, including General Ledger (GL), Accounts Payable (AP), Accounts Receivable (AR), Cost Center Accounting, Profit Center Accounting, and Internal Orders.
• Previous experience in a senior engineering, technical leadership, or technology management role within applications, software, data, platforms, or related technical domains.
• Strong subject matter expertise and a solid understanding of the end-to-end engineering and development lifecycle.
• Demonstrated experience coaching, mentoring, and developing technical talent while aligning individual growth with business objectives.
• Experience creating or contributing to Communities of Practice and fostering environments that encourage collaboration, knowledge sharing, and innovation.
• Experience with workforce, resource, or organisational planning, with the ability to connect capability requirements to business priorities.
• Strong stakeholder management, communication, and influencing skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively across organisational levels.
• Good understanding of modern engineering practices, including Agile methodologies, CI/CD, DevOps, automation, and continuous improvement.
• Basic financial acumen and the ability to make informed decisions regarding staffing, resource allocation, and competence-development investments.
• A data-driven mindset with the ability to analyse capability gaps, measure development progress, and use insights to support organisational decisions.
• Collaborative and empowering leadership style, with strong relationship-building skills and respect for diverse perspectives.
• Curious, innovative, resourceful, improvement-oriented, honest, self-aware, clear, and outcome-focused, with the ability to create clarity and turn insights into meaningful action.

**Benefits:**

• Opportunity to work with talented and diverse professionals within a global technology organisation.
• Significant influence over the development of engineering capabilities and the career growth of technical professionals.
• Access to continuous learning, professional development, certifications, and internal career mobility opportunities.
• Collaborative and inclusive working environment that values empowerment, innovation, continuous improvement, resourcefulness, honesty, and clarity.
• Opportunity to shape future workforce capabilities and contribute to long-term organisational and engineering strategy.
• Exposure to cross-functional collaboration with engineering, technology, people, and business leadership teams.
• No cover letter required as part of the recruitment process.