Job Summary

Cutover Lead - Finance Transformation Delivery Centre

Employment Type: Full-time

Responsibilities

- Own the end-to-end cutover strategy and plan for the finance workstream task identification, sequencing, dependencies, timelines, ownership and rollback/contingency planning

- Plan and lead mock cutovers and dress rehearsals, capturing learnings and refining timings and the runbook for the final go-live

- Lead and run the cutover command centre / control room during go-live real-time tracking, checkpoint management, go/no-go inputs and escalation handling

- Coordinate across functional, technical, data migration, infrastructure, testing and business teams, plus third-party vendors, to lock cutover sequencing and resolve conflicts

- Maintain the master cutover runbook as a single source of truth and govern version control and signoffs

- Manage cutover risks, issues and dependencies with clear mitigation and decision logs

- Provide leadership and stakeholder reporting on cutover readiness and live execution status

- Ensure a clean handover into hypercare and BAU, including outstanding items and known risks

- Guide and direct Cutover Specialists, allocating activities and reviewing quality of runbook tasks

Key Experience

Most Important

- Solid Understanding of finance / record-to-report, order-to-cash, procure-to-pay processes

- Proven experience leading cutover on at least one full-cycle ERP / finance transformation go-live

- Strong cutover planning and runbook management, including mock cutovers / dress rehearsals

- Command-centre / go-live execution leadership with confident go/no-go and escalation handling

Fairly important





- Understanding of finance system landscapes and data migration dependencies

- Knowledge of integrating boundary systems with centralized finance

- Understanding business cutover dependencies and relevant contingencies

- Experience coordinating cross-functional, multi-vendor, onshore/offshore teams

- Senior stakeholder reporting and communication

Least important

- Hands-on technical/configuration work

- Detailed test execution experience

Required Experience

- Bachelors degree in Engineering/ Business/ Accounting or corresponding experience. PMP/ PRINCE2 an advantage

- 8 12 years experience in ERP implementation projects along with considerable cutover experience

- Elementary functional SAP S4HANA knowledge with 3-5 years experience preferably within FI, CO, SD, MM

- Strong accounting knowledge

- Understanding of cutover, hypercare and approval phases

- Knowledge of release cycles and country/division-specific requirements

- Understanding of enterprise integration architecture and system landscapes

- Expertise in JIRA

- Strong coordination skills for working with multiple stakeholders, including integration system owners, local finance, Business Change Management, and Group Process Owner teams

- Prior experience in transport and logistics sector is an advantage

Behavioural Skills

- Ownership and resilience through a clean handover to hypercare

- Exceptional planning, sequencing and attention to detail

- Robust stakeholder influence and senior communication

- Risk-aware with sound, fast judgement

- People leadership able to motivate and coordinate large, distributed teams

- Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment

Location: Hyderabad, India

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