SAP FICO, S4 HANA Excellent salary with bonus and benefits package Hybrid working SAP Finance Solution Manager required to join a leading global brand in the United Kingdom who are delivering S/4HANA implementations across Europe. The chosen Architect will have the opportunity to work multiyear programs across multiple industries and work with the latest SAP Technologies. This is a permanent position offering an excellent salary, benefits package and hybrid working. Key deliverables of the SAP Finance Solution Manager: Design and deployment of a new SAP S/4HANA FI/CO solution Global template governance of the S/4HANA SAP FI/CO solution Gravitas, experience and knowledge to drive respect and trust from C-level stakeholders Strong background working in SAP Pre-Sales Analyse business requirements Review functional specifications for solution design Lead a team of SAP FI/CO Consultants Major contributor to the progress of the SAP Finance solution, making key design and delivery decisions Roll out the SAP FI/CO Solution Perform quality assurance for project deliverables Go live support and hyper care Oversee testing and training Key Criteria for the SAP Finance Solution Manager: Proven experience building SAP FICO solutions and deploying them across Europe SAP FI/CO Solution Architecture experience, proven experience designing highly complex solutions Proven experience working in a presales environment Broad knowledge of SAP FI/CO; SAP FI AP, AR, GL, CO-PA, PS, CO-PC Exposure to S/4HANA Simple Finance C-level stakeholder management skills Strong communication skills in English both written and verbal Experience working with and managing consultants for SAP Finance
Apr 29, 2024
Full time
SAP FICO, S4 HANA Excellent salary with bonus and benefits package Hybrid working SAP Finance Solution Manager required to join a leading global brand in the United Kingdom who are delivering S/4HANA implementations across Europe. The chosen Architect will have the opportunity to work multiyear programs across multiple industries and work with the latest SAP Technologies. This is a permanent position offering an excellent salary, benefits package and hybrid working. Key deliverables of the SAP Finance Solution Manager: Design and deployment of a new SAP S/4HANA FI/CO solution Global template governance of the S/4HANA SAP FI/CO solution Gravitas, experience and knowledge to drive respect and trust from C-level stakeholders Strong background working in SAP Pre-Sales Analyse business requirements Review functional specifications for solution design Lead a team of SAP FI/CO Consultants Major contributor to the progress of the SAP Finance solution, making key design and delivery decisions Roll out the SAP FI/CO Solution Perform quality assurance for project deliverables Go live support and hyper care Oversee testing and training Key Criteria for the SAP Finance Solution Manager: Proven experience building SAP FICO solutions and deploying them across Europe SAP FI/CO Solution Architecture experience, proven experience designing highly complex solutions Proven experience working in a presales environment Broad knowledge of SAP FI/CO; SAP FI AP, AR, GL, CO-PA, PS, CO-PC Exposure to S/4HANA Simple Finance C-level stakeholder management skills Strong communication skills in English both written and verbal Experience working with and managing consultants for SAP Finance
Job Introduction BBC Design & Engineering provides the foundations for broadcasting - we keep the BBC's services on-air 24 hours a day, seven days a week. That means everything from transmission for TV and radio - enabling us to reach 97% of adults in the UK every week including the cameras, mixing desks, email and business systems for our world-class programme makers and staff. It is this technology that connects our colleagues and our viewers to our content. To support the BBC, now and in the future, our priorities are to make sure we're flexible, efficient and can take advantage of all the digital developments happening in broadcasting. Our objectives are to: Deliver agreed portfolio priorities to plan Delivery on our major projects Be a strategic partner with the rest of the BBC Make real the Engineering Operating model Build the capability we need to deliver the Engineering Vision This role sits within Corporate Systems in BBC Design & Engineering which sets the technology strategy and delivers and supports solutions to optimise running of all the BBC's business critical functions including HR, Finance, Procurement, Legal and Workplace Role Responsibility The purpose of this role is to ensure that the overall performance of SAP Finance applications meets business requirements. The role will provide detailed system expertise, technical support and knowledge to both service delivery and business change functions ensuring dependencies and relationships between all associated systems are understood, maintained and can be communicated effectively to relevant stakeholders. This is a business support role. Its scope is: Systems complexity: The systems landscape will contain applications typically involving multiple business and technical dependencies, business critical systems and processes and commercially sensitive environments Stakeholder management: First point of contact for a variety of stakeholder 3rd Party Relationships: Supporting 3rd party partners and suppliers supporting delivering application services and projects typically to the value of 100K Information & Security management: Ensure that all the requirements of statutory and BBC safety regulations are fully met including adherence to the BBC's policies. Recruitment: Support recruitment process for the team by taking part in selection boards and making selection decisions for engagement of new colleagues including specialist contractors. Project Support - Provide SME input into projects relating to Finance systems and support implementations and transitions into BAU Key Accountabilities 1. Systems Management - Be the systems specialist for Finance modules of SAP ECC and other Finance related Systems. Lead on requirements gathering with the business process owners and stakeholders, analyse and present solution options that align with BBC Engineering strategies. Work with the Systems Owner to ensure system performance (KPI's) are continuously improved, inputting into the systems roadmap, identifying risks and providing risk mitigations. 2. System Architecture: Responsible for ensuring systems design and architecture is fit for purpose, including disaster recovery architecture. 3. Project Engagement - Responsible for providing technical consultancy to project delivery and development teams, procurement, service design and change management teams Responsible for providing technical expertise to project teams throughout the lifecycle of a project Working with project & service delivery teams responsible for the commissioning and acceptance ensuring new installations/services are fit for purpose, supportable, and are built against agreed specification and installation standards Change, Configuration and release management - Responsible for minor/major software and hardware upgrades, ensuring that change management procedures are followed working alongside the teams responsible for UAT, testing and deployment of upgrades into the production environment. 4. Incident Management - Responsible for the resolution of escalated incidents from frontline support teams and assisting with the command & control for major incident and service outages. 5. Problem Management - Responsible for Problem Management for systems assigned, ensuring that known issues and workarounds are documented and input into a Known Error Database. 6. Non Functional Requirements - Responsible for ensuring systems align with BBC's non-functional requirements including accessibility, performance, disaster recovery and security. Ensure all work is conducted in accordance with current safety legislation and BBC safety policies, security policies and statutory requirements relevant to the task. 7. Knowledge Management - Responsible for the production of technical documentation, ensuring quality and accuracy Responsible for assessing and inputting into the design and delivery of training for systems under ownership ensuring support teams can be appropriately trained 8. 3rd Party Suppliers - Responsible for building effective relationships with system vendors to ensure that reported incidents and problems are resolved within agreed resolution times set in service contracts Are you the right candidate? Detailed Knowledge of SAP Financials including: FI - General Ledger (New GL) FI - Asset Accounting/Lease Accounting (CLM) FI - Taxes FI - Accounts Payable FI - Accounts Receivable FI - Cash & Banking (including Treasury) CO - Project Systems including WIP CO - Profit Centre Accounting CO - Cost Centre Accounting Detailed Integration Knowledge with SAP MM/SD/BW/HR Financial background - Accountancy or demonstrable finance related experience Experience in managing a complex technical systems/environment Experienced in managing conflicting demands in situations of pressure where priorities are rapidly changing Experience of having to communicate clearly with a range of people at different levels of the organisation and explain and discuss technical issues using a range of styles, tools and techniques Authoritative knowledge of security policies and statutory requirements relevant to the role Experience in working with 3rd party suppliers Experience of providing a high quality service in a demanding customer service environment Nice to have skills: Experience of working with BW, BO Dashboards, BODS or BPC Experience of working with SRM or Opentext VIM Qualified Accountant (CIMA or ACCA) Knowledge of ITIL standards and the principles of service support and delivery Knowledge of change and configuration management procedures. Experience of designing and delivering training. Understanding of a complex global SAP landscape - including interfaces i.e. payroll, expenses, banking etc Experience of implementing SAP Finance end to end solutions Knowledge and experience of Finance/SAP best practices Knowledge of SAP security and authorisations. Solution orientated and problem solving. Package Description Band: D Contract type: Perm- full time Location: London or Cardiff We're happy to discuss flexible working. Please indicate your choice under the flexible working question in the application . There is no obligation to raise this at the application stage but if you wish to do so, you are welcome to. Flexible working will be part of the discussion at offer stage. Excellent career progression - the BBC offers great opportunities for employees to seek new challenges and work in different areas of the organisation. Unrivalled training and development opportunities - our in-house Academy hosts a wide range of internal and external courses and certification. Benefits - We offer a competitive salary package, a flexible 35-hour working week for work-life balance and 26 days (1 of which is a corporation day) with the option to buy an extra 5 days, a defined pension scheme and discounted dental, health care, gym and much more. About the BBC We don't focus simply on what we do - we also care how we do it. Our values and the way we behave are important to us. Please make sure you've read about our values and behaviours in the document attached below. Diversity matters at the BBC. We have a working environment where we value and respect every individual's unique contribution, enabling all of our employees to thrive and achieve their full potential. We want to attract the broadest range of talented people to be part of the BBC - whether that's to contribute to our programming or our wide range of non-production roles. The more diverse our workforce, the better able we are to respond to and reflect our audiences in all their diversity. We are committed to equality of opportunity and welcome applications from individuals, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, socio-economic background, religion and/or belief. We will consider flexible working requests for all roles, unless operational requirements prevent otherwise. To find out more about Diversity and Inclusion at the BBC, please click here
Sep 23, 2022
Full time
Job Introduction BBC Design & Engineering provides the foundations for broadcasting - we keep the BBC's services on-air 24 hours a day, seven days a week. That means everything from transmission for TV and radio - enabling us to reach 97% of adults in the UK every week including the cameras, mixing desks, email and business systems for our world-class programme makers and staff. It is this technology that connects our colleagues and our viewers to our content. To support the BBC, now and in the future, our priorities are to make sure we're flexible, efficient and can take advantage of all the digital developments happening in broadcasting. Our objectives are to: Deliver agreed portfolio priorities to plan Delivery on our major projects Be a strategic partner with the rest of the BBC Make real the Engineering Operating model Build the capability we need to deliver the Engineering Vision This role sits within Corporate Systems in BBC Design & Engineering which sets the technology strategy and delivers and supports solutions to optimise running of all the BBC's business critical functions including HR, Finance, Procurement, Legal and Workplace Role Responsibility The purpose of this role is to ensure that the overall performance of SAP Finance applications meets business requirements. The role will provide detailed system expertise, technical support and knowledge to both service delivery and business change functions ensuring dependencies and relationships between all associated systems are understood, maintained and can be communicated effectively to relevant stakeholders. This is a business support role. Its scope is: Systems complexity: The systems landscape will contain applications typically involving multiple business and technical dependencies, business critical systems and processes and commercially sensitive environments Stakeholder management: First point of contact for a variety of stakeholder 3rd Party Relationships: Supporting 3rd party partners and suppliers supporting delivering application services and projects typically to the value of 100K Information & Security management: Ensure that all the requirements of statutory and BBC safety regulations are fully met including adherence to the BBC's policies. Recruitment: Support recruitment process for the team by taking part in selection boards and making selection decisions for engagement of new colleagues including specialist contractors. Project Support - Provide SME input into projects relating to Finance systems and support implementations and transitions into BAU Key Accountabilities 1. Systems Management - Be the systems specialist for Finance modules of SAP ECC and other Finance related Systems. Lead on requirements gathering with the business process owners and stakeholders, analyse and present solution options that align with BBC Engineering strategies. Work with the Systems Owner to ensure system performance (KPI's) are continuously improved, inputting into the systems roadmap, identifying risks and providing risk mitigations. 2. System Architecture: Responsible for ensuring systems design and architecture is fit for purpose, including disaster recovery architecture. 3. Project Engagement - Responsible for providing technical consultancy to project delivery and development teams, procurement, service design and change management teams Responsible for providing technical expertise to project teams throughout the lifecycle of a project Working with project & service delivery teams responsible for the commissioning and acceptance ensuring new installations/services are fit for purpose, supportable, and are built against agreed specification and installation standards Change, Configuration and release management - Responsible for minor/major software and hardware upgrades, ensuring that change management procedures are followed working alongside the teams responsible for UAT, testing and deployment of upgrades into the production environment. 4. Incident Management - Responsible for the resolution of escalated incidents from frontline support teams and assisting with the command & control for major incident and service outages. 5. Problem Management - Responsible for Problem Management for systems assigned, ensuring that known issues and workarounds are documented and input into a Known Error Database. 6. Non Functional Requirements - Responsible for ensuring systems align with BBC's non-functional requirements including accessibility, performance, disaster recovery and security. Ensure all work is conducted in accordance with current safety legislation and BBC safety policies, security policies and statutory requirements relevant to the task. 7. Knowledge Management - Responsible for the production of technical documentation, ensuring quality and accuracy Responsible for assessing and inputting into the design and delivery of training for systems under ownership ensuring support teams can be appropriately trained 8. 3rd Party Suppliers - Responsible for building effective relationships with system vendors to ensure that reported incidents and problems are resolved within agreed resolution times set in service contracts Are you the right candidate? Detailed Knowledge of SAP Financials including: FI - General Ledger (New GL) FI - Asset Accounting/Lease Accounting (CLM) FI - Taxes FI - Accounts Payable FI - Accounts Receivable FI - Cash & Banking (including Treasury) CO - Project Systems including WIP CO - Profit Centre Accounting CO - Cost Centre Accounting Detailed Integration Knowledge with SAP MM/SD/BW/HR Financial background - Accountancy or demonstrable finance related experience Experience in managing a complex technical systems/environment Experienced in managing conflicting demands in situations of pressure where priorities are rapidly changing Experience of having to communicate clearly with a range of people at different levels of the organisation and explain and discuss technical issues using a range of styles, tools and techniques Authoritative knowledge of security policies and statutory requirements relevant to the role Experience in working with 3rd party suppliers Experience of providing a high quality service in a demanding customer service environment Nice to have skills: Experience of working with BW, BO Dashboards, BODS or BPC Experience of working with SRM or Opentext VIM Qualified Accountant (CIMA or ACCA) Knowledge of ITIL standards and the principles of service support and delivery Knowledge of change and configuration management procedures. Experience of designing and delivering training. Understanding of a complex global SAP landscape - including interfaces i.e. payroll, expenses, banking etc Experience of implementing SAP Finance end to end solutions Knowledge and experience of Finance/SAP best practices Knowledge of SAP security and authorisations. Solution orientated and problem solving. Package Description Band: D Contract type: Perm- full time Location: London or Cardiff We're happy to discuss flexible working. Please indicate your choice under the flexible working question in the application . There is no obligation to raise this at the application stage but if you wish to do so, you are welcome to. Flexible working will be part of the discussion at offer stage. Excellent career progression - the BBC offers great opportunities for employees to seek new challenges and work in different areas of the organisation. Unrivalled training and development opportunities - our in-house Academy hosts a wide range of internal and external courses and certification. Benefits - We offer a competitive salary package, a flexible 35-hour working week for work-life balance and 26 days (1 of which is a corporation day) with the option to buy an extra 5 days, a defined pension scheme and discounted dental, health care, gym and much more. About the BBC We don't focus simply on what we do - we also care how we do it. Our values and the way we behave are important to us. Please make sure you've read about our values and behaviours in the document attached below. Diversity matters at the BBC. We have a working environment where we value and respect every individual's unique contribution, enabling all of our employees to thrive and achieve their full potential. We want to attract the broadest range of talented people to be part of the BBC - whether that's to contribute to our programming or our wide range of non-production roles. The more diverse our workforce, the better able we are to respond to and reflect our audiences in all their diversity. We are committed to equality of opportunity and welcome applications from individuals, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, socio-economic background, religion and/or belief. We will consider flexible working requests for all roles, unless operational requirements prevent otherwise. To find out more about Diversity and Inclusion at the BBC, please click here
Role: Senior SAP Functional Consultant - 5 years experience (Minimum)
Location - London
Salary: £65-70k
A well-recognised Blue Chip Organisation are looking to appoint an experienced SAP Functional Consultant with at least 5 years experience in this field.
You will have hands on demonstrable experience in SAP Fiori in addition to SAP FICO and will be able to work on several ongoing and greenfield projects in addition to working on BAU.
This is an opportunity to work in a substantial team of 25, with excellent prospects to progress within the team.
Your key skills will be:
- Sales & Distribution - expert
- Resource Related Billing/ Pricing - expert
- I-docs - knowledge/exposure
- Project Systems - knowledge/exposure
As an articulate and quality SAP Functional Consultant with FICO and FIORI, you will be part of an extensive project team dealing with valuable client projects and portfolios and will reporting directly to the Senior Team Leader and will play a pivotal role in the organisation.
If you are a SAP Functional Consultant with at least 5 years experience, then please send your CV immediately
#BrilliantlyConnected
Sep 09, 2016
Role: Senior SAP Functional Consultant - 5 years experience (Minimum)
Location - London
Salary: £65-70k
A well-recognised Blue Chip Organisation are looking to appoint an experienced SAP Functional Consultant with at least 5 years experience in this field.
You will have hands on demonstrable experience in SAP Fiori in addition to SAP FICO and will be able to work on several ongoing and greenfield projects in addition to working on BAU.
This is an opportunity to work in a substantial team of 25, with excellent prospects to progress within the team.
Your key skills will be:
- Sales & Distribution - expert
- Resource Related Billing/ Pricing - expert
- I-docs - knowledge/exposure
- Project Systems - knowledge/exposure
As an articulate and quality SAP Functional Consultant with FICO and FIORI, you will be part of an extensive project team dealing with valuable client projects and portfolios and will reporting directly to the Senior Team Leader and will play a pivotal role in the organisation.
If you are a SAP Functional Consultant with at least 5 years experience, then please send your CV immediately
#BrilliantlyConnected
SAP, Finance, FICO, finance, controlling, Analyst, Consultant, configuration, functional specifications, GL, AP, AR
Harvey Nash have been engaged by a global manufacturing and retail organisation to source and secure an experienced SAP FICO Analyst.
Our client is looking for an SAP FICO Analyst to join their existing SAP Development team. The successful candidate will be responsible for providing support to the finance end users, resolving system errors, implementing enhancements and designing changes for the finance modules, writing functional specifications and acting as a liaison between the finance users and the SAP Development team.
The successful candidate will have the following experience:
* A minimum of 4 years experience configuring SAP Finance modules (including GL, AP, AR)
* Practical experience of writing functional specifications
* The ideal candidate will preferably come from a finance/accountancy background
* Previous experience designing, configuring and implementing the FI module
The ideal candidate will also have:
* Excellent communication skills, the candidate must have previous experience of speaking to the accountants and finance end users
* The aptitude to persuade and influence others
This is a fantastic opportunity for an experienced SAP FICO Analyst to join a prestigious organisation, for further information and to apply for this role please contact Joanne Beacon on 01132028952 or
Feb 21, 2016
SAP, Finance, FICO, finance, controlling, Analyst, Consultant, configuration, functional specifications, GL, AP, AR
Harvey Nash have been engaged by a global manufacturing and retail organisation to source and secure an experienced SAP FICO Analyst.
Our client is looking for an SAP FICO Analyst to join their existing SAP Development team. The successful candidate will be responsible for providing support to the finance end users, resolving system errors, implementing enhancements and designing changes for the finance modules, writing functional specifications and acting as a liaison between the finance users and the SAP Development team.
The successful candidate will have the following experience:
* A minimum of 4 years experience configuring SAP Finance modules (including GL, AP, AR)
* Practical experience of writing functional specifications
* The ideal candidate will preferably come from a finance/accountancy background
* Previous experience designing, configuring and implementing the FI module
The ideal candidate will also have:
* Excellent communication skills, the candidate must have previous experience of speaking to the accountants and finance end users
* The aptitude to persuade and influence others
This is a fantastic opportunity for an experienced SAP FICO Analyst to join a prestigious organisation, for further information and to apply for this role please contact Joanne Beacon on 01132028952 or
SAP, Finance, FICO, finance, controlling, Analyst, Consultant, configuration, functional specifications, GL, AP, AR Harvey Nash have been engaged by a global manufacturing and retail organisation to source and secure an experienced SAP FICO Analyst. Our client is looking for an SAP FICO Analyst to join their existing SAP..... click apply for full job details
Feb 21, 2016
SAP, Finance, FICO, finance, controlling, Analyst, Consultant, configuration, functional specifications, GL, AP, AR Harvey Nash have been engaged by a global manufacturing and retail organisation to source and secure an experienced SAP FICO Analyst. Our client is looking for an SAP FICO Analyst to join their existing SAP..... click apply for full job details