SAP S/4HANA Finance Functional Associate Manager

This role puts you at the front of large-scale, business-led S/4HANA finance transformations — sitting with the client's finance leaders, shaping what good looks like, and carrying that design from early discovery through to a working solution at go-live. You'll own your part of the finance agenda, translate what the business needs into a design the SAP delivery teams can build, and grow quickly on marquee programmes alongside people who architect this work for a living. This is the design and advisory side of our SAP finance work — shaping the future-state process and the case for change and handing a clear blueprint to delivery, rather than a hands-on configuration role.

What you’ll bring:

• Your finance transformation expertise. Proven experience delivering SAP S/4HANA finance transformations, in consulting or in industry.
• You can take a client's business strategy and finance objectives and turn them into S/4HANA-enabled process designs across Record-to-Report, Order-to-Cash, Procure-to-Pay and the related finance domains.
• You lead and contribute to fit-to-standard and design decisions, balancing SAP best practice against the client's specific value, control and operating-model needs.
• You use structured analysis and value-led recommendations to work through complex, ambiguous problems.
• Delivering across the programme. Hands-on experience across the phases of an S/4HANA programme — discovery and envisioning, fit-to-standard and design, business integration and testing, and deployment and stabilisation.
• You bring a solid understanding of period-end close, finance controls and reporting in an S/4HANA environment.
• You act as the bridge between business and technology, working closely with SAP delivery and integration teams while keeping ownership of the finance and business agenda.
• Working with finance stakeholders. You're comfortable facilitating workshops with senior finance stakeholders to define future-state processes, co-developing and securing design decisions, and aligning finance, tax, operations and technology around them.
• You build trusted relationships and have the credibility to challenge and influence finance leaders on the calls that matter.

Ways of working:

We’re increasingly an AI-first delivery team — bringing agentic tooling and orchestration into how we design, analyse and validate, with our people owning the judgement and the outcome.

Who you are:

• You take ownership and follow through, and you’re comfortable in the ambiguity that comes with complex client organisations.
• You work well in a team, build trusted relationships across finance, operations and technology, and communicate clearly.
• You bring good judgement and critical thinking to problems that don’t arrive fully formed.

Things that set strong candidates apart:

• Experience of S/4HANA finance transformations in complex environments (multi-country, multi-entity, or integrated ERP landscapes).
• Familiarity with fit-to-standard delivery and SAP Activate methods, and a pragmatic sense of where differentiation actually earns its keep.
• Experience designing finance processes with controls, compliance and data integrity built in.
• An understanding of how intercompany, transfer pricing, tax or treasury concepts interact with core finance.
• Experience across both public and private cloud S/4HANA programmes and a professional finance or accounting qualification (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent industry experience).

About Finance RP:

Within Accenture, the Finance Reinvention Partner helps clients improve financial performance around the CFO agenda — driving best-in-class performance, and sharper insight and benchmarking across the enterprise.

What's in it for you:

Alongside a competitive salary and package (dependent on experience), you’ll have an extensive benefits package including 30 days’ holiday a year, private medical insurance, and 3 additional days’ leave a year for charitable work of your choice. This role involves flexibility and travel — you’ll spend time onsite with our clients and partners to deliver the first-class services we’re known for.