Function: Information Systems

Location:
Brakes India, Chennai, Padi Work mode: Work from office

Experience:
25+ years Role Summary Lead an established and strong enterprise SAP S/4HANA landscape at Brakes India. The role is accountable for sustaining operational excellence, mentoring the existing SAP team and shaping the next-stage transformation roadmap, including future readiness for SAP RISE where appropriate. The role will serve as a trusted enterprise process and SAP advisor, ensuring business requirements and process changes are translated into robust, supportable solutions with end-to-end impacts clearly understood.

Key Responsibilities
• Own the roadmap for an existing SAP S/4HANA estate, including lifecycle planning, simplification, optimisation and future readiness for SAP RISE where appropriate.
• Provide functional and operational leadership across FICO, MM, PP, QM, SD, PM and other deployed SAP capabilities.
• Lead custom development, integration and application support teams.
• Drive SAP transformation, upgrades, enhancements, process harmonisation and rationalisation of avoidable customisation.
• Own SAP-enabled enhancements, standardisation and governance across the existing S/4HANA landscape in partnership with business process owners.
• Lead end-to-end impact analysis for business requirements and process changes, covering enterprise processes, all affected SAP modules, integrations, data, controls and downstream systems.
• Advise business and technology stakeholders confidently on solution options, what will work within the enterprise landscape, trade-offs, dependencies, risks and the full cross-functional impact before changes are approved.
• Continued reliable integration with plant, engineering, data, analytics, banking, tax and surrounding enterprise systems.
• Lead the in-house SAP team to ensure service quality, delivery discipline,



cost effectiveness, knowledge continuity and business outcomes across support, enhancements and projects.
• Own SAP risk, ITGC, segregation of duties, audit readiness, release governance and operational resilience.
• Ensure continued development of module leads, team members and create succession depth. Required Experience & Skills
• Strong SAP FICO expertise grounded in substantial hands-on experience, with demonstrated progression into enterprise process, cross-functional SAP and senior leadership responsibilities.
• Proven leadership of enterprise-wide business processes and a multi-module SAP estate in complex manufacturing organisations, with the ability to assess how process decisions translate into system capabilities.
• Strong command of end-to-end enterprise process design, SAP architecture, Basis, security, integrations and support models, with the ability to identify cross-module and downstream impacts. Technical specialisation in every SAP module is not required, but broad functional understanding and sound solution judgement are essential.
• Experience leading large SAP transformation, upgrade, optimisation or migration programmes in mature SAP environments, preferably including S/4HANA and exposure to SAP RISE evaluation or migration planning.
• Ability to balance strategic roadmap ownership with operational accountability and issue resolution.
• Strong commercial, vendor, programme, change and senior stakeholder management capability.




• Demonstrate the ability to lead the BASIS function. Demonstrated Experience Required Candidates must substantiate their individual ownership and contribution through specific examples, scale and measurable outcomes.
• SAP transformation, optimisation or modernisation programmes personally led in existing enterprise SAP landscapes, with the candidate’s decisions and accountability clearly identified.
• Scale managed, including plants, users, countries or business units, team size, partners, budgets and programme value.
• Measurable improvements in process cycle time, control effectiveness, service reliability, cost, working capital or productivity.
• S/4HANA modernisation outcomes, including roadmap ownership, standardisation, custom-code rationalisation and any assessment or planning related to SAP RISE.
• Proven expertise in SAP FI & CO, while having experience in cross functional management. Qualifications
• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Technology, Finance, Information Systems or a related discipline.
• Relevant SAP certifications are preferred. Leadership Attributes
• Enterprise thinker with strong financial and operational judgement.
• Decisive leader who develops teams and holds partners accountable.
• Strong orientation to simplification, standardisation, controls and measurable value.
• Strong collaborator with data, digital and other functions. Stakeholder & Communication Skills
• Credible engagement with CXOs, business leaders, auditors, programme partners and technical teams.
• Ability to translate business priorities into an executable SAP roadmap and explain complex issues clearly. Diversity Statement Brakes India is an equal chance employer committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Women candidates are strongly encouraged to apply.

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