SATIC - ERP System Implementation Consultant (Senior Associate)

Pwc Careers Africa; Johannesburg; On-site; ZAR 500,000 - 800,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a prestigious consulting team at PwC, focusing on finance transformation through the implementation of leading cloud solutions. As a Finance System Implementation Consultant, you will work with diverse clients, leveraging your accounting expertise and technology skills to significantly enhance their financial operations and efficiency.

Qualifications

• Minimum 3 years' experience in configuring Finance applications.
• Good level of technical accounting knowledge required.
• Basic knowledge of data integration methods (SQL, Java, XML).

Responsibilities

• Help clients transform their finance function using cloud-based finance solutions.
• Guide clients through their implementation projects.
• Deliver finance transformation agenda focused on Core Financial Systems and P2P solutions.

Skills

Technical accounting knowledge

Project management

Understanding P2P process

Education

Accounting qualification or qualified by experience

Certification in Procurement or AP Automation technology

Tools

SAP ECC

S/4 HANA

Oracle Fusion

Job description

South African Technology & Innovation Centre (SATIC) is the latest part of PwC, a global brand delivering services for the biggest clients in the world. PwC leads the way in human led, technology enabled professional services, working with clients to transform their business and make it fit for the future.

We are looking for candidates who bring in-depth market experience, who see technology as a way to enable and drive human innovation and who want to be a part of a community of solvers, to tackle the biggest challenges in society.

If you are looking for a career where every day is different, where challenges are complex and where you can make a real difference, then we want to hear from you. By choosing to join SATIC, you are choosing to work with teams all over the world, harnessing the power of world leading tech and making a difference to real people’s lives.

Requirements:

Qualifications:

• Accounting qualification, or qualified by experience
• Certification in Procurement or AP Automation technology is preferred (e.g. Coupa, SAP Arriba, SoftCo, Medius, Basware etc.) else the candidate should have sufficient experience in configuring Finance applications (e.g. SAP ECC or S/4 HANA, Oracle Fusion, Sage Intacct, NetSuite, Microsoft Dynamics 365 etc.)

Experience & Skills:

• At least 3 years’ experience in ERP delivery – in configuring Finance applications (e.g. SAP ECC or S/4 HANA, Oracle Fusion, Sage Intacct, NetSuite, Microsoft Dynamics 365 etc.)
• Thorough understanding and experience of working with Finance teams to deliver finance system projects
• Demonstrative knowledge of the procurement-to-pay (P2P) process
• Strong understanding of finance team responsibilities & accountability
• Good level of technical accounting knowledge (Chart of Accounts, posting journals, month end reconciliations, management accounts production)
• Accounting qualification or qualified by experience
• Basic knowledge of data integration methods (SQL/Java/xml)
• Project management experience

Desirable Skills:

• Understanding business requirements and translating them into solution design in line with good practice
• Working with your delivery team to build and test the solution
• Guiding the client through User Acceptance Testing and Cutover
• Teamwork and coaching and mentoring your team

Key responsibilities:

As a Finance System implementation consultant, you will have the opportunity to work with a variety of exciting clients of differing sizes and sectors to help transform their finance function through implementing leading cloud based finance solutions. This is a client facing role requiring you to quickly build relationships and help guide the client through their implementation project.

• Delivering against our finance transformation agenda by implementing Core Financial Systems (GL), P2P/AP Automation and Reporting, with a primary focus on SoftCo (industry leading P2P solution) and Sage Intacct (MidMarket ERP solution).
• Using our industry leading methodologies to transform client’s businesses.
• Contributing to our practice development by supporting asset creation and knowledge sharing amongst the team.

Role summary:

You will be joining PwC’s Technology Consulting team where we help our clients define their Finance transformation journey enabled by the latest technology - generating insights to illuminate innovative ideas, creating valuable experiences for customers, achieving huge cost savings or embracing new collaborative mindsets.

About the team, Operate Digital is the central function that creates and runs technology. We also transform the way our clients use technology in delivering assets to our clients across a wide range of business processes. Working with industry leading alliance partners across architecture, development, and multiple other technologies, we interact with all technology platforms and provide tangible technology delivery at scale