SAP Solutions Architect - Senior Manager 1 at Ernst & Young Global Limited (EY)

• Project Management: Participate in large scale SAP client engagements. Consistently deliver quality client services, driving high-quality work products within the expected timeframes and on budget.
• Monitor progress, manage risk and ensure key stakeholders are kept informed about progress and expected outcomes. Manage expectations of client service delivery.
• Stay abreast of current business and industry trends relevant to the client's business.
• Should be a self-starter with excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Should be comfortable interfacing with a client on a daily basis. This role requires daily interaction with the client at many levels.
• Practice Management: Demonstrate deep technical capabilities and professional knowledge.
• Demonstrate ability to quickly assimilate to new knowledge.
• Possess in-depth business acumen. Remain current on new developments in Consulting capabilities and industry knowledge.
• Assist in developing applicable methodologies, tools, approaches, points of view, thought leadership and accelerators to differentiate EY in the consulting market.
• These are shared with all EY market facing organizations to provide consistency and common platforms with which to go to market.
• Provide subject matter expertise, design expertise and engagement management for a module within the SAP S/4HANA solution set.
• Deep knowledge of the overall SAP roadmap and experience with assisting clients to understand the myriad of options available to them.
• This should include preparing the business case to define an appropriate roadmap for their business and ultimately helping them in executing that roadmap.
• Work effectively as a team member, sharing responsibility, providing support, maintaining communication, and updating senior team members on progress.
• Help prepare reports and schedules that will be delivered to clients and other parties.
• Develop and maintain productive working relationships with client personnel.
• Build strong internal relationships within EY Consulting and with other service lines across the organization.

Skills and attributes for success

• Effectively team with diverse skills and backgrounds and foster an innovative and inclusive team-oriented work environment.
• Strong written and verbal communication, presentation, client service and technical writing skills, coupled with a strong interest in further developing and integrating enterprise domain knowledge with technology skills.
• Demonstrate characteristics of a forward thinker and self-starter that thrives on new challenges and adapts quickly to learning new knowledge.
• Ability to lead a team of consulting professionals on multiple projects.
• A strong work ethic.

To qualify for the role you must have

• A degree in computer science, accounting, finance, or a related field (MBA or Business Undergraduate degree preferred).
• SAP certification/s and relevant project experience at minimum
• Approximately 10+ years of total experience and SAP Implementation experience in minimum 4-6 full life cycle projects
• Prior Experience of bid and delivery solutioning as well as core delivery must in the SAP
• Expertise in SAP S/4 HANA and with relevant implementation experience
• Understanding SAP S/4HANA cloud service offerings with relevant implementation experience
• Experience in more than one of the functional workstream (FICO, SD, SF, EWM, TM, Ariba, BTP, Hybris, IBP) or over-all solution architect
• Worked on implementation RFP’s as a solution architect responsible for designing solutions end to end
• Strong verbal and written communication with out of box thinking abilities.
• Ability to understand Methodologies (Activate, Agile, SDLC, SCRUM) and other industry business fundamentals and ability to showcase a quick learning curve.
• Proficient in MS Office products (Project, Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
• Strong knowledge in business processes and best practices
• Excellent business communication skills
• Strong knowledge in ASAP /Activate / EY Hybrid implementation methodologies
• Capability of presenting the value proposition in the module / area,
• Very good problem-solving abilities
• Excellent interpersonal skills, strong communication and presentation skills
• Experience executing a business blueprint and documenting business requirements that can be understood by a technical process team.
• Development of project documentation, training materials, requirements gathering, and project management methodology experience required.
• Demonstrated track record managing teams and complex engagements in the consulting arena
• Show initiative and creativity in developing innovative work-around solutions or new processes.
• Demonstrate deep knowledge of SAP solutions and appropriate industries to maintain credibility with prospective customers. Provide proof points with relevant customer stories.
• Support RFx completion in support of customer proposals.
• Engaging with Clients in understanding their requirements, scoping, discovering and defining solutions, explaining business benefits and use cases and a roadmap to meet their goals.
• Creating innovative solution designs that utilize our extensive service offerings.
• Understand client requirements (RFP/ RFI), build synopsis and have an ability to articulate the customer ask.
• Support the SAP implementation project and play solution architect role binding the entire solution to meet client requirements