SAP Principal Consultant - Core Team

SAP Principal Consultant - Core Team
Madiba is searching for a full-time SAP Principal Consultant to join our Core Team. The ideal candidate will come from a tenured consultative background to lead full scale SAP implementations, enhancements and upgrades. The ideal person will have competency in both functional and technical finance domains along with strong analytics experience. This person will be part of the leadership team in capturing new business and projects. The SAP Principal consultant will be part of the succession planning strategy with potential opportunity for a partnership track.
This exciting oppportunity has a competitive base salary, lucrative bonus structure, comprehensive benefit package and 401K match.
Responsibilities:

• Lead all phases of SAP implementations and projects from beginning to end
• Ability to prepare, present and lead Executive Steering Committee level meetings
• Lead and champion client success across multiple workstreams
• Collaborate with leadership team to present Madiba solutions and develop customer relationships
• Function as a key functional and technical architect for large scale SAP projects
• Participate in RFI, RFP and SOWs to obtain new business and projects
• Lead meetings to gather requirements, perform analysis, write functional specifications, design and configure system and interface solutions
• Provide guidance on project scope, budget, timeline, testing and critical deployment issues
• Engage, lead and mentor team members on project and day to day issues
• Work with Project Managers to understand pipeline and future projects scope
• Build standard methodologies approaches and Madiba solution offerings
• Prepare marketing materials for packaged solutions and accelerators
• Assembling system demo's and solution offerings
• Understand future work, industry and market trends, and translating to skill needs
• Managing the bench and Project Forecasting (Gross Margin)
• Coordinating with delivery teams in India, Canada, UK

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting/Finance or Information Systems
• 7-10+ years within a professional SAP consultative environment
• Management consulting experience on both the finance functional and technical domains
• Hands-on experience in all phases of SAP implementation projects spanning preparation, blueprinting, realization, testing, deployment, support
• Experience within a highly regarded management consultancy in project delivery and sales capacity (Big 6 or similar type firms)
• Proven experience in capturing new clients and projects within the SAP domain
• A consistent track record of leading people and building high-performing teams
• Comfortable selling to, influencing and building relationships with senior executives
• Several full-cycle SAP projects in SAP FICO and S/4HANA deployment/enhancements
• Certification in SAP FI/CO and other modules desirable
  • Exposure to the SAP Public Cloud is ideal but not required