SAP S/4HANA Finance Functional Associate Manager

Accenture; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

30 days holiday

Private medical insurance

Charitable leave

Job summary

Accenture is seeking a SAP S/4HANA Finance Functional Associate Manager to help drive large-scale finance transformations from discovery through to go-live. You will shape future-state processes, translate business needs into robust designs, and work with SAP delivery teams to deliver value for reinforcement of the CFO agenda.

You’ll engage with finance leaders, lead workshops, and contribute to bids and propositions while traveling to client sites in the UK as required.

Qualifications

• Proven experience delivering SAP S/4HANA finance transformations across Record-to-Report, Order-to-Cash, Procure-to-Pay.
• Ability to translate business needs into S/4HANA-enabled designs and drive fit-to-standard decisions.

Responsibilities

• Lead and contribute to design decisions balancing SAP best practice with client needs.
• Facilitate workshops with senior finance stakeholders to define future-state processes.
• Bridge business and technology, owning the finance and business agenda across programmes.

Skills

Finance transformation

SAP S/4HANA

Workshop facilitation

Stakeholder management

Education

Finance/accounting qualification

Tools

SAP

Oracle

Workday

EPM

Job description

Job Description

SAP S/4HANA Finance Functional Associate Manager

Career level: Consultant (CL8) • Location: London / Manchester / Edinburgh (location flexible) • Practice: Finance Reinvention Partner (SAP)

Why this role

This role puts you at the front of large-scale, business-led S/4HANA finance transformations - sitting with the client's finance leaders, shaping what good looks like, and carrying that design from early discovery through to a working solution at go-live. You'll own your part of the finance agenda, translate what the business needs into a design the SAP delivery teams can build, and grow quickly on marquee programmes alongside people who architect this work for a living. This is the design and advisory side of our SAP finance work - shaping the future-state process and the case for change and handing a clear blueprint to delivery, rather than a hands-on configuration role.

Accenture is a leading solutions and services company. Our strategy is to be the reinvention partner of choice for our clients and lead in the safe, widespread adoption of AI. We bring together our people, deep industry expertise and technology to deliver end-to-end outcomes for clients - and Finance is one of seven Reinvention Partners at the centre of that. Finance RP brings the CFO agenda to life for clients - stronger performance, sharper insight, and better control.

"Our clients want a partner that can help them reinvent-boldly, continuously and at speed... while continuously building the most client-focused, AI-enabled great place to work for our people-our Reinventors." - Julie Sweet, Chair and CEO

What you'll bring

Your finance transformation expertise.

Proven experience delivering SAP S/4HANA finance transformations, in consulting or in industry. You can take a client's business strategy and finance objectives and turn them into S/4HANA-enabled process designs across Record-to-Report, Order-to-Cash, Procure-to-Pay and the related finance domains. You lead and contribute to fit-to-standard and design decisions, balancing SAP best practice against the client's specific value, control and operating-model needs, and you use structured analysis and value-led recommendations to work through complex, ambiguous problems.

Delivering across the programme.

Hands-on experience across the phases of an S/4HANA programme - discovery and envisioning, fit-to-standard and design, business integration and testing, and deployment and stabilisation. You bring a solid understanding of period-end close, finance controls and reporting in an S/4HANA environment, and you can use the platform's capabilities to simplify and standardise how finance runs. You act as the bridge between business and technology, working closely with SAP delivery and integration teams while keeping ownership of the finance and business agenda.

Working with finance stakeholders.

You're comfortable facilitating workshops with senior finance stakeholders to define future-state processes, co-developing and securing design decisions, and aligning finance, tax, operations and technology around them. You build trusted relationships and have the credibility to challenge and influence finance leaders on the calls that matter. As you grow, you'll contribute to how we win and shape work too - supporting bids, helping shape finance transformation propositions, and articulating CFO-relevant value.

Ways of working.

We're increasingly an AI-first delivery team - bringing agentic tooling and orchestration into how we design, analyse and validate, with our people owning the judgement and the outcome. If you already work this way, that's a real plus, and we're keen to hear from people bringing that experience.

Qualification

Who you are

You take ownership and follow through, and you're comfortable in the ambiguity that comes with complex client organisations. You work well in a team, build trusted relationships across finance, operations and technology, and communicate clearly - you can run a discovery session with a client and explain a design call to a mixed room with equal ease. You bring good judgement and critical thinking to problems that don't arrive fully formed. You're early in your trajectory and set on building the rest.

Things that set strong candidates apart: experience of S/4HANA finance transformations in complex environments (multi-country, multi-entity, or integrated ERP landscapes); familiarity with fit-to-standard delivery and SAP Activate methods, and a pragmatic sense of where differentiation actually earns its keep; experience designing finance processes with controls, compliance and data integrity built in; an understanding of how intercompany, transfer pricing, tax or treasury concepts interact with core finance; experience across both public and private cloud S/4HANA programmes; and a professional finance or accounting qualification (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent industry experience).

If you have most of this and the drive to build the rest, we want to hear from you - tell us what you'd bring.

About Finance RP

Within Accenture, the Finance Reinvention Partner helps clients improve financial performance around the CFO agenda - driving best-in-class performance, and sharper insight and benchmarking across the enterprise. In the UK and Ireland, our Finance RP practice brings together finance strategy and the platforms it runs on, including SAP, Oracle, Workday and EPM.

You'd join our Platforms transformation offering within the practice: a growing team delivering large-scale, business-led S/4HANA finance transformations, and building AI into how we deliver. It's a place to go deep on SAP-enabled finance transformation while staying close to the CFO agenda the work serves.

What's in it for you

Alongside a competitive salary and package (dependent on experience), you'll have an extensive benefits package including 30 days' holiday a year, private medical insurance, and 3 additional days' leave a year for charitable work of your choice.

This role involves flexibility and travel - you'll spend time onsite with our clients and partners to deliver the first-class services we're known for.

Accenture is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all sections of society.

Accenture reserves the right to close the role earlier should a suitable applicant be found.

Locations

• London
• Birmingham
• Edinburgh
• Manchester

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