Senior Manager, SAP Finance - Management Accounting (CO)

DELOITTE LLP; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global consulting firm in the UK is seeking a Senior Manager in SAP Finance to lead high-performing teams and drive S/4HANA transformation projects. You will design SAP finance solutions and mentor junior team members. The ideal candidate has strong experience in management accounting concepts, stakeholder management, and SAP functionality. This role offers flexible hybrid working arrangements.

Benefits

Flexible working arrangements

Training and development opportunities

Collaborative team environment

Qualifications

• Experience leading fit to standard workshops and translating requirements into functional design.
• Ability to execute and manage configuration of multiple SAP S/4HANA modules.
• Experience within project governance frameworks, including planning activities.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of high-performing functional consultants.
• Design and build SAP finance-enabled business solutions.
• Build strong client stakeholder relationships.

Skills

Subject matter expertise in core S/4HANA Finance - Management Accounting

Strong understanding of management accounting concepts

Experience designing the SAP Enterprise Structure

Stakeholder management skills

Strong communication skills

Education

Qualified/Part-Qualified ACA/CIMA/ACCA or equivalent

Tools

SAP S/4HANA

SAP PaPM (Profitability and Performance Management)

Job description

Overview

Locations: Bristol, Edinburgh, Glasgow, London, Manchester

Deloitte's strategy is to be the market leader in SAP enabled Transformations. We are recruiting exceptional individuals to provide leadership and expertise to sell and deliver groundbreaking, digital S/4HANA and SAP-enabled Finance Transformation Programmes. Deloitte has a long-standing relationship with SAP. We advise, implement, and operate transformational solutions in SAP that create world-class business capabilities across organisations.

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.

Connect to your career

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.

Connect to your opportunity

As a Senior manager in our Technology and Transformation SAP practice you will specialise in SAP Finance - Management Accounting (CO), where you will have the opportunity to:

• Lead a team of high-performing functional consultants to design and build SAP finance enabled business solutions for delivery of large-scale S/4HANA transformation programmes.
• Apply the latest SAP functionality to help your clients realise their transformation goals.
• Demonstrate your understanding and experience of business process design and enabling this through SAP functionality.
• Embrace standard SAP wherever possible and ensure that enhancements proposed consider the latest techniques.
• Build and foster strong client stakeholder relationships.
• Lead practice development activities to support sales initiatives and internal capability development.
• Provide development and performance feedback to mentor members of your team and help us to develop our junior talent.
• Keep up to date with knowledge of recent SAP S/4HANA Management Accounting innovations and roadmap.
• Work with the latest SAP technology including AI and automation innovations.
• Access SAP and professional developmental training through internal (e.g. Deloitte University) and external provision (e.g. via SAP Learning Hub). Attain and maintain SAP certification.

Connect to your skills and professional experience

To be successful in this role you are required to demonstrate experience of:

• Subject matter expertise in core S/4HANA Finance - Management Accounting/Controlling including Overhead Cost Controlling, Profitability/Margin Analysis, Product Cost Controlling and Material Ledger.
• Strong understanding of management accounting concepts, and processes.
• Experience designing the SAP Enterprise Structure aligned to your client's organisation and business structures.
• Leading fit to standard workshops and can translate requirements into a functional design.
• Execution and management of configuration of multiple SAP S/4HANA modules.
• Reviewing and creating design documentation, functional specifications and other planned deliverables.
• Providing quality assurance of the work delivered by your team.
• Programme delivery using agile and/or waterfall implementation methodologies.
• Operating within project governance frameworks including planning activities, management of project risks, issues and change requests.
• Strong communication skills (written and oral) with clients and colleagues both on and offshore.
• Stakeholder management skills and ability to forge good professional relationships with your leaders and peers.
• Understanding and experience of getting the most from SAP Best Practices.

As this role will be for clients in the public sector, SC Clearance or ability to be security cleared is essential.

• Qualified/Part-Qualified ACA/CIMA/ACCA or equivalent.
• Security cleared / ability to gain security clearance, to be able to support activities in the Public Sector.
• Experience of working across both private and public sector.
• Experience with SAP PaPM (Profitability and Performance Management).

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

"Joining Deloitte as an Experienced Hire was not just a job, it provided a platform to leverage my expertise within a leading global organisation. Here, I found a culture that values individual talent, invests in personal growth, and empowers career progression." - Natalie, Technology and Transformation

Our hybrid working policy

You'll be based in UK Wide 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.

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