Context
The Digital & Technology vision is to lead the way in the transformation of Diageo business capabilities, leveraging data & digital technology, to create a competitive edge in the marketplace.
Diageo is embarking on an exciting and significant Business Transformation Programme underpinned by SAP S/4 HANA. Through this programme Diageo aims to drive process and data standardization and simplification. This programme will be delivered over a multi-year period with global geographic reach.
Diageo is therefore seeking a D&T Voyager RTR (Fi-CO) Lead who has excellent technical and leadership capabilities to optimally deliver SAP S/4 Hana solutions in Diageo's fast-paced environment. They will have successfully implemented several S/4 Hana solutions across an array of core enterprise level applications as well as business specific capabilities.
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Overview
This Role will lead the design and delivery of SAP S/4 RTR planning process solutions by providing strategic, highly scalable and robust technical solutions.
Top Accountabilities
As the D&T RTR Lead you will lead the delivery of most critical area for Finance transformation in SAP Hana and non SAP solutions). Accountabilities include:
Accountabilities include:
- Participate and drive the design workshops
- Control the solution development, advising best practice and ensuring all teams adhere to best practice quality processes
- Make technology recommendations and develop Solution Architecture Design documents
- Works closely with SAP Center of Excellence bring business requirements to life
- Review build and testing output
- Leads the deployment into the markets in partnership with the business.
- Excelent understanding of data and cutover, active and detailed management and planning round cutover
- Excellent knowledge of data models in S/4 and transformation
- Excellent knowledge of data validation and active experience from previous S/4 implementation
- Communicate across the workstreams to align dependencies and plans
- Partners with Business (GPO and others) to align technology to business requirements
- Engage with the partner architects, TBS technical architects to ensure that the build is aligned to architectural standards and roadmaps
- Engage with controls responsible teams e.g. GAR, CARM, ITGC to ensure the delivery is compliant and secure
- Managing (direct or dotted line) other members of the working team* (or other areas of the team)
Required Competencies
- Deep knowledge of SAP technical and functional architecture, data model, and emerging SAP capabilities, including integrating SAP solutions
- Several full cycle implementation experience required - ECC and SAP S/4
- Leverage business process knowledge & proficiency for RTR and ensure business requirements and solution meeting standards
- Excellent knowledge if cross-stream impacts in MM, SD and other SAP modules
- Experience working with 3rd party applications in the financial planning tools
- Competency in strategic design thinking with strong capabilities across S/4 HANA architecture
- Good understanding of SaaS, Cloud hosting and Integration technologies (including integrations with Salesforce.com)
- Understanding of software development lifecycle with experiences of Agile and Waterfall Methodologies.
- Design and implementation of S/4 HANA solutions to meet business requirements and best standards.
- Competency in designing, building, testing and deploying the SAP solution components required for successful integrations to SAP and non-SAP systems
- Effective project scoping and delivery
Qualifications and Experience Required
- at least a Bachelor's degree
- 15+ years of technology experience in SAP ERP and cloud technologies
- Strong technical knowledge of SAP S/4 HANA products
- Excellent communication skilss
- Proven ability to understand how technology choices impact business outcomes
- Demonstrated ability to build and maintain excellent business relationships
- Demonstrated ability to effectively engage cross-functional teams
- Proven ability to impact and influence, at a senior stakeholder level, virtually across markets with solid networking, influencing & communication skills.
- Demonstrated ability to provide effective and targeted communication
- Experience of working in a distributed environment (e.g. on-shore, off-shore, etc)
- Proven ability to work with 3rd parties to deliver the desired outcome
- Fluent English knowledge
Flexible Working options / Travel requirements
It is our goal to reach greater flexibility of resources, which we recognize, may require a greater level of mobility and travel from some of our teams. For this role we anticipate the percentage of travel to be maximum 40%. Pattern of travel will be dependent on the needs of individual initiatives.
Diageo reserves its rights, after consultation, to amend this role profile.
Flexible Working Statement:
Flexibility is key to our success. Talk to us about what flexibility means to you so that you're supported to manage your wellbeing and balance your priorities from day one.
Diversity statement:
Our purpose is to celebrate life, every day, everywhere. And creating an inclusive culture, where everyone feels valued and that they can belong, is a crucial part of this. We embrace diversity in the broadest possible sense. This means that you'll be welcomed and celebrated for who you are just by being you. You'll be part of and help build and champion an inclusive culture that celebrates people of different gender, ethnicity, ability, age, sexual orientation, social class, educational backgrounds, experiences, mindsets, and more.
Our ambition is to create the best performing, most trusted and respected consumer products companies in the world. Join us and help transform our business as we take our brands to the next level and build new ones as part of shaping the next generation of celebrations for consumers around the world.
Feel inspired? Then this may be the opportunity for you.
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