SAP Profitability and Performance Management (PaPM) Consultant

Introduction
As a Package Consultant at IBM get ready to tackle numerous mission-critical company directives. Our team takes on the challenge of designing developing and re-engineering highly complex application components and integrating software packages using various tools. You will use a mix of consultative skills business knowledge and technical expertise to effectively integrate packaged technology into our clients’ business environment and achieve business results.

Your Role and Responsibilities
As a consultant you will serve as a client-facing practitioner who sells leads and implements expert services utilizing the breadth of IBM’s offerings and technologies. A successful Consultant is regarded by clients as a trusted business advisor who collaborates to provide innovative solutions used to solve the most challenging business problems.

You will work on projects that help clients integrate strategy process technology and information to increase effectiveness reduce costs and improve profit and shareholder value. You can take advantage of opportunities to master new skills work across different disciplines move into new challenges and develop a robust understanding of different industries.

Your primary responsibilities include:

The role will involve deployment of modern SAP Analytics/Reporting offerings requiring both functional and technical expertise to develop SAP Profitability and Performance Management (PaPM) solutions and best address our customers’ needs across all sectors of TruQua and IBM within EMEA.

In this role the SAP PaPM Management Consultant will work directly with customers for hands-on delivery as well as strategic insights on how to run programs/projects efficiently from blueprint to go-live. This position requires the ability to work and communicate as part of a high-performance consulting team in a fast-paced environment.

This individual will be responsible for leading small project teams as well as serve as an individual contributor ensuring the quality of team delivery thought leadership keeping the team members utilized growing our practice and deepening our relationships with key partners. This candidate will be highly knowledgeable with required SAP PaPM product capabilities business processes solution mechanics and configuration requirements as well as integration with other technologies. This individual will also counsel client executives and leaders on the benefits delivered by SAP as a strategic asset to their broader Finance Transformation journey.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• Strong understanding of FP&A and Finance processes
• Hands-on SAP PaPM skills including data modelling process setup data governance and integration frameworks
• Understanding of SAP S/4 Finance Universal Journal basic concepts such as Chart of Accounts Cost Center hierarchies cost elements profit center hierarchies company code setup etc.
• Understanding of SAP S/4HANA Finance Journal Entries interfaces
• Excellent presentation skills. Articulate with impeccable verbal and written communication skills in English. Strong & discerning listener.

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• Background on SAP BPC / SAP Analytics Cloud Planning / SAP COPA / Margin Analysis / CO / Universal Allocations
• Understanding of SAP HANA SAP BW HANA SQL
• Knowledge of upcoming changes in SAP Analytics & Finance as well as an eagerness to learn prototype and grow expertise in the latest relevant financial technologies.