Open Positions at Deloitte

Job Description

The AMS team is looking for an experienced Senior Consultant with 7-10 years SAP BW/BI experience and 3 years experience in a client facing role to support in the delivery of services to current clients on delegated engagement / project. Key skills/abilities

• Takes initiative, responsible, and dependable,
• Has end-to-end experience: can independently investigate issues from Data Source/Extractor to BI Report level problem solving skills,
• Has end-to-end Development experience: can build extractors, model within SAP BW, and develop Reporting solutions, including troubleshooting development issues,
• Experience in SAP BW 7.x, SAP BWonHANA/SAP BW4HANA (or Both),
• A good understanding and ability to read ABAP within SAP BW,
• In-depth knowledge and understanding of SAP BI Tools such as: Web Intelligence, Analysis for Office, Query Designer, SAC,
• SAP BW Batch Monitoring experience,
• Understands client business requirements, processes, objectives and possesses the ability to develop necessary product adjustments to fulfil clients' needs.
• Manage delivery of services against agreed SLAs as well as manage escalations both internal and externally.
• Consulting skills is essential
• Ability to Identify risks and issues, as well as providing workarounds and/or mitigating solutions.
• Act as liaison with the client for troubleshooting activities - investigate, analyse, and solve software problems.
• Manage changes for high priority issues.
• Document functional designs, test cases and results.
• Proactively identify and propose business process and/or system enhancements
• Provides ongoing communication to teams on status of engagement / project, changes, achievements, etc.
• Provide consulting services on both new implementations and existing support projects

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications:

• Passed SAP Certification exam
  Tertiary qualification in Software Engineering, Data Science or Information Systems diploma or degree

Additional Information

Key Competencies required:

Technical Competencies

• Manage Efficiency of Service Delivery
• Manage billability and productivity ratio of resources
• Ensure proper internal governance and processes are adhered to
• Establish relationships and understanding of the clients business and needs to Identify, qualify and unlock net new revenue opportunities
• Project management experience and capabilities

Behavioural Competencies

• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
• Effective interpersonal and relationship building skills
• Good mentorship and coaching ability with desire to develop self and others
• Strong client delivery focus
• Adaptable, managing change and ambiguity with ease
• Focus on quality and risk
• Sound problem solving ability

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Job Description

Lead the way in reimagining how Finance functions are delivered by joining one of the fastest growing Business Units in Deloitte

• Focus on Controllership outcomes – specialising in improving the efficiency and effectiveness of the financial close process.
• Build deep relationships with CFOs, Financial Controllers and other Finance leaders while bringing a Deloitte ‘point of view.’
• Solve challenges in the Finance function.
• Understanding of finance business processes (“as-is”, gap analysis, documentation, flowcharts)
• Internal controls design and testing to address risks identified within a process
• Experience in finance functions optimisation / improvements with ERP and reporting packages / systems (SAP, Oracle, SAGE, Hyperion, etc) experience.
• Understanding of the chart of accounts structure and design of month-end balance sheet reconciliation process
• Experience with advanced Excel – macros, etc

Qualifications

Qualifications, Experience and Competencies required:

• CA (SA)
• 3 - 5 years+ post articles experience

Technical Competencies:

• Understanding of the audit and advisory businesses, and their interaction with wider firm locally and globally, strategy and challenges
• Notable experience on providing Strategic Insights to Partners
• Project management experience
• Relevant industry and business knowledge
• Demonstrated leadership skills
• Ability to interpret, communicate and implement strategy
• Demonstrated execution of complex projects within timeframes and cost
• Excellent report writing skills
• Solid financial knowledge

Behavioural Competencies:

• Exceptional communication skills, both written and verbal with all levels of staff & leadership
• Strong interpersonal and relationship-building skills
• Mentorship and coaching ability 
• Strong client delivery focus
• Focus on quality and risk
• Problem-solving ability

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• Regional Audit Delivery Centres (Impact Centres) support Audit and Assurance engagement teams with the completion of Audit processes and engagement support administrative activity as part of the wider Audit Transformational Programme. The Impact Centres are designed to support teams across the audit engagement lifecycle through providing a range of support services to reduce the levels of administrative work placed on practitioners. Impact Centres support more efficient and cost-effective working practices, whilst improving quality standards. The activity undertaken within the Centres will evolve as they become embedded into the audit life cycle and as Deloitte Way Workflows are launched and implemented. 

Job Description

• Provide support on implementation & deployment of Technology Solutions.
• Engage stakeholders to understand when issues arise with portal, work to find cause and resolutions.
• Work with RADC’s and MF to drive effective practices on use of portal and maximise use of portal functionality.
• Portal Integration Liaison with global committees on various initiatives.
• Responsible for Technology Solutions - development of analytics support initiatives.
• Portal Development & Governance.
• Portal integration into Audit platforms.
• Continuous improvement - six sigma programme.
• Change design with revised pathways and process flow
• Member Firm liaison
• Learning material design and supporting guidelines.
• RPA – deployment/standardisation – embedding into RADC’
• Local innovation to improve processes
• Able to assess how to implement new technologies/tools in the Africa environment.
• Able to perform integration as needed to bring data sources into our environment.
• Develop local innovation in terms of bots/programs etc.

Qualifications

• Relevant B-degree
• 7 years' experience

Techical requirements:

• MS Stack 
• Cloud experience
• T-SQL
• Python
• Building API's

Additional Information

Competencies:

Technical

• Expert in field with sound industry and business knowledge
• Demonstrated leadership skills
• Proven ability to manage and execute projects
• Experience in drafting and presenting client proposals
• Excellent report writing skills
• Good financial knowledge
• Sound business acumen

Behavioural

• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
• Effective interpersonal and relationship building skills
• Good mentorship and coaching ability with desire to develop self and others
• Strong client delivery focus
• Adaptable, managing change and ambiguity with ease
• Focus on quality and risk
• Sound problem solving ability
• Pragmatic

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Job Description

Our areas of expertise include advising on:

• Close, Consolidate and Report improvement initiatives, including process, policy, automation and digitisation of the month-end financial close
• Internal Controls over Financial Reporting as required by JSE Listing Rule 3.84k, including digital enablement
• Integrated Reporting and report refresh initiatives to help our clients report value driven by their ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance) activities, including climate change
• End to End accounting and reporting implications of proposed or planned transactions (such as mergers, acquisitions, integrations, separations and restructuring), including post-merger / separation planning for day 1 readiness of the finance function
• Advice relating to changes in International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) or other regulatory requirements, including digital enablement and change adoption
• Finance function operational support at month end, year-end, or ‘on call’ accounting services

About the Job

Apply core finance and accounting knowledge in an advisory context to assist our clients in enabling the success of their finance function.

• Improving the effectiveness and performance of finance functions, and finance processes.
• Supporting our clients to improve their controllership close-to-report cycle. This includes assessing their people, processes, and systems.
• Providing practical and pragmatic accounting solutions.
• Supporting clients during disruptive events (large transactions, such as IPO readiness, mergers and acquisitions, divestments, etc.)

Enough about us, let’s talk about you
Are you curious, practical, outcomes driven, love learning, client centric, relish a challenge, collaborative, thrive on working on a variety of diverse problems from clients in different industries and sectors and being part of a fun, professional team? If so, read on!
We’re looking for someone with some or more of the following attributes:

• Understanding of finance business processes (“as-is”, gap analysis, documentation, flowcharts)
• Internal controls design and testing to address risks identified within a process
• Experience in finance functions optimisation / improvements with ERP and reporting packages / systems (SAP, Oracle, SAGE, Hyperion, etc) experience.
• Understanding of the chart of accounts structure and design of month-end balance sheet reconciliation process
• Experience with advanced Excel – macros, etc.

Qualifications

Qualifications

• Qualified CA (SA)

Minimum Experience

• 3 years auditing experience at an accredited audit firm.
• Knowledge of financial accounting, technical accounting, reporting, auditing and internal controls or SOX experience.
• 2 years post artticles experience

Added Advantage

• Banking & Insurance Client Experience

Additional Information

Technical Competencies 

• Technical expert in specific area and/or industry 
• Demonstrated project management skill 
• Consulting skills 
• Experience in drafting and presenting to clients 
• Good report writing skills 
• Sound financial knowledge and understanding 
• Demonstrates Innovative thinking

Behavioural 

• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal 
• Strong interpersonal and relationship building skills 
• Mentorship and coaching ability with desire to develop self and others 
• Strong client delivery focus 
• Adaptable, managing change and ambiguity with ease 
• Focus on quality and risk 
• Problem solving ability 

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Job Description

Main responsibilities include:

• Effectively delivers engagement management or Project Services (PS) support to the business (as per dedicated Service Line) for a portfolio of engagements that are medium in size and or complexity.
• Executing on PS tasks within the business to aid compliance with standardized PS processes and controls.
• Responsible for ensuring that revenue and WIP is valid, accurate and complete.
• Has solid understanding of PS accounting to effectively troubleshoot and prevent revenue, WIP and other project services issues.

Budgets / Profitability

• Effective use of time, equipment and resources

WIP and Revenue

• Prepare WIP reconciliations upon request
• Facilitate Interfirm accrual confirmations and accurate recording for project related costs
• Plays a support role with regard to WIP confirmation requirements
• Compiling WIP, revenue and debtors info for business
• Prepares revenue and WIP commentary
• Provides an estimate revenue position to budget/ forecast after factoring in any adjustments that are yet to be made
• Daily revenue flashes over month end distributed to leadership
• Prepares customised and specific reports for engagements
• Preparation of journals to be processed for the correction of WIP / POA allocations
• Quarterly cost of quality review (Consulting only)

Opening of Project Codes

• Ensures timeous and accurate opening of project codes (Code creation and set-up)
• Assists the Project Director/ Project Manager during the QRM process where needed.
• Assists Business in collating the required information (such as the project plan, billing schedule and resourcing) to open a project code  
• Verifies accuracy and completeness of information required to open project codes 
• Enforces compliance of governance requirements in the way that codes are opened 
• Communicates code governance requirements to business as and where needed  
• Ensures that the correct contract type is selected in order for the correct revenue recognition methodology to be followed  
• Oversees the code opening integration of Phoenix to SAP S/4HANA, and loads any additional information required by SAP  

Billing

• Creates invoices
• Submit zero rated/ exempt VAT invoices to the Regional Tax Hub for tax compliance checks   
• Loads the invoices on client portals and/or submit invoice to the client.
• Attend to client queries after submitting invoices.
• Manages the credit note process and creates Cr-notes

Project Services Training

• Supports the Snr PSA/Finance BP in training new joiners and experienced staff as and when required in order for business to be able to understand how to fulfill certain PS tasks themselves.

General Project Services accounting and tasks

• Performs a basic first-level revenue and WIP analysis and provides feedback to the Service Line Business Partners on the results 
• Supports Project Services close over month-end including General PS assistance to business and query resolution
• Provide relevant information to client facing staff to enable engagement management (project profitability, timesheets, expenses, copies of invoices and statements)
• Effect any required adjustments, based on instruction from Business to the monthly forecast to ensure accurate revenue recognition   
• Manages replacement of Project Owners (Manager, Billing Partner, Proxy, project leaders or AR Party)
• Liaise with MDM team for any required changes (Bill to parties, VAT details, addresses etc.)

Project Expenses

• Direct business on how to create PO for project related expenses.
• Monitor project expenses for billable vs non-billable and ensure these are accounted for correctly to ensure accurate revenue

Code closure

• Assists Business with timeous project code closure 
• Ensures profit/loss impact of projects after project completion are reviewed and recognised correctly 
• Supports the process to close codes where there has been no activity for an extended period

Action Day shape exception reporting

• Identify and escalate write back errors (nature of error to be determined and subsequently corrected on codes)
• Identify unlinked codes – Code in SAP needs to be linked to BRD code in Day shape to ensure correct integrations and accurate revenue received

Note that the Audit PSAs are allocated to countries across Africa and support this process Africa wide.

Other

• Assist the Snr PSA to action Project Services related exception reports (missing time, invoices not posted, unapproved overtime, projects past end date, revenue received errors).
• Conduct Project Services quarterly regression testing

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

• B Degree in Finance / Accounting

Minimum Experience

• 3-4 years in Finance and Accounting

Additional Information

Strategic Impact

• Client is the Internal Service Line or Service area for which the Finance Partner is responsible for
• Under minimal guidance, supports the team in the delivery of services to clients in line with the defined strategic objectives
• Supports management in the implementation of change initiatives as directed
• Develops relationships with peer group in the client business to understand their business
• Participates in team efforts to find solutions to address issues in area of expertise that may enhance / renew service offerings to client

Client Impact: Internal

• Works collaboratively with own team and that of the client service line/area to deliver quality service in allocated tasks
• Proactively consults with senior/s on issues arising that may impact the broader deliverables of the team to clients
• Provides research output relating to thought leadership / technical matters on request from line management

Operational Effectiveness

• Raises areas of concern related to own/team delivery of service for discussion and resolution
• With minimal supervision, completes designated tasks for review by line, ensuring deadlines are met
• Provides line manager and team with detailed reporting on status of deliverables on a regular basis
• Remains aware of risk in area of expertise in alignment with Deloitte policies and processes
• Checks work for accuracy and professional presentation prior to submission for review

Competencies

Technical

• Technical expert in specific functional area
• Demonstrated capability in interaction at all levels, briefing, analysis and project management skills
• Experience in drafting and delivering presentations
• Good report writing skills
• Sound financial knowledge and understanding

Behavioural

• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
• Good interpersonal and relationship building skills
• Mentorship and coaching ability with desire to develop self and others
• Strong client delivery focus
• Adaptable, managing change and ambiguity with ease
• Focus on quality and risk
• Problem solving ability
• Good business acumen