EY Assistant Product Manager - Financial Controlling 

India, Kerala, Kochi 

78342902

Core

• Understand and support documentation of business processes, workflows, and requirements to ensure ERP components align with organizational goals and operational needs.
• Develop detailed functional specifications for SAP FI CO components, including user stories, use cases, and acceptance criteria for new features, configurations, technical fixes and enhancements.
• Provide support to the lead Product Manager in their interactions with business / finance stakeholders and the technical team, facilitating communication and ensuring mutual understanding of requirements and constraints.
• Support the product update and enhancement lifecycle with emphasis on demand, requirements, validation, and securing business signoff
• Support requirements review, validation activities, test case reviews, and user acceptance testing for new features rolling out across SAP FI CO product suite
• Ensure that SAP components adhere to industry best practices, regulatory requirements, and internal policies.
• Monitor the effectiveness of SAP components in supporting business operations and report on their impact and ROI.
• Monitor impacts to other processes and products that may stem from changes they promote across the SAP FI CO product suite
• Team with other Technical teams and business stakeholders to manage/monitor functional incidents and service requests through full lifecycle (through closure)
• Provide technical incident, service request, and problem tickets management oversight and prioritization
• Provides global, cross border major incident oversight and communicates status to the global business in a timely manner
• Adheres to SLA compliance for all workloads and re-prioritizes tickets if necessary
• Analyzes batch failures/errors and summarize findings in reports to lead Product Manager

Skills and attributes for success

• 5+ years of experience in a large business system environment, performing business analysis, business development, and/or project systems management
• 5+ years of experience in SAP FI and CO solutions (e.g., revenue and cost rates management, global allocations, cost center creation, reporting, translation of requirements – process or technology solution)
• Direct experience in supporting Finance Controlling operations for a global professional services organization (Big 4 experience preferred)
• SAP certification preferred
• History of working credibly with senior stakeholders
• Exceptional verbal and written skills including strong cross-cultural communication and the ability to draft effective communications
• Ability to work with people in a variety of cultures, countries and time zones
• Knowledge of Artificial Intelligence, BOT Framework and Machine learning
• To qualify for the role, you must have
• Creative and self-starter mindset with strong analytical and quantitative skills to operate, at times, without direct supervision on multiple complex projects and tasks, and their shifting priorities in parallel.
• Effective listening skills and display openness to other people's ideas and thoughts.
• Ability to deal efficiently with escalations, conflicts and difficult situations/people under pressure.
• English language skills – exceptional written and verbal communication.
• Flexibility to work out of regular office hours to cater to the global organization needs.

Ideally, you’ll also have

• Prior experience working for a large, global organization with a complex environment

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree in finance, business, computer science or a related discipline, or equivalent work experience

Experience:

• 5+ years of relevant experience in an ERP/SAP Financial Product function
• Possession of a current (non-expired) professional, industry recognized certification preferred

As part of this role, you'll work in a highly integrated, global team with the opportunity and tools to grow, develop and drive your career forward. Here, you can combine global opportunity with flexible working. The EY benefits package goes above and beyond too, focusing on your physical, emotional, financial and social well-being. Your recruiter can talk to you about the benefits available in your country. Here’s a snapshot of what we offer:

• Continuous learning : You’ll develop the mindset and skills to navigate whatever comes next.
• Success as defined by you : We’ll provide the tools and flexibility, so you can make a meaningful impact, your way.
• Transformative leadership : We’ll give you the insights, coaching and confidence to be the leader the world needs.
• Diverse and inclusive culture: You’ll be embraced for who you are and empowered to use your voice to help others find theirs.

EY exists to build a better working world, helping to create long-term value for clients, people and society and build trust in the capital markets.