BASF Overview:BASF has successfully partnered India’s progress for more than 130 years. As of the end of 2025, BASF had 2,455 employees in India with 8 production sites and 45 offices throughout the country. The Innovation Campus Mumbai and the Coatings Technical Center in Mangalore are both part of BASF’s global technology platform. In 2025, BASF registered sales of approximately €2.2 billion to customers in India. Further information is available on www.basf.com/in
About the Role:
The primary purpose of this role is to provide expert support in Book-to-Report (B2R) activities, driving process excellence, standardization, and automation while ensuring compliance with global accounting and reporting requirements.
What's In It for You:
- Be part of building BASF's new Global Hub in India, a flagship transformation initiative
- Work with a globally integrated team spanning Finance and HR functions
- Competitive compensation, benefits, and structured career pathways
- Access to BASF's world-class learning & development programs
- Inclusive, diverse, and collaborative work culture
- Hybrid work model (mix of on-site and remote)
Key Responsibilties:
- Provide end-to-end B2R process, technical, and business expertise to support Service Delivery Units.
- Support the transition of new service scopes, ensuring adherence to global SOPs, tools, and change management requirements.
- Design, steer, standardize, and continuously improve global Product Costing & Inventory Valuation processes.
- Ensure end-to-end process consistency and alignment with BASF’s enterprise architecture.
- Own and manage the global service portfolio, including KPIs, controls, compliance requirements, and service definitions.
- Drive finance systems and project initiatives, including process optimization, IT modernization, and maintenance/control of relevant SAP tables and systems.
- Ensure proper documentation and governance of technical solutions and process changes.
- Drive automation, RPA, and AI-enabled solutions to improve efficiency, reduce manual activities, and enhance process effectiveness.
- Ensure process readiness and integration for major transformation programs and system transitions, including SAP S/4HANA.
- Build strong relationships with B2R Service Delivery teams, Controlling communities, Corporate Center functions, and global stakeholders to align process and technology improvements with business needs.
Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Business Administration, or a related discipline.
- More than 5 years of experience in Finance.
- Minimum 2 years of relevant experience in Product Costing & Inventory Valuation.
- Professional accounting certification (e.g., CPA or equivalent) is strongly preferred.
- Fluent In English
Technical Skills:
- Strong expertise in SAP FI (R/3 and/or S/4HANA), with in-depth understanding of core financial processes.
- Solid knowledge of IFRS accounting standards (mandatory).
- Proven experience and deep functional knowledge Product Costing & Inventory Valuation in global shared services environments, including transitions, migrations, or process consolidations.
- Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills, with the ability to drive decisions and operate with a high degree of autonomy.
- Knowledge and experience of MS office tools.
- Strong lateral leadership and communication skills, with the ability to collaborate across functions and regions.
- Excellent organizational skills and strong attention to detail, ensuring high-quality and reliable outputs.
