Director - SAP Finance

KPMG-UnitedKingdom; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

KPMG is seeking a senior SAP Finance & EPM Director in Birmingham. The successful candidate will lead business development and delivery of SAP transformations, engaging directly with CFOs and managing complex bids. This high-profile role demands extensive experience in SAP solutions, offering a unique opportunity to shape KPMG's SAP business within a Big4 firm.

Qualifications

• Deep experience in SAP Finance and EPM solution delivery.
• 4+ end-to-end SAP programmes as Finance Lead.
• Proven success in managing complex bids with S/4HANA.

Responsibilities

• Drive origination and manage pre-sales activities with senior stakeholders.
• Enhance KPMG Powered Enterprise offerings with deployable assets.
• Attract and retain top talent within the SAP business.

Skills

SAP Finance solutions

EPM tools

Business development

Leadership

Client management

Tools

S/4HANA

SAP SAC

BPC

Datasphere

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SAP Finance & EPM Director

KPMG's Powered Enterprise is the world-class accelerated Enterprise Business Transformation framework for cloud-based solutions that covers all 6 layers of a customer's Target Operating Model. It supports customers to make better and faster decisions that drive positive business outcomes, reduces implementation effort, and improves ROI. It combines our leading business consulting practice, technology capabilities, and insights into a complete solution for intelligent enterprises.

The Powered Apps teams are communities of business and technology professionals who work together to deliver KPMG Powered Enterprise through a standardised delivery model. They utilize their functional knowledge (Finance, Supply Chain, Procurement), technology expertise (S/4HANA, CFin, RISE, BTP, MDG, etc.), and SAP SaaS applications (Ariba, SuccessFactors, etc.) to enable successful business transformations enabled by SAP technology.

The Role

We are seeking a senior SAP Finance & EPM Director to focus on business development, practice and asset build, and delivery of transformations enabled by SAP technology. This high-profile role requires a balance of business development, sales origination, practice build, and client delivery. This is a unique opportunity to shape the SAP business within a Big4.

Successful candidates will be expected to:

1. Drive origination and lead pre-sales activities (RFP responses, direct awards within our customers, etc.), engage directly with senior stakeholders (typically CFOs), and manage bid teams with limited support from SAP business partners.
2. Have commercial acumen to propose constructs for proposals and defend the rationale during reviews with partners.
3. Enhance KPMG Powered Enterprise offerings, focusing on deployable assets, demos, accelerators with clear ROI, automation, clean core, and AI.
4. Write external KPMG whitepapers and viewpoints.
5. Maintain regular interactions with SAP to gain insights into future roadmaps, align with target accounts, and steer KPMG's offerings.
6. Attract, recruit, train, and retain top talent.
7. Serve as the senior Finance Architect for complex engagements with flagship accounts.

The Person

KPMG's SAP business is rapidly growing and seeks self-driven candidates with proven experience eager to shape the SAP business within a Big4 environment.

Successful candidates will have:

1. Deep experience selling and delivering SAP Finance and EPM solutions such as Budgeting, Forecasting, Group Reporting, Consolidation, Central Finance, PaPM, and Treasury.
2. A high-level understanding of SAP SAC, BPC, Datasphere, and other EPM tools is desirable.
3. Delivered 4+ end-to-end SAP programmes as an Finance Lead.
4. Delivered at least 2 end-to-end Central Finance programmes as the overall lead.
5. Experience selling and delivering under a RISE contract from sales to go-live.
6. A proven track record in leading complex bids involving S/4HANA and other SAP and non-SAP technologies, managing SMEs, delivery teams, and crafting compelling proposals.
7. Experience maintaining a cadence with SAP for future roadmap insights and co-innovation.
8. Managed onshore and offshore teams from individual engagement to practice level.
9. Understanding of SAP's AI roadmap and experience creating assets leveraging AI for customer benefit.
10. Built assets and accelerators deployed across multiple customers.