Senior Consultant, Finance Planning, Performance & Close, SAP Analytics+

The SAP Analytics+ team is organised around three core delivery pillars:

• Finance Planning, Performance & Close
• Data Platform Modernisation
• Analytics & AI

There is an opportunity for you to join and help develop our SAP Analytics+ team, specifically focusing on SAP-enabled financial planning, performance management, consolidation and close. We expect you to have working knowledge and growing expertise in using one or more of:

• SAP Analytics Cloud Planning, including predictive and workforce planning
• SAP S/4HANA Group Reporting, Group Data Analysis and Fiori reporting
• SAP Business Planning & Consolidation (BPC) and SAP BCS
• Financial close, consolidation and statutory / regulatory reporting
• Disclosure management - SAP Disclosure Management, Workiva
• AI-assisted forecasting and close, and the SAP Autonomous Finance direction

This represents a unique opportunity to develop your career in consulting within an established Big 4 consulting firm. You will have the chance to develop your technical and functional expertise in the Analytics+ tools, as well as in the delivery and implementation of large-scale technology solutions as you work on a range of projects in cross-functional teams.

In your role we expect a good working knowledge of financial planning, performance management and close, the SAP solutions that enable it and the industries we serve. You will support client conversations to understand client pain points, translate them into good-practice solutions, and communicate clearly at all levels of a client's finance, business and IT organisations., * As a Consultant / Senior Consultant in Finance Planning, Performance & Close, your role will involve:

• Configuring, building and testing robust planning, consolidation and close solutions to design, under the direction of your workstream lead.
• Contributing to client discovery, requirements-gathering and analysis workshops.
• Producing high-quality documentation - designs, test scripts and handover materials.
• Developing your technical and functional expertise across the SAP Analytics+ toolset, including our AI-first ways of working.
• Supporting the development of practice assets, accelerators and thought leadership.
• As you progress to Senior Consultant, taking ownership of discrete deliverables or a small workstream and guiding more junior colleagues.

• Hands-on delivery experience on one or more of the technologies above, typically across one to three implementation lifecycles.
• Working knowledge of one or more SAP planning and close technologies - SAC Planning, S/4HANA Group Reporting or BPC - and of the financial close process.
• A genuine interest in AI-first delivery and the SAP Business AI Platform - Business Data Cloud, Joule and the Autonomous Suite.
• The ability to translate technical detail for non-technical audiences, clearly and concisely.
• Strong written and oral communication and consistent high personal and professional standards.

Additional desirable experience includes:

• Qualified / part-qualified ACA / CIMA / ACCA.
• SAP certification in SAC Planning, S/4HANA Group Reporting or BPC.
• Experience of SAP Disclosure Management or Workiva.
• S/4HANA finance transformation experience.

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