Transition & Transformation Manager Finance

Your Key Responsibilities

Regional transition strategy and roadmap

- Develop and maintain the Finance SSC transition roadmap for 2027–2030.

- Define transition waves by country, process, SSC location, and implementation timing.

- Assess country readiness, process maturity, systems, data, controls, resources, and local requirements.

- Identify prerequisites, dependencies, risks, and critical decisions before each transition.

- Align the roadmap with Schaeffler Group frameworks and the overall Finance transformation agenda.

- Track progress against milestones, scope, resources, risks, and expected benefits.

Target operating model

- Define and maintain the target operating model for Finance Shared Services across Kuala Lumpur and Pune.

- Recommend the appropriate allocation of activities between the two SSCs based on process standardization, capabilities, capacity, language, time zone, country requirements, risk, and cost considerations.

- Identify opportunities to avoid duplication and establish clear ownership between the two locations.

- Coordinate the development of common process standards, service definitions, governance, and performance expectations.

- Coordinate transition workstreams across country Finance teams, Kuala Lumpur, Pune, IT, and other functions.

- Ensure that country-specific exceptions are controlled and do not create unnecessary process fragmentation.

Process standardization and continuous improvement

- Work closely with FPD, Finance SSC Managers and relevant stakeholders to ensure that transition, process-improvement, digitalization, and automation initiatives are properly assessed, governed, implemented, documented, and handed over to the respective process owners.

- Ensure that approved changes are sustainable and deliver the intended efficiency, control, quality, and service benefits.

- Coordinate standardization of Finance processes across countries and both SSC locations.

- Identify and prioritize opportunities for simplification, automation, digitalization, and productivity improvement.

- Support the definition of common procedures, controls, KPIs, service levels, and performance-management routines.

Stakeholder and governance management

- Establish effective governance between the Kuala Lumpur SSC, Pune SSC, country CFOs, local Finance teams, Finance Process Managers, IT, and other stakeholders.

- Prepare regular status reports for the AP Finance SSC Manager and relevant steering committees.

- Escalate unresolved issues and conflicts in a timely manner.

- Build reliable long-term relationships with internal and external stakeholders across the region.

- Ensure that internal-control, ICS, compliance, and audit requirements are addressed throughout the transition.

- Support the definition and implementation of common KPIs and service levels for both SSCs.

- Support customer-satisfaction measurement for country Finance organizations.

Your Qualifications

• University degree
• Work experience minimum 7 years with resposibility for transactional Finance processes and/or R2R
• Experience in change management, process transition and transformation projects
• Fluent in English (written and spoken)
• Very profound konwledge of AP, AR and R2R processes
• Proficient in IT tasks and communication
• Analytical skills with the ability to analyze complex requirements and define appropriate solutions, ability to utilize data and analytics to drive new insights
• Profound knowledge of SAP FICO and MS Office
• Data processing Knowledge and technical understanding of processes and systems
• Experience in implementing processes with IT solutions and SAP
• Excellent communication and long-term relationship building skills
• Agile work style and flexibility to adjust to changing environment (nice to have)
• Ability to generate new, creative approaches to solve problems, create opportunities and added value
• Availability for business trips
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