Manager - SAP Analytics and Epm Solutions

This role is a national position, welcoming applicants from any city in Australia that hosts a KPMG office.

**Your Opportunity**

Industry-leading clients. An award-winning culture. Top notch connections. Big opportunities. From learning to leadership, this is your chance to take your career to the next level. KPMG can show you what it takes to explore an entire universe of ideas, possibilities, and opportunities-and help make an impact that matters with SAP solutions.

As a Budgeting & Planning Functional lead Consultant at KPMG, you will be a vital member of our team, responsible for delivering SAP Analytics Cloud services, particularly in the Planning & Budgeting domain, to our customers. You will work closely with our clients, KPMG teams, and other stakeholders to ensure the successful implementation and utilization of SAP planning & reporting solutions.

As a member of the _SAP Practice _in KPMG_,_ the SAP Analytics & EPM Specialist will work with the best in the business to solve their toughest problems and will be responsible for delivering complex projects in a fast-paced, team environment by
- Being accountable for providing a deep functional expertise of Analytics & EPM capabilities within the SAP Analytics stack
- Collaborate with clients to understand their specific requirements and design tailored SAC Planning & Reporting solutions.
- Prepare and conduct design workshops for SAP Analytics Cloud projects.
- Lead the best practice design and solutioning of SAP BPC and SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC) with integrated upstream processes, reports, and dashboards to support critical business KPIs.
- Lead the effort to gather, analyze and model client scenarios and key performance indicators using a broad set of analytical tools and techniques to develop quantitative and qualitative business insights and improve decision-making.
- Delivering customer facing presentations and workshops and building excellent relationships with all stakeholders in a project and within KPMG and their team.
- Working with external clients to design the required SAP solution, inclusive of SAP modules/components, licenses, infrastructure etc.
- Contributing to the KPMG process roadmap for SAP Supply/Procurement functional areas aligned to SAP best practice processes, specifically related to future developments/platform changes.
- Providing overall quality assurance for solution design of SAP systems for both business development and project delivery, specifically relating to Production Planning and Execution as well as Demand Planning and MRP
- Acting as SME for SAP Analytics & EPM (Planning, Budgeting, Forecasting and Management Reporting)
- Facilitating client workshops and provide insights into both SAP Best Practice and Industry Best Practice.

**How are you Extraordinary?**
- You are able to quickly build strong relationships and network with a variety of stakeholders both internal and external.
- You are passionate about the importance of fantastic communication to share ideas, inspire, and create change. You are able to digest, distil, and communicate complex concepts in both written and verbal forms.
- You are a kind and compassionate leader with a passion for continually growing your leadership skills to get the best out of a diverse and multidisciplinary team.

**Your Experience**

At KPMG, we believe diversity of thought, background and unique experience strengthens relationships and delivers meaningful benefits to our people, our clients and communities.

To be considered for this opportunity, your qualifications, skills & experience could include:
**Required**:

- Hands-on functional configuration and design experience, with SAP SAC Planning knowledge and ability to model planning solutions.
- Proven experience as an SAP SAC Consultant with a focus on Planning & Budgeting, demonstrated by participation in at least 4 full-lifecycle SAP Planning implementations with at least 2 as a lead.
- Good Understanding of SAP data structures, End to End dataflow, SAC predictive capabilities, augmented analytics, forecasting, etc.
- Strong knowledge of integration points between SAP S4, SAC and SF
- Understanding of SAP datasphere & BW
- Excellent problem-solving and communication skills.
- Ability to collaborate effectively with clients and cross-functional teams.
- Relevant certifications in SAP Analytics Cloud and BW are preferred.
- Ability to travel based on work you do and the client and industries/sectors you serve.

**Desired**:

- SAP Finance/FICO experience
- S/4 HANA experience
- Experience with developing eminence, thought-ware and point-of-view materials
- Central Finance experience
- Understanding of SAP ASAP and Agile methodologies
- Greenfield implementation experience

**Qualifications**:

- Bachelor's or Master's degree in a relevant field (e.g., Computer Science, Business, or Finance).

**Additional Information**:
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