SAP S/4HANA Finance Transformation Consultant

Job Description

Job Role: SAP S/4HANA Finance Transformation Consultant

Location: London, Manchester, Edinburgh (location flexible)

Career Level: CL9 (Consultant)

Accenture is a leading global professional services company, providing a broad range of services in strategy and consulting, interactive, technology and operations, with digital capabilities across all these services. With our thought leadership and culture of innovation, we apply industry expertise, diverse skill sets and next-generation technology to each business challenge.

We believe in inclusion and diversity and supporting the whole person. Our core values comprise of Stewardship, Best People, Client Value Creation, One Global Network, Respect for the Individual and Integrity. Year after year, Accenture is recognized worldwide not just for business performance but for inclusion and diversity too.

“Across the globe, one thing is universally true of the people of Accenture: We care deeply about what we do and the impact we have with our clients and with the communities in which we work and live. It is personal to all of us.” – Julie Sweet, Accenture CEO

As a team:

Within CFO and Enterprise Value, we bring distinctive capabilities serving the CFO priorities to increase enterprise value and steward the digitalization of the entire enterprise. We help our clients keep up with fast changing regulations, innovations as well as changing market conditions. You will be part of a team that brings to our client’s industry-leading best practices, technologies and strategies in everything from finance strategy to finance process excellence, financial planning, consolidation and analytics as well as financial reporting.

You'll learn, grow and advance in an innovative culture that thrives on shared success, diverse ways of thinking and enables boundaryless opportunities that can drive your career in new and exciting ways.

If you’re looking for a challenging career working in a vibrant environment with access to training and a global network of experts, this could be the role for you. As part of our global team, you'll be working with cutting-edge technologies and will have the opportunity to develop a wide range of new skills on the job.

As a Consultant within CFO and Enterprise Value, you will be:

• Supporting our clients to shape and deliver S/4HANA-enabled finance transformations, from early discovery and visioning through to business-led design and implementation

• Translating business strategy and finance objectives into S/4HANA-enabled finance process designs across Record to Report, Order to Cash, Procure to Pay and related finance domains

• Leading and contributing to fit-to-standard and design decision-making, balancing SAP best practice with client-specific value, control, and operating model requirements

• Applying strong judgement to address complex, ambiguous finance transformation challenges, using structured analysis, business cases and value-led recommendations

• Facilitating workshops with senior finance stakeholders to define future-state finance processes; co-developing and securing design decisions; aligning finance, tax, operations and technology perspectives

• Acting as a bridge between business and technology, working closely with SAP delivery teams while retaining ownership of the finance and business agenda

• Building trusted client relationships and ensuring finance requirements, outcomes and value expectations are met or exceeded

• Contributing to business development activities, including shaping finance transformation propositions, supporting bids and articulating CFO-relevant value cases

• Supporting the growth of the CFO&EV practice through development of assets, points of view and capability-building initiatives across SAP-enabled finance transformation

• Continuously learning new skills and enhancing your skill set to be able to contribute the growth of CFO&EV as well as wider Accenture organisation

We are looking for following skills and experience:

• Proven experience delivering SAP S/4HANA finance transformations in a consulting and/or industry environment

• Strong functional expertise in one or more finance domains, such as:

• Record to Report (General Ledger, close, reporting)

• Order to Cash

• Procure to Pay

• Product Costing / COPA

• Intercompany accounting

• Experience working across end-to-end finance processes, understanding how finance integrates with supply chain, sales and procurement from a business perspective

• Hands-on experience across multiple phases of S/4HANA programmes, including:

• Discovery and envisioning

• Fit-to-standard and design

• Business integration and testing

• Deployment and stabilisation

• Ability to lead or contribute to business process re-engineering, using S/4HANA capabilities to simplify, standardise and improve finance outcomes

• Strong understanding of period-end close, finance controls and reporting requirements in an S/4HANA environment

• Experience translating finance requirements into clear functional designs and working collaboratively with SAP delivery and integration teams

• Experience engaging with finance leaders and senior stakeholders, with the credibility to challenge and influence design decisions

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to structure complex issues and develop practical, value-led recommendations

• Comfortable working in ambiguous environments and adapting approaches to different client contexts and operating models

• Willingness to travel to client sites as required

Set Yourself Apart:

• Experience working on S/4HANA finance transformations in complex environments (e.g. multi-country, multi-entity, or integrated ERP landscapes)

• Exposure to fit-to-standard delivery approaches and SAP Activate methods, with a pragmatic understanding of where differentiation drives value

• Experience designing finance processes that embed controls, compliance and data integrity by design

• Understanding of intercompany, transfer pricing, tax or treasury concepts and how these interact with core finance processes

• Experience across both public and private cloud S/4HANA programmes

• Professional finance or accounting qualification (e.g. ACA, ACCA, CIMA) or equivalent industry experience

• Strong collaboration, influencing and communication skills, with the ability to work effectively across finance, operations and technology teams

What’s in it for you

At Accenture in addition to a competitive basic salary, you will also have an extensive benefits package which includes 30 days’ vacation per year, private medical insurance and 3 extra days leave per year for charitable work of your choice!

Flexibility and mobility are required to deliver this role as there will be requirements to spend time onsite with our clients and partners to enable delivery of the first-class services we are known for.

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About Accenture

Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent- and innovation-led company with approximately 791,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. Our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities.

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