Senior Consultant, SAP Analytics - Data & Data Platforms

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Want to extend your technical and advisory skills delivering total solutions to an outstanding client base? Joining the Deloitte SAP Analytics+ team, within Enterprise Technology & Performance (ET&P) will enable you to combine your senior-level client advisory skills with your deep technical expertise - all within a high-impact environment.

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.

The SAP Analytics+ team consists of 5 core capability groups:

• Strategy and Architecture
• Data & Platforms
• Planning, Budgeting and Forecasting
• Advanced Analytics & AI
• Performance, Consolidation & Close

There is an opportunity for you to join and help develop our SAP Analytics+ team, specifically focusing on SAP Performance, Consolidation and Close, based on best-in-class solutions, we expect you to be an expert in using one or more of:

• S4/H Group Reporting (Must Have), SAP BPC, SAP BCS (Will provide additional advantage).
• Financial and Management Reporting - SAP Group Data Analysis, Fiori Reporting, SAP Analytics Cloud and Analysis for Office.
• Financial close process - Statutory Reporting process, Local Statutory Reporting process, Management Reporting process.
• Last leg reporting - SAP Disclosure Reporting, Workiva etc.

This represents a unique opportunity to develop your career in consulting within an established Big 4 consulting firm. You will have the chance to develop your technical and functional expertise in the Analytics+ tools, as well as in the delivery and implementation of large scale technology solutions as you work on a range of projects in cross-functional teams.

In your role we expect excellent knowledge of consolidation processes, the solutions in SAP and industry. You will have conversations with a client to understand their pain points and provide a view of good practice in the market and the industry. You need to formulate an understanding of business requirements, design, build and test and promote solutions to the production environment. You would be required to communicate at all levels of a client's finance, business and IT organisations.

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Deloitte drives progress. Using our vast range of expertise, that covers audit, risk advisory, and consulting services across tax, legal, business, technology and corporate finance, 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.

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As a Data and Data Platforms Senior Consultant, your role will involve:

• Leadership: As a manager we expect you to be a leader, someone that can lead teams and new opportunities and set direction.
• Participate in identifying, qualification, creating proposals for new opportunities.
• Project work, you need to lead the team:
• Understanding the scope of work and business opportunity.
• During the collection and documentation of the business requirements for statutory and management consolidations.
• In gathering possible solutions to meet the business requirements, create a point of view and what good could look like.
• Conduct solution review boards.
• Creating business process and application design and linking the design back to the requirements and the SOW.
• Through the business change impact assessment, identifying the training curriculum required to cover the change and assist in training creation.
• Through building and testing the proposed solution, linking back to best practice.
• To think about the target operating model to support the future solution.
• Cutover, hypercare and closing the project.
• Assist in managing people in the organisation.
• Help to grow the Enterprise Performance Management capability with a focus on the close process by creating and building a library of assets to use during new opportunities and implementations.
• Undertaking practice development activities including contributing to thought leadership pieces, running industry events, delivering training or managing team communications.

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Essentials

• Hands on experience in financial close and reporting technology S/4H Group Reporting (Must Have), other applications like SAP BPC, SAP BCS, SAP BFC (or equivalent) will add an advantage.
• Reporting SAP Group Data Analysis, Fiori Reporting, SAP Analytics Cloud and Analysis for Office SAP Group Reporting, SAP Analytics Cloud, SAP Disclosure or Workiva or equivalent.
• End to end implementation experience.
• Expertise across the full lifecycle of the enterprise performance management including the close process (Data ingestion, Validation, Translation, IG Elimination and Consolidation of investments, Financial performance analysis and management reporting adjustments or equivalent).
• Understanding of last mile reporting and applications like SAP Disclosure management or Workiva.
• Very good knowledge of S/4 HANA Group Reporting data structures and the link to S/4H or S/4H CFIN. You understand ACDOCA and ACDOCU concepts.
• Knowledge and experience in SAP BW4/HANA and hyperscale technologies.
• Hands on project experience including business requirements analysis, scoping, design and configuration with one of the tools above, on at least:
  • (Senior Consultant) Three full implementation lifecycles.
  • (Manager) Four+ full implementation lifecycles.
• Ability to translate technical information to non-technical individuals is essential, as well as the ability to present this to a range of audiences in a clear, concise, appropriate manner.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Advanced MS Office skills including Word, Excel and PowerPoint.
• Consistent high quality personal and professional standards.

Additional desirable experience includes:

• Qualified/part qualified CA / CIMA or equivalent.
• Qualified SAP Consultant on any of the technologies mentioned above or equivalent.
• Qualified FI consultant or equivalent with advanced experience in financial close in ECC / S4Hana.
• SAP Disclosure or Workiva.

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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.

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"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, Consulting

Our hybrid working policy

Based in various locations in the UK, this role will also require flexibility to work onsite at clients across multiple locations at times. You'll be based in London with hybrid working. Our hybrid model enables our people to collaborate, connect and innovate in both a virtual and physical capacity. As well as remote working, you'll attend your local office, virtual collaboration spaces and client sites, depending on the requirements of the role.

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.

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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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