Corporate Planning & Management-Bengaluru-Associate-Product Management

:"Divisional Overview

The Corporate Planning & Management (CPM) Division unifies Finance & Planning, Spend Management, Operational Risk and Resilience, and CPM Engineering teams to deliver business planning and analytics, expense management, third party risk management, and governance strategies across the firm. CPM have 5 operating pillars.

Finance & Planning supports the execution of the firm s strategic objectives through the management of the planning process, firmwide reporting and analytics and insights into the firm s business plans and budgets. They develop consistent framework for revenue division projections creating transparency, accountability and efficiency around projections. This pillar also includes the CF&O, EO and Engineering divisional CFOs, who are strategic finance advisors helping the firm and the non-revenue divisions achieve commercial financial opportunities. Product Finance is responsible for the overall governance and proactive management of the firm s non-compensation expenses. Spend Management encompasses the functions responsible for managing all aspects of the firms spend with third parties - advising commercial agreements and driving operating efficiency. Departments include Strategic Sourcing, Procure to Pay, Integrated Travel and Expense, Infrastructure and Transformation and Sustainable Operations. Operational Risk & Resilience drives firmwide Operational Risk programs along with second line teams and implements required changes within CPM. The Corporate Insurance & Advisory team in this pillar identifies, procures, and manages corporate insurance needs for the firm and its investing businesses. The CPM Engineering team provides engineering solutions that enable the firm to manage third-party spend, data and automation, plan budgets, forecast financial scenarios, allocate expenses and support corporate decision making in-line with the firm s strategic objectives.

Professionals in CPM have an analytical mindset, exhibit intellectual curiosity and are from diverse academic backgrounds. This role sits within the Spend Management pillar, within Product Enablement & Transformation.

The Product Enablement & Transformation team is a global team who enable Goldman Sachs to actively and effectively manage our vendor population, supply chain effectiveness, travel & expense processing & Source-to-Pay activity through the platforms we maintain within our architecture. Through excellent functional, project, program, and change management skills, along with a bias for becoming the subject matter or technical expert, this team seeks to fulfil the vision of our clients and partners with employees across platforms like Ariba, S4, Concur & Fieldglass. The Product Enablement & Transformation team work closely with senior leadership, process owners, Spend Management Engineering and our vendors to drive supply chain value and achieve Corporate Planning & Management s objectives & key results

The role will sit within the Invoice to Pay Product Pillar and will play a S4 Functional role in Accounts payable area involving S4 HANA, Ariba, Fieldglass and other upstream systems. The role requires collaboration with different functions across the P2P team on a regular basis, an ability to work independently, and ability to interact with senior professionals across the P2P area. It also entails in-depth analysis and reporting for senior management, requiring diligence and a delivery mindset. The candidate is required to work closely with global counterparts. Should have excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Job responsibilities will include, but are not limited to:

• Must have detailed functional knowledge on SAP S/4HANA 2310 (On-Prem) and specifically on S4 AP (Finance) implementation and should have acted as testing lead on S4 Version upgrades.
• Expertise in converting business requirements into functional and technical design specifications for developing ABAP Programs.
• 4 to 5 years of experience in SAP upgrade experience and should have been part of delivery in large global implementations.
• Partner across all users and system integrators for our S4 AP instance, ensuring enrolment in the change programs
• Partner with S4 Product Manager to develop roadmap, maximize S4 AP functionality and ensure controls are enhanced.
• Own day to day execution of various tasks in S4:
• Execution of new entity set up with required Bank setup and House bank configuration
• Governance and ownership across key master data setup, such as Business partner, cost center, GL account, Profit center etc. in S4 HANA
• Product ownership and experience on multiple country specific implementation, Tax Accounting, GL reporting, Internal orders on S4/HANA 2310 (on-prem).
• Day to day ownership and management of support and enhancement tickets coming from change management systems such as Agile, Scrum, JIRA, SNOW, SAP Support Tickets
• Communicate progress and relevant updates to project drivers, relevant functions and maintain key documentation of approvals where required.
• Ensure building trusted partnerships with various stake holders and provide guidance through complex functional and/or technical decisions.
• Highly motivated with ability to multi-task and remain organized in a fast-paced environment.
• Partner across all users and system integrators for our S4 AP instance, ensuring enrolment in the change programs.
• Partner with S4 Product Manager to develop roadmap, maximize S4 AP functionality and ensure controls are enhanced.
• Own day to day execution of various tasks in S4:
• Execution of new entity set up with required Bank setup and House bank configuration
• Governance and ownership across key master data setup, such as Business partner, cost center, GL account, Profit center etc. in S4 HANA
• Leadership of the process to trouble shoot Invoice failures and provide proactive actions for permanent solution
• Ownership of Automatic payment program and trouble shoot payment failures and provide proactive actions for permanent solution
• Product ownership of Tax calculation procedures and withholding tax configurations
• Troubleshoot invoice failures from Ariba and other non-SAP systems

Qualifications:

• Good exposure in using various integration and Data migration Techniques, LSMW, ECATT, Debugging tools
• Basic knowledge of HANA development and administration and CDS views.
• Proficiency in working in AP module in SAP S4/HANA 2310 and hands-on experience in customization configuration and integration to CPI.
• Knowledge of BTP and middleware like CPI and CIG would be added advantage
• Should have knowledge in understanding of Ariba core processes.
• Good experience in Accounts payable area involving vendor invoice & payment and general ledger postings
• Should have basic concept of integrating S4 HANA with SAP and Non-SAP system using SAP standard middleware like CPI and CIG
• Proven ability to triage escalations and manage upward communication appropriately.
• Should have knowledge of SDLC with focus on Test management and reporting
• ABAP debugging knowledge would be an added advantage
• Highly motivated with ability to multi-task and remain organized in a fast-paced environment.
• Technical and operational problem-solving skills and should be having flexible working style.