Engineering Senior Manager

Allstate
Bangalore, IN

At Allstate, great things happen when our people work together to protect families and their belongings from life’s uncertainties. And for more than 90 years, our innovative drive has kept us a step ahead of our customers’ evolving needs. From advocating for seat belts, air bags and graduated driving laws, to being an industry leader in pricing sophistication, telematics, and, more recently, device and identity protection.

Job Description

The Senior Manager leads a multi‑team organization within the IT Department and is accountable for driving enterprise‑wide change, delivering measurable business outcomes, and developing high‑performing talent. This role blends strategic leadership with deep hands‑on technical expertise to modernize and scale finance platforms across the enterprise, including the responsible and effective adoption of AI‑ and data‑driven capabilities.
The individual is responsible for architecting, building, and delivering enterprise‑scale SAP S/4HANA Finance transformations within a complex Insurance environment. This includes providing technical leadership across core finance domains such as General Ledger, Fixed Assets, Consolidations, Treasury, Allocations, and Financial Planning and Reporting. The role plays a critical part in advancing system modernization, automation, advanced analytics, AI‑enabled insights, data integrity, and regulatory compliance, enabling faster close cycles, improved forecasting accuracy, and proactive financial controls.
As a trusted partner to Accounting, Finance, Actuarial, Treasury, and Technology stakeholders, the Senior Manager ensures that financial solutions are scalable, resilient, intelligent, and future‑ready. The role requires strong cross‑functional collaboration to translate complex business needs into platforms that leverage AI / ML for predictive insights, anomaly detection, intelligent reconciliations, and decision support, while remaining aligned with business strategy, governance standards, and regulatory requirements.

Key Responsibilities

  • Architect, design, and deliver enterprise‑scale SAP S/4HANA Finance solutions supporting core insurance financial processes.

  • Provide hands‑on technical leadership and strategic direction for SAP Finance capabilities including: General Ledger (GL), Accounts Payable (AP), Fixed Assets (FA), Allocations, Group Reporting and Consolidation

  • Lead the design and integration of financial data platforms, reconciliation solutions, and upstream/downstream systems across the enterprise.

  • Drive solution architecture decisions ensuring scalability, performance, auditability, and regulatory compliance.

  • Partner with finance and business stakeholders to translate complex functional requirements into robust technical designs.

  • Actively lead system integration, data migration, and data quality initiatives to ensure accurate, timely, and trusted financial data.

  • Leverage SAP BTP capabilities to enable extensibility, automation, event‑driven integrations, and analytical innovation.

  • Enable and implement AI/ML‑enabled finance capabilities to improve efficiency, automation, anomaly detection, and financial accuracy.

  • Establish and enforce architectural standards, development best practices, and governance across SAP Finance solutions.

  • Lead and mentor technical teams, fostering a culture of accountability, continuous improvement, and engineering excellence.

  • Collaborate closely with security, risk, compliance, and audit teams to ensure solutions meet insurance regulatory and reporting requirements.

  • Manage complex technology initiatives, balancing scope, risk, timelines, and quality while delivering measurable business value.

• Adapts complex communication approaches for audiences at multiple internal and external levels

• Negotiates solutions for issues that may be complex or controversial across multiple teams/functional groups

• Highly proficient in the business of information technology

• Manages multiple teams with significant, complex assignments; creates structures and processes that provide oversight of budgets and delivery yet allow employees freedom of action

• Serves as a role model for personal development, incorporating 360-degree performance feedback

• Collects multiple levels of staff performance data against desired outcomes and service level agreements

Education

• 4 year Bachelors Degree (Preferred)

Experience
  • 15+ years of hands‑on SAP experience (Preferred)

  • Enterprise SAP S/4HANA Finance transformation experience

  • Insurance industry experience is a plus

  • Experience with Agentic AI and AI‑enabled finance automation, including intelligent decision orchestration and autonomous workflows, is a plus

Supervisory Responsibilities

• This job has supervisory duties.

Education & Experience (in lieu)

• In lieu of the above education requirements, an equivalent combination of education and experience may be considered.

Primary Skills

Shift Time

General Shift (India)

Recruiter Info

Hiral Parag Rughani

hparb@allstate.com

About Allstate

Joining our team isn’t just a job — it’s an opportunity. One that takes your skills and pushes them to the next level. One that encourages you to challenge the status quo. One where you can shape the future of protection while supporting causes that mean the most to you. Joining our team means being part of something bigger – a winning team making a meaningful impact.

The Allstate Corporation is one of the largest publicly held insurance providers in the United States. Ranked No. 84 in the 2023 Fortune 500 list of the largest United States corporations by total revenue, The Allstate Corporation owns and operates 18 companies in the United States, Canada, Northern Ireland, and India. Allstate India Private Limited, also known as Allstate India, is a subsidiary of The Allstate Corporation. The India talent center was set up in 2012 and operates under the corporation's Good Hands promise. As it innovates operations and technology, Allstate India has evolved beyond its technology functions to be the critical strategic business services arm of the corporation. With offices in Bengaluru and Pune, the company offers expertise to the parent organization’s business areas including technology and innovation, accounting and imaging services, policy administration, transformation solution design and support services, transformation of property liability service design, global operations and integration, and training and transition.

Learn more about Allstate India here.

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