Director - SAP Finance

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Job description

SAP Finance & EPM Director

KPMG's Powered Enterprise is the world-class accelerated Enterprise Business Transformation framework for cloud-based solutions that covers all 6 layers of a customer's Target Operating Model. It supports customers to make better and faster decisions that drives positive business outcomes, reduces implementation effort while improving ROI. It combines our leading business consulting practice, technology capabilities and insights into a complete solution for intelligent enterprises.

The Powered Apps teams are communities of business and technology focussed professionals who work together to deliver KPMG Powered Enterprise through a standardised delivery model. The teams use their functional knowledge and experience (e.g. Finance, Supply Chain, Procurement), technology expertise (S/4HANA, CFin, RISE, BTP, MDG, etc.) and SAP SaaS applications (Ariba, SuccessFactors, etc.) to enable customers run successful business transformation programmes enabled by SAP technology.

The Role

We are seeking a senior SAP Finance & EPM Director to focus on business development, practice and asset build, and delivery of transformations enabled by SAP technology. This high-profile role requires a balance of business development, sales origination, practice build and client delivery. This is a unique opportunity to shape the SAP business within a Big4.

Successful candidates will be expected to:

• Drive origination and lead pre-sales activities (RFP responses, direct award within our customers, etc.), engage directly with senior stakeholders (typically CFOs) - and manage bid teams with limited support from the SAP business partners.
• Have commercial acumen to propose the constructs to proposals and be able to defend the rationale when reviewing with partners.
• Enhance KPMG Powered Enterprise offerings, focusing on the readily deployable assets/demos/accelerators with clear ROI and with special focus on automation, clean core and AI.
• Write external KPMG whitepapers and points of view.
• Have regular interactions with SAP to get insights of future roadmap, align joint target accounts and drive the direction of KPMG's offerings in this domain.
• Attract, recruit, train and retain top talent.
• Be the senior Finance Architect for complex engagements with our flagship accounts.

The Person

KPMG's SAP business is on a rapid growth trajectory and is looking for candidates that are self-driven, have proven experience and are excited with the opportunity to shape the SAP business inside a Big4.

Successful candidates will be expected to have:

• Deep experience selling and delivering in key SAP Finance and EPM solutions such as Budgeting, Forecasting, Group Reporting, Consolidation, Central Finance, PaPM and Treasury.
• A high-level understanding of SAP SAC, BPC, Datasphere, SAC and other EPM tools is desirable.
• Delivered 4+ end-to-end SAP programmes as an end-to-end Finance Lead.
• Delivered at least 2 end-to-end Central Finance programmes as the overall lead.
• Experience selling and delivering under a RISE contract from the business development/sales phase until the implementation go-live.
• Proven track record in leading complex bids which includes S/4HANA and other SAP and non-SAP technologies. This is high profile role which requires the experience of leading the bid end-to-end with limited support from senior stakeholders. It would include identifying SMEs, delivery teams, win themes and manage them to craft compelling and winning proposals.
• Experience in running a regular cadence with SAP to understand future roadmap direction and co-innovation opportunities.
• Managed a team of onshore and offshore resources both from an individual engagement and overall practice perspective.
• Understanding of SAP's AI roadmap and having worked on creation of assets, products, solutions that leverage it to the benefit of customers.
• Built assets and accelerators that were deployed to multiple customers. #LI-MS1