As a Finance Consultant, you will facilitate the implementation and support of the SAP Financial Accounting and Managerial Accounting solutions to enhance the clients business functionality and overall performance, while maintaining a high degree of customer satisfaction. In addition, you will partner with clients to analyze and define business requirements, processes and objectives to scope project and deliverables for same.
As a consultant you will implement, customize and test solutions on client system and develop client-specific enhancements to meet business requirements as needed; as well as assisting clients in achieving their Digital Transformation vision and Best-Run Business capability from their SAP and other IT investments.
Responsibilities of this role include creating tactical and strategic roadmaps charting the deployment of the digital solutions.
Responsibilities:
- Facilitate collaborative architecture discussions with our customer, IT and business executives
- Development of 7 to 8 years strategic roadmaps encompassing the evolution of enterprise business solution portfolios from current to future state.
- Guide customer teams in using Enterprise Architecture frameworks, establishing governance models and implementing business process modeling disciplines
- Influence transition states toward joint business outcomes building on SAP solution value
- 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 team lead / Business Processes Consultant and support respective manager(s) in people development tasks
- Develop detailed plan of process implementation
- Define detailed blueprint for development requirements
- Lead industry / corporate process implementation across all related SAP applications
- Assist in the development of the overall project plan (scoping process) as well as individual work plans; acting as liaison with client for troubleshooting (investigates, analyses, and solves software problems)
- Analyze and map clients business requirements, processes and objectives; develop necessary product modifications to satisfy clients needs.
- Support the internal Finance Consulting Practice with pre-sales support, spot consulting and internal projects and commit to the success of customers, partners, colleagues, and SAP
- Identify, extract, and share knowledge assets from S/4HANA projects with the internal Finance Consulting Practice
Qualifications:
- A minimum of 7 years SAP consulting experience with at least 7 years in Finance and at least 2 end to end implementations
- Overall knowledge of SAP S/4HANA Finance solutions experience
- Strong knowledge of Financial Accounting and Managerial Accounting processes and best practices
- Expertise in the configuration and implementation of Financial Accounting (FI)
- Expertise in the configuration and implementation of Managerial Accounting (CO)
- Expertise in the integration of Finance with other SAP solutions
- Strong communication skills with the ability to effectively interact at all levels within client company
- Proven experience in configuring, testing, and supporting SAP Finance solutions
- Ability to conduct complex and interactive solutioning workshops
- Proven expertise and commitment to knowledge management and mentoring
- Demonstrated leadership skills (organization, manage details, communication, and manage multiple priorities)
- Experience with SAP Activate Methodology for Implementation a plus
- Experience working directly for a large consulting company a plus
- ABAP development and debugging skills a plus.
- Strong leadership skills with the ability to lead customer engagements at an executive level
- Excellent interpersonal skills in areas such as teamwork, facilitation and negotiation
- Strong written, verbal communication and presentation skills; ability to present and discuss strategies and technical information in a manner that establishes rapport, persuades others, and establishes understanding for technical and non-technical audiences
