Senior Manager - SAP Finance

Technology Consulting – SAP Finance –Senior Manager – UK
At EY, you’ll have the chance to build a career as unique as you are, with the global scale, support, inclusive culture and technology to become the best version of you. And we’re counting on your unique voice and perspective to help EY become even better, too. Join us and build an exceptional experience for yourself, and a better working world for all.  Technology continues to play an increasingly large role both in our client work and how we operate within EY. Across our business, 
 
EY Technology professionals focus on harnessing the power of technology to unleash human potential. They seek to deliver innovative tech-based solutions and in doing so, enhance our market impact and improve service delivery
 
The opportunity
Are you fascinated by technology, automation and strategic business and technology consultancy? Do you have the consulting skills to resolve complex technology and business issues? Are you able to use your business insight and technological expertise to identify how our clients can find new revenue and value-producing opportunities?
 
Do you possess the right mindset, experience and capabilities to transform our clients business towards a digital enterprise enabled by SAP S/4 HANA? Are you willing to deepen your current IT/Business skills in a high-performing environment?
 
Then the opportunity is now!
Having undergone a paradigm shift in recent years, SAP offers an innovative high-performance real-time platform and solutions which meet the needs of end-to-end digitised enterprises. Our EY SAP team is focused on working with our clients to leverage these SAP innovations and create business value. This could for example mean:

• Helping clients plan their route to S/4HANA from their current landscape 
• Re-defining a finance functions financial processes based on S/4HANA to reduce both Opex and Capex,
• Optimising Sales & Operations planning by utilising the possibilities of granular and real-time forecasting and data to improve insight, or 
• Creating strategic insight by adopting SAP predictive analytics to better understand customer behaviour and prevent potential customer churn whilst growing the top line.

We are looking for technology-minded, business-focused and creative senior consultants with a passion for bringing context to SAP innovations and ability to demonstrate how it can help transform our clients’ day to day operations. We are looking for people who have been there and done it, who want to keep close to the technology and who want to deliver solutions that have optimum impact on their clients. We are looking for people who can bring in their own business knowledge to engage at all levels with EY clients.
 
Your key responsibilities
At Senior Manager level, you will be leading project engagements working directly with Senior Stakeholders. You will also be responsible for all aspects of a client engagement, balancing commercial and operational risk against client requirements and contractual commitments. 
 
You will therefore be:

• Highly motivated
• Fluent in English and a good communicator with the ability to convey complex technical content in business language to board level
• Acts as an intermediary between the business and the technical community to understand business requirements and define the solution architecture required to translate business requirements into workable solutions
• Deliver the cost/benefits case 
• Generate sales according to Technical Consulting targets and Mange profitable engagements
• A team player who is not only looking to enhance their own career, but recognises the value in developing others
• Act as mentor and counsellor to strengthening the team
• Support the capability lead to build the Finance practice.

Skills and attributes for success
You will have knowledge and experience of the following:

• SAP software solutions – Underpinned with strong functional process knowledge and an ability to contextualise technology and deliver business value
• System integration skills
• Testing skills for strategy development and oversight of execution
• Solution architecture skills
• Designing and delivering SAP solutions (incl. evidence of displaying thoughtful insight) in one or more of the following areas:
• SAP ECC
• SAP S/4HANA
• SAP Finance 
• SAP Project Systems
• SAP Group Reporting
• SAP Central Finance
• SAP Analytics, Performance Management and Reporting
• SAP Financial planning solutions – BPC and/or SAC for Planning
• SAP Portfolio and Project Management
• SAP Success Factors
• SAP Ariba
• SAP Concur
• SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP) and iRPA
• Be a respected authority on financial solutions (i.e. speaking at User Group events etc)
• Have experience of supporting pre-sales engagements and responding to RFP’s etc

To qualify for the role you must have

• Taught leadership capability and ability to architecture solutions
• The ability to Manage projects/programmes independently from ‘Discovery’ phase through to go-live by applying as well as technical and business knowledge 
• The ability to structure teams, lead work streams and architect finance solutions
• The ability to define and evaluate end-to-end finance business processes and its integration with Procurement, Sales, Supply chain, Manufacturing, Payroll and HR etc.
• Ability to participate in presales activities and product demonstrations
• A deep understanding of the Technology Development Lifecycle
• Strong project management techniques experience with Waterfall, Hybrid-Agile and Agile methods (e.g. Scrum, Lean, Kanban)
• Willingness to travel as required in relation to working at Client Sites on specific engagements   

Ideally, you’ll also have

• 12+ years experience in complex SAP delivery (ECC and S/4HANA)
• Be a qualified accountant or have a strong Finance background
• Holds SAP certifications
• An understanding of the SAP roadmap and industry trends
• Exposure to different market sectors would be advantageous

What working at EY 
 
We offer a competitive remuneration package where you’ll be rewarded for your individual and team performance. Our comprehensive Total Rewards package includes support for flexible working and career development, and with FlexEY you can select benefits that suit your needs, covering holidays, health and well-being, insurance, savings and a wide range of discounts, offers and promotions. Plus, we offer:

• Continuous learning: You’ll develop the mindset and skills to navigate whatever comes next.
• Success as defined by you: We’ll provide the tools and flexibility, so you can make a meaningful impact, your way.
• Transformative leadership: We’ll give you the insights, coaching and confidence to be the leader the world needs.
• Diverse and inclusive culture: You’ll be embraced for who you are and empowered to use your voice to help others find theirs.

If you can confidently demonstrate that you meet the criteria above, please contact us as soon as possible.
 
Join us in building a better working world.
 
Apply now.

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