AES SAP RTR BPC - Manager - Operate

At PwC, our people in business application consulting specialise in consulting services for a variety of business applications, helping clients optimise operational efficiency. These individuals analyse client needs, implement software solutions, and provide training and support for seamless integration and utilisation of business applications, enabling clients to achieve their strategic objectives. Those in SAP finance at PwC will specialise in providing consulting services for SAP finance applications. You will analyse client requirements, implement software solutions, and offer training and support for seamless integration and utilisation of SAP finance applications. Working in this area, you will enable clients to optimise financial processes, improve financial reporting, and achieve their strategic objectives.

Enhancing your leadership style, you motivate, develop and inspire others to deliver quality. You are responsible for coaching, leveraging team member’s unique strengths, and managing performance to deliver on client expectations. With your growing knowledge of how business works, you play an important role in identifying opportunities that contribute to the success of our Firm. You are expected to lead with integrity and authenticity, articulating our purpose and values in a meaningful way. You embrace technology and innovation to enhance your delivery and encourage others to do the same.

Skills

Examples of the skills, knowledge, and experiences you need to lead and deliver value at this level include but are not limited to:

• Analyse and identify the linkages and interactions between the component parts of an entire system.
• Take ownership of projects, ensuring their successful planning, budgeting, execution, and completion.
• Partner with team leadership to ensure collective ownership of quality, timelines, and deliverables.
• Develop skills outside your comfort zone, and encourage others to do the same.
• Effectively mentor others.
• Use the review of work as an opportunity to deepen the expertise of team members.
• Address conflicts or issues, engaging in difficult conversations with clients, team members and other stakeholders, escalating where appropriate.
• Uphold and reinforce professional and technical standards (e.g. refer to specific PwC tax and audit guidance), the Firms code of conduct, and independence requirements.
  
  

Job Summary -

At PwC we relentlessly focus on working with our clients to bring the power of technology and humans together and create simple, yet powerful solutions. We imagine a day when our clients can simply focus on their business knowing that they have a trusted partner for their IT needs. Every day we are motivated and passionate about making our clients’ better. 

Within our Managed Services platform, PwC delivers integrated services and solutions that are grounded in deep industry experience and powered by the talent that you would expect from the PwC brand. The PwC Managed Services platform delivers scalable solutions that add greater value to our client’s enterprise through technology and human-enabled experiences.  Our team of highly-skilled and trained global professionals, combined with the use of the latest advancements in technology and process, allows us to provide effective and efficient outcomes.  With PwC’s Managed Services our client’s are able to focus on accelerating their priorities, including optimizing operations and accelerating outcomes.  PwC brings a consultative first approach to operations, leveraging our deep industry insights combined with world class talent and assets to enable transformational journeys that drive sustained client outcomes. Our clients need flexible access to world class business and technology capabilities that keep pace with today’s dynamic business environment.  

Within our global, Managed Services platform, we provide Application Evolution Services (formerly Application Managed Services), where we focus more so on the evolution of our clients’ applications and cloud portfolio. Our focus is to empower our client’s to navigate and capture the value of their application portfolio while cost-effectively operating and protecting their solutions. We do this so that our clients can focus on what matters most to your business: accelerating growth that is dynamic, efficient and cost-effective.  

As a member of our Application Evolution Services (AES) team, we are looking for candidates who thrive working in a high-paced work environment capable of working on a mix of critical Application Evolution Service offerings and engagement including help desk support, enhancement and optimization work, as well as strategic roadmap and advisory level work.  It will also be key to lend experience and effort in helping win and support customer engagements from not only a technical perspective, but also a relationship perspective.

Minimum Degree Required (BQ) *: BE / B Tech / ME / M Tech / MBA

Required Field(s) Of Study (BQ)

Preferred Field(s) of Study:

Minimum Year(s) of Experience (BQ) *: 10-16 years of experience

Certification(s) Preferred

Preferred Knowledge/Skills *:

General Skill Set

As a Manager, you’ll work as part of a team of problem solvers with extensive consulting and industry experience, helping our clients solve their complex business issues from strategy to execution. Specific responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Proactively assist in the management of a portfolio of clients, while reporting to Senior Managers and above.
• Be involved in the financial metrics.
• Be actively involved in business development activities to help identify and research opportunities on new/existing clients.
• Contribute to the development of your own and team’s technical acumen.
• Use data and insights to inform conclusions and support decision-making.
• Adherence to SLAs, experience in incident management, change management and problem management.
• Develop new skills and strategies to solve complex technical challenges.
• Assist in the management and delivering of large projects.
• Train, coach, and supervise staff to recognize their strengths and encourage them to take ownership of their personal development.
• Act to resolve issues which prevent the team working effectively.
• Keep up to date with local and national business and economic issues.
• Continue to develop internal relationships and the PwC brand.
• Build a strong team environment that includes client interactions, workstream management, and cross-team collaboration.
• Actively engage in cross competency work and contribute to COE activities.
• Demonstrating project management skills including the ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously while being detail oriented.
  
  

Strong Knowledge In

• 3 to 6 years of hands-on experience in Project Management
•  Experience in supporting project management activities for multinational large scale SAP support projects
• Experience in performing project management activities from offshore that includes/ support project initiation, cost management, communication, preparing status, quality management/ monitoring, resource management, risk management, etc.
• Experience in project management tools such as SAP Solution Management, Microsoft Project Planning, JIRA, etc.
• Basic understanding of ITIL key components such as Service value system and the four Dimensions model.
• Understand client requirements, provide solutions, functional specifications and implement technical components accordingly. 
• Excellent Communication, analytical and Interpersonal skills as a Consultant and play a role of team lead.
• Experience in implementing SAP BPC Netweaver (10.X) as a Functional
• Consultant for multinational organization having complex business scenarios
• At least one end to end implementation of BPC on Cloud (on AWS or Azure or SAP BO
• Cloud version) for large scale organization in each of the following scenario :
• Business planning, Budgeting, Forecasting, Currency Conversion in multi-currency scenario
• Business Consolidation, Group Accounting, Elimination of Mark Ups in inventory,
• Knowledge of SAP BW (HANA) preferably in Modeling, Reporting & Extraction
• Knowledge and Experience of BPC on HANA, SAP ERP FICO Skills, SAP CO Profit Center Accounting, Master Data Elements such as GL Account, Cost Center, COPA, Profit Centers, Profitability Segments, Material Masters, Customer Masters & Hierarchy, Product Hierarchy, Vendor Masters, Transfer Pricing with product markups and Affiliate Accounting
• Well versed with different model sets like Revenue Planning Model, Financial Model,
• Foreign Exchange plan, Foreign Currency translation. Able to source data from ECC into BPC, automate data loads into BPC, implement conversion of historical data, security setup, administration, setup/convert input templates and reports using enhanced functionality of new version of BPC (BPC on cloud), create change control process
• Segregation of Financial Plan and underlying data set into separate models: one for
• General Ledger (GL) and one for Controlling and Profitability Analysis (COPA)
• Able to transition configuration and best practices for continual application maintenance to
  
  

the support teams

• Good understanding of Planning and Consolidation processes
• Design and develop SAP BPC models, input schedules, reports, and calculations to support business planning and consolidation.
• Create and optimize planning applications, ensuring they are scalable and maintainable.
• Write and maintain BPC logic scripts, ABAP, or other customizations to meet business requirements.
• Ensure data consistency and reconciliation across systems.
• Implement ETL processes and manage data flows to support analytical requirements.
• Automate recurring tasks and processes for efficiency improvements.
• Partner with finance, IT, and business leaders to gather requirements and translate them into technical solutions.
• Lead discussions on best practices for planning, reporting, and analytics.
• Diagnose and resolve issues related to data, logic scripts, or system configurations.
• Conduct root-cause analysis for any system disruptions or failures.
• Document technical designs, solutions, and user guides for both platforms.
• Train end-users and stakeholders on system functionalities and enhancements.
  
  

Preferred Skills

• ITIL 4 Certification

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