SAP Ariba Lead

We Are:

The Advanced Technology Centers (ATCs) is the engine for reinvention in our clients' transformation journey. Powered by more than 255,000 people across 24 countries, ATCs will provide our clients seamless access to industry insights and innovative technology solutions.

Stronger together!

The Advanced Technology Centers (ATCs) make tremendous impact in solving in our clients' business problems leveraging innovation, intelligence, industry insights, new IT and new technology skills. Now, with the global environment changing at a faster pace, our clients are facing unprecedented challenges, and they need us more than ever before. As a Network, ATCs are positioned to unlock greater opportunities and exponential value for our clients.

The value for our clients and our people.

For our clients, the Network provides the strength of our geographic diversity, greater resilience, and seamless access to the deepest industry knowledge, the latest in Gen AI solutions, and tech expertise from around the world.

For our people, it brings an opportunity to shape truly boundaryless career paths in a highly collaborative team of experts where they can learn from each other and solve the world's most complex client challenges.

You Are:

A transformation maven with the skills to help clients meet the challenges of digitization. Your superpower? Using your know-how to solve clients' most complex business problems to help their companies do more. You're as comfortable working in teams and leading projects as you are diving into the details of workstreams and configuring SAP solutions. And you work effectively with distributed onshore and offshore teams across time zones.

The Work:

As a SAP Ariba Lead, you will own the end-to-end design and delivery of Source to Pay on SAP Ariba, spanning Sourcing, Contract Management, Supplier Lifecycle and Performance, Requisitioning, Purchasing, Receiving, Invoicing, Tax determination and S/4HANA integration. You will lead client workshops, translate business requirements into configuration solutions, and run workstream activities with on- and off-shore resources. You are expected to be a subject matter expert, collaborate and manage the team to perform effectively, take responsibility for team decisions, engage with multiple teams, and provide solutions to problems within your immediate team and across multiple teams. Expert proficiency in SAP Ariba is required. Expert proficiency in SAP S/4HANA Materials Management and Cloud Integration Gateway is suggested.

• Use your business smarts to kick-start transformation programs, whether domain- or platform-led.
• Independently deliver client workshops across the full Source to Pay lifecyle.
• Design sourcing and contracting processes: source request creation, sourcing event and template design, contract negotiation and authorization, clause library setup, supplier onboarding, qualification and performance management.
• Design procurement and payables processes: requisitioning, catalog and non-catalog buying, purchase order management, goods receipt, invoicing exception handling and tax determination.
• Configure Ariba sourcing, contract management, buying & invoicing, Catalog Management and Commerce Automation to meet business requirements.
• Define and configure approval workflows and parameter setup across the full process scope, including ICM parameters and Ariba Network rules.
• Drive integration between SAP Ariba, S/4HANA Materials Management and downstream FI and PS modules using Cloud Integration Gateway.
• Own data migration scope: master data, accounting data, cross application data, open contracts, and open purchase orders.
• Lead template design for global deployment and rollouts, and identify process optimization and improvement opportunities.
• Produce Functional Design Documents and Technical Design Documents, and review deliverables produced by the team.
• Support testing across SIT, UAT and cutover, and resolve defects through hypercare.
• Show clients how they can use SAP to solve their business problems.
• Work in a team where you wear lots of hats: interacting with clients, managing workstreams, collaborating with other teams, and where you need to be in charge.
• Interact with all workstreams: technical, reports, conversion, change management, project management, and more.
• Tweak methods, tools, and procedures to create solutions that meet clients' needs.
• Keep a record of requirements, solutions and impacts, alternatives and final decisions.
• This role requires to be onsite 3 days per week. Preferred location: Montreal, Canada.
  
  
  

Here's what you need:

• Minimum of 4years of experience in SAP Ariba, including depth in at least one of the following and working knowledge of the other:
  • Ariba Strategic Sourcing Suite: Sourcing, Contract Management, Supplier Lifecycle and Performance
  • Ariba Procure to Pay and S/4HANA Materials Management
• Minimum 4 years of SAP transformation, technical advisory or consulting experience, or 8 years of equivalent industry experience.
• Minimum 3 years of experience across all project phases: Plan, Analyze, Design, Build, Test, Deploy and Support.
• Minimum 1 year of experience as a Project, Large Workstream, or Client Lead on a large SAP transformational project with on- and off-shore resources.
• A Bachelor's Degree
• English is required for this position as this role will regularly interact with stakeholders across Canada, US and other countries across our Global footprint where English is the common language. Due to the significant high volume of interactions with these English-speaking stakeholders, which is inherent to this position, it is not possible to reorganize the company's activities to avoid this requirement.

Bonus points if:

• You've obtained certification such as SAP Ariba Sourcing, SAP Ariba Contract Management, SAP Ariba Supplier Management, SAP Ariba Procurement, SAP Ariba Cloud Integration Gateway, SAP Ariba Catalog Management, SAP S/4HANA Materials Management, SAP S/4HANA Sourcing & Procurement.
• You've delivered SAP Ariba in a RISE with SAP or S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition landscape.
• You have experience with SAP Business Network, supplier enablement and supplier adoption campaigns.
• You have experience in airline, transportation or other asset-intensive industries.

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Compensation at Accenture varies depending on a wide array of factors, which may include but are not limited to the specific office location,
role, skill set, and level of experience. As required by local law, Accenture provides a reasonable range of compensation, based on full-time
employment, for roles that may be hired as set forth below.
The recruiting efforts for this position are intended to fill a brand new position.
The base pay range shown below is intended as a guideline to reflect the majority of offers for this role.
It does not represent a maximum limit — in some cases, actual compensation may exceed the range where appropriate.

Information on benefits is here.

Role Location Hourly Salary Range
British Columbia/Ontario/New Brunswick $33.39 to $57.43

About Accenture

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