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Accenture

Advises businesses and runs their technology

Senior Manager SAP

Financial & Transaction AdvisoryUpdated on Nov 10
Full-timeParis, FranceNo salary listed

About the Job

Requirements

  • A Bac+5 qualification from an engineering school, business school, or equivalent university is required.
  • At least 10 years of experience in consulting and/or on complex SAP Finance transformation programs, with strong SAP S/4HANA Finance (FI/CO) expertise complemented by consolidation and reporting expertise.
  • Proven experience delivering end-to-end SAP S/4HANA transformation projects, from scoping and design through deployment.
  • Expertise in closing and consolidation, including scope, variations, intercompany transactions, adjustment entries, controls, traceability, auditability, closing calendars, and governance.
  • Good knowledge of SAP Finance solutions, including S/4HANA (FI/CO) and SAP Group Reporting, and understanding of complementary market solutions, their positioning, use cases, integration, and migration.
  • Ability to connect business teams and IT on functional requirements, data, operations, and data quality.
  • Experience managing governance, schedules, budgets, risks, and quality, and acting as a trusted advisor to CFO and CIO sponsors.
  • Excellent written and spoken French communication skills and fluent English are required.
  • Comfort with project methodologies, including Agile, hybrid approaches, and program governance.
  • Strong analytical and structuring abilities and team-management skills.
  • Ability to synthesize complex topics into clear narratives for executives and communicate effectively.
  • Client-facing capability, including facilitating workshops and presenting projects to decision-makers.
  • Commercial acumen and experience developing client portfolios and preparing proposals.

Responsibilities

  • Lead analysis of Finance business processes, including R2R, O2C, P2P, IFRS, and statutory, regulatory, and management reporting.
  • Translate business processes into target processes supported by appropriate tools, ensuring functional consistency, operational efficiency, and fit with SAP solutions and the existing ecosystem.
  • Define and organize transformation roadmaps combining SAP S/4HANA Finance modules and complementary solutions to create measurable value in data quality, faster closing, compliance, auditability, and cost control.
  • Design and secure target architectures covering Finance data models, integrations, data governance, and controls, using SAP S/4HANA Finance, SAP Group Reporting, SAP Analytics Cloud, and other market solutions as appropriate.
  • Lead project scoping, including diagnostics, target-state definition, business cases, and roadmaps.
  • Coordinate solution-selection processes, including RFI/RFPs, structured proofs of concept, and executive recommendations.
  • Serve as a credible link between Finance leadership and IT teams across architecture, data platforms, security, integration, and operations, translating business needs into technology solutions and securing decisions.
  • Provide leadership throughout the program lifecycle, from scoping through deployment.
  • Manage day-to-day client relationships, ensure deliverable quality and adherence to schedule, budget, and quality commitments, and manage escalations, risks, and governance decisions.
  • Present executive narratives to executive committees and CFOs covering decisions, trade-offs, risks, impacts, value, and mitigation plans.
  • Manage and develop managers and consultants, lead a SAP Finance community, and structure knowledge-sharing and reusable assets.
  • Contribute to developing SAP Finance offerings, including methodologies, assets, and benchmarks.
  • Support business development through commercial proposals, presentations, entity strategy, recruitment, and partnerships with software publishers and systems integrators.
  • Monitor SAP S/4HANA developments and emerging Finance-function trends, including SAP Joule.
  • Monitor regulatory developments affecting Finance departments, including IFRS standards and closing requirements, and translate them into SAP S/4HANA implications.
  • Propose improvements to methodologies and transformation offerings, including those enabled by AI.

About the Company

Accenture

Advises businesses and runs their technology

Accenture advises large businesses and public agencies on strategy, builds their technology systems and runs ongoing operations. Its teams connect business planning with implementation, covering areas such as cloud migration, cybersecurity and customer experience. Consultants work with clients to redesign processes, while engineers integrate software from technology partners and maintain the resulting systems for multinational organizations. Clients pay for project work or continuing services, including application support and business processes such as finance and customer service. Accenture was founded in 1989 and has its headquarters in Dublin, Ireland.

Company size
10,001+
Company stage
IPO
Headquarters
Dublin, Ireland
Founded
1989

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