SAP Process Transformation Manager

SAP Transformation Manager | Group Finance Controls

Bristol

£58,000 - £65,000 + Up to 20% Bonus

10% Pension + Life Assurance + Excellent Benefits + Share Equity

Hybrid Working

Do you have solid SAP knowledge?
Are you focused on continuous improvement and eager to deliver positive process change?
Do you have an analytical mindset, coupled with the ability to challenge and influence?

The Business

Be a part of one of the largest and most monumental brands in the UK. Operating across 150+ countries, with several thousand redeployment opportunities at any one time, this is a business where you will never sit still, (unless you want too of course)!

The Role

The business is undergoing a radical transformation currently therefore the Record to Report (R2R) process plays a vital role in ensuring the timely and reliable delivery of their financial commitments.

You will be responsible for identifying and understanding issues within the business, assessing their impact on processes, initiating and delivering projects from start to finish, engaging with stakeholders, and leveraging SAP and other automation tools to recommend and implement solutions that transform our business processes.

Skills & Experience:

SAP: Must have extensive SAP knowledge and be able to identify best practice across the R2R environment and be able to understand financial processes
Ability to Challenge: Demonstrates bold and confident thinking and challenges the status quo where required.
Technical Mindset: Able to understand and explain complex IT systems and interfaces.
Analytical Mindset: Able to cut through swathes of information and pull out key messages/themes, identify issues/root causes and possible resolutions.
Matrix working: Comfortable working in a large organisation where activities are managed according to a matrix structure. Able to work collaboratively and manage own time to meet deliverables.
Communication: Able to translate complex business and technical processes into effective documents. Able to present clearly and confidently and tailor messages to the relevant audience. Comfortable hosting and participating in regular operational meetings.

The Responsibilities

Using your extensive knowledge of SAP best practice to fully utilise all the new functionality that users in the business may not be aware of or being using incorrectly.
Partnering with operational process owners and all teams involved in R2R to understand end-to-end processes and ensure appropriate process documentation is in place.
Measuring effectiveness of R2R processes and highlight areas of bad practice, inconsistency across teams or where better, alternative options are available.
Supporting the finance managers in identifying, prioritising and delivering process improvement projects in line with the Financial Process R2R roadmap.
Assessing the extent to which process outputs meet the needs of stakeholders and, where this does not, propose improvement actions that push the organisation towards a standardised way of working.
Benefits

Up to 20% Bonus
10% Pension
10x Life assurance cover
World-class training and development
25 days' annual leave, plus bank holidays, and additional days for length of service
You'll enjoy access to 100s of instant discounts for restaurants, shops, and the cinema. These include money off your weekly shop and discounts on gift/shopping vouchers.
Share Equity

Keywords: SAP, transformation, SAP Process, SAP Transformation, continuous improvement, process change, Accountant, ICOFR/SOX/COSO frameworks, audit management