AstraZeneca India | Lead SAC Functional Consultant – Finance Planning

What you’ll do

• The SAC Functional Consultant – Finance Planning will be responsible for the functional and technical design of SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC) Planning for Finance and related multi-functional capabilities within the Programme.
• This role will play an integral part in defining AstraZeneca’s global Fit-to-Standard planning template, applying SAP standards while ensuring alignment with business requirements and end-to-end processes.
• The role will support activities across SAP Enterprise Portfolio and Project Management, Finance areas including Capex, Opex, workforce, product costing, etc., and other operational areas including demand, inventory and logistics costs.
• The role will ensure that the solution is fully documented, tested and governed in accordance with programme standards.
• The successful candidate will have a solid understanding of SAC Planning and SAP Finance, including awareness of end-to-end Finance processes such as Record to Report, Procure to Pay and Order to Cash.
• You will work closely with Enterprise Process Owners, IT Enterprise Business Partners, Product Managers, Finance SMEs, data and integration teams, and external partners to define an integrated solution.
• Lead the IT solution underpinning the global standard process design for your capability or lead area, including integrations.
• Accountable for aligning system design and SAP standards with business capability requirements, ensuring consistency with S/4HANA and SAC standard functionality.
• Support the data team in the definition, migration and creation of data objects required for the AZ global design across the application landscape.
• Ensure effective prioritisation of activities in line with the overall deployment strategy, project imperatives, Business Technology Group portfolios and BAU services.
• Accountable for ensuring existing and new AZ IT projects outside the Axial programme remain consistent with the overall solution design for your domain/capability area.
• Partner with AZ Architecture, Non-SAP systems and Integration teams to ensure solution and data design support the strategic IT landscape and integration requirements across internal and external systems.
• Ensure the latest industry and SAP capabilities are proactively considered within your capability and the wider programme, supporting the IT Enterprise Business Partner in your domain area.
• Work with programme partners to document and test the solution design in accordance with AZ compliance standards.
• Report on activity status against the plan, handle RAID items in your area and escalate as appropriate to the Enterprise domain.
• During deployment, the consultant will support localisation, business readiness, data migration, cutover, issue resolution and hypercare, ensuring a successful transition to the global solution.
• Champion the design for your capability through appropriate governance forums and represent IT as an SME and leader at relevant programme and business data forums.

Requirements

• Experience in operational planning, partner management, solution governance and the delivery of standardised global templates will be essential.
• In-depth knowledge of SAP ECC / S4 Finance solutions.
• Solid understanding of business processes in a Life Sciences environment, including core end-to-end Finance process streams such as R2R, P2P and OD2C.
• Demonstrated ability to successfully deliver IT change across multiple global locations and/or Business Functions, including the ability to translate technical information into clear business language.
• Strong partner management and communication skills, with the ability to collaborate across Business and IT teams and influence key partner groups.
• Experience working in a hybrid environment with a mix of internal and external resources across multiple geographical locations.
• Experience with S/4HANA implementations for complex global organisations, covering the lifecycle from design through deployment.
• Strong functional design skills in SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC) CAPEX planning, including investment demand, project-level budgeting, phased expenditure forecasting, scenario modelling, approval requirements and budget-versus-actual reporting.
• Certification in specific SAP S/4HANA areas relevant to your domain.
• Solid understanding of SAP Enterprise Portfolio and Project Management (EPPM), including investment portfolio planning, project prioritisation, governance and alignment of capital investment requirements with SAC CAPEX solution design.
• Solid understanding of SAP Project System (PS), including work breakdown structures (WBS), project budgeting, availability control, commitments, actual costs and settlement, with the ability to define project master data and financial integration requirements for SAC CAPEX planning.
• Good, because we can’t wait to hear from you.

AstraZeneca PLC

AstraZeneca was created in April 1999 by the merger of Sweden's Astra AB and Britain's Zeneca Group, which had been split off from ICI's pharmaceutical businesses in 1993. Its global headquarters are on the Cambridge Biomedical Campus in Cambridge, England, and its shares are listed in London, Stockholm and New York. The group researches, develops and sells prescription medicines, mainly in oncology, cardiovascular, renal and metabolic disease, and respiratory and immunology, and it covers rare diseases through Alexion, bought in 2021. AstraZeneca has been in India since 1979. AstraZeneca Pharma India Limited, a listed subsidiary headquartered in Bengaluru, looks after manufacturing, sales and marketing. AstraZeneca India Private Limited runs the group's global capability centre in Chennai and Bengaluru, covering IT, global business services and R&D, and includes the Global Innovation and Technology Centre in Chennai.

Its finance-related opening in India is a senior consultant role in SAP tax, based in Chennai.

• Industry: Biopharmaceuticals: prescription medicines in oncology, cardiovascular, renal and metabolic disease, respiratory and immunology, and rare diseases (through Alexion)
• Headquarters: Cambridge, United Kingdom (AstraZeneca PLC, listed in London, Stockholm and New York)
• In India: AstraZeneca Pharma India Limited (listed subsidiary, headquartered in Bengaluru, manufacturing, sales and marketing; in India since 1979) and AstraZeneca India Private Limited (global capability centre in Chennai and Bengaluru, including the Global Innovation and Technology Centre and Global Business Services)