Working with the organisation, the wider business finance teams and the external partners. Supporting the client to successfully implement it's project within SAP SAC Planning and to further improve the forecasting process and digital tools.

What I'll be doing - your accountabilities Skills required for the job
* Act as core planning, budgeting and forecast (PB&F) subject matter expert.
* Support the relationships necessary to implement the deliverables both across the business and with the SI partner teams where required, demonstrating understanding of the financial and operational consequences of performance.
* Collaborate with the transformation members in the business units to ensure successful delivery.
* Support the Delivery Lead to ensure the business requirements are fully implemented in the end-to-end build, exceptions are minimised, best practices/use cases fully leveraged and implications for new ways of working are fully understood.
* Testing & quality management
* Translate requirements and use cases into test conditions and expected results for product performance, and user acceptance testing.
* Assess the designs, prototypes, and other requirements work products to ensure they fulfil the requirements.
* Review of test scripts and execution of testing to ensure requirements are met in the end solution.
* Conduct programme acceptance testing ahead of UAT, ensuring the solution is robust and of sufficient quality.
* Partner with the business and SI Partner teams to ensure PB&F activities are carried out in accordance with governance, framework and agreed ways of working.
* Work with the Delivery Lead, the business lead and business to define the cutover and business readiness plans.
* Work with project team and business unit teams to transition processes into the business as part of deployment and ensure business adoption.
* Assist with defining detailed plans to meet project and transformation milestones, mitigating risks, clarifying ambiguity, and when appropriate escalating issues to the Delivery Lead.
* Ensure the VDT processes are fully compliant to standards and financial controls.
* Teamwork: collaborate with multiple discipline teams with participants, the wider businesses and the SI partner to successfully deliver the project deliverables.
* SAP knowledge: Good functional / technical understanding of SAP and SAP planning applications. Experience of design and implementation of the application for planning.
* PB&F knowledge: strong PB&F knowledge to define driver-based modelling and scenario planning business process changes and communicating changes to business audiences.
* Business acumen: Knowledgeable in the drivers of organisational performance improvement, including people drivers of performance and financial literacy (e.g. business KPIs, business cases).
* Matrix working: Comfortable working on a large project where activities are managed according to a matrix structure. Able to work collaboratively and manage their time to meet project deliverables. Resilient and able to challenge others, dealing with resistance to change to meet defined Project objectives.
* Trusted advisor: Good understanding and/or ability to learn about best practice and make process / system improvement recommendations. Good stakeholder management and communication skills.
* Qualified accountant (ACCA/CIMA/ACA) with deep understanding of PB&F business processes and requirements.

Connected leaders' behaviours Experience you would be expected to have
The three key leadership behaviours required for this role, are:
* Solution focussed achiever
* Change agent
* Collaborative partner Mandatory:
* Qualified Accountant
* Demonstrable knowledge and expertise of PB&F ideally within previous FP&A and Business Partner roles
* Experience of design and implemention of SAP planning models / strong SAP knowledge.
* Understanding of best practices and improvement enablers
* Experience of delivering successful transformation projects where activities are managed in a matrix structure
* Experience working with global teams
* Culturally aligned

Preferred:
* Design and implementation of SAC Planning models.
* Telco and/or experience in similar industry
* Track record of delivering similar projects in multiple companies
* Operational experience of delivering PB&F solution to multiple business units across multiple geographies
Key decisions
Responsible for supporting the project, and working with the extended team to deliver the solution.


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