ABB India | R2R and M&A Solution Lead

Responsibilities

• We are looking for an experienced and technically proficient M&A CFIN Architect to lead the design, integration, and optimization of finance solutions within the Central Finance (CFIN) landscape.
• This role is responsible for supporting any new company code, mergers, acquisitions, and divestments by ensuring that acquired entities are efficiently integrated into the target CFIN architecture in alignment with business objectives.
• The role requires close collaboration with Finance, IS Architecture, M&A integration teams, and external vendors to ensure seamless system integration, data consistency, process standardization, and compliance with ABB standards.
• This role is contributing to the Finance Services business Finance Process Data Systems division in Bangalore, India.
• Delivery Assurance & Operational Readiness.

Qualifications for the role

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in finance, Information Systems, Business Administration, Computer Science or a related field.
• 12–15+ years of SAP Finance experience with strong knowledge of SAP Central Finance and/or S/4HANA Finance.
• Strong functional expertise in Record-to-Report, including General Ledger, close, reconciliation, intercompany and financial reporting.
• Experience delivering complex M&A, divestment, legal-entity onboarding or Finance transformation initiatives.
• Strong experience across testing, data migration, reconciliation, cutover and stabilization.
• Proven experience leading Architects or senior functional teams.
• Strong delivery management, stakeholder management and decision-making capability.
• Ability to manage complex cross-functional dependencies and drive issues to resolution.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to operate effectively across Finance, business, technical teams and external partners.
• Strong focus on execution, operational stability and successful business outcomes.

ABB India Limited

ABB is a Swiss-headquartered engineering and technology group best known for electrification and automation. It has worked in India for more than a century, and its listed company here, ABB India Limited, began in 1949 as Hindustan Electric Company. ABB India makes and services electrical equipment, motors and drives and automation systems for power utilities, factories, transport and buildings, from plants and engineering centres that also supply ABB businesses in other countries.

Finance openings at ABB in India are concentrated in Bengaluru, in teams that close the books, report and control for ABB units in India and abroad. Typical roles are accounting and reporting analysts and specialists (general ledger, accounts payable and receivable, intercompany, fixed assets and lease accounting), direct and indirect tax analysts, and controlling and FP&A specialists. Most ask for a B.Com, M.Com or MBA (Finance), and several name CA, CMA or CA Inter as a requirement or an advantage.

• Industry: Electrification and automation technology: electrical products and systems, motors and drives, process automation
• Headquarters: Zurich, Switzerland (ABB Ltd); ABB India Limited has its registered office in Bengaluru
• In India: ABB India Limited, listed on the NSE and BSE, with factories, feeder factories for ABB's global supply chain and engineering centres in India; most finance roles are in Bengaluru