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What you’ll build

• In this role, you'll build and maintain relationships with public sector customers, prospective customers, and partners—ensuring customer satisfaction and driving value.
• You'll be responsible for delivering SAP's products and solutions tailored to public sector needs, supporting digital transformation and modernization initiatives.
• Your work will directly impact the continuity and expansion of the customer’s ongoing business with SAP, supporting efforts to ensure solutions are adopted and value is realized in the public sector.

What you bring

• Essential Technical Skills: Deep knowledge of project management and strong functional skills. Experience with public sector processes and regulations. Certifications such as PMI, Six Sigma, or equivalent (Black Belt level if in Six Sigma) are highly advantageous.
• Experience Level: Sound professional experience in the public sector, with a background in managing high-volume or high-risk projects. Understanding of government procurement processes.
• Mindset: A proactive problem-solver who can navigate complex public sector environments. Ability to find common ground for cooperation within project teams and communicate effectively with stakeholders.

Nice-to-Have:

• Previous experience in using SAP solutions within the public sector.
• A strong network within government agencies and public sector organizations.

Where you belong

Focus:

• Team Culture: Our team is dynamic and collaborative, working together to achieve common goals. We thrive on solving complex issues unique to the public sector and delivering quality outcomes that improve public services.
• Thrive Here If: You enjoy working in a structured yet innovative environment, are detail-oriented, and excel at building strategic partnerships with key decision-makers in government and public sector organizations.
• Collaboration: We regularly communicate project status and updates, ensuring that everyone is aligned and working towards the same objectives. We work closely with cross-functional teams to deliver tailored solutions.
• Growth Opportunities: There are ample opportunities for learning and development, including programs to enhance your project management, communication, and public sector-specific skills. The role may also include team lead or supervisory responsibilities, providing a pathway for career progression.
• Unique Aspects: We value diversity and inclusion, fostering a sense of community and belonging. Our workplace is unique in that it encourages innovation and provides the resources to execute on high-impact projects that make a difference in society.

What we do:

• Manage projects of high volume or high risk/complexity specific to the public sector.
• Ensure business-critical and innovative results, managing goals, milestones, and budgets appropriately.
• Represent SAP to public sector customers, delivering quality outcomes and communicating relevant project information in a timely manner.
• Formulate clear project plans that include milestones, timelines, and sub-projects, while capturing stakeholder opinions and expectations.
• Share in-depth knowledge and experience with the team to enable decision-making and provide innovative solutions to complex public sector issues.

Who we are:

• A team of dedicated professionals focused on driving SAP's success through exceptional customer relationships and strategic partnerships within the public sector.
• Committed to ensuring that our solutions meet public sector needs and align with strategic government goals and financial objectives.

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PURPOSE AND OBJECTIVES

• The S/4HANA Senior Finance Consultant will act as trusted partner to our customers on their journey to the cloud, from scoping and planning of the initial deployment to continuous value engineering.
• The Senior consultant role requires deep understanding of the cloud business model, the ERP processes across functional borders, as well as a service-oriented attitude with the aim to achieve customer delight.

EXPECTATION AND TASKS

• As SAP Premium Hub Center of Expertise (CoE) consultant, you will support EMEA customers on their SAP S/4HANA adoption projects; as well as live customers that need to optimize business process, monitor operations, upgrade existing systems, etc., through the support from SAP Premium Engagement services.
• The CoE Senior S/4HANA Finance Consultant must be able to accompany customers executing S/4HANA implementation projects with SAP Partners, or SAP led. The Consultant will provide guidance and support across all SAP Activate phases to ensure a successful S/4HANA implementation project
• Your role involves delivery of technical and application services within customer engagements. You need excellent SAP Finance Software skills, and you are a decent problem solver with the ability to communicate effectively in an international environment.

According to your experience, strengths and customer needs, you will conduct some of the following tasks:

• Prepare, design, realize and support Go-Lives for customer implementation projects
• Support feasibility studies and process design reviews
• Detailed planning of process implementation
• Detailed blueprinting for development requirements
• Develop and Assure quality of process models
• Demonstrate profound knowledge of modeling standards and tools
• Support the development of overall project plans (scoping process) as well as individual work plans; acting as liaison with client for troubleshooting (investigates, analyses, and solves software problems)
• Analyze and map clients’ business requirements, processes and objectives; develop necessary product modifications to satisfy clients’ needs.  
• Support the Services Organization with implementation projects, pre-sales support (estimating), spot consulting and internal projects and commit to the success of customers, partners, colleagues, and SAP
• Live and breath the cloud business model and the subsequent implications in regard to the implementation & post-implementation service business
• Ensure customer success, satisfaction, and reference ability for S/4HANA Cloud customer
• Articulate the S/4HANA Cloud business capabilities and value, differentiate S/4HANA Cloud and On-Premise solutions
• Follow the methodology, tools, and processes to ensure successful customer adoption
• Deliver agile services in a fast-changing environment
• Support the industrialization of the implementation process
• Understand and practice value-based “fit to standard” delivery approach
• Position and Deliver transition roadmaps between on-prem and Cloud solutions
• Drive the adoption of the value based innovation roadmap and guide the customer in their journey
• Know and build business process according to Industry Best Practices, empowering a standard mindset to live in
• Collaboration with internal/external consultants as part of the platform growth and solution providing
• Drive and deliver customer conversations with focus on BUSINESS OUTCOMES 
• In the Discover and Prepare phases, the consultant must demonstrate business benefits to adopt S/4HANA, provide recommendations about best transition path and support customers on architecture definitions.
• Propose recommendations to optimize business processes in Deploy phase, from a technical and functional perspectives.
• Support customer to address issues reported during Run and operation phases.
• Support business processes continuous improvement once customer is operating S/4HANA.

MANDATORY SKILLS

In addition to a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Business Administration, Finance  or related discipline, and a minimum of 10+  years’ progressive experience, the successful candidate will possess:

• Good Communication skills
• Delivery experience in agile methodology (e.g. SAP Activate)
• Experience in Change and Value Management and Realization
• Consulting delivery skills (hands-on & project management)
• Adaptability and flexibility to manage deadline pressure, ambiguity and change. 
• Acts as a Senior Trusted Advisor to the customer’s Finance department, covering the entire company of a big/complex, multinational Finance Processes end-to-end
• Certifications in S/4HANA Finance or S/4HANA Architecture are a must
• Defines Finance Strategies, Governance and Finance Process Architecture based on state-of-the art of S4HANA Cloud – On premise Finance technology
• Defines the strategic, conceptual, and technical boundaries for the design of the SAP S4HANA Finance processes, supporting the accounting principles and localizations solutions required by the customer. Can address the organization as well as the procedures of customers’ Finance departments with a focus on high efficiency, stability and performance. 
• Cross industry experience 
• Strong writing, mentoring, decision making, communication, and meeting facilitation skills; ability to utilize a combination of formal authority and persuasion skill sets. 
• Exceptional leadership, organizational and interpersonal skills; the ability to work well with people from different disciplines with varying degrees of technical experience; competence in clear concise and tactful communication with senior executive management, clients, peers and team members. 

Professional Experience

• - 10+ years of professional experience; demonstrated knowledge / expertise of at least one industry / solution segment, preferable S4HANA Finance experience 
•  Expected Travel: 0% - 70%

PREFERABLE SKILLS

• PMP or SAP Activate Certification will be preferred.
• Relevant Finance and Accounting Certifications
• Communication in German Language is plus.
• Knowledge of cloud, Hosted Services, and SaaS/ PaaS models, RISE are plus.

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What you’ll build

• SAP's vision is to empower every business to operate as an AI-driven, future-ready enterprise. The SAP Value Advisory (VA) organization is dedicated to positioning SAP as the premier innovation partner by delivering measurable AI-enabled business value and transformative customer experiences.

Where you belong

• SAP Value Advisory focuses on strategic, consultative value selling through its “Vision to Value” approach. This involves collaborating with customers to:
• Link their business strategy and desired outcomes to the experiences they aim to deliver.
• Define the business capabilities—and AI-driven innovations—required to achieve those outcomes.
• Demonstrate the value of SAP solutions in enabling data-powered, AI-augmented enterprises.
• The Value Advisory team supports pipeline-building strategies, driving increased industry pipeline and revenue while strengthening SAP’s leadership position in collaboration with regional sales and the Virtual Account Teams.

What you bring 

The ideal candidate should possess the following qualifications and capabilities:

• Language & Communication Skills
• Fluency in English, with strong proficiency in speaking, writing, presenting, and developing executive-level content.

Value Advisory Expertise

• Proven ability to build qualitative and quantitative business cases for organizational transformation.
• Skilled in driving value realization initiatives and benchmarking key industry KPIs.
• Proficient in applying value management frameworks, tools, and techniques effectively.

Industry Experience

• Primary focus on Services Industries, especially Engineering, Construction & Operations (EC&O), Professional Services, and Travel & Transportation.
• Secondary exposure to Telecommunications, Sports, and Media & Entertainment industries.

Executive Engagement & Consulting Skills

• Demonstrated success in engaging with CxO-level executives and collaborating closely with senior leadership teams.
• Multinational consulting and business development experience, with a strong global mindset.

Collaboration & Delivery Capabilities

• Ability to work independently within multidisciplinary virtual teams, addressing complex requirements under tight timelines.
• Experience leveraging innovative customer engagement techniques to drive meaningful outcomes.

Education & Technical Knowledge

• Bachelor's degree (or equivalent) in a relevant discipline (required).
• MBA or equivalent postgraduate degree from an accredited university (preferred).
• SAP experience or knowledge of SAP solutions is a significant advantage.

Other Requirements

• Travel:   The role involves traveling across Southern African countries to engage with customer executives and key decision-makers, facilitate collaborative workshops, present strategic outcomes to senior leadership, and represent SAP at industry events and conferences