Job Description

Explore an Exciting Career at Accenture
Are you passionate about leveraging technology for large-scale transformation and innovation for global clients? Are you passionate about being part of an inclusive, diverse and collaborative culture?
Then, this is the right place for you! Welcome to a host of exciting global opportunities in Accenture Technology Strategy & Advisory.
The Practice - A Brief Sketch
The is a part of and focuses on our clients' most strategic priorities. We help clients achieve growth and efficiency through innovative R&D transformation, aimed at redefining business models using agile methodologies.
Here is a glimpse of your day-to-day responsibilities:

• Work as a lead SAP Functional Solution Architect and support with solutions for end-to-end request for proposal or ERP assessment requests.
• Engaging with the Client and designing new business processes based on customer requirements, scoping, discovering, explaining business benefits and use cases and developing a roadmap to meet expectations.
• Identifying, assessing and solving complex business problems across SAP S4 Hana ERP landscape throughout the project lifecycle, providing subject matter expertise with a strong strategic awareness of the SAP market and associated technologies.
• Driving enterprise business, application and integration architecture.
• Assisting clients to build the required capabilities for growth and innovation to sustain high performance.
• Support our business development activities, working with our sales teams in proposal generation, shaping the solution plan and delivery approach for SAP transformations.
• Developing our offerings and assets and participate in pre-sales activities.
• Mentoring and developing our people and contributing to asset creations and knowledge sharing sessions.

Bring your best skills forward to excel in the role:

• Strong desire to work in technology-driven business transformation.
• The ability to develop technology solutions and value adding propositions and take these to market.
• Deep domain expertise across one/more of Retail, Consumer Goods, Manufacturing, Hi-Tech, Life Sciences, Pharma, Telecom. Understanding the domain trends and technology offerings across these industry sectors.
• Proven track record to quickly understand the key value drivers of a business, how they impact the scope and approach of the engagement.
• Strong knowledge of technology trends across IT and digital and how they can be applied to companies to address real world problems and opportunities.
• Participation in Pre-Sales, Bid Management and overall appreciation of estimation, scoping and assumptions for a large SAP ECC or SAP S/4 HANA implementation using various methods such as ASAP or Activate or others.
• Leading proof of concept and/or pilot implementations and defining the plan to scale implementations across multiple technology domains.
• Exceptional interpersonal and presentation skills - ability to convey technology and business value propositions to senior stakeholders and ability to drive C-suite/senior leadership level discussions.
• Capacity to develop high impact thought leadership that articulates a forward-thinking view of the market.
• Ability to develop and maintain strong internal and client relationships.
• Demonstrated ability to develop younger talent and build a high performing team.
• Flexibility to accommodate client travel requirements.

Your experience counts!

• MBA from a Tier-1 institute
• Minimum experience of 12 years and above in SAP ERP and should have led minimum 2 S/4 HANA implementation/ transformation projects (Solution Architect/ Offshore lead)
• Working experience across:
• Experience in design and business blueprint and greenfield implementation of SAP ECC or SAP S/4 HANA core functionalities across Sales & Distribution, Warehouse Management, Transportation Management as part of an enterprise-wide design and blueprint of SAP. Deep appreciation of comparative capabilities of SAP ECC and their enhancements in SAP S/4 HANA (1809, 1909, 2020 etc.), across Sales and Distribution areas.
• Led business workshops and roadmap sessions in defining a solution blueprint for Sales & Distribution, Warehouse Management, Transportation Management in an SAP S/4 environment. Expertise in S/HANA Order to Cash, WM & TM and cross functional integration with SCM, Finance, S/4 HANA Sales and Distribution, Warehouse Management, Transportation Management, Cross-module Integration knowledge with Third party planning tools, Ability to drive requirement gathering sessions and discussions with business stakeholders and IT in terms of adoption of SAP capabilities offered in S/4 HANA in line with Best practices and provide a point of view on transformation/ migrations/ changes from current SAP ECC or other legacy ERPs.
• Demonstrated functional specialization in Order to Cash, Warehouse Management, Transportation Management areas for various industry scenarios. Experienced in contributing to BD/proposals as SME and to lead/guide team across active engagements. Experience in working on practice initiatives, asset creations, conducting knowledge sessions.
• Expertise in SAP IS across any one of Retail, Chemicals, Oil & Gas, Utilities, Life Sciences and Healthcare, and demonstrated by real-life projects in the sectors as mentioned.
• Knowledge and experience in implementing SAP Public Cloud or SaaS offerings. Experience in working across a Hybrid ERP environment comprising both SAP on-prem and SAP SaaS solutions.
• Led and delivered large-scale transformation and / or migration of SAP ECC and other legacy ERPs to the new SAP S/4 HANA architecture. Deep appreciation of one/more of the functional areas of Sales & Distribution - O2C, Warehouse Management, Transportation Management. Experience in using one/many approaches for phased migration and transformation to SAP S/4 Sales & Distribution, Warehouse Management, Transportation Management using either SLT or BODS or other techniques. Demonstrated expertise in an Hybrid ERP environment comprising various flavor of SAP and other 3rd party ERPs.

• Understanding of SAP's integration approach and methods such as SAP PI or SAP Cloud Integration platform. Understanding of SAP Leonardo platform w.r.t IoT, AI and ML.

• Expertise in creation of business case, functional prototypes in demonstrating the value and impact of an SAP S/4 deployment, business value assessment for an implementation (either greenfield or brownfield) of SAP S/4 HANA. Real life experience in using components from SAP Activate methodology as part of program implementation.
• Good Analytical and Assessment skills in driving the discovery workshop, performing the AS-IS assessment and Fit-Gap Analysis, and providing suggestion of TO-BE design in terms of Cost, tools, people, and Organizations (i.e., change management).

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