Competence Manager - Finance

Job description

**This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Competence Manager - Finance based in India.** This role offers the opportunity to lead and develop a community of SAP Finance specialists within a global technology organisation. You will combine deep SAP FICO expertise with people leadership to strengthen technical capabilities and support long-term career growth. The position focuses on building high-performing teams, identifying future skill needs, and creating opportunities for continuous development. You will work across engineering and business functions to align talent, staffing, and competence strategies with organisational priorities. Through coaching, Communities of Practice, workforce planning, and targeted learning initiatives, you will help shape sustainable technical capabilities. The role also provides the opportunity to influence engineering practices, talent pipelines, and organisational decisions through data-driven insights. It is an ideal opportunity for an experienced SAP Finance leader who enjoys developing people while building capabilities for the future. ### Accountabilities: - Lead a defined community of engineers and technical experts with formal people-management responsibility, fostering an inclusive, psychologically safe, and high-performing environment. - Coach and mentor team members through career development, individual growth plans, performance reviews, succession planning, and long-term capability building. - Define and execute a competence development strategy aligned with current delivery requirements and future business needs. - Build and nurture Communities of Practice that promote knowledge sharing, collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement. - Partner with Engineering Managers, Technical Project Managers, Area Managers, People Business Partners, and other team leaders to align people, skills, and staffing with business priorities. - Identify capability gaps and establish targeted development initiatives, including training, certifications, mentoring, internal mobility, and other learning opportunities. - Contribute to workforce planning, talent pipelines, recruitment, onboarding, retention, and sourcing strategies for critical SAP Finance capabilities. - Support resource planning and cost efficiency, including budgets associated with competence development and community activities. - Represent the engineering community in organisational discussions and act as an escalation point for people-related matters that may affect delivery. - Use workforce and competence data to understand capability coverage, development needs, emerging skills, and future organisational requirements. **Requirements:** - 14+ years of experience in SAP Finance (FICO), including 3–4 years of hands-on people management experience with direct reports, performance management, and career development responsibilities. - Strong expertise across core SAP FICO modules, including General Ledger (GL), Accounts Payable (AP), Accounts Receivable (AR), Cost Center Accounting, Profit Center Accounting, and Internal Orders. - Previous experience in a senior engineering, technical leadership, or technology management role within applications, software, data, platforms, or related technical domains. - Strong subject matter expertise and a solid understanding of the end-to-end engineering and development lifecycle. - Demonstrated experience coaching, mentoring, and developing technical talent while aligning individual growth with business objectives. - Experience creating or contributing to Communities of Practice and fostering environments that encourage collaboration, knowledge sharing, and innovation. - Experience with workforce, resource, or organisational planning, with the ability to connect capability requirements to business priorities. - Strong stakeholder management, communication, and influencing skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively across organisational levels. - Good understanding of modern engineering practices, including Agile methodologies, CI/CD, DevOps, automation, and continuous improvement. - Basic financial acumen and the ability to make informed decisions regarding staffing, resource allocation, and competence-development investments. - A data-driven mindset with the ability to analyse capability gaps, measure development progress, and use insights to support organisational decisions. - Collaborative and empowering leadership style, with strong relationship-building skills and respect for diverse perspectives. - Curious, innovative, resourceful, improvement-oriented, honest, self-aware, clear, and outcome-focused, with the ability to create clarity and turn insights into meaningful action. **Benefits:** - Opportunity to work with talented and diverse professionals within a global technology organisation. - Significant influence over the development of engineering capabilities and the career growth of technical professionals. - Access to continuous learning, professional development, certifications, and internal career mobility opportunities. - Collaborative and inclusive working environment that values empowerment, innovation, continuous improvement, resourcefulness, honesty, and clarity. - Opportunity to shape future workforce capabilities and contribute to long-term organisational and engineering strategy. - Exposure to cross-functional collaboration with engineering, technology, people, and business leadership teams. - No cover letter required as part of the recruitment process.