Mgr, Systems Engineering (SAP Finance)

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Job title: SAP Finance Engineering Manager (CPF Manager, Systems Engineering)
Division: BBC Technology & Media Operations
Contract type: Permanent
Band: E
Salary: £80,000 - £90,000
Location: London - travel required Cardiff and Birmingham, hybrid - 2/3 days per week in office

Purpose Of The Role

The BBC is one of the UK's most well-known and loved brands, committed to delivering high-quality content that informs, educates and entertains audiences both across the UK and globally.
This exciting role sits in the BBC's Technology & Media Operations group, which delivers the technology requirements of the BBC across broadcast, enterprise, and digital to the strategy set by the business.

Reporting into the Head of SAP Practise for Finance, the role, working in partnership with peers supporting the broader corporate systems landscape, will be accountable for overseeing and guiding the strategy, implementation, management, and optimisation of the Finance systems within the BBC, largely SAP and SAP partner solutions. This role plays a crucial part in ensuring that SAP solutions align with business objectives and deliver value to the BBC.

Your Key Responsibilities And Impact

Strategic Leadership

• Develop and execute the strategic vision for Finance functional areas including Core Finance processes, Tax, Sales, Intercompany, Assets, CLM, Programme Accounting, Financial Statements and Balance Sheet Reconciliation
• Ensure alignment between SAP initiatives and overall business and technology goals.
  

Team leadership

• Lead a cross-functional team of SAP professionals, including systems engineers, solution architects and third party developers.
• Foster a collaborative, diverse and inclusive team environment and support staff development through training and mentoring.
• Align resources to agreed priorities
• Demonstrate and Champion the BBC's culture and values.
  

Project Oversight

• Partner with internal and external technology and other multi-discipline delivery teams on SAP implementation projects, including planning, execution, and monitoring.
• Ensure projects and changes are delivered on time, within scope, and within budget by bringing expert functional and technical knowledge and team leadership.

Stakeholder Engagement

• Interface with business teams to gather requirements and understand their SAP needs.
• Communicate effectively with executives and stakeholders on strategy, project updates, challenges, and achievements.
  

Process Improvement

• Continuously assess and optimize SAP processes with business partners to enhance efficiency and effectiveness.
• Implement best practices and standards for utilising and leveraging investment in SAP in the BBC, or best in breed products as required: consistently operating with standardisation as a primary efficiency driver

Change Management

• Support business change management efforts led by the business during SAP implementations or upgrades, ensuring smooth transitions for users.
  
• Work in close collaboration with SAP and AMS and BPO external partners to ensure proper support and evolution for critical services enabled by SAP and other technologies.
• Evaluate and recommend third-party tools and add-ons that integrate with SAP systems.
  

Documentation and Compliance

• Ensure proper documentation of processes, configurations, and user guides for all SAP systems.
• Maintain compliance with internal policies and external regulations related to data management and security.
• Work closely with internal and external auditors to maintain high standards and compliance for critical financial processes
  

Innovation and Trends

• Stay current with SAP and other best in breed finance system advancements and industry trends to ensure the organisation leverages the latest technologies and functionalities.
• Explore opportunities for solutions that could benefit the organisation.

Your Skills And Experience

• Extensive knowledge of SAP modules and functionalities relevant to the organisation's needs (e.g., SAP ECC6, S/4, BTP).
• Understanding of Financial statements processes and technologies e.g. Workiva, Diligent
• Understanding of Tax processes and technologies e.g One Source MTD, Taxually.
• Strong relationship management skills, persuasive and able to steer through change.
• Experience in team development and mentorship, and effective workforce planning.
• Excellent communication, presentation and interpersonal skills to engage with stakeholders at all levels
• Strong analytical skills to assess system performance and drive improvements.
• Has held a leadership role in the delivery of a complex SAP Change in the functional areas supported.
• Strong business acumen and detailed understanding of the financial processes and associated regulatory requirements underpinning large scale businesses.

Desired Skills

• Understanding of media specific requirements relating to an organisation financial Operations e.g. production accounting.

Disclaimer

This job description is a written statement of the essential characteristics of the job, with its principal accountabilities, incorporating a note of the skills, knowledge and experience required for a satisfactory level of performance. This is not intended to be a complete, detailed account of all aspects of the duties involved.

Please note: If you were to be offered this role, the BBC will conduct Employment screening checks which include Reference checks; Eligibility to work checks; and if applicable to the role, Safeguarding and Adverse media/Social media checks. Any offer made is conditional on these checks being satisfactory.

The BBC is committed to redeploying employees seeking suitable alternative employment within the BBC and they will be given priority consideration ahead of other applicants. Priority consideration means for those employees seeking redeployment their application will be considered alongside anyone else at risk of redundancy, prior to any individuals being considered who are not at risk.

Information at a Glance This is your BBC

At the BBC you can create and innovate in an inclusive environment while contributing to some of the world's best loved content, and the BBC's mission to inform, educate and entertain.

Find out more about the BBC Life at BBC

Here you will benefit from:

• Fair pay and flexible benefits including a competitive salary package, a flexible 35-hour working week, 25 days annual leave with the option to buy an extra 5 days, a defined pensionscheme and discounted dental, health care and gym.
• Excellent career and professional development.
• Support in your working life, including flexible working which you can discuss with us at any point during the application, selection or offer.
• A values-based organisation where the way we do things is important as what we do.

Benefits may vary if you are joining on an FTC basis.

Learn more about life at the BBC and our values in our candidate pack.

Candidate pack You belong

We have a working environment where we value and respect every individual's unique contribution, so all our employees feel that they can belong, thrive and achieve their full potential.

We want to attract the broadest range of talented people to join us. The more diverse our workforce, the better able we are to respond to and reflect our audiences in all their diversity.

We welcome applications from individuals, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, socio-economic background, religion and/or belief.

Find out more about diversity, inclusion and belonging in our strategy below.

Diversity, inclusion & belonging strategy Disability confident

We are a disability confident employer. If you need to discuss adjustments or access requirements for the interview process, or to carry out this role, please contact us via email and we'd be happy to discuss:

BBC Group and Public Services, Broadcasting House, Portland Place, London, United Kingdom, W1A 1AA. BBC Studios Distribution Limited, company no: , registered address: 1 Television Centre, 101 Wood Lane, London, United Kingdom W12 7FA.