SAP Planning Consultant

Deloitte LLP; Winchester; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking consulting firm as a Planning, Budgeting & Forecasting Consultant. This role offers a unique opportunity to enhance your technical and advisory skills while working on high-impact projects. You will collaborate with diverse teams, advising clients on financial planning processes and implementing best-in-class SAP solutions. The firm values innovation and inclusion, providing a supportive environment where your career can flourish. With a focus on personal development and a commitment to work-life balance, you will thrive in this dynamic role, making a measurable impact on clients' success.

Benefits

Flexible working hours

Learning and development opportunities

Social events

Well-being programs

CSR initiatives

Qualifications

• Experience in financial planning and budgeting processes.
• Hands-on experience with SAP Analytics tools.

Responsibilities

• Advising on financial planning best practices.
• Managing project teams and client relationships.

Skills

Financial Planning

Budgeting

Forecasting

SAP Analytics Cloud

SAP BPC

Project Management

MS Office Suite

Problem Solving

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Finance or related field

Relevant certifications (e.g., SAP)

Tools

SAP Group Reporting

SAP Business Planning and Consolidation

SAP Business Warehouse

Job description

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
• Performance, Consolidation & Close

Connect to your career at Deloitte

Deloitte drives progress. Using our vast range of expertise, 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’show we approach the thousands of decisions we make everyday. How we behave, our beliefs and our attitudes. In other words: our values. Whatever we do, whereverwe arein the world, welead the way,serve with integrity, take care of each other ,fosterinclusion, andcollaborate for measurable impact. These five shared values lead every decision wemake and action we take, guiding us to deliver impact how and where it mattersmost .

Connect to your opportunity

There is a new opportunity for you to join and help develop our SAP Analytics+ team, specifically focusing on Financial Planning, Budgeting and Forecasting, based on best in class solutions such as:

• SAP Group Reporting (S/4 HANA),
• SAP Business Planning and Consolidation.

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.

The candidate will be expected to consult with all levels of a client's business and be comfortable in front of the finance business and IT, and from the analysts to the CIO and CFO, and be involved in the full life cycle of a project starting with the initial design of the performance framework through to the implementation of the supporting technology.

Connect to your skills and professional experience

As a Planning, Budgeting & Forecasting Consultant / Senior Consultant, your role will involve:

• Advising on good practice and processes in Financial planning in order to improve their visibility, accuracy and timeliness during the planning, budgeting and forecasting processes.
• Demonstrating a deep knowledge of client decision-making and support processes and key client business drivers.
• Designing and configuring EPM applications such as SAC Planning or SAP BPC in order to deliver a solution that best accommodates the client’s requirements as stated.
• Advising on the solution options available to accommodate the client’s requirements and the advantages and disadvantages relating to those options.
• Problem solving to identify and action appropriate remedies for technical errors associated with the EPM applications and related components.
• Understanding industry context.
• Supporting client requirements gathering/analysis workshops.
• Taking responsibility for planning, scoping, managing and creating deliverables as part of a larger project team.
• Establishing effective working relationships with peer-level clients as part of project delivery roles.
• Taking part in client discovery, requirement gathering and analysis workshops.
• Undertaking practice development activities including contributing to thought leadership pieces, running industry events, delivering training or managing team communications.

As a Planning, Budgeting & Forecasting Manager, your role will also involve:

• Managing larger teams on projects to deliver tasks, including providing guidance and feedback to junior team members.
• Assisting in the development of client bids.

Requirements

To be successful in this role you are required to have:

• Good working knowledge of financial planning, budgeting and forecasting processes.
• Hands on experience with SAP Analytics Cloud for planning or SAP BPC for planning.
• Relevant experience working in a financial discipline within management consulting OR relevant experience working in industry in financial / commercial roles.
• Hands on project experience including business requirements analysis, scoping, design and configuration with applicable tools and applications on at least:
  • (Consultant) Two full implementation lifecycles.
  • (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 and appropriate manner.
• Consistently high quality personal and professional standards.
• Advanced MS Office skills including Word, Excel and PowerPoint.
• Knowledge on sales and operations planning processes.
• Technical certification on any of the technologies mentioned above.
• Experience in SAP Business Warehouse (BW4 or DWC) or other similar packages would be advantageous.
• Knowledge of SAP IBP for HANA for supply chain and logistics planning.

Connect to your business - Technology and Transformation

Distinctive thinking, deep expertise, innovation and collaborative working. That’s what connects us. That’s what makes us Deloitte. If you want to help solve some of the biggest tech and transformational challenges around, join us. Together, we’ll make an impact that matters.

Enterprise, Technology and Performance

Our clients want to achieve maximum value from digital transformation investments in Finance, Supply Chain and IT operations. That’s where we come in. By taking a holistic view of performance improvement, including strategy, process design and technology enablement, we support the smooth operation of transformations.

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.

Connect with your colleagues

"Our team is a very friendly, inclusive, and supportive group with some of the smartest and most professional people who will always encourage you to play to your strengths. The projects are not only very interesting and challenging but you also get to see the impact you have made on the client in real-time. Along with the meaningful work, you also have access to learning and development opportunities, social events, CSR programmes, and most importantly your well-being."

- Vandana, Technology & Transformation

Our hybrid working policy

You’ll be based in one of our UK locations with hybrid working.

At Deloitte we understand the importance of balancing your career alongside your home life. 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.

Connect to your next step

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