GENERAL INFORMATION

Location: Dublin
Available for VISA Sponsorship: YES
Business Area: Platforms
Contract Type: Full Time - Permanent
EY is the only major professional services firm with an integrated Financial Services practice across Europe, the Middle East, India and Africa (EMEIA). We connect our Asset Management, Banking and Capital Markets and Insurance clients to 6,500 talented people from 12 countries and 35,000 Financial Services colleagues around the world.
In EY FS Ireland, we are expanding our Consulting practice and building our Technology Consulting team as a key component of our NextWave Strategy. NextWave is EY’s global strategy and ambition to deliver long-term value to clients, people and society. It is inspired by the way innovations spread through society. We are actively recruiting high achieving individuals with customer and digital platforms experience with an expertise in multi-channel technology-enabled transformation projects/programmes within Financial Services.
EY’s FSO SAP Team are experiencing an exciting period of growth. In response to market demand, we are looking for an experienced, client facing Senior SAP G/L Consultant, with a keen focus on banking clients.
By joining the Technology Consulting team, you will work in high-performing teams that deliver exceptional client service, enabling organizations to grow, innovate, protect, and optimise their business performance – playing your part in building a better working world.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES INCLUDE:

This position will be responsible for supporting the implementation of SAP S/4HANA General Ledger, with a keen focus on banking clients:

• Process and record all financial & GL transactions in chart of accounts, inter & intra company accounts, banks & cash clearing accounts, balance sheet reconciliations, pre-close reporting, ME/QE/YE close processes and other ad hoc reporting and activities in compliance with IFRS9 and EU/UK/US GAAP, financial policies and procedures.
• Apply knowledge of Core SAP Financials in configuration including General Ledger (GL), Asset Accounting (AA), Closing & Statutory Reporting, Accounts Payable (AP), Accounts Receivable (AR) including Tax, Payments & Banking.
• Integrate key points of SAP FICO and other SAP modules including COPA, SD, MM, PS
• Implement configuration of document splitting for full balance sheet reporting by different lines of businesses within a company code (knowledge/experience required)
• Provide expertise on accounting principles and practices to a variety of accounting, budgeting, forecasting, cost accounting and other fiscal functions within client engagement
• Define and execute an agile delivery approach to requirements gathering and analysis for changes in general ledger and resulting processes
• Lead design workshops to gain a clear understanding of our banking clients needs and propose best practice solutions

TO QUALIFY FOR THE ROLE, YOU MUST HAVE:

• A third level qualification in Business, Technology, Engineering, Accounting, or a related discipline
• SAP S/4HANA Finance certified or accounting certification (CPA, ACCA, ACA, CIMA) with experience in SAP
• A minimum of 8 years’ experience working in a banking client facing role for a leading consulting or (good to have) professional services company in delivery of large-scale complex change/transformation programmes or systems integration programmes in SAP Finance implementations
• A solid understanding of core financial processes and the implementation of best practice solutions in the SAP Finance space for global banking or insurance clients
• Proven experience in implementing SAP finance processes such as new general ledger, finance general ledger processing, accruals, bank accounting, asset accounting, management accounting (CO), profitability analysis, cash management, credit management and budgeting / planning
• Proven experience of full-cycle SAP implementation projects through all phases and associated deliverables for SAP ECC and SAP S/4HANA
• Proven experience with demonstrable understanding of SAP S/4HANA general ledgers concepts and processing
• Proven experience in leading IT change projects with a range of streams, partners and technologies (incl. IT infrastructure, IT Security, IT Operations, IT applications etc.) across the full delivery lifecycle is desirable but not essential
• Strong ability to be a team player, adopting a collaborative and supportive approach across the team
• Proven ability to lead teams and build and leverage relationships with key client stakeholders