Senior SAP Finance Consultant

Job description / Role

Work Area: Consulting and Professional Services
Expected Travel: 0 - 70%
Career Status: Professional
Employment Type: Regular Full Time
Career Level: T3
Recruiter Name: Stephen BRADY

COMPANY DESCRIPTION

SAP started in 1972 as a team of five colleagues with a desire to do something new. Together, they changed enterprise software and reinvented how business was done. Today, as a market leader in enterprise application software, we remain true to our roots. That's why we engineer solutions to fuel innovation, foster equality and spread opportunity for our employees and customers across borders and cultures.

SAP values the entrepreneurial spirit, fostering creativity and building lasting relationships with our employees. We know that a diverse and inclusive workforce keeps us competitive and provides opportunities for all. We believe that together we can transform industries, grow economics, lift up societies and sustain our environment. Because it's the best-run businesses that make the world run better and improve people's lives.

Job Description

- Work together with Sales in demand creation by attending customer or prospect meetings to present SAP's Services capabilities and delivery approach.
- Drive solution strategy and create win proposals responding to the client's business requirements.
- Create solutions for proactive pitches and RFx responses.
- The counterpart for Client to understand business context, IT landscape, business, and technical requirements, on finance topics.
- Work closely together in a team of architects Globally, finance communities with SAP Services, Pre-sales, and Product Management.
- Counterpart of Sales, Account teams to present the benefits and value proposition of the solution.
- Manage internal teams on the solution approach, responsible for the bid with various teams.
- Leverage industry and SAP reference architectures
- Be actively involved in the preparation, conceptualization, realization and Go Live of customer implementation projects
- Perform feasibility studies and process design reviews
- Act as a Solution Lead / Principal Consultant and support respective manager(s) in people development tasks
- Lead industry / corporate process implementation across all related applications
- Identify, extract, and share knowledge assets from S/4HANA projects with the internal Finance Consulting Practice

Key Areas of Responsibility

Design

- Detailed design of customer business processes based on SAP product-family, and customer-specific development, that maps to the current or future customers process-, application- and system landscape, including proposals for software-decisions
- Preparing and running workshops with subject matter experts and other staff, including preparation of formal presentations, to define processes and agree on the functional design of SAP implementations
- Analysis of business processes, information flows, and functional requirements, documenting these to a high standard
- Design architecture based on process requirements, application and system landscape
- Analyze and define requirements for customer-specific development needs or integration requirements
- Review of business processes and corresponding mapping into IT architecture
- Define customer-roles to execute the business processes
- Conducting one-to-one interviews for information gathering purposes
- Create tactical and strategic roadmaps charting the deployment of the digital solutions SAP offers
- Quickly transform current S/4 Hana capabilities to CFIN capabilities

Sales and Business Development Support

- Promotion of the SAP brand, SAP products, and SAP best practice approaches
- Supporting sales in the evaluation process
- Identification of SAP Services elements

Implementation

- Support management of the implementation phase
- Provide leadership of a team of analysts and functional consultants, undertaking team planning and performance monitoring tasks when required

Other Responsibilities

- Provide accurate and timely updates to all customer, pipeline and forecast report on an ongoing basis.
- Comply with all SAP personnel and operational policies.
- Comply in a timely manner with all travel and expense policies.
- Maintain appropriate levels of involvement in customer issues requiring resolution, including invoices for license fees, maintenance, consulting services, and training

Requirements

Experience

- Extensive SAP implementation experience (10+ years) in multiple industry sectors
- Extensive experience of operating at Solution Architect level
- Knowledge of SAP Cloud Architecture, SAP Cloud Solution(s), and/or SAP HANA would be a distinct advantage
- Strong finance background and experience, preferably in treasury, Central Finance, asset management or group consolidation skills
- Familiarity with SAP Activate methodology, and with SAP implementation tools such as SAP Solution Manager would be a distinct advantage.

Personal Attributes

- Effective communication skills.
- Commercial acumen.
- Team player, who can collaborate with both Sales Presales and other stakeholder to ensure smooth operation.
- Business communication in both English and regional language.

SAP'S DIVERSITY COMMITMENT

To harness the power of innovation, SAP invests in the development of its diverse employees. We aspire to leverage the qualities and appreciate the unique competencies that each person brings to the company.

SAP is committed to the principles of Equal Employment Opportunity and to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with physical and/or mental disabilities.

About the Company

Headquartered in Walldorf, Germany, SAP is the world's largest business software company with more than 51,500 employees at sales and development locations in more than 50 countries worldwide.

Our global development approach focuses on distributing development across the world in strategically important markets. A global network of SAP Labs spanning Bulgaria, Canada, China, Germany, Hungary, India, Israel, and the United States, enables SAP to operate locally, yet organize globally.

As the global technology research unit of SAP, SAP Research significantly contributes to SAP's product portfolio and extends SAP's leading position by identifying and shaping emerging IT trends through applied research and corporate venturing. SAP Research has highly skilled teams in 11 research centers worldwide.