Joining Deloitte's Enterprise Technology & Performance (ET&P) team will enable you to combine your senior-level client Advisory' skills with your deep technical expertise - all within a high-impact environment.

Deloitte has a long standing relationship with SAP. We are the global number one SAP delivery partner with over 200 S/4 HANA implementations delivered to date. Deloitte are the co-innovation partner on SAP Leonardo, working together with SAP to develop a roadmap of digital use cases.

You will be part of a diverse team that challenges itself to provide innovative solutions in high-profile, complex projects. Working alongside excellent colleagues from around the firm and across the globe, Deloitte is an environment where you and your career can flourish.

Within the Enterprise Transformation & Performance team we have opportunities in the area below:

Planning, Budgeting & Forecasting Manager - There is a new opportunity for a manager to join and help develop our Analytics+ practice, specifically focusing on Financial Planning and Analytics (FP&A) and MI, based on best in class EPM solutions like SAP Business Planning and Consolidation (BPC), SAP Analytics Cloud Planning (SAC) & Anaplan, etc. This represents a unique opportunity to develop your career in consulting within an established Big 4 consulting firm. You will have the chance to develop your expertise in EPM as well as in the delivery and implementation of large scale technology solutions as you work on a range of projects in cross-functional teams.

Enterprise Technology & Performance

Want to work with business leaders, and alongside some of the most creative thinkers in industry? Can you develop and deliver innovative and core technology solutions that transform the digital enterprise and maximise ROI? From strategy articulation and process design to technology enablement, we work together to simplify the complex; creating tangible value for our clients.

We encourage consideration of flexible ways of working, both formal and informal arrangements that allow for the best outcomes for our people and our clients. If this opportunity is of interest to you with some flexibility, please do discuss with us.

Your role

Your role will involve:

• Advising on good practice and processes in FP&A in order to improve their visibility, accuracy and timeliness during the planning, budgeting and forecasting processes.
• Demonstrating a deep knowledge of client decision-making and support processes and key client business drivers.
• Designing and configuring EPM applications such as SAP BPC, SAC, or Anaplan in order to deliver a solution that best accommodates the client’s requirements as stated.
• Advising on the solution options available to accommodate the client’s requirements and the advantages and disadvantages relating to those options.
• Problem solving to identify and action appropriate remedies for technical errors associated with FCCS or EPM applications and related components.
• Understanding industry context.
• Supporting client requirements gathering/analysis workshops.
• Taking responsibility for planning, scoping, managing and creating deliverables as part of a larger project team
• Managing larger teams on projects to deliver tasks, including providing guidance and feedback to junior team members.
• Establishing effective working relationships with peer-level clients as part of project delivery roles.
• Understanding industry context.
• Taking part in client discovery, requirement gathering and analysis workshops.
• Assisting in the development of client bids.
• Undertaking practice development activities including contributing to thought leadership pieces, running industry events, delivering training or managing team communications.
• Leading elements of the consulting pre-sales process such as responding to client tenders, pricing and client presentations.

To be successful in this role you are required to have:

• Good working knowledge of financial planning, budgeting and forecasting processes.
• Relevant experience working in a financial discipline within management consulting OR relevant experience working in industry in financial / commercial roles.
• Hands on experience including business requirements analysis, scoping, design and configuration with planning, budgeting & forecasting tools such as SAP BPC, SAP IBP, Anaplan, on at least two full implementation lifecycles.
• Hands on experience with SAP Analytics Cloud for planning or BPC 11 embedded, or BPC Optimised for S/4 HANA.
• Ability to translate technical information to non-technical individuals is essential, as well as the ability to present this to a range of audiences in a clear, concise and appropriate manner.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Consistently high quality personal and professional standards.
• Advanced MS Office skills including Word, Excel and PowerPoint.
• Ability to travel and stay away from home up to five days a week

Additional desirable experience includes:

• Knowledge on sales and operations planning processes.
• Qualified/part qualified ACA/CIMA/ACCA.
• Technical certification on any of the technologies mentioned above.
• Experience in SAP BW, Oracle Essbase, SAP Analytics Cloud and other similar packages would be advantageous but not essential.
• Knowledge of SAP IBP for HANA for supply chain and logistics planning.

Your work, your choice

At Deloitte we believe the best impact is the value we add, not the hours we sit at our desk. We carefully consider agile ways of working, both formal and informal, that allow for the best impact for our people and our clients. Please speak to your recruiter about the working pattern that works best for you.

Location: Based in various locations in the UK, this role also requires flexibility to work onsite at clients across multiple locations.

Work pattern: This is a permanent contract opportunity. The role can be worked on a full-time basis. Our team members work a variety of agile working patterns. Tell us what arrangement works for you and we'll try to accommodate.