Director - SAP Finance

KPMG-UnitedKingdom; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading consulting firm in Birmingham seeks a skilled SAP Finance & EPM Director to lead business development and deliver complex SAP transformations. The candidate will collaborate with senior stakeholders, enhance SAP offerings, and build a top-tier team. An extensive background in SAP Finance solutions, along with proven leadership and management experience, is essential for success in this role.

Qualifications

• Deep experience selling and delivering SAP Finance and EPM solutions.
• Delivered 4+ end-to-end SAP programs as a Finance Lead.
• Experience creating assets leveraging AI for customer benefit.

Responsibilities

• Drive origination and lead pre-sales activities.
• Enhance KPMG Powered Enterprise offerings.
• Attract, recruit, train, and retain top talent.

Skills

SAP Finance solutions

Business development

Leadership

Stakeholder management

Strategy development

Tools

S/4HANA

SAP Analytics Cloud

Central Finance

SAP BPC

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SAP Finance & EPM Director

KPMG's Powered Enterprise is a world-class accelerated Enterprise Business Transformation framework for cloud-based solutions covering all 6 layers of a customer's Target Operating Model. It helps clients make better, faster decisions, driving positive outcomes, reducing implementation effort, and improving ROI. It combines business consulting, technology capabilities, and insights into a comprehensive solution for intelligent enterprises.

The Powered Apps teams are communities of business and technology professionals working together to deliver KPMG Powered Enterprise through a standardized 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 seek a senior SAP Finance & EPM Director focused on business development, practice and asset building, and delivery of SAP-enabled transformations. This high-profile role balances business development, sales origination, practice development, and client delivery. It offers 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), engage with senior stakeholders (typically CFOs), and manage bid teams with limited support from SAP business partners.
2. Possess 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. Author external KPMG whitepapers and viewpoints.
5. Maintain regular interactions with SAP for insights on future roadmap, align target accounts, and steer KPMG's offerings in this domain.
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.

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 programs as an end-to-end Finance Lead.
4. Delivered at least 2 end-to-end Central Finance programs 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, including managing SMEs, delivery teams, and crafting compelling proposals.
7. Experience in maintaining regular engagement with SAP on future roadmap and co-innovation.
8. Managed onshore and offshore teams from individual engagements to overall practice management.
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.