Manager, SAP Financial Accounting & Group Reporting

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Job description

Connect to your Industry

Deloitte's strategy is to be the market leader in SAP enabled Transformations. We are recruiting exceptional individuals to provide leadership and expertise to sell and deliver groundbreaking, digital S/4HANA and SAP-enabled Finance Transformation Programmes.

Deloitte has a long-standing relationship with SAP. We advise, implement, and operate transformational solutions in SAP that create world-class business capabilities across organisations.

You will be part of a diverse team that challenges itself to provide innovative solutions in high-profile, complex projects. Working alongside excellent colleagues from around the firm and across the globe, Deloitte is an environment where you and your career can flourish.

Connect to your career at Deloitte

Deloitte drives progress. Using our vast range of expertise, we help our clients' become leaders wherever they choose to compete. To do this, we invest in outstanding people. We build teams of future thinkers, with diverse talents and backgrounds, and empower them all to reach for and achieve more.

What brings us all together at Deloitte? It's how we approach the thousands of decisions we make every day. How we behave, our beliefs and our attitudes. In other words: our values. Whatever we do, wherever we are in the world, we lead the way, serve with integrity, take care of each other , foster inclusion, and collaborate for measurable impact. These five shared values lead every decision we make and action we take, guiding us to deliver impact how and where it matters most .

Connect to your opportunity

As a Manager in the area of SAP Financial Accounting & Group Reporting, you will be:

• Building strong client stakeholder relationships
• Leading teams of consultants to design and build core finance functionality using knowledge of SAP Best Practices for delivery of large-scale S/4HANA transformation programmes
• Leading the delivery of fit to standard workshops / requirement driven workshops to clients for your functional areas
• Demonstrate your understanding, knowledge and experience of business process design and enabling this through SAP functionality
• Ensuring the quality of work delivered by your team is of a high standard, and raising and managing project risks and issues
• Providing SAP knowledge across one or more SAP functional areas and configuring S/4HANA as per the solution design
• Create and review functional specifications for developers with a good grasp of the SAP structures and options
• Leading practice development activities which support sales activities and internal capability development

Connect to your skills and professional experience

To be successful in this role you are required to demonstrate:

• Previous large scale transformation project experience implementing Financial Accounting General Ledger, Asset Accounting, Accounts Receivable and Payable, Banking modules
• Previous large scale transformation project experience implementing Group Reporting - intercompany eliminations, Inter Company Matching and Reconciliation, Group Reporting Data Collection (GRDC) and other consolidation related tasks
• Subject Matter Expert in the implementation of SAP S/4 HANA Financial Accounting - General Ledger, Asset Accounting, Accounts Receivable and Payable and Banking modules and S/4HANA Group Reporting
• S/4HANA Group Reporting for clients
• Manage the design and delivery of the creation and configuration of financial reports and statutory reports using SAP Group Reporting tools
• Manage the Integration of SAP Group Reporting with SAP Financial Accounting, SAP Analytics cloud and other modules
• Manage the configuration of S/4HANA Financial Accounting and S/4HANA Group Reporting and documenting functional specifications where development objects are required
• Lead fit to standard workshops and translating the requirements into design
• Review functional specifications for development objects
• Ensuring the quality of work delivered by your team is of a high standard, raising and managing project risks and issues
• Knowledge of recent SAP Finance and Group Reporting and Financial Accounting innovations and roadmap
• Experience of Programme delivery applying Agile and Waterfall implementation methodologies
• Strong communication skills (written and oral) whether this is with the client team or remote developers
• Stakeholder management skills and ability to forge good professional relationships with your leaders and peers
• An understanding of working in a Consulting environment and the differences compared to an in-house SAP capability or working as an independent contractor
• Providing development and performance feedback to mentor members of your team

Desirables

• Qualified/Part-Qualified ACA/CIMA/ACCA or equivalent
• Security cleared / ability to gain security clearance, to be able to support activities in the Public Sector
• Knowledge of IFRS, GAAP and other financial reporting standards
• Experience in Financial Consolidation, Group Accounting, and reporting for multinational organisations
• Experience in one or more of the following sub-modules will help you stand out:
• Revenue Accounting & Reporting (RAR) and Transfer Pricing (TP)

Connect to your business - Technology and Transformation

Distinctive thinking, deep expertise, innovation and collaborative working. That's what connects us. That's what makes us Deloitte. If you want to help solve some of the biggest tech and transformational challenges around, join us. Together, we'll make an impact that matters.

Enterprise, Technology and Performance

Our clients want to achieve maximum value from digital transformation investments in Finance, Supply Chain and IT operations. That's where we come in. By taking a holistic view of performance improvement, including strategy, process design and technology enablement, we support the smooth operation of transformations.

Personal independence

Regulation and controls are standard practice in our industry and Deloitte is no exception. These controls provide important legal protection for both you and the firm. We are subject to a number of audit regulations, one of which requires that certain colleagues abide by specific personal independence constraints (e.g., in relation to any financial interests and employment relationships). This can mean that you and your "Immediate Family Members" are not permitted to hold certain financial interests (shares, funds, bonds etc.) with audit clients of the firm, and also prohibitions on certain employment relationships (e.g., you are not permitted to hold a secondary employment role with SEC audit clients of the firm whilst being employed by the firm). The recruitment team will provide further detail as you progress through the recruitment process or you can contact the Independence team upon request.

Connect with your colleagues

"The great culture, flexibility, and range of experiences that Deloitte offers is what sets this firm apart. In Human Capital, Deloitte is far ahead of any of our immediate competitors."

- Sophia, Technology and Transformation

"What attracted me to Deloitte were the endless opportunities and the collective experience of other like-minded individuals. Deloitte's clients include many of the world's largest organisations; I wanted to be part of a team that made a difference that I could be proud of."

- Dan, Technology and Transformation

Our hybrid working policy

You'll be based in London or Manchester with hybrid working.

At Deloitte we understand the importance of balancing your career alongside your home life. That's why we'll support you to work flexibly through our hybrid working policy. Depending on the requirements of your role, you'll have the opportunity to work in your local office, virtual collaboration spaces, client sites and remotely. You'll get the chance to meet face to face when needed, while you collaborate and learn from colleagues, share your experiences, and build the relationships that will fuel your career and prioritise your wellbeing. Please check with your recruiter for the specific working requirements that may apply for your role.

Our commitment to you

Making an impact is more than just what we do: it's why we're here. So we work hard to create an environment where you can experience a purpose you believe in, the freedom to be you, and the capacity to go further than ever before.

We want you. The true you. Your own strengths, perspective and personality. So we're nurturing a culture where everyone belongs, feels supported and heard, and is empowered to make a valuable, personal contribution. You can be sure we'll take your wellbeing seriously, too. Because it's only when you're comfortable and at your best that you can make the kind of impact you, and we, live for.

Your expertise is our capability, so we'll make sure it never stops growing. Whether it's from the complex work you do, or the people you collaborate with, you'll learn every day. Through world-class development, you'll gain invaluable technical and personal skills. Whatever your level, you'll learn how to lead.

Connect to your next step

A career at Deloitte is an opportunity to develop in any direction you choose. Join us and you'll experience a purpose you can believe in and an impact you can see. You'll be free to bring your true self to work every day. And you'll never stop growing, whatever your level.

Discover more reasons to connect with us, our people and purpose-driven culture at deloitte.co.uk/careers

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