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EY Consulting is a fast-moving, high-growth area with huge potential. Being a member of our Consulting team means you will specialize in a particular competency - Risk, Technology Consulting, or IT Risk & Assurance. Our Technology Consulting team is focused on helping clients improve operational efficiency and security, while also reducing costs and managing risk.

THE OPPORTUNITY

We’re looking for a Manager for Technology Consulting practice to join our team with experience in SAP S/4HANA & ECC FI-CO with 7-10 years of experience with Finance business process and technology:

SKILLS AND ATTRIBUTES FOR SUCCESS

Must Have skills (at least 60% from the below list):

• Enterprise structure design / Finance Master data
• General Ledger
• Accounts Receivable
• Accounts Payable
• Asset Accounting
• Product Costing
• Statutory reporting
• Tax
• Treasury
• Profitability Analysis / Management Reporting
• Strong cross functional understanding with PP, MM, SD.

Must be able to articulate business value to the C-suite on the following quantitative and qualitative KPIs, but not limited to:

• Faster Month End close
• Touchless Management reporting / Expense reporting
• Touchless Statutory reporting
• Centralized Intercompany reconciliations
• Automated allocations
• Optimized Procure to Pay
• Optimized Order to Cash
• Advanced Product costing and variance analysis
• Touchless Consolidation / Elimination
• Streamlined Budgeting and Forecasting
• Advanced Tax management and reporting
• Efficient Treasury management and reporting

Must be able to articulate time and cost benefits from the Finance transformation programs.

Good to Have skills & traits:

• Consolidation & Elimination process and technology knowledge (eg: SAP Group reporting or others).
• FP&A - Budgeting and Forecasting process and technology knowledge (eg: SAP Analytics Cloud, BPC, or others).
• Account Reconciliations knowledge using Blackline, High Radius or others.
• Allocations knowledge using PaPM or others.
• Advanced Statutory reporting knowledge using Workiva, SAP ACR or others.
• Be updated with ‘Art of possible’ technologies in Finance (eg: RPA for reconciliations, machine learning for collections, etc.).
• Ability to create structure in cases of ambiguity.
• Ability to lead by example.

If you can demonstrate that you meet the criteria above, please contact us as soon as possible.
Please limit your CV to maximum 2 pages.
Summarized and well-articulated CV’s will be a first test in your ability to articulate your own value with succinct and sharp messaging.

Responsibilities across typical phases of an SAP project:

Opportunity Pursuit:

• Ability to participate in shaping the deals, prepare solutions, approach/timelines, team sizing, cost estimates, etc.
• Ability to present and articulate value in Orals presentations.

Analyze Phase:

• Ability to understand client business model / requirements / pain points
• Ability to understand big picture vision of the transformation program and prepare a plan to drive the day-to-day execution of the project.

Design Phase:

• Ability to explain best practices to clients.
• Ability to respectfully challenge clients and convince them on their mindset of customizing everything in SAP.
• Ability to conduct workshops across all finance processes and articulate messages extremely clearly.
• Ability to convince clients to make key design decisions (eg: one common chart of accounts OR decentralized chart of accounts)
• Ability to provide SAP or non-SAP solutions to unique problems / business scenarios based on your experience with other companies in same or other industries.
• Ability to prepare deliverables such as blueprint documentations, change impact assessment, Fit/Gap analysis, etc. and obtain signoffs
• Ability to present a design overview to the C-suite and connect with them.

Build Phase:

• Ability to educate clients on SAP configuration needs for them to provide SPRO values (eg: VKOA/OBYC)
• Ability to perform configurations in SAP or able to guide team members based on experience.
• Ability to write Functional design documents for add-on requirements in SAP. Ability to communicate with developers to build as desired.
• Ability to assist in Unit Testing and perform SIT (including cross module scenarios).

Test Phase:

• Ability to write test scripts and test scenarios with co-operation of key finance business users.
• Ability to obtain sign offs for Test scripts.
• Ability to facilitate UAT.
• Ability to identify defects and liaise with developers to resolve and re-test them.

Training Phase:

• Ability to prepare easy to understand and self-explanatory training materials
• Ability to conduct mass user training (TTT / EUT). Ability to handle large crowds from 10-50 people.
• Ability to be confident, concise, and articulate in training.

Data Migration:

• Ability to create a data strategy for master data and transactional data (eg: how should the cost centers be transformed, what happens to AR open items, etc.)
• Ability to assist business users in data cleansing and data transformation.

Deployment:

• Ability to assist and advice business users for cutover activities.

Post Go-live:

• Ability to provide 1st level support up until 1st month end close.