SAP Process Transformation Specialist

Job Req ID: 31005

Posting Date: 11 May 2024

Function: Finance

Unit: Finance, Strategy & Business Services

Location:

Assembly, Bristol, United Kingdom

Salary: Competitive plus great benefits

SAP Process Transformation Specialist (Bristol)

• Do you have outstanding SAP knowledge?

• Are you focused on continuous improvement and eager to deliver positive process change?

• Do you have an analytical mindset, coupled with the ability to challenge and influence?

If so, you could be great fit as our SAP Process Transformation Specialist .

This full-time role is based in Bristol on a hybrid basis, but we welcome discussions regarding flexible working arrangements such as job sharing or condensed hours.

The Record to Report (R2R) process plays a vital role in ensuring the timely and reliable delivery of our financial commitments.

You will be responsible for identifying and understanding issues within the business, assessing their impact on processes, initiating and delivering projects from start to finish, engaging with stakeholders, and leveraging SAP and other automation tools to recommend and implement solutions that transform our business processes.

If you are interested in this great opportunity, we encourage you to apply today or reach out for a confidential discussion. We look forward to hearing from you!

You'll have the following responsibilities

• Assessing the extent to which process outputs meet the needs of stakeholders and, where this does not, propose improvement actions that push the organisation towards a standardised way of working.

• Using your extensive knowledge of SAP best practice to fully utilise all the new functionality that users in the business may not be aware of or being using incorrectly.

• Partnering with operational process owners and all teams involved in R2R to understand end-to-end processes and ensure appropriate process documentation is in place.

• Measuring effectiveness of R2R processes and highlight areas of bad practice, inconsistency across teams or where better, alternative options are available.

• Supporting the finance managers in identifying, prioritising and delivering process improvement projects in line with the Financial Process R2R roadmap.

You'll have the following skills & experience

• SAP: Must have extensive SAP knowledge and be able to identify best practice across the R2R environment and be able to understand financial processes

• Ability to Challenge: Demonstrates bold and confident thinking and challenges the status quo where required.

• Technical Mindset: Able to understand and explain complex IT systems and interfaces.

• Analytical Mindset: Able to cut through swathes of information and pull out key messages/themes, identify issues/root causes and possible resolutions.

• Matrix working: Comfortable working in a large organisation where activities are managed according to a matrix structure. Able to work collaboratively and manage own time to meet deliverables.

• Communication: Able to translate complex business and technical processes into effective documents. Able to present clearly and confidently and tailor messages to the relevant audience. Comfortable hosting and participating in regular operational meetings.

Benefits

• 25 days annual leave (plus bank holidays)

• 10% on target bonus

• Pension scheme, if you contribute 5%, BT contribute 10%

• Flexible benefits: cycle to work, healthcare, etc.

• Discounted BT products, retail vouchers and other great benefits

About us

BT is part of BT Group, along with EE, Openreach, and Plusnet.

Millions of people rely on us every day to help them live their lives, power their businesses, and keep their public services running. We connect friends to family, clients to colleagues, people to possibilities. We keep the wheels of business spinning, and the emergency services responding.

We value diversity and celebrate difference. ‘We embed diversity and inclusion into everything that we do. It’s fundamental to our purpose: we connect for good.’

We all stick to the same values: Personal, Simple, and Brilliant. From day one, you’ll get stuck in to tough challenges, pitch in with ideas, make things happen. But you won’t be alone: we’ll be there with help and support, learning and development.

This is your chance to make a real difference to the world: to be part of the digital transformation of countless lives and businesses. Grab it.

A FEW POINTS TO NOTE:

Although these roles are listed as full-time, if you’re a job share partnership, work reduced hours, or any other way of working flexibly, please still get in touch.

DON'T MEET EVERY SINGLE REQUIREMENT?

Studies have shown that women and people who are disabled, LGBTQ+, neurodiverse or from ethnic minority backgrounds are less likely to apply for jobs unless they meet every single qualification and criteria. We're committed to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace where everyone can be their best, so if you're excited about this role but your past experience doesn't align perfectly with every requirement on the Job Description, please apply anyway - you may just be the right candidate for this or other roles in our wider team.