SAP Finance Transformation - Senior Principal Consultant

Senior Principal SAP Finance Transformation

Infosys Consulting is seeking Senior SAP Finance professionals with extensive experience in large scale finance transformation programs and looking for long-term growth and career enhancing opportunities leveraging SAP to solve our customer’s most challenging issues. The ideal candidate will have at least 15+ years of SAP project experience from project prepare phase through deploy and run phases. The candidate should have strong business and SAP background and be experienced in interfacing with senior client executives, business and IT in consultative project engagements.

We are seeking SAP Finance professionals experienced in following:

• Lead blueprinting and design sessions, development for new project initiatives in Finance area.
• Interact and coordinate with CFO and Senior Finance teams
• Experienced in following finance process areas:
• General Ledger, New General Ledger
• Credit management
• Account Receivables
• Account Payables
• Asset Accounting
• Bank Accounting
• Legal Consolidations
• Closing process
• Project Accounting
• Finance Master Data

About the practice

• Our SAP Digital Transformation Practice is SAP Digital to the core, where our entrepreneurial and innovative spirit helps our clients derive sustained value from their SAP Digital Transformation journey. We use an integrated, holistic approach that takes into account both business views and technology views, enabling our clients to lead the way into a new digital frontier, gain a competitive edge and become a market disruptor.
• Our collaborative work approach and flat organizational structure results in a business culture that allows new consultants to dive right in, have access to all levels of practice leadership, become an integral part of the team immediately and add value to our innovative client solutions.
• We serve industries such as: Biotech, Communications, Consumer Products, Distribution, Financial Services, High Tech, Insurance, Manufacturing, Medical Devices, Oil & Gas, Pharmaceuticals, Retail, Services and Utilities.

About the Role

As a Senior Principal, you will anchor proposal preparation and engagement delivery efforts. You will lead the functional and technical solution for SAP S/4HANA Transformation programs. You will be pivotal to problem definition and discovery of the overall solution and guide teams on project processes and deliverables. You will continue to lead teams of consultants to define, design and execute transformation programs. You will collaborate and interface with senior clients on a daily basis to build confidence and lead/guide the team in conducting due diligence and issue resolution. You will contribute to branding, thought leadership, knowledge management and capability-building within Infosys Consulting, with the objective of providing high-quality and value-adding consulting solutions that enable our clients to meet the changing needs of the global landscape.

Responsibilities include:

Project Execution

• Collaborate with client counterparts to define long-term vision, goals and strategies
• Contribute to the design and development of client future processes and organizations with corresponding transformation roadmaps
• Conduct requirements workshops with a team of global IT professional & subject matter experts, translating those requirements into actionable project initiatives w/associated metrics
• Solution targeted processes, leveraging best practices
• Configure/design SAP functionality and processes
• Solution and document functional specifications
• Define, execute and support testing of the solution
• Perform knowledge transfer to client and supporting organizations throughout all phases of the project.
• Support management of project execution from start-to-finish in order to deliver according to plan (scope, quality and time).
• Coach and develop team members to deliver quality results and promote professional development.

Sales / Project Acquisition

• Support Infosys Consulting leadership team members in driving proposal development and leading proposal discussions
• Develop client relationships to identify and qualify sales opportunities with the assistance of senior leadership
• Lead solution definition for client specific needs during opportunity to closure cycle
• Articulate our unique point of view in various thought leadership media including papers, webinars and seminars

People Development

• Mentor and coach team members through formal, performance evaluation methods and informal, individual feedback opportunities
• Collaborate and share knowledge

Practice Development

• Create/contribute S4HANA practice artifacts
• Contribute to practice growth through recruitment, training and retention
• Provide insight and thought leadership to develop innovative assets, including differentiated points of view and methodologies

Basic Qualifications and experience:

• 15+ years of SAP Finance Experience in large transformation programs
• At least 2 full lifecycle S/4 HANA implementations at large clients
• Experience with SAP Activate Implementation Methodology and key deliverables
• A proven track record of leading and managing both large and small, global and local teams
• A leader and key contributor in project management of large ERP implementation projects and teams; significant team leadership experience over Process Streams / Functional Areas
• Experience interacting with client executives; ability to influence at the leadership level
• Strong written, verbal and interpersonal communication skills
• SAP Experience in Life Sciences, Consumer goods and Manufacturing industries
• SAP S/4HANA certification
• Solid written, verbal and interpersonal communication skills
• Large global consulting work experience is highly desirable

Preferred Qualifications:

• At least two (2) S/4 HANA customer engagement
• A proven track record of leading and managing both large and small teams
• A foundation in consulting, versus industry; at least 5 years’ consulting experience
• Strong personal and professional values; entrepreneurial spirit
• Willingness to travel up to 100%, depending on client requirements
• MBA or other relevant post-graduate degree
• Preference for candidates to live within 2 hours drive time of these Infosys hub offices: Atlanta, GA; Boston, MA; Chicago, IL; Dallas, TX; Houston, TX; Bridgewater, NJ; New York City, NY; San Francisco, CA; Seattle, WA

About Infosys Consulting

Infosys Consulting is a global management consulting firm helping some of the world’s most recognizable brands transform and innovate. Our consultants are industry experts that lead complex change agendas driven by disruptive technology. With offices in 20 countries and backed by the power of the global Infosys brand, our teams help the C-suite navigate today’s digital landscape to win market share and create shareholder value for lasting competitive advantage. To see our ideas in action, or to join a new type of consulting firm, visit us at www.InfosysConsultingInsights.com.

We deliver transformative solutions across Business Transformation, Enterprise Technology Strategy and Strategy & Design domains.

EOE : Infosys is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, spouse of protected veteran, or disability.