Data Migration Manager - Finance Transformation Delivery Centre

Industry: Global Transport and Logistics

Employment Type: Full-time

Job Summary

Role Summary: The Data Migration Manager is responsible for leading end-to-end data migration activities including strategy, planning, and execution of financial transactional data migration during SAP S/4HANA transformations rollouts and must ensure accurate, timely, compliant, and audit-ready migration of critical financial data including General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Fixed Assets, and Controlling data from legacy systems into SAP, aligning with business requirements and project timelines.

Responsibilities

- Lead end-to-end SAP data migration strategy, planning and execution
- Develop comprehensive data migration plans aligned with the overall program roadmap
- Delivery ownership of data migration workstreams across all phases (Plan, Design, Build, Test and Deploy)
- Ability to effectively manage timelines, risks, dependencies, and budgets
- Ability to plan and allocate data migration resources across multiple concurrent country rollouts
- Coordinate effectively with program leadership, PMO, and stakeholders
- Define and implement the overall data migration strategy, methodology, and standards for master and transactional data
- Define the migration approach: methodology, migration waves, mock cycle approach, quality review process, and success criteria
- Data extraction from legacy systems
- Data cleansing, validation, and transformation
- Data loading using tools like SAP Migration Cockpit, LTMOM, LVM, ETL tools
- Data reconciliation at object level also with the group systems
- Data Quality Governance
- Define the data migration governance framework: RACI, decision forums, sign-off requirements, escalation points,



and reporting cadence
- Define the data quality framework and validation criteria: quality rules, reconciliation approach, acceptance thresholds, and ownership
- Ensure data migration activities comply with regulatory requirements, data privacy policies, and audit standards
- Leadership Team development
- Build, mentor, and develop a high-performing team of Data Migration Leads and Specialists
- Manage team performance and drive process optimization and efficiency initiatives within the data migration function
- Stakeholder management and comms
- Communicate data migration progress, risks, issues, and reconciliation status to the Finance Delivery Center Manager and executive leadership
- Build and maintain strong relationships with key stakeholders across BCM, IT, GPO, country leads, and business process owners
- Risk Issue Management
- Identify migration risks early and implement mitigation plans
- Resolve data-related blockers during testing and cutover phases
- Cutover
- Plan and execute cutover strategy for Mock and Production Data Migration
- Ensure successful Data Migration with minimal disruption

Key Experience

Most important-

- Strong understanding of data migration concepts, and data quality frameworks
- Proven ability to manage data integrity, reconciliation, and validation in a complex environment

Fairly important-

- Strong Understanding of finance / record-to-report, order-to-cash,



procure-to-pay processes
- SAP Financial Expertise across SAP FI/CO modules (GL, AP, AR, Asset Accounting, CO)
- Solid experience in SAP S/4HANA data migration
- Define financial data migration strategies (Extract/Transform/Load)
- Knowledge of SAP tables and data objects (FI, MM, SD, etc.) and Migration tools

Required Experience

- Bachelor's degree in Engineering/ Business/Accounting or corresponding experience
- 10-12 years in large-scale data migration projects with focus on Finance Transformation projects
- 5+ years SAP S/4HANA application experience in one/ or many of these areas: ERP implementations in SAP FI, SAP CO, SAP MM, SAP SD, SAP MDG
- 5+ years in data migration leadership, specifically financial data
- Proven ability to lead large teams
- Hands-on experience with data reconciliation techniques and tools
- Experience managing large-scale, global S/4HANA implementations and multi-country rollouts
- Strong program/project management expertise
- Excellent strategic planning, risk management, and problem-solving skills related to data
- Exceptional communication, negotiation, and stakeholder management abilities at an executive level
- Exposure to Source-to-Pay, Record-to-Report, or Order-to-Cash processes is an advantage
- Prior experience in transport and logistics sector is an advantage

Behaviour Skills

- Service minded and customer driven
- Effective communication skills (English)
- Excellent organizational, interpersonal, time management and communication skills
- Solid collaboration and cross-functional working style
- Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment
- Continuous improvement mindset with focus on quality and efficiency

Location: Hyderabad, India

📌 Manager (Hyderabad)
🏢 Panalpina
📍 Hyderabad