SAP FICO Manager (Remote - USA)

The Team:

The  SAP Digital Enterprise service unit is the premier solutions partner for designing and delivering a digitized, high-performing future to our clients' ecosystems. We deliver this value to our customers by optimizing the performance of our client’s operational processes across the entire value chain, from R&D, production, logistics, purchasing, and sales. We achieve this by combining deep industry knowledge, process, and IT expertise in an end-to-end approach, guiding our clients through the digitalization paradigm shift by offering strategic direction, innovative design, implementation, and ongoing support for supply chain processes, applications, and technologies. Our professionals leverage our unique blend of process and IT expertise to improve our customers’ ability to proactively enable scalability, remove performance barriers, enable innovation, modernize core systems, and reinvent their business with digital solutions, primarily SAP.

We drive maximum business value for our clients across the entire value chain from R&D through to Manufacturing and Supply Chain, with a focused portfolio of solutions:

• SAP ECC and S/4HANA Transformation
• Connected Logistics
• Smart Manufacturing
• Data and Technology

Through our partnership with SAP, our SAP-certified practitioners provide expertise and implementation services leveraging the latest technologies, including S/4HANA On-Premise & Cloud, DM/ME/MII/PCo, EWM, TM, LBN, Ariba, Analytics, and more. Our professionals offer tailor-made strategies for Industry 4.0 transformations, integrating new technologies, process design and optimization, organizational change management, IOT platform strategy and analytics, smart factory design, Lean production strategies, and Agile transformations.

The Role:

The MHP Americas Finance Innovation and Optimization Business Field (BF-FIO) Lead is expected to build the S/4HANA Finance capability in North America and foster its continued growth within our Digital Supply Chain service unit. The BF-FIO Lead requires an entrepreneurial mindset and must have proven experience scaling a consulting practice. This position is responsible for the strategic direction for MHP America’s FIO consulting services and will be required to set actionable objectives for the organization, create a culture of accountability, and take a hands-on leadership approach to execution. Our customers and the value we offer is central to everything we do. The BF-FIO lead will be required to ensure the quality of our services for our existing client base, cultivate relationships with new customers, develop new business opportunities, and continuously adjust our existing and future offerings according to market demands.

Responsibilities:

• Provide overall strategic direction to SAP Finance and Controlling capability
• Deliver to our existing and future clients the SAP FI/CO portfolio which includes, but is not limited to, SAP S/4HANA Finance, Central Finance, Business Planning & Consolidation, and Revenue Accounting & Reporting
• Design and implement innovative solutions for our clients leveraging best practices in business processes and SAP
• Lead pursuits and develop business at new and existing clients
• Manage large projects at key accounts
• Become a trusted advisor to our customers to actively shape the future of mobility and manufacturing
• Recruit and retain top talent
• Ensure the development of the most relevant and innovative skills and capabilities within the team
• Develop and advance MHP’s reputation within the North American marketplace
• Create and maintain relationships with customers, thought leaders, and industry experts

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent (Master’s degree is preferred)

Experience:

• 8+ years of experience in the consulting industry
• 5+ years of experience implementing SAP’s Finance solutions
• Certification(s) from SAP in Finance and/or Controlling
• Strong domain expertise in the business area of Finance & Controlling
• Ability to craft innovative, strategic solutions to complex problems within the finance domain
• Project management experience including project planning, financials, resource management, change management, and risk management for medium-to-large SAP implementations
• Proven ability to grow and manage a business unit of 10+ professionals
• Hands-on S/4 HANA Finance implementation experience
• 5+ years of experience in the Automotive sector preferred

Percentage of travel required: up to 100%

Physical requirements:

• This job operates in an office environment. This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, cameras, photocopiers, and filing cabinets.
• Must be able to lift 15 pounds at times.
• While performing the duties of this job the employee is required to talk, hear, walk, sit, stand, climb stairs on occasion with prolonged periods of sitting at a desk and working on a computer.
• Must be able to effectively work and complete tasks in an open office/noisy environment.
• Must be able to sit for prolonged periods of time while traveling in a car or airplane.

Applicants for employment in the US must have work authorization that does not now or in the future require sponsorship of a visa for employment authorization in the United States and with MHP Americas, Inc. (i.e., H1-B visa, F-1 visa (OPT), or any other non-immigrant status).