Competence Manager - Finance

Accountabilities:: Lead, coach, and develop a team of software engineers, application experts, and SAP application experts supporting Finance capabilities. Drive employee engagement, performance management, career development, regular 1:1s, feedback, goal setting, and performance reviews. Foster a collaborative, accountable, inclusive, and continuously improving team culture while identifying and developing future leaders through mentoring and succession planning. Build and strengthen workforce capabilities across in-house solutions, niche SaaS platforms, and core ERP technologies. Identify capability and skill gaps and lead upskilling, cross-skilling, resource planning, and workforce development initiatives. Partner with Competence Managers, Engineering Managers, Product Managers, the Area Tech Manager, Talent Acquisition, and People Partners on hiring, workforce planning, and talent development. Balance delivery requirements, employee growth, resource needs, and sustainable workloads when planning workforce capabilities. Collaborate with Finance stakeholders and cross-functional teams to support business outcomes across finance, accounting, treasury, and controlling. Represent the people and competence perspective in organizational planning, prioritization, and strategic discussions. Requirements Experience in software engineering, application expertise, SAP application expertise, or a related technology discipline supporting Finance capabilities. Previous experience in people leadership, coaching, mentoring, or formal staff management responsibilities. SAP Finance expertise, ideally including SAP S/4HANA, is highly preferred but not mandatory. Strong people leadership skills, with the ability to build trust, develop individuals, and create an inclusive and supportive team environment. Experience with workforce planning, resource management, capability development, and succession planning. Excellent stakeholder management, communication, collaboration, and relationship-building skills. A strategic, adaptable, and solutions-oriented approach, combined with strong organizational and decision-making abilities. A genuine passion for developing people, strengthening capabilities, fostering inclusive teams, driving continuous improvement, and building high-performing organizations. Benefits Opportunity to lead and develop teams within a broad Finance technology environment. Exposure to software engineering, application expertise, SaaS solutions, SAP, and core ERP capabilities. Meaningful involvement in workforce planning, talent development, succession planning, and capability building. Collaboration with technology, product, talent, people, and Finance stakeholders across diverse functions. Opportunities to contribute to global finance and digital transformation initiatives. An inclusive and collaborative working environment focused on continuous learning and professional development. The opportunity to make a meaningful impact by helping people grow while strengthening organizational capabilities.