Skip to content

Open nowPosted 31 days ago

Senior FI Specialist

workingatbooking126 open roles

Where
Bangalore, Karnataka, India
Get the CV for this job

From $25 per CV, paid once. No subscription.

Your applicationOpen nowSenior FI Specialistworkingatbooking · Bangalore, Karnataka, India
  1. YouYes, apply to this one.

  2. CV RocketCV written for this posting.

  3. 25 readersRecruiter, hiring manager, skeptic. Round after round.

  4. CV RocketApplied on workingatbooking's own form.

The reply lands in your private mailbox

3×more interviews than doing it yourself with ChatGPT.

The clock on this job

Early applications get read.

12.1% of postings close within 7 days. Measured by our own scanner across the market. workingatbooking postings stay open a median of 1 days.

Share of postings closed within
  1. 2.1%1 day
  2. 4.5%3 days
  3. 12.1%7 days
  4. 19.1%14 days
  5. 35.6%30 days
  6. 52.7%60 days
This job: posted 31 days ago

workingatbooking median: 1 days open

The posting

Booking Holdings (NASDAQ: BKNG) is a global powerhouse in online travel, connecting millions of people with unforgettable experiences in over 220 countries and territories. With a market value of approximately $120 billion and a diverse portfolio of brands such as Booking.com, KAYAK, Priceline, Agoda.com and OpenTable, we’re committed to making it easier to explore everyone to experience the world.

Booking Holdings Bangalore is a cutting-edge Center of Excellence in Bangalore, India and a key arm of Booking Holdings Inc. Top talent from diverse backgrounds converge here to develop innovative solutions that drive Booking Holdings' brands and business units forward. We offer a vibrant and inclusive workplace that fosters creativity, growth and opportunities to make a real difference on a global scale.

From bustling cities to remote corners, Booking Holdings' travel brands span 220+ countries. Our FinTech team powers the financial engine behind this global network. We craft bespoke payment solutions, blending security with scalability. These tools empower our partners, fueling their growth and enhancing traveler experiences. By supporting our partners' success, we strengthen the foundation of our diverse travel ecosystem.

We are seeking a seasoned Senior FI Specialist (IC Role) with 15+ years of hands-on experience in SAP S/4HANA Finance (FICO) and enterprise architecture. Operating as a lead technical authority and individual contributor, you will drive the architectural blueprint, end-to-end solution design, and technical delivery of enterprise-scale Record-to-Report (R2R) platforms.

This role requires deep functional and technical expertise in SAP S/4HANA, high-volume transactional integrations (specifically with BRIM), and modern enterprise financial platforms. You will serve as the primary bridge between Finance leadership, Product Managers, Technical Architects, and System Integrators (SIs), shaping the future of our financial tech stack, safeguarding North Star Architecture (NSA) principles, and ensuring zero-defect accounting compliance across complex ERP transformation programs (including RISE with SAP).

What You’ll Be Doing

1. Architectural Leadership & Engineering Excellence

  • Solution Architecture Ownership: Own the end-to-end architecture and solution design for SAP S/4HANA Finance (R2R) across all project phases (Explore, Realize, Deploy, Hypercare), ensuring strict alignment between core accounting principles, business requirements, and system scalability.
  • Core FICO Domain Expertise: Drive design authority across core domains: General Ledger (GL): Universal Journal (ACDOCA), parallel ledgers, document splitting, multi-currency frameworks, and financial close automation. Asset Accounting (AA): Asset lifecycle management, multi-GAAP depreciation areas, and integration workflows. Subledger Accounting (AP/AR & FICA): Business Partner and Contract Account master data, posting areas, main/sub configurations, payment processing, and open-item clearing. Intercompany Accounting: Cross-entity netting, intercompany settlement routing, and period-end elimination matching. Managerial Accounting (CO): Cost/Profit Center accounting, internal orders, margin analysis, and managerial reporting.
  • ABAP & Technical Oversight: Conduct deep-code reviews, debugging, and root-cause analysis. Guide engineering teams on SAP programming best practices, performance tuning, and database optimization (ACDOCA/HANA views).
  • WRICEF Governance & Clean Core: Review and validate WRICEF (Reports, Interfaces, Conversions, Enhancements, Forms) objects. Drive strict "Clean Core" standardization vs. customization decisions to minimize technical debt and avoid unnecessary custom builds.
  • Design Governance & Quality Control: Review and sign off on Solution Design Documents (SDDs), Enterprise Structure Key Design Decisions (KDDs), and L3–L5 process maps. Ensure all designs meet strict audit readiness, SOX controls, and financial compliance standards.

2. Enterprise Integrations & Ecosystem Orchestration

  • BRIM Integration: Drive deep integration designs between FI and SAP BRIM (Billing and Revenue Innovation Management) to ensure compliant order-to-cash, billing ingestion, and revenue accounting (IFRS 15) flows.
  • Ecosystem Connectivity: Architect robust integration patterns connecting SAP with third-party and ecosystem platforms, including BlackLine (Intercompany Hub, SOX Certifications, Multi-Source Reconciliations), OneStream/FinDB, Snowflake data lakes, and custom middleware (MuleSoft API gateways).
  • Reconciliation Integrity: Validate end-to-end data pipelines (Subledger ->GL -> Reporting platforms), ensuring complete financial reconciliation, zero data loss, and zero breaks in double-entry accounting logic.

3. SAP Transformation & RISE Implementation

  • RISE Execution: Serve as the lead technical authority on large-scale programs such as RISE with SAP / S/4HANA transformation programs across Explore, Realize, Deploy, and Hypercare phases.
  • System Integrator (SI) Challenge: Partner closely with System Integrators to validate, guide, and challenge proposed solutions, stopping rigid template-driven approaches that do not fit the enterprise's long-term architectural vision.
  • Migration & Cutover: Oversee financial data migration strategies, cutover plans, parallel-run validations, and testing frameworks (SIT/UAT) from a technical finance standpoint.

4. Strategic Influence & Stakeholder Management

  • Cross-Track Alignment: Act as an individual contributor thought-leader and bridge between Finance, Engineering, Product Management, and external partners, translating complex business requirements into elegant system behaviors.
  • Domain Mentorship: Foster internal engineering/architectural capability by mentoring junior/mid-level engineers and architects on SAP S/4HANA best practices, integration patterns, and emerging technologies (e.g., AI/automation in month-end financial closing).

5. Innovation & Continuous Improvement

  • Financial Process Automation & AI: Evaluate, architect, and prototype emerging automation technologies, including AI/ML use cases for intelligent anomaly detection, Business Process Automation, Document AI, automated cash application, AI-assisted month-end close (MEC) forecasting, and robotic process automation (RPA), to reduce manual finance effort and improve reporting accuracy.
  • Architecture Evolution & "Clean Core": Continually assess technical debt across our SAP and connected ecosystems. Proactively design refactoring plans to decouple legacy custom code, migrating toward SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP) services, standard APIs, and "Clean Core" extensibility patterns.
  • Benchmarking & Tooling Optimization: Research industry best practices and stay ahead of the curve on vendor roadmaps (SAP S/4HANA releases, RISE updates, BlackLine innovations, BRIM enhancements). Identify opportunities to replace expensive custom builds with native out-of-the-box system capabilities.
  • Engineering Thought Leadership: Act as a catalyst for continuous improvement within the engineering track by introducing automated testing frameworks for SAP, CI/CD pipeline enhancements for transport manager

What You’ll Be Bringing

  • Experience: 15+ years of progressive experience in SAP Finance (FI/CO), with at least 7+ years in solution architecture, lead engineering, or technical authority roles.
  • Role Focus: Proven track record as a high-impact Individual Contributor capable of driving architectural consensus without direct line management authority.
  • S/4HANA Expertise: Successfully delivered 2 to 4 end-to-end S/4HANA greenfield/brownfield implementations or global rollouts, including international localization and multi-gap tax/regulatory requirements.
  • Integration Track Record: Hands-on experience architecting FI integrations with SAP BRIM (Billing, Convergent Invoicing, FICA) and external subledgers/billing platforms.
  • Transformation Experience: Direct architectural leadership in at least one full lifecycle RISE with SAP or S/4HANA Cloud deployment.
  • Technical Depth: Expert-level capability in analyzing custom ABAP code, debugging standard/custom SAP flows, designing complex APIs/interfaces, and structuring custom data models.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Deep familiarity with financial closing and reconciliation platforms such as BlackLine (ICH, Matching, Close Management) or OneStream.
  • Strong understanding of modern reporting layers (SAP Analytics Cloud, SAP BTP, BI/BW, Snowflake).
  • Familiarity with Agile/Scrum product management methodologies in enterprise software tracks.
  • Exposure to financial process automation, machine learning in cash application, or AI-driven anomaly detection in financial close operations.

Where You’ll Be

This role offers a flexible hybrid model.

Pre-Employment Screening

If your application is successful, your personal data may be used for a pre-employment screening check by a third party as permitted by applicable law. Depending on the vacancy and applicable law, a pre-employment screening may include employment history, education and other information (such as media information) that may be necessary for determining your qualifications and suitability for the position.

From $25, paid onceGet the CV for this job

What happens when you press

One press. We do the rest.

  1. A CV for this posting

    Written against workingatbooking's own wording, from every piece of relevant proof in your profile.

  2. 25 readers review it

    Recruiter, hiring manager, skeptic and more read every draft, round after round. You get the best round.

    The review screen in CV Rocket: how each CV was read, round by round.
  3. We apply on workingatbooking's form

    Our application engine gets through the hardest forms there are. Where a question needs you, AI suggests the best answer. Don't want us applying from our IP addresses? Use our Chrome extension: we apply straight from your own browser.

    An application in CV Rocket: every answer filled in on the employer's form.
  4. Every reply, sorted

    workingatbooking's answer lands in your private mailbox, and we classify it on arrival: interview, question, rejection.

    The CV Rocket inbox: each employer reply classified as an interview, an action or a rejection.
  5. Reply with AI

    AI helps you write the email, checks it and sends it. We show you whether the recruiter read it.

  6. The interview in your calendar

    Full integration with your calendar. The invitation goes straight in.

    An interview invitation in the CV Rocket inbox, added to the candidate's calendar.
Get the CV for this job

From $25 per CV, paid once. No subscription.

Why it works

3×

more interviews than doing it yourself with ChatGPT.

ChatGPT writes a CV and never learns what happened to it. We see every reply. For each CV we know:

  • How it was written, and how the review scored it
  • When we applied, and how long after the posting went up
  • Which posting, which company, which city
  • Who got the interview, and who heard nothing

That is how we know which CVs get called.

Get the CV for this job

From $25 per CV, paid once. No subscription.

The numbers game

More applications. More interviews.

Every application goes out with its own CV, written for that posting and paid once. Send enough of them and the law of large numbers finds you the job.

By hand5–10
With CV Rocket100
applications a day

Nearby

Live postings like this one

Same employer first, then the same role elsewhere.

Before you press

Straight answers

Get the CV for this job

From $25 per CV, paid once. No subscription.

What if my background isn't good enough?

We make the most of the background you have. The CV uses every piece of relevant proof your profile holds, and one of the 25 readers reads your whole profile and flags what the CV left out.

Do you really apply for me?

Yes, on the employer's own form, the hardest ones included. Where a question needs you, you answer it right there and AI suggests the best answer. Don't want us applying from our IP addresses? Use our Chrome extension: we apply straight from your own browser.

Is it a subscription?

No. You pay once per CV, from $25. Every application goes out with its own CV, written for that posting.

One job. One CV.
Paid once.

Pick the posting you want. We write for it, apply for you and catch the reply.

Get the CV for this job

From $25 per CV, paid once. No subscription.