About the Role
Responsible to
Head of Business Solutions
Department
UK & Ireland Digital and Technology
40 hours per week
About Compass Group Plc
Compass Group Plc (Compass) is a £20 billion turnover, global organisation and the world’s leading provider of food and support services. With operations across seven key business areas (Foodservice; Support Services; Business & Industry; Healthcare & Seniors; Education; Sports & Leisure; and Defence, Offshore & Remote), Compass serves customers in offices and factories; schools and universities; hospitals and senior living communities; major sports and cultural venues; and remote mining camps and offshore platforms.
Founded in 1941 as Factory Canteens Ltd, today Compass is a constituent of the FTSE100, employs more than 600,000 people in 50 countries worldwide, serving over 4 billion meals a year across more than 50,000 client locations. There are a wide variety of services, from on-site restaurants and cafeterias to providing vending machines and hospitality.
Role Purpose
The Business Solutions team are responsible for design, build and system test across a suite of enterprise applications to shape solutions that can support our business and add value to the services we provide.
The SAP Finance Consultant will work with other Digital and Technology (D&T) teams and with the support of strategic partners has responsibility for providing the design, development and implementation of strategic Finance solutions across the Compass UK & Ireland business sectors predominantly in the SAP space.
Compass UK & Ireland are embarking on a journey to migrate their ECC6 system to a new strategic SAP S/4 HANA system and the SAP Finance Consultant will take a leading role in this project.
Key Responsibilities:
* To work with our Business Partnering and Architecture teams to manage the demand pipeline and capital investments determining business readiness, rationale, priorities, and ROI.
* To undertake technical impact assessments, analysis work, design, technical specification, configuration, and unit testing within the Finance and Controlling functional areas.
* To work with our external development partners to deliver new Finance functionality, including core Finance processes, bank processing, and data integration between SAP ECC6 and other SAAS based applications.
* To provide SAP Finance technical capabilities to our Product Support team.
* Work collaboratively with other D&T project teams to deliver quality solutions.
* To provide SAP technical expertise to projects migrating legacy finance systems to SAP.
* Develop product roadmaps and services to support decommissions, enhancements, and any rationalisation that deliver UK&I or sector-wide value.
Person Specification
Compass is looking for an experienced SAP Finance professional with a minimum of 5 years SAP experience. You’ll have excellent time management and prioritisation skills as there is a high volume of work requests. You’ll engage with a variety of stakeholders and be involved in ongoing process improvements, so the ability to adapt to change is important.
* Must demonstrate strong ‘subject matter expertise’ & a maturity in approach when engaging with and supporting the D&T Leadership team & the wider business.
* The job holder must have excellent communication, listening, and negotiation skills to articulate ideas and thoughts clearly through various means, including written and oral communications with all levels of the organisation.
* Possess excellent organisational & analytical skills with an ability to work independently.
* A ‘can do' attitude with a proven ability to work at pace and drive change in an organisation.
* Ability to work on their own, to meet project timelines, and drive out resolutions to problems.
* Demonstrate good problem-solving abilities with the necessary urgency and responsiveness to incidents, problems, and their resolution.
* An organised working practice with a mature and calm approach to all user situations.
* Ability to write clear procedures including technical and user documentation.
Essential Skills
* A sound knowledge of Finance business processes.
* Extensive experience in SAP Finance and Controlling configuration in ECC6 and/or S/4 HANA.
* 5 years SAP FICO experience across 2 or more project life cycles.
* Core SAP Finance skills across but not limited to AP, AR, GL, AA.
* SD, MM, HR integration skills.
* SAP Finance certification.
Desirable Skills
* Knowledge of SAP S/4 HANA.
* Knowledge of MM and SD modules.
* Experience of building interfaces to/from SAP and understanding of BAPI’s, function modules, and iDocs.
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