FP&A Lead (SAP Analytics Cloud) - £800 a day inside ir35 - 12 months (extension highly likely) - London - Hybrid - one stage virtual interview - ASAP start - Sector: Green Technology

Yolk recruitments are recruiting for a FP&A Lead (SAP Analytics Cloud) to work with a world leader in green technology and manufacturing.

This is an excited opportunity for an FP&A lead that will be responsible for ensuring that the FP&A system implementation project meets the financial reporting, planning and analysis objectives of the group. Specifically, the role will work with the external system implementation team, the companies finance leadership team and IT in respect of system requirements, processes, design, and testing.

Experience in the implementation of cloud based FP&A solutions (EG. SAP analytics cloud) will be a key part of this position.

Responsibilities:

• Supporting Programme Director of the project in finalising the vision, requirements and solution design for the companies Group FP&A solution from both business and technical lens.
• Supporting and leading on behalf of Programme Director engagements with key business and functional stakeholders to get alignment on the projects design
• Finalising key Business Requirements (Group & Sector) and ensuring considered in the FP&A solution where appropriate. Helping ensure design balances potential future needs of business where reasonable to help accelerate implementation of business specific FP&A solutions later on
• Finalising the FP&A Chart of Accounts and associated hierarchies, aligned with Group Chart of Accounts and hierarchies.
• Ensuring alignment with design and build with integration partner.
• Supporting test scenarios, content & scripts (inc. parallel runs)
• Supporting Business readiness plan
• Supporting Data migration/archiving approach
• Supporting Data mapping structures
• Supporting transition from legacy system approach (with the companies IT) to the new FP&A system

Key Skills:

• 3+ year of solid FP&A experience at senior level involved with forecasting, budgeting and/or strategy planning in a multi-national company
• Implementation of cloud based FP&A solutions (EG. SAP analytics cloud)
• Design/set up of relevant hierarchies for FP&A systems that would support better insights (eg. business unit, legal entity, cost/profit centre hierarchies, Chart of Account etc)
• Experience of using/implementing improvements to data to support better insights (eg. data governance, data warehouses/lakes)
• Demonstrable experience managing or playing key senior roles in projects with ability to make quick decisions and prioritise.

Desirable Skills:

• Implementing driver-based planning for forecasting and budgeting