SAP Finance Delivery Practice Lead

Description

• Lead Finance Practice within the organization, manage a team of delivery consultants on projects and bench.
• Serve in a billable role on engagements as needed.
• Provide direction and specialist knowledge in applying solution in practice area of expertise to client business challenges.
• Demonstrated ability to provide SAP solutions to complex customer business problems to drive business case/savings.
• During implementation projects, facilitate design sessions and create functional requirements.
• Configuring system to meet client business requirements.
• Conducting knowledge transfer and training of end-users.
• Build positive and productive relationships with clients.
• Understand client needs and identify new business opportunities.
• Demonstrated excellent verbal and written communication skills, needs analysis, positioning/messaging, business value and justification, compelling/closing techniques.

• 12+ years of experience in two or more SAP modules or submodules including consulting experience with SAP Public Sector Finance, Split General Ledger, Funds Management and/or Grants Management.
• At least four full life-cycle implementation projects (from Blueprint/Explore through Go-Live).
• S/4HANA, S/4HANA Cloud and S/4HANA migration experience preferred.
• Understanding of SAP Activate Methodology.
• Understanding of integration between modules.
• Understanding of concepts of Cloud implementation and integration.
• Ability to interpret customer requirements into SAP functionality, identify fit/gap as well as technical solutions for gaps.
• Understands Module/Application specific SAP functionality as well as integration points with other modules.
• Understands how to utilize SAP’s Functionality/Integration to meet business requirements.
• Effectively plans configuration and master data development.
• Ability to estimate resources needed to meet customer requirements.

• A team approach is critical to the success of this position.  As the practice leader, the successful candidate must have experience building and maintaining team relationships. 
• Aptitude for working in a team environment; problem-solving skills, creative thinking, communicating clearly and empathetically, strong time management, and ability to collaborate with all levels of staff.
• Ability to explain ideas and concepts to other project team members and to client personnel.
• Has a solid foundation for consulting “soft” skills necessary on client engagements, may act as a coach for others related to these soft skills.
• Ability to interpret requirements and apply SAP best practices.
• Self-starter with the ability to manage their own time and tasks in order to meet project milestones.
• Ability to identify upsell opportunities and assists in the management of scope.
• Creates professional relationships with client.
• Develop new professional peer relationships for additional business or possible new consultants.
• Helps develop overall marketing messages.
• Communicates project resource requirements to staffing coordinator/clients.
• Ensures quality implementation (works with QA program).
• May participate in Pre-Sales as part of the client pursuit team in conjunction with a Solution Architect.

• Review and approve time/expense reports and time off requests.
• Actively work to resolve employee issues and/or concerns.
• Work with HR to address employee performance issues.
• Gather training needs from team and submit to senior leadership for review and approval.
• Nominate team members for awards.
• Ensure each employee has updated their resume on file, skills, and certifications.
• Manages team task lists in order to meet project milestones.
• Monitors team status and reports variances.

• Work closely with sales, delivery, project managers and RMG to assign team members to projects and/or AMS work based on an employee’s strengths and career interests.
• Monitor the bookings report for awareness of an employee’s capacity and availability for work assignments.
• Review bench list and actively work to reassign team members to billable work first or to other internal project work if billable work is not available.
• Seeks ways to increase the project team effectiveness.
• May act as a mentor to consultants.
• Motivates and inspires team members.

• Meet at least monthly with each direct report to understand the employee’s current workload, accomplishments, concerns, career interests and goals, discuss training needs, and provide ongoing feedback regarding employee’s performance using Darwinbox to record the meeting notes.
• Provide personnel performance, development, and education plans.
• Foster development of consultant skills and education to assist the employee in reaching their career goals while ensuring alignment with the company’s long-term success.
• Development of consultant’s career path for the long-term success of the company.
• Conduct annual personnel performance evaluations which should include meaningful feedback with descriptive examples.

• Aptitude for working in a team environment. problem solving skills, creative thinking, communicating clearly and empathetically, strong time management and ability to collaborate with all levels of staff.   
• Ability to explain ideas and concepts to other project team members and to client personnel.
• Ability to interpret requirements and apply SAP Best Practices.
• Creates and maintains professional relationships with clients.
• Develop and maintain professional peer relationships for additional business or recruitment opportunities.
• Helps develop overall marketing and methodology solutions as needed.
• Understands concepts of matrix organizational model.
• Works with Project Managers to staff projects as required by Project Management.
• Ensures quality implementation (works with QA program).
• Participates in Pre-Sales as part of the client pursuit team.
• Presents at conferences (SAPHHIRE, ASUG, HERUG, etc.).

• BA/BS in computer science, business administration and or related fields. 
• Advanced degree (MBA, PhD) desired.
• Training in SAP Activate, certification preferred.