SAP Finance Manager

At Loro Piana, our culture is defined by our people, fostering togetherness, trust, and an unwavering ambition for quality and innovation. For over a century, we have quietly set benchmarks, valuing heritage while evolving our unique savoir-faire. We empower entrepreneurial spirit, encourage agile leadership, and collectively strive for exceptional results, recognising and celebrating every individual’s talent.

As SAP Finance Manager, within the Loro Piana IT Corporate Solutions’ Organization, you will be the key player in major SAP S/4HANA transformation programs for our Finance Organization.

Job responsibilities

In this role, you will support them to connect the dots between the digital world and their core finance processes, (re)designing and optimizing the finance business processes in SAP to eventually implement the solution.

Leveraging both your comprehensive SAP-related experience, you will play a critical role in leading and managing the end-to-end design from initial requirements gathering to deployment, including solution design, configuration, testing, training, and post go-live support.

You will be responsible for ordinary and evolutionary maintenance services, leading application maintenance services as well as projects’ teams, shaping SAP finance roadmap.

This will require a thorough understanding of business processes, the latest developments and benefits the S/4HANA digital core brings to Users as well as being up to date on other new solutions in the SAP Finance Transformation domain.

Designing a fit-for-purpose future SAP Finance landscape as well as supporting on the transformation journey to get to the desired state will be your tasks. Next to business-oriented skills, strong delivery skills are essential to enabling IT corporate to put the plan into action together with IT peers and colleagues.

Profile

• 8-10 years of work experience and specific experience working with SAP Finance modules – S/4HANA experience preferred
• Participation in multiple full life cycle SAP implementations required.
• Experience with implementing and advanced knowledge of SAP Finance and including Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable and Fixed Assets
• Experience of all aspects of cost controlling and management accounting within an ERP system.
• Experience with implementing SAP Finance and integrations to SD, MM and in general projects to support product cost controlling and margin analysis
• Experience with leading business blueprint, gathering and documenting business requirements and designing SAP enabled solutions
• Development of project documentation including business process flows, training materials, requirements gathering and project management methodology experience required.
• Fluent in English, both spoken and written
• Demonstrate characteristics of a forward thinker and self-starter that thrives on new challenges and adapts quickly to changes and new priorities.
• Ability to lead a team of consulting professionals on multiple projects.

Additional information

For new joiners in this role in Italy, the initial annual gross salary is EUR 60.000.

This salary has been determined on the basis of objective and gender-neutral criteria and corresponds to the compensation normally granted for this position at the time of publication of this job posting. Actual compensation may vary depending on factors such as your unique combination of experience and skills, seniority, and current organizational needs.

This role also provides for participation in a bonus scheme, at Loro Piana’s discretion, based on factors such as individual and/or company performance.

In addition to the benefits provided by law, further benefits may be granted in accordance with current company policies.

The employment relationship will be governed by the provisions of the applicable national collective bargaining agreement CCNL Tessile & Abbigliamento Moda and the supplementary company agreement, as applied by Loro Piana in Italy.

Originally from Trivero in northern Italy, the Loro Piana family began trading wool in the early 1800s. In 1924, Pietro Loro Piana founded Ing. Loro Piana & C., the current company. Pietro’s nephewFranco took over in 1941, and after the war the firm began to establish its reputation as a supplier of premium wool and cashmere textiles for a growing haute couture industry, both home and abroad. In the 1970s, Sergio and Pier Luigi Loro Piana took up the reins, diversifying into luxury goods and developing an international retail arm. Now the world’s foremost cashmere processor, Loro Piana prides itself on sourcing the very finest, rarest raw materials the world has to offer, including unique cashmere from baby goats in northern China and Mongolia, vicuña from the Andes,extra-fine Merino wool from Australia and New Zealandand lotus flower fiber from Myanmar. The company draws on both time-honored traditions and state of the art technology to offer its discerning customers products that are renowned for their peerless quality. All of the company’s collections of ready-to-wear garments and accessories are made in Italy to the highest standards of craftsmanship and sartorial excellence.