SAP Senior Finance Consultant in Warrington

Resulting IT is the UK’s best loved SAP Consultancy with a spine-tingling 93% Net Promoter Score. We’re 100% independent and we don’t sell SAP licences. Our only motivation is to get the best outcomes for our clients. We’re one of the UK’s fastest growing tech companies (6 times Northern Tech Awards winners) and have a client list to die for. We’re a completely sustainable, climate-positive organisation. We have fantastic benefits packages including healthcare, optical and dental cover. With offices in the North West (Warrington) and London, we’re growing fast and looking for people who want to be part of our journey.

What you’ll bring:

• Demonstrable experience of designing SAP Finance solutions for a global S/4HANA Programme
• Experience of delivering complex S/4HANA Finance programme for multi country/sites and companies
• Ability to work with CFO and Heads of Finance to deliver end to end SAP centric Finance solutions
• Experience of designing and delivering innovative financial solutions that align with strategic business requirements
• A can-do attitude and bucket loads of enthusiasm.

The role:

As a Senior Finance Consultant, you will be instrumental in bridging the gap between the business and IT supporting the definition of strategic ERP roadmaps that align with the business priorities. You will work with the business to understand current ways of working and future business drivers to architect innovative future finance solutions that meet the business requirements and drive the delivery of business value as part of the roadmap. From a consulting perspective your role is to bring clarity and understanding of where the business is today and where they want to get to. You will facilitate workshops to gain a deep understanding of their operations, designing solutions to help them achieve their future vision. To support this you will understand how to achieve complex financial requirements within the scope of SAP system capabilities, understanding deficiencies and alternative solutions. Your ability to translate technical and business complexity into clearly articulated requirements will be critical. From a delivery perspective your role will be to provide certainty, de-risking design decisions and keeping delivery on track by providing architectural advisory support of the delivery of the finance solution within SAP. You will ensure that the solution meets the business requirements and adheres to defined design principles and best practice. Your expertise will ensure that the finance processes and reporting capabilities are fully integrated and optimised within SAP, requiring you to collaborate closely with both technical teams and clients to meet specific business objectives.

Core Responsibilities:

• Business Process Analysis: Work with business teams to document current finance processes and identify areas for improvement. Lead workshops with stakeholders (including C-Suite) to design future-state SAP finance processes, ensuring alignment with business strategy. Promote SAP best practices consistently across all client engagements. Identify and recommend opportunities to improve financial processes through system innovation.
• Solution Design & Implementation: Gather and analyse user business requirements to understand key financial operations and business needs. Translate business requirements into effective SAP finance solutions that align with strategic objectives and design principles. Provide strategic input and oversee the development of scalable, robust finance system architectures that meet both current and future business needs within the wider architectural solution. Deliver innovative, forward-looking solutions that address organisational challenges and drive value. Support and input on both consulting and delivery engagements to ensure the right outcome for the client.
• Stakeholder Engagement & Advisory: Provide clarity and direction to the client guiding them to arrive at the right outcome. Advise stakeholders on SAP finance strategy, best practices, industry trends and operational insights to support organisational success. Clearly document client journeys and technology roadmaps, ensuring alignment with business priorities. Articulate solutions for overcoming current inhibitors and shaping the future-state landscape. Build trusted relationships with clients and colleagues, establishing yourself as a subject matter expert in SAP finance. Mentor and develop the wider team, fostering a high-performing team culture. Lead by example, foster and promote a can-do attitude within the team.

A bit about you:

As an experienced consultant, you demonstrate active listening skills, with the ability to empathise and build rapport with stakeholders who have a wide range of management styles and personal skills. You leverage these relationships to engage effectively and influence performance and positive outcomes, aligned with the objectives of the engagement. You are a curious and creative thinker, willing to challenge preconceived ideas and conventions. You leverage your own expertise and that of others from across the team to develop specific, unique and innovative insight that forms the basis of potential solutions. You have an eye for detail and can create high-quality deliverables which are tailored to meet the specific needs of the engagement and the nuances of your key stakeholders and their preferred methods of communication. You lead by example, developing trusted relationships with team members, showing respect for individual differences and recognising contributions to overall performance. You encourage openness, team-wide communication and a collective sense of responsibility to deliver effectively and to the highest standards.

Resulting traits: We pride ourselves on hiring the best people - but best doesn’t have to mean a big 4 background and an Oxbridge education. You can’t roll up your sleeves when you’re wearing cufflinks – and Resulting people get stuck in. They’re positive, adaptable, and always deliver to a high standard. Positivity is about being optimistic. It applies to you and the people you work with – be that a colleague, customer or partner. But positive also means being certain in your views and enthusiastic about driving success. Adaptability means being able to change shape to deal with different circumstances. Often new and different approaches may be better, even if they’re unfamiliar. High standards demand clear, original thought. Our customers pay us massive sums – Lamborghini money – for the work we do. It should be worth every penny.

Resulting Ltd is an equal opportunity employer committed to an inclusive work environment that encourages diversity. We maintain a zero-tolerance policy for harassment and discrimination in all our operations, including our focused SAP projects.