Xylem is a Fortune 500 global water solutions company dedicated to advancing sustainable impact and empowering the people who make water work every day. As a leading water technology company with 23000 employees operating in over 150 countries Xylem is at the forefront of addressing the worlds most critical water challenges. We invite passionate individuals to join our team dedicated to exceeding customer expectations through cutting-edge and sustainable solutions.

This role owns the design and governance of Record-to-Report processes financial controls consolidation statutory reporting and global tax compliance capabilities. The position ensures financial transactions are accurately recorded reported and aligned with regulatory requirements across all jurisdictions. As a key steward of financial integrity within the digital core the role enables transparent and reliable financial reporting. The leader supports transformation efforts by standardizing finance processes while balancing local compliance requirements. Their expertise is essential for protecting the companys financial governance framework and ensuring business confidence in financial data.

Record-to-report solution architecture

Own the end-to-end RTR design across the S/4HANA global template: Universal Journal General Ledger

Asset Accounting Controlling Product Costing Profitability Analysis Intercompany and Consolidation.

Own the global enterprise structure and finance master data design chart of accounts company codes

ledgers controlling areas profit and cost center hierarchies and reporting dimensions with the discipline to

keep it stable as segments and acquisitions are added.

Design the financial close: period-end architecture close task orchestration intercompany reconciliation and

elimination foreign currency valuation allocations and close cycle time optimization.

Own parallel accounting design across group and local GAAP requirements ledger strategy valuation

approaches and the treatment of statutory differences.

Design product costing and margin analysis for a manufacturing and engineered-products environment

including standard costing variance analysis WIP and service and project cost flows.

Ensure finance design integrity across integration points order-to-cash source-to-pay plan-to-manufacture

and project systems all post to your ledger and the design has to hold at every one of those seams.

Global tax and statutory compliance

Own the global tax architecture across indirect tax (VAT GST sales and use) withholding tax and the tax

determination logic embedded in transactional processes.

Design and govern integration with tax engines and e-invoicing and e-reporting platforms including country

mandates for real-time and near-real-time reporting

Own statutory and legal reporting design per country local ledgers statutory chart requirements document





numbering audit file formats and regulatory submissions.

Maintain the localization roadmap across deployment waves tracking mandate changes and ensuring the

template absorbs them without fracturing.

Partner with corporate tax transfer pricing and treasury on design decisions with financial and compliance

consequence and translate their requirements into system design rather than accepting them as configuration

requests.

Ensure finance controls and SOX requirements are designed in working with the GRC architect so control

evidence is produced by the system.

Template governance and delivery

Act as the design authority for finance: approve or reject template deviations hold the standardization line and

escalate rather than absorb when a segment pushes for local variation without statutory basis.

Lead fit-to-standard workshops with global process owners and segment finance leadership and drive process

harmonization decisions to closure.

Support deployment waves through localization design testing strategy cutover finance validation opening

balance verification and hypercare defect resolution.

Partner with the Data Migration and MDG leads on finance data GL balances open AR and AP fixed

assets and cost object conversion where accuracy is audited not merely tested.

Lead a team of finance functional architects and consultants and hold system integrator delivery accountable

for finance design quality.

Qualifications

Required

15 years in SAP finance with at least 8 years in S/4HANA Finance and 5 years as a solution architect on

global programs.

Deep expertise across S/4HANA Finance: Universal Journal GL Asset Accounting Controlling product

costing margin analysis and Group Reporting or consolidation.

Proven RTR solution ownership on at least two global S/4HANA implementations including multi-country

multi-ledger multi-currency design.

Strong global tax and statutory compliance background indirect tax determination withholding tax

localization and e-invoicing mandates across multiple regions.

Demonstrated experience integrating an external tax engine (Vertex OneSource Avalara or equivalent) and

e-invoicing platforms.

Accounting foundation CA CPA MBA Finance or equivalent sufficient to hold a substantive

conversation with a controller not only with a consultant.

Track record of defending a global finance template against local pressure with the judgment to distinguish

genuine statutory requirement from preference.





Experience with financial close optimization and measurable close cycle reduction.

Preferred

SAP Group Reporting Central Finance or BPC consolidation experience.

SAP Analytics Cloud or Datasphere for financial planning and reporting.

Treasury in-house cash or bank communication management.

Project System and service cost accounting for an installed-base and aftermarket business.

Manufacturing and engineered-products costing complexity: variant configuration make-to-order and

long-cycle projects.

Experience integrating acquisitions into a common finance template and chart of accounts.

Success in the First 12 Months

A stable documented finance template with an explicit and defended boundary between global standard and

statutory local requirement. A localization roadmap covering upcoming waves and known mandate changes.

Close cycle time baselined and improving in deployed entities. Finance controls designed in and evidenced

automatically. Clean opening balances and audited conversion results in every wave. And finance design

decisions made with speed and finality so the program stops relitigating them.

Operating Principles You Will Work Under

Products not projects. Persistent teams aligned to value streams funded by capacity rather than project

cycles each paired with a business process owner accountable for the outcome.

Clean core is non-negotiable. Extensions live on BTP the core stays standard and custom code is

governed at the point of creation.

Paved road not toll booth. Golden paths reference architectures and reusable patterns with guardrails

enforced in the pipeline rather than in a design authority meeting.

Compliance by default. Controls are designed into the platform and evidenced automatically so control

integrity holds at deployment scale.

Accountable for value not volume. Success is measured in business process KPIs adoption and realized

value not tickets closed or hours delivered.

Intelligent enterprise by design. AI and agent enablement and the data readiness that makes both credible

are owned capabilities.

Global template authority local execution. Template integrity is held centrally through the current

deployment horizon with a defined path to greater product-team autonomy.

Join the global Xylem team to be a part of innovative technology solutions transforming water usage conservation and re-use. Our products impact public utilities industrial sectors residential areas and commercial buildings with a commitment to providing smart metering network technologies and advanced analytics for water electric and gas utilities. Partner with us in creating a world where water challenges are met with ingenuity and dedication; where we recognize the power of inclusion and belonging in driving innovation and allowing us to compete more effectively around the world.

Required Experience:

Senior Manager

📌 Senior Manager — SAP Finance Solution Architect (RTR & Global Tax Compliance) (Bengaluru)
🏢 Xylem
📍 Bengaluru