Function: Information Systems

Location: Brakes India, Chennai, Padi

Work mode: Work from office

Experience: 25 years

Role Summary

Lead an established and robust 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 opportunity employer committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Women candidates are strongly encouraged to apply.

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