Consultant Solutions, SAP Planning Consultant

Want to extend your technical and advisory skills delivering total solutions to an outstanding client base? Joining the Deloitte SAP Analytics+ team, within Enterprise Technology & Performance (ET&P) will enable you to combine your senior-level client advisory skills with your deep technical expertise - all within a high-impact environment. You will be part of a diverse team that challenges itself to provide innovative solutions in high-profile, complex projects.

The SAP Analytics+ team consists of 5 core capability groups:

• Strategy and Architecture
• Data & Platforms
• Planning, Budgeting and Forecasting
• Advanced Analytics
• Performance, Consolidation & Close

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There is a new opportunity for you to join and help develop our SAP Analytics+ team, specifically focusing on Financial Planning, Budgeting and Forecasting, based on best in class solutions such as: SAP Group Reporting (S/4 HANA), SAP Business Planning and Consolidation. 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. The candidate will be expected to consult with all levels of a client's business and be comfortable in front of the finance business and IT, and from the analysts to the CIO and CFO, and be involved in the full life cycle of a project starting with the initial design of the performance framework through to the implementation of the supporting technology.

As a Planning, Budgeting & Forecasting Consultant / Senior Consultant, your role will involve:

• Advising on good practice and processes in Financial planning in order to improve their visibility, accuracy and timeliness during the planning, budgeting and forecasting processes.
• Demonstrating a deep knowledge of client decision-making and support processes and key client business drivers.
• Designing and configuring EPM applications such as SAC Planning or SAP BPC in order to deliver a solution that best accommodates the client’s requirements as stated.
• Advising on the solution options available to accommodate the client’s requirements and the advantages and disadvantages relating to those options.
• Problem solving to identify and action appropriate remedies for technical errors associated with the EPM applications and related components.
• Understanding industry context.
• Supporting client requirements gathering/analysis workshops.
• Taking responsibility for planning, scoping, managing and creating deliverables as part of a larger project team.
• Establishing effective working relationships with peer-level clients as part of project delivery roles.
• Taking part in client discovery, requirement gathering and analysis workshops.
• Undertaking practice development activities including contributing to thought leadership pieces, running industry events, delivering training or managing team communications.

As a Planning, Budgeting & Forecasting Manager, your role will also involve:

• Managing larger teams on projects to deliver tasks, including providing guidance and feedback to junior team members.
• Assisting in the development of client bids.

To be successful in this role you are required to have:

• Good working knowledge of financial planning, budgeting and forecasting processes.
• Hands on experience with SAP Analytics Cloud for planning or SAP BPC for planning.
• Relevant experience working in a financial discipline within management consulting OR relevant experience working in industry in financial / commercial roles.
• Hands on project experience including business requirements analysis, scoping, design and configuration with applicable tools and applications on at least:

• (Consultant) Two full implementation lifecycles.
• (Senior Consultant) Three full implementation lifecycles.
• (Manager) Four+ full implementation lifecycles.

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Our hybrid working policy allows you to work flexibly through our hybrid working policy. Depending on the requirements of your role, you’ll have the opportunity to work in your local office, virtual collaboration spaces, client sites and remotely.

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A career at Deloitte is an opportunity to develop in any direction you choose. Join us and you’ll experience a purpose you can believe in and an impact you can see.