SAP Financial Planning and Analysis Senior Manager

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Job description

SAP Financial Planning and Analysis Senior Manager

We are seeking talented individuals with deep design and implementation experience in SAP S4 HANA Finance solutions. This is a high-profile role within the team, requiring strong client delivery skills, whilst supporting business development opportunities to grow the practice.

The successful candidate will be:

• In the role of a SAP Financial Planning and Analysis Senior Manager, responsible for overseeing end-to-end implementation projects for SAP S4 HANA Finance solutions spanning Financial Planning, Analysis and Budget Forecasting areas.
• Able to Run client design workshops in Finance for requirements gathering and walkthrough of the target solution
• Able to Translate client needs into effective Finance solutions, providing expert guidance and recommendations based on industry standards and best practices.
• Experienced in SAP Finance Transformation domains related to Financial Planning, Analysis and Budget Forecasting.
• Capable of shaping a client's future Finance roadmap enabled by SAP that might involve complete redesign and build of their existing business processes.
• Has clear understanding of the overall architecture connecting the wider digital world with core Finance processes
• Capable of supporting business development and sales initiatives including bid and proposal support in the SAP S4 HANA Finance area

The Person

• Demonstrable experience of having successfully delivered end-to-end SAP S/4 HANA Finance Transformation programmes within a Consulting environment
• SAP S/4 HANA system design, build and deployment experience - 3 full lifecycle implementations preferred
• Strong knowledge in Financial Planning, Analysis and Budget Forecasting Central activities and areas
• Demonstrable experience in running and supporting pre-sales activities- RFPs, demos, client engagement
• Strong documentation, reporting and presentation skills
• Well-developed analytical skills and the ability to provide clarity to complex issues, and synthesize large amounts of information
• Strong interpersonal, team building, organisational and motivational skills
• Strong knowledge of S/4HANA configuration and best practices
• Experience producing project deliverables (business requirements, functional specs, configuration document, process flows, use cases, requirements traceability matrices etc.)
• Detailed working knowledge of how processes are enabled within SAP
• Experience of facilitating a design workshop and then translating the requirements into design
• Ability to build strong client relationships based on subject matter expertise and quality of delivery
• Proven ability to collaborate and build strong relationships with varying team members

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