Business Process Manager

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This position reports to:
Senior Business Process Manager

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Your role and responsibilities:

Join ABB as a Business Process Manager specializing in SAP FICO for our Service division, serving as a strategic financial systems expert and business translator between finance, operations, and IS/IT organizations to drive transformational change in cost accounting and controllership processes. You'll have the autonomy to identify breakthrough opportunities in financial process optimization, implement innovative FICO solutions, and shape the future of our financial operations through SAP excellence and automation. Working remotely with frequent on-site engagement at Service plants (30-40% travel), you'll provide critical training, team support, and go-live assistance to ensure successful adoption of financial systems and processes. If you're passionate about leveraging SAP FICO technology to solve complex cost accounting challenges, optimize financial close processes, and make measurable impact on business performance, this is your opportunity to lead meaningful change across ABB's Service operations.

This is a hybrid position based out of Mebane, NC.

You will be mainly accountable for:

• Lead SAP FICO excellence across Service plants, optimizing FI/CO processes, cost accounting, product costing, and period‑end close while ensuring strong integration with SD, PP, MM, and WM.
• Drive major FICO improvement initiatives and system implementations, resolving complex financial/controlling issues and delivering best‑practice, scalable solutions across plants.
• Provide hands‑on training, change leadership, and cross‑functional collaboration to improve financial accuracy, automate processes, and enhance operational performance (30-40% travel).
• Partner with senior leadership on FICO strategy, data integrity, internal controls, and roadmap development while governing master data and supporting month‑/year‑end close optimization.

Qualifications for the role:

• Master's Degree with 8 years' experience in Finance, Accounting, Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field; OR Bachelor's degree with 10+ years' experience; OR High school diploma with 20 years of experience. CPA, CMA, MBA, or SAP certification preferred. SAP S/4HANA experience highly preferred.
• Expert-level knowledge of SAP FICO (Financial Accounting and Controlling) with minimum 7-10 years hands-on functional experience in configuration, implementation, and support
• Deep expertise in SAP CO (Controlling) including product costing, cost center accounting, internal orders, profitability analysis (CO-PA), and variance analysis
• Strong expertise across SAP FI, MM, PP, SD, and WM, with hands‑on ability to design and implement end‑to‑end solutions in each module.
• Deep understanding of cross‑functional business processes (Procure‑to‑Pay, Order‑to‑Cash, Plan‑to‑Produce, Inventory‑to‑Ledger) and how financial, material, and production flows integrate across modules.
• Proven capability in financial accounting and controlling processes, including GL/AP/AR, asset accounting, material valuation, production costing, variance settlement, and period‑end close.
• Proven track record leading mid-to-large scale FICO projects and managing organizational change in manufacturing or industrial service environments
• Strong project management skills with ability to manage multiple priorities, meet deadlines, and deliver results in a fast-paced environment
• Exceptional communication skills with ability to explain complex financial and technical concepts to diverse audiences including executives, controllers, plant managers, and end users
• Comfortable with 30-40% travel to ABB Service plants for on-site training, team support, workshops, go-live activities, and stakeholder meetings
• Strong documentation skills with ability to create clear process flows, training materials, and technical specifications
• Candidates must already have work authorization that would permit them to work for ABB in the US.

More about us:

ABB's Service Division partners with our customers to improve the availability, reliability, predictability and sustainability of electrical products and installations. The Division's extensive service portfolio offers product care, modernization, and advisory services to improve performance, extend equipment lifetime and deliver new levels of operational and sustainable efficiency. We help customers keep resources in use for as long as possible, extracting the maximum value from them, and then recovering and regenerating products and materials at the end of their useful life.

What's in it for you:

We want you to bring your full self to work-your ideas, your energy, your ambition. You'll have the tools and freedom to grow your skills, shape your path, and take on challenges that matter. Here, your work creates impact you can see and feel, every day.

ABB is an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer for protected Veterans and Individuals with Disabilities at ABB.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to their- sex (gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation), marital status, citizenship, age, race and ethnicity, inclusive of traits historically associated with race or ethnicity, including but not limited to hair texture and protective hairstyles, color, religious creed, national origin, pregnancy, physical or mental disability, genetic information, protected Veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal and state law.

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ABB Benefit Summary for eligible US employees

[excludes ABB E-mobility, Athens union, Puerto Rico]

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Health, Life & Disability

• Choice between two medical plan options: A PPO plan called the Copay Plan OR a High Deductible Health Plan (with a Health Savings Account) called the High Deductible Plan.
• Choice between two dental plan options: Core and Core Plus
• Vision benefit
• Company paid life insurance (2X base pay)
• Company paid AD&D (1X base pay)
• Voluntary life and AD&D - 100% employee paid up to maximums
• Short Term Disability - up to 26 weeks - Company paid
• Long Term Disability - 60% of pay - Company paid. Ability to "buy-up" to 66 2/3% of pay.
• Supplemental benefits - 100% employee paid (Accident insurance, hospital indemnity, critical illness, pet insurance
• Parental Leave - up to 6 weeks
• Employee Assistance Program
• Health Advocate support resources for mental/behavioral health, general health navigation and virtual health, and infertility/adoption
• Employee discount program

Retirement

• 401k Savings Plan with Company Contributions
• Employee Stock Acquisition Plan (ESAP)

Time off

• ABB provides 11 paid holidays. Salaried exempt positions are provided vacation under a permissive time away policy.

While base salary is determined by things such as the successful applicant's qualifications and experience, this position is expected to pay between $100,500 and $160,800 annually and is eligible for a short-term incentive plan/annual bonus.

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