Overview

The Powered Apps teams are communities of technology focussed professionals who work together to deliver SaaS ERP based transformation programmes based on KPMG Powered Enterprise. The teams use their functional knowledge and experience (e.g., Finance, HR, Procurement), coupled with their expertise in cloud applications (e.g. Oracle, Workday, Coupa) to lead and deliver client programmes, support pre-sales activities and develop improvements and extensions to the Powered Enterprise model. KPMG are growing their Powered Apps team to meet increasing demand for market leading services and are seeking IT management consultants with relevant expertise and experience.

Responsibilities

• Communicating compelling and well thought out solutions for project accounting in response to complex client problems based on Oracle Cloud ERP technology.
• Supporting business development and project delivery activities across clients from multiple industries.
• Defining an overall Finance & Procurement solution leveraging leading practice solutions to support the business requirements.
• System design and delivery, including release management, integration management, data migration strategy and management.
• Building constructive working relationships across different teams, functions, countries or cultures.
• Helping others understand how their work contributes to the overall success of an engagement and the wider firm.
• Fostering self belief and confidence in others and seeking to understand others' motivations.
• Supporting others to make brave decisions.
• Independent client workshops to drive design decisions and system demonstrations in both in-person and remote delivery modes.
• Preparing configuration and other design documents (functional specifications, solution design documents).
• Experience of Financial concepts relevant to Oracle Cloud ERP implementation projects.
• Driving technical deliverables such as data migration principles and integration design (mainly from a functional perspective).
• Operating and implementing in a cloud environment and understanding the impacts of cloud versus on-premise.
• Understanding of an Oracle Cloud delivery lifecycle using a delivery method such as TCM or equivalent.
• Awareness of user experience design concepts (e.g., personas, user journeys) and how they augment a solution.

Qualifications

• Educated to degree level or equivalent.
• An understanding of the key finance and procurement business issues/drivers that lead clients to pursue transformation programmes.
• Experience across multiple industry sectors (e.g., Media, Services, Retail, Insurance, Local Government).
• Experience of working effectively with senior client representatives.
• Detailed knowledge of Oracle Cloud ERP end-to-end business processes in at least one of: Source to Pay, Project to Result, Acquire to Retire, Order to Cash, Record to Report.
• Experience of multiple Oracle Cloud ERP full implementation project lifecycles, ideally as a subject matter expert.
• Specialist knowledge of end-to-end Oracle Cloud ERP design in at least one process area (S2P, P2R, A2R, O2C, or R2R) including relevant modules and integrations.
• An understanding of the functional, application and technical architectural elements of an Oracle Cloud ERP programme.
• Ability to independently run client workshops to drive design decisions and system demonstrations in person or remotely.
• Experience producing project deliverables (e.g., business requirements, functional specs, configuration documents, process flows, use cases, requirements traceability matrices).
• Highly proficient Microsoft Office skills (Excel, PowerPoint, Microsoft Projects).
• Excellent interpersonal, team building, organisational and motivational skills.
• Fast learner with the ability to get up to speed quickly.
• Ability to convey ideas and recommendations clearly in written and verbal communications.
• Good attention to detail and ability to analyse and use data in decision making.
• Excellent organisational and multitasking skills with the ability to balance competing priorities.

Location and a Note on Flexibility

Powered Enterprise is KPMG's world-class accelerated Enterprise Business Transformation approach for cloud-based solutions. We are open to talking to talent across the country, with a preference for candidates who can work 1 day per week in one of our core hubs for this role: London, Manchester, Birmingham. Flexible hours and part-time options can be discussed with the team.