At PwC, our people in business application consulting specialise in consulting services for a variety of business applications, helping clients optimise operational efficiency. These individuals analyse client needs, implement software solutions, and provide training and support for seamless integration and utilisation of business applications, enabling clients to achieve their strategic objectives. Those in SAP finance at PwC will specialise in providing consulting services for SAP finance applications. You will analyse client requirements, implement software solutions, and offer training and support for seamless integration and utilisation of SAP finance applications. Working in this area, you will enable clients to optimise financial processes, improve financial reporting, and achieve their strategic objectives.Enhancing your leadership style, you motivate, develop and inspire others to deliver quality. You are responsible for coaching, leveraging team member’s unique strengths, and managing performance to deliver on client expectations. With your growing knowledge of how business works, you play an important role in identifying opportunities that contribute to the success of our Firm. You are expected to lead with integrity and authenticity, articulating our purpose and values in a meaningful way. You embrace technology and innovation to enhance your delivery and encourage others to do the same.
Skills
Examples of the skills, knowledge, and experiences you need to lead and deliver value at this level include but are not limited to:
- Analyse and identify the linkages and interactions between the component parts of an entire system.
- Take ownership of projects, ensuring their successful planning, budgeting, execution, and completion.
- Partner with team leadership to ensure collective ownership of quality, timelines, and deliverables.
- Develop skills outside your comfort zone, and encourage others to do the same.
- Effectively mentor others.
- Use the review of work as an opportunity to deepen the expertise of team members.
- Address conflicts or issues, engaging in difficult conversations with clients, team members and other stakeholders, escalating where appropriate.
- Uphold and reinforce professional and technical standards (e.g. refer to specific PwC tax and audit guidance), the Firm's code of conduct, and independence requirements.
Job Summary -
A career in our Managed Services team will give you an opportunity to collaborate with many teams to help our clients implement and operate new capabilities, achieve operational efficiencies, and harness the power of technology. Our Application Evolution Services team will provide you with the opportunity to help organizations harness the power of their enterprise applications by optimizing the technology while driving transformation and innovation to increase business performance. We assist our clients in capitalizing on technology improvements, implementing new capabilities, and achieving operational efficiencies by managing and maintaining their application ecosystems.
We help our clients maximize the value of their SAP investment by managing the support and continuous transformation of their solutions in the areas of sales, finance, supply chain, engineering, manufacturing and human capital
Minimum Degree Required (BQ) *:
Bachelor’s Degree
Required Field(s) Of Study (BQ)
Preferred Field(s) of Study:
Minimum Year(s) of Experience (BQ) *:
US
Minimum Of 10-16 Years Of Experience
Preferred Skills/Certification(s) Preferred:
- SAP Certification in FICO/CFIN
- Experience in S/4 HANA (Public Cloud)
- Exposure to interfaces like ALE/IDOC or EDI/IDOC with little technical knowledge
Preferred Knowledge
As a manager, you’ll work as part of a team of problem solvers with extensive consulting and industry experience, helping our clients solve their complex business issues from strategy to execution. Specific responsibilities include but are not limited to:
- Proactively assist in the management of a portfolio of clients, while reporting to Senior Managers and above.
- Be involved in the financial metrics.
- Be actively involved in business development activities to help identify and research opportunities on new/existing clients.
- Contribute to the development of your own and team’s technical acumen.
- Use data and insights to inform conclusions and support decision-making.
- Adherence to SLAs, experience in incident management, change management and problem management.
- Develop new skills and strategies to solve complex technical challenges.
- Assist in the management and delivering of large projects.
- Train, coach, and supervise staff to recognize their strengths and encourage them to take ownership of their personal development.
- Act to resolve issues which prevent the team working effectively.
- Keep up to date with local and national business and economic issues.
- Continue to develop internal relationships and the PwC brand.
- Build a strong team environment that includes client interactions, workstream management, and cross-team collaboration.
- Actively engage in cross competency work and contribute to COE activities.
- Demonstrating project management skills including the ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously while being detail oriented.
Technical Skills
- Responsible for planning and executing SAP Implementation / Development / Support activities regarding SAP Finance and Controlling (FI-CO) along with Central Finance (CFIN).
- Understand client requirements, provide solutions, functional specifications and configure the system accordingly.
- Ability to configure SAP FI-CO and CFIN, deliver work products / packages confirming to the Client's Standards & Requirements.
- Integration of the FI-CO module with other SAP modules and with external applications.
- Hands on experience in configuring / defining the following in the FICO / CFIN:
- SAP FI – General Ledger Accounting
- SAP FI – Accounts Receivable & Accounts Payable
- SAP FI – Asset Accounting
- SAP FI – Fixed Assets
- SAP CO – Cost Centers and Profit Centers
- SAP CO – Internal Orders
- SAP CO – Product Costing
- Master Data – GL, FA, CO, Consolidations
- Treasury Process – Master Data and Transactions
- Month End Close – Activities and foreign currency valuations
- Cost Management and Profitability Analysis – Financial Plan Data Upload File, FP&A, Margin Analysis, Overhead Cost Accounting, Universal Allocation
- Central Finance -Initial Loads
- Central Finance - Error Cockpit
- ICMR -Configuration, Matching Methods, Reconciliation Case, Matching Rules/Matching Expressions
- TAX – Indirect Tax – Tax Engine Vertex, US Sales and Tax Reporting, Exemption Certificate Management, S4 ProCo Alignment Vertex/Alteryx/SAP S4,
- VAT: Transactional Tax Determination and Tax Accounting in S4 (Non-US VAT in different countries), Electronic Tax Invoicing using SAP DRC (for India and Mexico) using SAP DRC, Indirect Tax Reporting using SAP DRC (Non-US VAT), SAP Deferred tax transfer program.
- TAX – Direct Tax – Income TAX Accounting (Provision), Income Tax Compliance, Withholding Tax, Tax Technology / Operations.
- Transfer Pricing – Intercompany Cost Allocations, Intercompany Services, Cost Sharing, Reporting and Analytics
- Cash Basis Ledger – Data Transfer, Transaction Posting, Reports
- Interfaces
Delivery Lead Experience
- Constantly looking to identify impediments early, actively working to resolve those impediments, and escalate when needed.
- Management and tracking of cross team/squad dependencies.
- Hands-on experience working on reporting and preparing presentations as part of WSR & MSR.
- Management and tracking of all high-integrity commitments.
- Provides proactive visibility and effectively communicates delivery targets, commitments and progress.
- Works to minimize meetings and ceremonies, but when they are needed, they are well-run and efficient.
- Encourages a culture of team-driven decision making and commitment. Encourages team trust and facilitates team building events.
- Where appropriate, coaches the teams to improve collaboration and outcomes (coaching is the primary responsibility of teams’ managers)
Qualification
- Proficiency with SAP BTP (Business Technology Platform)
- Strong understanding of architecture considerations for SAP (cloud, on-premises, hybrid).
- Experience with SAP BTP security and authorization.
- Ability to design new architectural frameworks and influence their execution.
- Good knowledge of SAP S/4HANA architecture and functionality
- ITIL 4 Certification
Soft Skills
- Self-driven with a can-do attitude, with an excellent communication and client-facing skills
- Problem-solving mindset and ability to work in a collaborative environment.
- Strong relationship builder within the organization and with external partners.
