SAP FICO_ Lead Consultant

At Allstate, great things happen when our people work together to protect families and their belongings from life's uncertainties. And for more than 90 years our innovative drive has kept us a step ahead of our customers' evolving needs. From advocating for seat belts, air bags and graduated driving laws, to being an industry leader in pricing sophistication, telematics, and, more recently, device and identity protection.

Job Description
The role holder is responsible for planning and managing multiple aspects of application development projects at Allstate in collaboration with the Managing Engineer and Delivery Head. The incumbent is expected to lead a team of SAP and Non-SAP professionals and support with project scoping, planning, resourcing, staffing, progress reporting, issue resolution and people management with a mandate to optimize delivery of projects to translate customer's requirements.

• Engage with business and product stakeholders to understand the client requirements and actively participate in cross-functional conversations to support the development of product roadmaps and the technical and architectural solutioning process

• Provide strategic insights at enterprise level on all aspects of Integrated Financial System and a thought leader in contemporary finance tools.

• A courageous business leader driving business results with conviction and partnering with diverse business portfolios and models in promoting short term and long-term operating plans.

• Strong ability to produce new technology specifications, solutions, designed for optimal access. Demonstrate strong ability to gain buy-in on proposed solutions. Lead research and development efforts (proofs of concept, prototypes).

• Provide data Solution Design for Complex Initiatives and perform data feasibility studies.

• Manage SAP teams with strong focus on team management, functional transformation and drive multiple organizational objectives in areas of global process standards deployment, business process transitions

• Establish relevant KPIs and performance drivers and analyse performance with improvement recommendations

• Part of the Enterprise Shared Services leadership team responsible for Finance, Talent Acquisition, Development and Retention
• Manages Team and Team Leads in an Agile environment
• Intermediate people management responsibility including work allocation, learning and development initiatives and feedback reviews

• Bachelor's degree / University degree in Engineering / Technology (B.Tech / B.E. / BCA), Master's Degree is a must.

• 10+ Years of working experience in application development domain.
• 4 to 6 Years of experience of leading a team in an agile environment.