Manager, SAP Financial Accounting & Group Reporting Lead

ACCA Careers; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 100,000

Job description

Job description

Connect to your Industry

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 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's how we approach the thousands of decisions we make every day. How we behave, our beliefs and our attitudes. In other words: our values. Whatever we do, wherever we are in the world, we lead the way, serve with integrity, take care of each other, foster inclusion, and collaborate for measurable impact. These five shared values lead every decision we make and action we take, guiding us to deliver impact how and where it matters most.

Connect to your opportunity

As a manager in our Technology and Transformation SAP practice you will specialise in SAP Financial Accounting and Group Reporting, where you will have the opportunity to:

1. 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.
2. Apply the latest SAP functionality to help your clients realise their transformation goals.
3. Demonstrate your understanding and experience of business process design and enabling this through SAP functionality.
4. Embrace standard SAP wherever possible and ensure that enhancements proposed consider the latest techniques.
5. Build and foster strong client stakeholder relationships.
6. Lead practice development activities to support sales initiatives and internal capability development.
7. Provide development and performance feedback to mentor members of your team and help us to develop our junior talent.
8. Keep up to date with knowledge of recent SAP S/4HANA Financial Accounting innovations and roadmap.
9. Work with the latest SAP technology including AI and automation innovations.
10. 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:

1. Subject matter expertise in core SAP S/4HANA Financial Accounting including General Ledger, Group Reporting, Asset Accounting, Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable.
2. A strong understanding of financial accounting principles, concepts, and processes especially around Month End Close, Financial Consolidation, Group Accounting and Intercompany for multinational organisations.
3. Experience designing the SAP Enterprise Structure aligned to your client's organisation and business structures.
4. Leading fit to standard workshops and can translate requirements into a functional design.
5. Execution and management of configuration of multiple SAP S/4HANA modules.
6. Reviewing and creating design documentation, functional specifications and other planned deliverables.
7. Providing quality assurance of the work delivered by your team.
8. Programme delivery using agile and/or waterfall implementation methodologies.
9. Operating within project governance frameworks including planning activities, management of project risks, issues and change requests.
10. Strong communication skills (written and oral) with clients and colleagues both on and offshore.
11. Stakeholder management skills and ability to forge good professional relationships with your leaders and peers.
12. Understanding and experience of getting the most from SAP Best Practices.

Desirable

1. Qualified/Part-Qualified ACA/CIMA/ACCA or equivalent.
2. Security cleared / ability to gain security clearance, to be able to support activities in the Public Sector.
3. Knowledge of IFRS, GAAP and other financial reporting standards.

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.

Our hybrid working policy

You'll be based in London, Manchester, Bristol, Edinburgh or Glasgow 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.

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.