Senior SAP FI/CO Analyst

Senior SAP FI/CO Analyst

Gnutti Carlo Group is looking for a Senior SAP FI/CO Analyst to act as functional lead and subject-matter expert for SAP Finance and Controlling processes across the Group. The role ensures stable daily operations, compliant and standardized financial processes and effective integration between FI/CO and operational modules. It leads complex incident resolution, translates business, statutory and audit requirements into scalable SAP solutions, supports financial closing and drives continuous improvement, harmonization and knowledge transfer.

Function: Information & Communication Technologies
Geographic Scope: Corporate Division: Gnutti Carlo Group – Plant: Maclodio (availability for Business Trips to the group’s plants)
Reports to: Group SAP Manager
Liaises with: Corporate IT, Finance and Controlling, Business functions, Auditors, Service providers

Main activities and responsibilities

Functional ownership and incident management

• Act as senior functional owner and escalation point for SAP FI/CO, supporting finance and controlling users across legal entities and plants;
• Lead the resolution of complex incidents and recurring problems through root-cause analysis, defining corrective and preventive actions.

FI and CO processes

• Configure and support FI processes: General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Asset Accounting, banking, taxes, payments, dunning, intercompany transactions and financial closing;
• Configure and support CO processes: cost centers, internal orders, profit centers, product costing, allocations, settlements and management reporting;
• Support month-end and year-end closing, reconciliations and the resolution of posting, valuation, account-determination and FI/CO consistency issues;
• Analyze FI/CO integration with MM, SD, PP, WM and other modules to ensure accurate, automated financial postings;
• Support finance interfaces and automation solutions: invoice processing, electronic invoicing, banking and reporting integrations.

Requirements, design and testing

• Collect, challenge, analyze and document business, statutory, tax, audit and reporting requirements;
• Design standardized, scalable SAP solutions and prepare functional specifications for developments, reports, forms, workflows, interfaces and enhancements;
• Work closely with developers and external consultants to explain functional logic, support debugging and validate technical designs;
• Lead functional, integration, regression and user-acceptance testing, including test planning, defect management, cutover support and production validation.

Governance, improvement and knowledge

• Maintain governance over finance-related master data, configuration, controls, documentation and change-management procedures;
• Ensure compliance with company policies, internal controls, segregation-of-duties requirements, audit standards and legal requirements;
• Identify opportunities for process simplification, automation, standardization and improved reporting and closing performance;
• Lead or contribute to FI/CO workstreams in SAP projects, rollouts, upgrades, migrations and organizational changes;
• Create and maintain Knowledge Database articles, functional documentation and how-to guides, and mentor analysts, key users and business users.

Tools

• SAP FI and CO;
• Integration with MM, SD, PP (WM and other modules);
• SAP S/4HANA Finance, New General Ledger, Material Ledger, profitability analysis; Kofax invoice automation; SAP PM and/or QM; EDI, IDocs, APIs, banking and tax interfaces; ABAP logic and SAP debugging (plus).

Qualifications

• Degree in Economics, Finance, Business Administration, IT or Engineering.
• SAP certification, ITIL knowledge or formal project / change-management training (plus).

Skills & Competencies

Hard skills

Required:

• Advanced functional and configuration knowledge of SAP FI and CO;
• Strong knowledge of FI processes: General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Asset Accounting, banking, taxes, payments, intercompany accounting and period-end closing;
• Strong knowledge of CO processes: cost-center and profit-center accounting, internal orders, product costing, allocations, settlements and management reporting;
• Strong understanding of FI/CO integration with MM, SD and PP, including automatic account determination and the financial impact of logistics transactions;
• Solid understanding of financial accounting, management accounting, internal controls, reconciliations and audit requirements;
• Ability to translate complex business requirements into solution designs, configuration, functional specifications and test scenarios;
• Advanced analytical and troubleshooting skills, including analysis of SAP documents, configuration, interfaces and program behavior with developer support.

Preferred:

• Knowledge of SAP S/4HANA Finance, New General Ledger, Material Ledger and/or profitability analysis;
• Knowledge of Kofax invoice automation and its integration with SAP Accounts Payable;
• Knowledge of Italian electronic invoicing and related localization requirements;
• Knowledge of SAP PM and/or QM and their financial integration points;
• Knowledge of EDI, IDocs, APIs, banking interfaces, tax interfaces and other integrations;
• Working knowledge of ABAP logic and SAP debugging techniques.

Soft skills

• Strong communication;
• Stakeholder-management;
• Leadership and mentoring skills in an international, multicultural environment.

Foreign languages

Requested:

• English – fluent (B2)

Preferred:

• German, Swedish, Czech or Chinese – intermediate

Work Experience

Required:

• 5+ years of hands-on SAP FI/CO support, configuration, implementation or rollout experience;
• Experience as senior analyst, functional lead or escalation point for complex FI/CO incidents and changes;
• Experience supporting month-end and year-end closing, reconciliations, audits and statutory or management reporting;
• Experience in an industrial or manufacturing environment with multiple plants and company codes;
• Experience preparing functional specifications and leading integration testing, user-acceptance testing, cutover and post-go-live support.

Preferred:

• 7+ years of SAP FI/CO experience in an international or multi-country organization;
• Experience in the automotive industry or in a complex make-to-stock / intercompany manufacturing environment;
• Experience implementing or supporting Kofax invoice automation;
• Experience implementing or supporting Italian electronic invoicing;
• Experience with both SAP ECC 6.0 and S/4HANA Finance, or an S/4HANA conversion program
• Experience with global templates, process harmonization, data migration and cross-company FI/CO integration.

What’s in it for you

Gnutti Carlo Group offers a stimulating professional environment within an international industrial Group, with real opportunities for growth.

• The opportunity to work on a global scale by interfacing with colleagues and plants across different countries.
• Direct involvement in challenging projects focused on innovation, automation, and process improvement initiatives.
• Daily exposure to high-level technological standards and advanced production technologies in die casting and powertrain.
• A safe, collaborative, and inclusive workplace where teamwork and mutual respect truly make a difference.

Who we are

Founded in 1922 in Lumezzane, in the heart of Brescia’s manufacturing tradition, Gnutti Carlo S.p.A. has been able to transform itself from a manufacturer of components for the agricultural, firearms and railway sectors into an international leader in the automotive sector, recognized for the excellence and precision of its solutions.

The company, led from the beginning by the Gnutti family, which still plays an active role in the management and development of the Group, has been able to reinvent itself through targeted strategic transformations until the decisive turning point in the mid-80s, when the company entered the automotive sector. The growth path continues with the acquisitions of Ljunghäll in 2014 and TCG Unitech in 2018, which expand the core business with new skills in the Light Metals and molding fields. Today, with over a century of industrial experience behind it, Gnutti Carlo is a strategic partner of the world’s leading OEMs in the automotive, truck, earthmoving, e-mobility, motorcycle, marine, agricultural and generator set sectors.

Our numbers and global presence

With an annual production of more than 78 million pieces, the Group boasts a solid international footprint: 12 production and R&D plants, distributed in Europe, North America and Asia, Gnutti Carlo can count on a global industrial network and a team of almost 4,000 employees.

Our core business

The core business of Gnutti Carlo Group is based on three complementary areas of technological excellence. The Powertrain represents our historical expertise, which sees us as a world leader in the development and production of components for the Valve Train and in injection systems. Light Metals are our strength in aluminum and magnesium die-casting, with which we create complex components for the automotive sector. TCG Unitech completes the picture with the injection molding of thermoplastic materials and the development of oil and coolant pumps. Together, these three skills allow us to offer our customers integrated and highly engineered solutions, accompanying them from design to production, up to the new challenges of the mobility of the future.

Our commitment and values

Joining Gnutti Carlo Group means entering a solid industrial context that is strongly oriented towards innovation. Guided by the Added Value principle, at Everything We Do, we are committed every day to generating added value and enhancing the talent of our people in the global manufacturing landscape.