SAP Data & Analytics Architect

When you join KPMG Ireland, you are joining a community of over 4,200 employees who collectively work together, both in person and virtually, to achieve their full potential.

We are known as an organisation who want you to come as you are and do work that truly matters. Joining KPMG Ireland is an opportunity to enhance your career, not only in the work that you enjoy doing, but equally through the global connections that you make, the lifelong learning that you can accomplish and the chance to make your mark.

Location: Dublin/Cork/Belfast, as part of our hybrid working model.

Grade: Director

Contract type: Permanent

Powered Enterprise is KPMG’s world‑class accelerated Enterprise Business Transformation approach for cloud‑based solutions, such as SAP4 HANA, that uses pre‑designed back‑office leading practices and KPMG’s six‑layer Target Operating Model. It enables clients to make better, faster decisions, resulting in a quicker implementation and a faster path to Return on Investment. This solution combines the breadth and scale of KPMG’s leading practice, capabilities and insight into a complete solution for an effective back‑office.

Our teams are communities of technology‑focused transformation professionals who work together to deliver KPMG Powered Enterprise. Our teams use their functional knowledge and experience (e.g., Finance, Quote to Cash, Procurement, Supply Chain), coupled with their expertise in the cloud applications to lead and deliver client programmes, support pre‑sales activities and develop improvement and extensions to Powered Enterprise.

As a SAP Data and Analytics Architect, your focus will be in functional architecture in Finance and the integration with other modules.

• Extensive experience in designing and implementing S/4
  
  HANA (preferred) and SAP ECC
• Functional process knowledge of several of P2P, O2C, R2R, FP&A/xP&A, AM
• Experience in implementing, configuring and advising all or a subset of the following:
  • SAP Business Data Cloud
  • SAP Analytics Cloud
  • Data Bricks
  • Group Consolidation and reporting
  • Planning and Forecasting: BPC, IBP, Analytics Cloud
  • Master Data Governance (MDG)
• Understanding of SAP data structures and integration with BW/ DWC
• Ideally familiarity with one or more industry solutions: life science, retail, banking/insurance, telecoms, agribusiness
• Integration with line‑of‑business solutions (Success Factors, Ariba etc)
• Experience leading and inspiring teams of technical consultants onshore, nearshore and offshore with our KPMG Global Delivery Network
• Knowledge of best practice design and an advisory focus
• Excellent stakeholder management and relationship building both internally and with the client

• Act as lead Data and Analytics solutions/enterprise architect on opportunities and projects and able to work with platform architects, technical architects and TOM architects.
• S/4 solution blueprinting, including the presentation and articulation to the client, with a focus on Finance processes, reporting, data and analytics.
• Identify key design decisions in business‑led, SAP‑enabled transformations.
• Communicate how the technology solutions proposed can enable the business transformation / benefits case.
• Proactively assisting in the management of a portfolio of clients, reporting to Partner & Director Le
• Be actively involved in business development activities to identify and research opportunities on new/existing clients.
• Craft and specify integrations of SAP solutions into other client systems, using enterprise architecture principles and standards.
• Shape and deliver projects to meet and exceed the expectations of our clients and our own quality criteria.
• Influence clients’ use of AI and automation/iRPA
• Train, mentor, and supervise team members.

You will be joining a team of over 300 dedicated technology and business transformation professionals that has a market reputation for delivering quality outcomes for our clients. We are growing rapidly across all our services and are looking for professionals interested in joining a team that has a culture of…