Functional Consultant – S4 Hana Finance

What is the Role?

Your role presents an exciting opportunity to be part of a high performing team within the Finance & Tax Competency as Functional Consultant SME – ERP Finance & Tax. This is a challenging role where you will be responsible for delivering Next-Gen SAP S4 HANA functional solutions in a complex ERP environment. The functional consultant – S4 HANA Finance SME (subject matter expert) will be accountable for the solution delivery of all S4 HANA Finance & Tax projects/use cases for business, working along with natural team such as S4 HANA Finance Product Managers, Solution Architects, Functional Analysts and business process owners/users to ensure robust solutions are built and deployed in the optimal manner

What we need from you

Key Accountabilities

• Very Strong SAP and S/4 HANA Finance implementation experience with expertise in Finance and Tax areas. Need to handle project estimations for finance scope, coaching the broader functional team and leading the team to deliver the agreed Finance & Tax functional solution scope for complex next-gen ERP transformation programs
• Work closely with SAP functional analysts, project delivery leads and business users to translate finance requirements covering legal, fiscal, and regulatory scope into system configurations in line with project delivery scope
• Take accountability for end-to-end solution delivery which starts from building solution as per design standards from design authorities, testing of solution, managing cut-over and closely working with business till solution stabilization in production environments and until handover to operations
• Work in close collaboration with the Finance and Tax Design Authorities to ensure new emerging functionality is understood and that implementation experiences from business deployments are incorporated into the overarching S/4 enterprise design
• Function as a key collector of product gaps and improvement opportunities, appropriately document these items, and flow these opportunities along with a value case to the appropriate route with SAP (Oil & Gas Consortium, CIO office, Architecture, other SAP engagement bodies as appropriate)

Functional Excellence & Governance

• Implement and continuously improve the Functional Excellence agenda by applying Shell methods, standards, and quality assurance practices
• Partner closely with the Finance Design Authority to ensure emerging SAP and S/4HANA functionality is understood, assessed, and appropriately adopted
• Ensure alignment with Fina