Senior Associate/Manager - SAP Consultant - Technology Consulting
at EY
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Employment Type: full_time
Job Description
<div>At EY, you’ll have the chance to build a career as unique as you are, with the global scale, support, inclusive culture and technology to become the best version of you. And we’re counting on your unique voice and perspective to help EY become even better, too. Join us and build an exceptional experience for yourself, and a better working world for all.</div><div> </div><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><span style="font-family:'Calibri', sans-serif">EY Consulting is a fast-moving, high-growth area with huge potential. Being a member of our Consulting team means you will specialize in a particular competency - Risk, Technology Consulting, or IT Risk & Assurance. Our Technology Consulting team is focused on helping clients improve operational efficiency and security, while also reducing costs and managing risk. </span></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"> </p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><span style="font-family:'Calibri', sans-serif">The Opportunity</span></span></b></span></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><span style="font-family:'Calibri', sans-serif">We’re looking for a <b>Manager</b> for Technology Consulting practice to join our team with experience in <u>SAP S/4HANA & ECC FI-CO</u> with <u>7-10 years</u> of experience with <u>Finance business process and technology</u>:</span></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"> </p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><span style="font-family:'Calibri', sans-serif">Key Responsibilities</span></span></b></span></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><span style="font-family:'Calibri', sans-serif">Responsibilities across typical phases of an SAP project:</span></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"> </p><p><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><span><span style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><u>Opportunity Pursuit:</u></span></span></span></p><ul><li><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><span><span style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif">Ability to participate in shaping the deals, prepare solutions, approach/timelines, team sizing, cost estimates, etc.</span></span></span></li><li><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><span><span style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif">Ability to present and articulate value in Orals presentations.</span></span></span></li></ul><p> </p><p><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><span><span style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><u>Analyze Phase:</u></span></span></span></p><ul><li><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><span><span style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif">Ability to understand client business model / requirements / pain points</span></span></span></li><li><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><span><span style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif">Ability to understand big picture vision of the transformation program and prepare a plan to drive the day-to-day execution of the project.</span></span></span></li></ul><p> </p><p><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><span><span style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><u>Design Phase:</u></span></span></span></p><ul><li><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><span><span style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif">Ability to explain best practices to clients.</span></span></span></li><li><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><span><span style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif">Ability to respectfully challenge clients and convince them on their mindset of customizing everything in SAP.</span></span></span></li><li><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><span><span style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif">Ability to conduct workshops across all finance processes and articulate messages extremely clearly.</span></span></span></li><li><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><span><span style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif">Ability to convince clients to make key design decisions (eg: one common chart of accounts OR decentralized chart of accounts)</span></span></span></li><li><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><span><span style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif">Ability to provide SAP or non-SAP solutions to unique problems / business scenarios based on your experience with other companies in same or other industries.</span></span></span></li><li><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><span><span style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif">Ability to prepare deliverables such as blueprint documentations, change impact assessment, Fit/Gap analysis, etc. and obtain signoffs</span></span></span></li><li><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><span><span style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif">Ability to present a design overview to the C-suite and connect with them.</span></span></span></li></ul><p> </p><p><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><span><span style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><u>Build Phase:</u></span></span></span></p><ul><li><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><span><span style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif">Ability to educate clients on SAP configuration needs for them to provide SPRO values (eg: VKOA/OBYC)</span></span></span></li><li><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><span><span style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif">Ability to perform configurations in SAP or able to guide team members based on experience.</span></span></span></li><li><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><span><span style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif">Ability to write Functional design documents for add-on requirements in SAP. Ability to communicate with developers to build as desired.</span></span></span></li><li><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><span><span style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif">Ability to assist in Unit Testing and perform SIT (including cross module scenarios).</span></span></span></li></ul><p> </p><p><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><span><span style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><u>Test Phase:</u></span></span></span></p><ul><li><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><span><span style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif">Ability to write test scripts and test scenarios with co-operation of key finance business users.</span></span></span></li><li><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><span><span style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif">Ability to obtain sign offs for Test scripts.</span></span></span></li><li><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><span><span style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif">Ability to facilitate UAT.</span></span></span></li><li><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><span><span style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif">Ability to identify defects and liaise with developers to resolve and re-test them.</span></span></span></li></ul><p> </p><p><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><span><span style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><u>Training Phase:</u></span></span></span></p><ul><li><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><span><span style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif">Ability to prepare easy to understand and self-explanatory training materials</span></span></span></li><li><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><span><span style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif">Ability to conduct mass user training (TTT / EUT). Ability to handle large crowds from 10-50 people.</span></span></span></li><li><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><span><span style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif">Ability to be confident, concise, and articulate in training.</span></span></span></li></ul><p> </p><p><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><span><span style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><u>Data Migration:</u></span></span></span></p><ul><li><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><span><span style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif">Ability to create a data strategy for master data and transactional data (eg: how should the cost centers be transformed, what happens to AR open items, etc.)</span></span></span></li><li><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><span><span style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif">Ability to assist business users in data cleansing and data transformation.</span></span></span></li></ul><p> </p><p><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><span><span style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><u>Deployment:</u></span></span></span></p><ul><li><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><span><span style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif">Ability to assist and advice business users for cutover activities.</span></span></span></li></ul><p> </p><p><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><span><span style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><u>Post Go-live:</u></span></span></span></p><ul><li><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><span><span style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif">Ability to provide 1st level support up until 1st month end close.</span></span></span></li></ul><p class="MsoNoSpacing"> </p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><span style="font-family:'Calibri', sans-serif">Skills and Attributes for Success</span></span></b></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><span><span style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><u>Must Have skills (at least 60% from the below list):</u></span></span></span></p><p> </p><ul><li><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><span><span style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif">Enterprise structure design / Finance Master data</span></span></span></li><li><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><span><span style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif">General Ledger</span></span></span></li><li><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><span><span style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif">Accounts Receivable</span></span></span></li><li><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><span><span style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif">Accounts Payable</span></span></span></li><li><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><span><span style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif">Asset Accounting</span></span></span></li><li><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><span><span style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif">Product Costing</span></span></span></li><li><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><span><span style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif">Statutory reporting</span></span></span></li><li><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><span><span style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif">Tax</span></span></span></li><li><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><span><span style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif">Treasury</span></span></span></li><li><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><span><span style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif">Profitability Analysis / Management Reporting</span></span></span></li><li><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><span><span style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif">Strong cross functional understanding with PP, MM, SD.</span></span></span></li></ul><p> </p><p><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><span><span style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif">Must be able to <u>articulate business value to the C-suite</u> on the following quantitative and qualitative KPIs, but not limited to: </span></span></span></p><p> </p><ul><li><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><span><span style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif">Faster Month End close</span></span></span></li><li><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><span><span style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif">Touchless Management reporting / Expense reporting</span></span></span></li><li><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><span><span style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif">Touchless Statutory reporting</span></span></span></li><li><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><span><span style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif">Centralized Intercompany reconciliations</span></span></span></li><li><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><span><span style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif">Automated allocations</span></span></span></li><li><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><span><span style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif">Optimized Procure to Pay </span></span></span></li><li><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><span><span style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif">Optimized Order to Cash</span></span></span></li><li><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><span><span style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif">Advanced Product costing and variance analysis</span></span></span></li><li><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><span><span style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif">Touchless Consolidation / Elimination</span></span></span></li><li><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><span><span style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif">Streamlined Budgeting and Forecasting</span></span></span></li><li><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><span><span style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif">Advanced Tax management and reporting</span></span></span></li><li><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><span><span style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif">Efficient Treasury management and reporting</span></span></span></li></ul><p> </p><p><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><span><span style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif">Must be able to articulate time and cost benefits from the Finance transformation programs.</span></span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><span><span style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><u>Good to Have skills & traits: </u></span></span></span></p><ul><li><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><span><span style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif">Consolidation & Elimination process and technology knowledge (eg: SAP Group reporting or others).</span></span></span></li><li><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><span><span style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif">FP&A - Budgeting and Forecasting process and technology knowledge (eg: SAP Analytics Cloud, BPC, or others).</span></span></span></li><li><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><span><span style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif">Account Reconciliations knowledge using Blackline, High Radius or others.</span></span></span></li><li><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><span><span style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif">Allocations knowledge using PaPM or others.</span></span></span></li><li><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><span><span style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif">Advanced Statutory reporting knowledge using Workiva, SAP ACR or others.</span></span></span></li><li><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><span><span style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif">Be updated with ‘Art of possible’ technologies in Finance (eg: RPA for reconciliations, machine learning for collections, etc.).</span></span></span></li><li><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><span><span style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif">Ability to create structure in cases of ambiguity.</span></span></span></li><li><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><span><span style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif">Ability to lead by example.</span></span></span></li></ul><p> </p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><span style="font-family:'Calibri', sans-serif">If you can demonstrate that you meet the criteria above, please contact us as soon as possible.</span></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"> </p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><span><span style="font-family:'Calibri', sans-serif">Please limit your CV to maximum 2 pages.</span></span></span></b><b> </b></span></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><span style="font-family:'Calibri', sans-serif">Summarized and well-articulated CV’s will be a first test in your ability to articulate your own value with succinct and sharp messaging.</span></span></span></span></p><div><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><span style="font-family:'Calibri', sans-serif">What working at EY offers</span></span></b></span></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><span style="font-family:'Calibri', sans-serif">EY offers a competitive remuneration package where you’ll be rewarded for your individual and team performance. We are committed to being an inclusive employer and are happy to consider flexible working arrangements. Plus, we offer:</span></span></span></span></p><ul><li><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><span><span><span style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif">Continuous learning: You’ll develop the mindset and skills to navigate whatever comes next.</span></span></span></span></li><li><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><span><span><span style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif">Success as defined by you: We’ll provide the tools and flexibility, so you can make a meaningful impact, your way.</span></span></span></span></li><li><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><span><span><span style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif">Transformative leadership: We’ll give you the insights, coaching and confidence to be the leader the world needs.</span></span></span></span></li><li><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><span><span><span style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif">Diverse and inclusive culture: You’ll be embraced for who you are and empowered to use your voice to help others find theirs.</span></span></span></span></li></ul><p> </p><p><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><span><span style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><b>EY | Building a better working world </b></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><span><span style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><b><span><span style="color:black">The exceptional EY experience. It’s yours to build.</span></span></b></span></span></span></p></div>