SAP FICO Consulting Manager

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Job Purpose

As a professional services organization, Navisite focuses on helping clients in their business transformation journey enabled by SAP. This is a customer facing role within the Delivery Organization, providing expert level consulting and leadership on the execution of project activities.

The Senior Consultant is responsible for overseeing their functional area and the scope as defined for the assigned project. This includes remote support for AMS or full project lifecycle activities including pre-project preparation, data tasks, project planning, workshops, work product, driving issue resolution, testing, cutover activities and more. As a Senior Consultant with Navisite, employee will provide leadership among their team, including other consultants and your clients. A Senior Consultant may also be asked to participate in sales and other practice development activities.

Job Duties & Responsibilities

· Aggressively pursue up to date SAP skills around your core business area, as well as a strong understanding of integration with other functions. Have an in depth understanding of SAP Best Practices within your area of focus.

· Be seen by clients as a thought leader in your area of expertise. Be viewed internally and by clients as an expert in the business area (processes, standards, integration departments / processes) you support.

· A Senior Consultant must be a role model for Navisite culture and core values. Encourage all team members to work with excellence as a team and to deliver. Find opportunities to network within and outside the company and ensure your colleagues know how to take advantage. Find ways to improve the impact Navisite has on clients and their businesses.

· Master the SAP Activate methodology. Be well versed in facilitating Explore phase workshops. Efficiently and effectively deliver business consulting and drive clients to best practice adoption. Understand how Navisite has adapted the SAP Activate methodology to reduce overall project budgets and risks. Be able to articulate this approach to others and be able to participate in these projects.

· Be able to define elements of a project timeline, identify risks and actively lead a business area's project activities and develop deliverables / work product. Drive your team to the timeline and effectively manage priorities and bottlenecks.

· Be able to demonstrate industry-specific knowledge and how it relates to SAP solutions.

· Manage your portion of projects against the Statement of Work. Appropriately address situations where scope is at risk.

· Leverage or attain knowledge specific to multiple geographies for global projects. For example, Senior Consultant should be able to estimate and frame a project effort for implementations in Canada, Europe and/or China or other specific geography where specific requirements vary from those in the U.S.

· Explore new SAP applications as a subject matter expert and may be first adopter for emerging SAP technologies.

· Participates in sales cycle activities including scoping, building, and delivering software demonstrations.

· In-depth SAP Solutions and process knowledge including industry best practices

· Leads fit/gap and other types of working sessions to understand needs driven by business process requirements.

· Translate requirements into solutions, using SAP Best Practices or Navisite Solutions as a baseline.

· Leader of their respective workstream on assigned projects.

· Work in conjunction with Navisite project manager to establish the overall plan for their respective workstream.

· Work in conjunction with data migration personnel to lead the customer thru the data mapping process.

· Creates functional specifications for development objects.

· Conducts unit testing on overall solution including technical objects.

· Supports integration testing and user acceptance testing with customer.

· Explores new SAP applications as a subject matter expert and may be first adopter for emerging SAP technologies.

· Supports Navisite Application Managed Services (AMS) by working and resolving tickets as assigned.

· Sustains adequate product knowledge through formal training, webinars, SAP publications, collaboration among colleagues and self-study.

· Enforce the core competencies and professional standards of Dickinson + Associates in all client engagements.

· Supports internal projects as assigned.

· Collaborates with colleagues to grow product knowledge.

· Assists in the continual improvement of Navisite methods and tools.

· Adheres to Navisite professional standards.

Customer and Account Management

· Schedule, prepare, conduct, and document project workshops with high proficiency. Mentor other consultants through this process.

· Enforce the core competencies and professional standards of Navisite in all client engagements.

· Prepare and present customized solution demos of SAP application tools

· Proactively drive issue and gap resolution on projects.

· Perform your duties in direct support of ongoing Navisite projects and support clients, as role will be primarily customer-facing (billable).

· Provide guidance and management direction to your team, both D+A and client team members. Be a positive influence on the achievement of project objectives.

· Translate requirements into solutions, using SAP best practice, industry solutions or Navisite solutions as a baseline.

· Support clients on optimization projects and evaluate the effectiveness of design on projects as solution architect.

Practice and Team

· Collaborate and mentor others on product capabilities and technology trends.

· Be a positive influence on your teammates. Maintain a calm demeanor in difficult situations. Effectively manage any conflicts or difficult situations.

· Serve as a mentor to other Navisite consultants.

· Participate in the Navisite recruiting efforts. This includes effectively performing technical screening, determination of prospective consulting business knowledge and consulting “soft skills”. Be able to succinctly, but completely, communicate your analysis of candidates’ qualifications.

· Proactively identify opportunities to share your knowledge with your teammates and D+A in general.

· Work in support of Navisite AMS or Maintenance requests as needed.

· Support the implementation of knowledge management/retention processes, tools, and templates.

· Sustain adequate technical product knowledge through formal training, webinars, SAP publications, collaboration among colleagues and self-study.

· Participate in sales cycle activities including scoping, building, and delivering software demonstrations, estimating work effort, and constructing content for proposal and SOWs.

· Build and deliver marketing collateral (e.g., campaigns, webinars etc.) as assigned.

· Support internal projects as assigned.

Key Competencies

· SAP Skills

· Methodologies expertise

· Customer Focus

· Listening Skills

· Work Quality

· Results Driven

· Task & Time Management

· Problem Solving Skills

· Interpersonal Skills

· Written Communication

· Oral Communication

· Collaboration

· Presentation Skills

NAVISITE - Part of Accenture, is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and we are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. Navisite does not discriminate in employment on the basis of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy and gender identity), national origin, political affiliation, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, genetic information, age, membership in an employee organization, parental status, military service, or other non-merit factor.

Internal Applicants – No sponsorship available / External Applicants – Sponsorship not guaranteed. Any potential sponsorship depends on a number of factors, including but not limited to the local candidate pool and can vary from year to year.

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