EY India | SAP FI AFCC-Manager

Responsibilities

• The team brings the desired environment, technologies and skilled teams together for facilitation, rapid prototyping and innovative thinking.
• We are currently recruiting for a Seniors to join our team.
• This team offers variety, challenge, responsibility and the opportunity to realize your leadership potential.
• Being a member of our Consulting team means you will specialize in a particular competency - Risk, Technology Consulting, or IT Risk & Assurance.
• Our Technology Consulting team is focused on helping clients improve operational efficiency and security, while also reducing costs and managing risk.
• In this role, we are looking for an experienced SAP AFCC Manager to join our growing SAP Finance team.
• An SAP Advanced Financial Closing (AFC) Manager is responsible for leading the design, implementation, and optimization of the financial closing processes using SAP AFC, typically within an S/4HANA environment.
• You’ll build and nurture positive working relationships with teams and clients with the intention to exceed client expectations.
• Design and configure SAP AFC task lists, dependencies, and workflows to streamline closing activities.
• Integrate AFC with on-premises and cloud systems, including SAP ERP, S/4HANA, and third-party systems.
• Provide real-time visibility into the closing progress across subsidiaries and headquarters, ensuring accuracy, compliance, and a clear audit trail.
• Resolve issues related to task execution, system connectivity, and data inconsistencies.
• Collaborate with finance, IT, and external stakeholders to define business requirements and ensure a smooth closing process.
• Follow‑up on the action items from the workshops
• Creating and managing automated chains of tasks, including the automatic triggering and execution of ABAP programs and jobs
• Configuring the closing structure, defining dependencies between tasks, and managing task list parameters

Skills and attributes for success

• Collaborate with stakeholders to gather and analyse business requirements independently (Mandatory skill).
• Ability to drive design workshops independently with the client (Mandatory skill).
• Must be able to prepare the materials for the design workshops independently (Mandatory skill).
• Must send out the Meeting Minutes of the Workshop post each workshop that he/she leads (Mandatory skill).
• Advanced knowledge and experience with SAP AFCC functionality.
• Strong written and verbal communication, presentation, client service and technical writing skills, coupled with a strong interest in further developing and integrating enterprise domain knowledge with technology skills.
• Candidate must be a qualified CA / ICWA / MBA Finance/M.
• Must have at least 2 end-to-end implementation experience in SAP AFCC.
• Proficiency in SAP S/4HANA Finance, SAP Fiori apps (for managing closing tasks), and understanding of job scheduling.
• Strong understanding of general ledger, account reconciliation, and financial reporting.

EY (Ernst & Young)

EY is one of the Big Four professional services networks, providing assurance, tax, consulting and strategy-and-transactions services. The network in its present form came from the 1989 merger of Ernst & Whinney and Arthur Young.

In India, EY member firms and EY Global Delivery Services employ large finance teams. Typical openings for chartered accountants and finance professionals are in financial accounting advisory (FAAS), audit, tax, risk and transaction services.

• Industry: Assurance, tax, consulting and transactions (Big Four)
• Headquarters: London, UK
• In India: EY member firms and EY Global Delivery Services centres in several Indian cities