Senior Manager - SAP FICO - Technology Consulting

EY Consulting is a fast-moving, high-growth area with huge potential. Being a member of our Consulting team means you will specialize in a particular competency - Risk, Technology Consulting, or IT Risk & Assurance. Our Technology Consulting team is focused on helping clients improve operational efficiency and security, while also reducing costs and managing risk.

The Opportunity

We’re looking for a Senior Manager for Technology Consulting practice to join our team with experience in SAP S/4HANA & ECC FI-CO with 10-15 years of experience with Finance business process and technology:

Key Responsibilities

Responsibilities across typical phases of an SAP project:

Opportunity Pursuit:

• Ability to take lead in shaping the deals, prepare solutions, approach/timelines, team sizing, cost estimates, etc.
• Ability to present and articulate value in Orals presentations.

Analyze Phase:

• Ability to understand client business model / requirements / pain points
• Ability to understand big picture vision of the transformation program and prepare a plan to drive the day-to-day execution of the project.

Design Phase:

• Ability to explain best practices to clients.
• Ability to respectfully challenge clients and convince them on their mindset of customizing everything in SAP.
• Ability to conduct workshops across all finance processes and articulate messages extremely clearly.
• Ability to convince clients to make key design decisions (eg: one common chart of accounts OR decentralized chart of accounts)
• Ability to provide SAP or non-SAP solutions to unique problems / business scenarios based on your experience with other companies in same or other industries.
• Ability to prepare deliverables such as blueprint documentations, change impact assessment, Fit/Gap analysis, etc. and obtain signoffs
• Ability to present a design overview to the C-suite and connect with them.

Build Phase:

• Ability to educate clients on SAP configuration needs for them to provide SPRO values (eg: VKOA/OBYC)
• Ability to perform configurations in SAP or able to guide team members based on experience.
• Ability to write Functional design documents for add-on requirements in SAP. Ability to communicate with developers to build as desired.
• Ability to assist in Unit Testing and perform SIT (including cross module scenarios).

Test Phase:

• Ability to write test scripts and test scenarios with co-operation of key finance business users.
• Ability to obtain sign offs for Test scripts.
• Ability to facilitate UAT.
• Ability to identify defects and liaise with developers to resolve and re-test them.

Training Phase:

• Ability to prepare easy to understand and self-explanatory training materials
• Ability to conduct mass user training (TTT / EUT). Ability to handle large crowds from 10-50 people.
• Ability to be confident, concise, and articulate in training.

Data Migration:

• Ability to create a data strategy for master data and transactional data (eg: how should the cost centers be transformed, what happens to AR open items, etc.)
• Ability to assist business users in data cleansing and data transformation.

Deployment:

• Ability to assist and advice business users for cutover activities.

Post Go-live:

• Ability to provide 1st level support up until 1st month end close.

Other Expectations:

• Be updated with ‘Art of possible’ technologies in Finance (eg: RPA for reconciliations, machine learning for collections, etc.).
• Ability to delegate and coach team members (will be expected to multi-task, delegation is crucial).
• Create self-explanatory PowerPoint slides (simple, clear, to the point).
• Outstanding interpersonal skills.
• Able to be Independent / Entrepreneurial.
• Ability to challenge.
• Ability to create structure in cases of ambiguity.
• Ability to lead by example.

Skills and Attributes for Success

Must Have skills:

• Enterprise structure design / Finance Master data
• General Ledger
• Accounts Receivable
• Accounts Payable
• Asset Accounting
• Product Costing
• Statutory reporting
• Tax
• Treasury
• Profitability Analysis / Management Reporting
• Strong cross functional understanding with PP, MM, SD.

Must be able to articulate business value to the C-suite on the following quantitative and qualitative KPIs, but not limited to:

• Faster Month End close
• Touchless Management reporting / Expense reporting
• Touchless Statutory reporting
• Centralized Intercompany reconciliations
• Automated allocations
• Optimized Procure to Pay
• Optimized Order to Cash
• Advanced Product costing and variance analysis
• Touchless Consolidation / Elimination
• Streamlined Budgeting and Forecasting
• Advanced Tax management and reporting
• Efficient Treasury management and reporting

Must be able to articulate time and cost benefits from the Finance transformation programs.

Good to Have skills:

• Consolidation & Elimination process and technology knowledge (eg: SAP Group reporting or others).
• FP&A - Budgeting and Forecasting process and technology knowledge (eg: SAP Analytics Cloud, BPC, or others).
• Account Reconciliations knowledge using Blackline, High Radius or others.
• Allocations knowledge using PaPM or others.
• Advanced Statutory reporting knowledge using Workiva, SAP ACR or others.

If you can demonstrate that you meet the criteria above, please contact us as soon as possible.

Please limit your CV to maximum 2 pages.

Summarized and well-articulated CV’s will be a first test in your ability to articulate your own value with succinct and sharp messaging.