Sap Finance Senior Manager

Your journey with us

As a SAP Finance Senior Manager, you are responsible for supporting our customer’s transformation strategy through the management of cloud, on-premise or hybrid implementation initiatives. You have the qualification to manage large-scale strategic projects that span organizational boundaries including multiple business units and service partners/vendors.

Next to this, you assist during the Bid Phase of the customer engagement by providing input into the proposal especially regarding the solution delivery model, project structure, organization, scoping, estimation and risk assessment.

Your responsibilities

Conduct the project planning activities and manage the execution of large scale, high risk, or strategic SAP Finance projects according to plan;

Manage and communicate a clear vision of the project’s objectives, and motivate the project team to achieve them; create a project environment that enables peak performance by team members;

Evaluates strategic options and alternatives for delivering or offering services in a more efficient or cost effective manner;

Builds customer relationships with the clear expectation to deliver follow-on business or identify opportunities within an account;

Proactively manage all contract terms, including changes in work scope, timeline, and obligations and ensure appropriate planning measures are taken with internal and external stakeholders to formalize and administer contract changes;

Manage the financial aspects of the project: budgeting and estimate to actual variance;

Analyze risk, establish contingency plans ad identify trigger events and responsibilities for initiating mitigating action;

Proven ability to manage S/4 Hana and SAP finance projects;

Experience in utilizing Agile and SCRUM methodologies.

Let’s talk about you

• Strong leadership, organizational and interpersonal skills;
• Excellent understanding of SAP digital, SAP Finance (FI/CO), cloud, and innovation solutions and of the consulting business processes and functions;
• Liaison and consultative skills: negotiating skills within a context of high political sensitivity and conflicting interests;
• Knowledge of and competency in project management processes including planning tasks, resource allocation, risk management, time management, financial management, HR management, quality management, monitoring and reporting, documenting and record keeping;
• Adaptability and flexibility to manage deadline pressure, ambiguity and change;
• You hold a Certification in Program/Project management methodology (PRINCE2, PMI, Scrum.);
• Strong writing, mentoring, decision making, communication, and meeting facilitation skills;
• Fluent in English and Dutch/French. Additional languages are a plus.