SAP S/4 Group Reporting Lead

Company Description

Continental’s Automotive group sector is expected to be listed as independent company “AUMOVIO” in September 2025. With ~93,000 employees worldwide and annual sales of ~€20 billion, we are entering an exciting new era.

AUMOVIO stands for highly developed electronic products and modern mobility solutions. In addition to its strong market position with innovative sensor solutions, displays, and technologically leading braking and comfort systems, AUMOVIO has significant expertise in software, architecture platforms and assistance systems for the rapidly growing future market of software-defined and autonomous vehicles. Our purpose is clear: to make future mobility safe, exciting, connected, and autonomous.

Job Description

Requirements recording, concept development and solution implementation of the group reporting system

Technical & Process:

• Tailor-made development of business concepts in cooperation with the specialist departments
• Coordinated implementation of these specialist concepts/business concepts in IT concepts
• System-side implementation of the developed IT concepts (if necessary, with the support of external consultants)
• Analysis and evaluation of technical and business problems during the reporting process
• Permanent optimization of processes and application parts
• Individual transfer of application know-how
• Coordination and control of internal and external project employees
• Subject-specific cooperation with SAP on system issues (OSS messages; Workshops)
• Provides technical guidance and support to clients for complex tasks during the implementation, operation and decommissioning of new systems.
• Joins on request the actions and processes of day-to-day management of the information system in place in all its dimensions
• Ensures documentation is in line with the overall technical and process needs

Project & Methodology:

• Participation in the project management of large IT projects by coordinating, planning and estimating workpackages 
• Analyzes customer needs, recognizes the critical elements of highly complex application problems, determines innovative solutions, and makes logical recommendations for complex project/ solution development and implementation
• Researches, acquires knowledge and expertise on system or solution upgrades, and stays up-to-date on the latest technology trends and advancements.
• Conceptualizes technical design for new functionalities or installation of new technologies.

Quality Assurance & Continuous Improvement:

• Ensuring professional group reporting system administration as well as application maintenance
• Validation of structural customizing settings (e.g. eliminations; Capital consolidation) taking into account the overall context Master data maintenance in the system after coordination of the order grids with the specialist departments (e.g. organizational changes)
•  Establishes the quality of technical deliverables and conducts work reviews, unit testing and ensuring compliance with coding or work standards and best practices and ensures a common quality understanding
• Designs, implements and sustains the quality criteria and quality processes for our IT services.
• Acts as primary technical expert and be able to recommend appropriate IT solutions or process changes by  ensuring product quality in the assigned area following enterprise- defined risk management policies and procedures and achievement of quality targets
• Drives service improvements within own service area and makes service improvement proposals for related service areas

Training, Guidance and Knowledge Transfer:

• Securing the transfer of know-how within the framework of international Group Reporting training courses for all user classes
• Conception and preparation of user training courses as well as training documents
• Implementation of user training courses (face-to-face events; meetings)

Financial (Budget responsibility/control/etc):

• Management of the external consultants involved in the project in the area of group reporting hotline and system administration
• Budget planning for the external consultants, ongoing review of cost developments, technical approval of the performance records of the consulting firms
• Coordination of the external consultants
• Involved in the Group Reporting project  Responsibility for deployment planning
• Contributes and supports decisions towards administration of cost efficiencies on onshore/offshore project work of the team.
• Supports policies that help achieve overall budget sufficiency.

Qualifications

Detailed knowledge of S/4 Group Reporting

• SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC) is a plus
• SAP BTP is a plus

Experience in project management as well as strong communication skills and conflict management skills.

Sound IT knowledge of process flows, database architecture, etc.

Business knowledge in the field of group accounting (especially consolidation)

Additional Information

Ready to take your career to the next level and join us at the start of something extraordinary? Apply now to become a part of AUMOVIO and drive the future mobility together with us!