S​/HANA Senior Finance Consultant

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PURPOSE AND OBJECTIVES

The S/4

HANA Senior Finance Consultant will act as trusted partner to our customers on their journey to the cloud, from scoping and planning of the initial deployment to continuous value engineering. The Senior consultant role requires deep understanding of the cloud business model, the ERP processes across functional borders, as well as a service-oriented attitude with the aim to achieve customer delight.

EXPECTATION AND TASKS

As SAP Premium Hub Center of Expertise (CoE) consultant, you will support EMEA customers on their SAP S/4

HANA adoption projects; as well as live customers that need to optimize business process, monitor operations, upgrade existing systems, etc., through the support from SAP Premium Engagement services.

The CoE Senior S/4

HANA Finance Consultant must be able to accompany customers executing S/4

HANA implementation projects with SAP Partners, or SAP led. The Consultant will provide guidance and support across all SAP Activate phases to ensure a successful S/4

HANA implementation project

Your role involves delivery of technical and application services within customer engagements. You need excellent SAP Finance Software skills, and you are a decent problem solver with the ability to communicate effectively in an international environment. According to your experience, strengths and customer needs, you will conduct some of the following tasks:

• Prepare, design, realize and support Go-Lives for customer implementation projects
• Support feasibility studies and process design reviews
• Detailed planning of process implementation
• Develop and Assure quality of process models
• Demonstrate profound knowledge of modeling standards and tools
• Support the development of overall project plans (scoping process) as well as individual work plans; acting as liaison with client for troubleshooting (investigates, analyses, and solves software problems)
• Analyze and map clients’ business requirements, processes and objectives; develop necessary product modifications to satisfy clients’ needs.
• Support the Services Organization with implementation projects, pre-sales support (estimating), spot consulting and internal projects and commit to the success of customers, partners, colleagues, and SAP
• Live and breath the cloud business model and the subsequent implications in regard to the implementation & post-implementation service business
• Ensure customer success, satisfaction, and reference ability for S/4
  
  HANA Cloud customer
• Articulate the S/4
  
  HANA Cloud business capabilities and value, differentiate S/4
  
  HANA Cloud and On-Premise solutions
• Follow the methodology, tools, and processes to ensure successful customer adoption
• Deliver agile services in a fast-changing environment
• Support the industrialization of the implementation process
• Understand and practice value-based “fit to standard” delivery approach
• Position and Deliver transition roadmaps between on-prem and Cloud solutions
• Drive the adoption of the value based innovation roadmap and guide the customer in their journey
• Know and build business process according to Industry Best Practices, empowering a standard mindset to live in
• Collaboration with internal/external consultants as part of the platform growth and solution providing
• Drive and deliver customer conversations with focus on BUSINESS OUTCOMES
• In the Discover and Prepare phases, the consultant must demonstrate business benefits to adopt S/4
  
  HANA, provide recommendations about best transition path and support customers on architecture definitions.
• Propose recommendations to optimize business processes in Deploy phase, from a technical and functional…