KPMG’s is looking for exceptional candidates for a Director role, with a strong experience in pricing and commercial excellence to join the team within the Pricing Centre of Excellence.

We are seeking an experienced, skilled, and proactive Platform Engineering Lead to join our dynamic team. In this role, you will play a crucial part in establishing and leading a new engineering vertical within ATDT, shaping a modern engineering tower to support developers and cloud engineers. You will oversee the design, development, and maintenance of cloud platform solutions, enabling seamless integration of modern engineering techniques across the team.

In addition, you will lead a team of engineers, including specialists in both traditional infrastructure and Azure DevOps, ensuring the stability, availability, and security of the Azure platforms used by product developers.

The KPMG Private Client tax team is a fast-growing and integral part of the wider KPMG tax practice. In order to support further growth we are looking to appoint a Senior Manager in Bristol. We are looking for excellent candidates with a proven track record in this area who are seeking a dynamic and supportive working environment to help deliver these solutions. You would be expected to lead the delivery of a quality output to our clients and participate in winning new clients by bringing new offerings to the market. Your client base would include a portfolio of high net worth clients, entrepreneurs, shareholders and international individuals.

Powered Enterprise is KPMG’s world-class accelerated Enterprise Business Transformation approach for cloud-based solutions 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.

The Powered Apps teams are communities of technology focussed professionals who work together to deliver KPMG Powered Enterprise through a standardised delivery model, which drives professional delivery to clients. The teams use their functional knowledge and experience (e.g. Finance, Supply Chain, Procurement), coupled with their expertise in the cloud applications (e.g. SAP, Ariba) to lead and deliver client programmes, support pre-sales activities and develop improvement and extensions to Powered Enterprise.

The Role

We are seeking talented individuals with experience of SAP S/4HANA advisory and implementation across various solution process areas. This is a high-profile role within the Supply Chain Capability team, requiring a balance of business development / sales origination to grow the practice and strong client delivery.

The successful candidate will be expected to:

• As an Engagement Manager, and/or as a Solution Architect lead the delivery of high-quality SAP S/4HANA advisory and delivery projects
• Provide specialist advice in SAP Supply Chain management and work closely with client leads to optimise processes and maximise the benefits of SAP
• Lead and contribute to business development and sales initiatives including bid, proposal, and contract / commercial negotiations with our SAP clients
• Lead the growth of SAP Supply Chain Capability through sharing knowledge, developing thought leadership and supporting the career aspirations of team members
• Have a functional expertise of latest SAP Supply Chain solution and integration to other SAP modules; including SAP Finance
• Advise on technical integration of the SAP Supply Chain application with other client and 3rd party tools/applications
• Advise on data migration and data integrity as part of the deployment engagement
• Have experience in SAP S/4 implementation in/across; manufacturing industries, consumer packaging goods, pharmaceuticals, retail or oil & gas etc

The Person

• Functional expertise and knowledge of S/4HANA enabled processes and configuration in multiple areas across: SAP Integrated Business Planning (IBP), SAP PPDS, SAP DMC, SAP ME, SAP PEO, SAP Extended Warehouse Management (EWM), SAP Enterprise Asset Management/MRO, SAP Order Management & Fulfilment/AATP/Logistics Execution, SAP Product Lifecycle Management and SAP Transport Management. 
• Proven Engagement Management and/or Solution Architect experience for large scale SAP transformation programs
• Deep understanding and knowledge of digital trends in Supply Chain (e.g., Industry 4.0, Digital manufacturing, SCM Digital Solutions that integrate with SAP)
• Experience in leading on bids, proposals, and commercial negotiations with clients
• Experience leading onshore, offshore, and near-shore resources effectively to ensure the most efficient delivery for the client
• Ability to build strong client relationships based on subject matter expertise and quality of delivery
• Strong interpersonal, team building, organisational and motivational skills
• Facilitation and problem-solving skills along with excellent communication skills (written and oral) whether this is with client stakeholders or remote development teams
• SAP system design, build and depl

KPMG’s Powered Enterprise is the world-class accelerated Enterprise Business Transformation framework for cloud-based solutions that covers all 6 layers of a customer’s Target Operating Model. It supports customers to make better and faster decisions that drives positive business outcomes, reduces implementation effort while improving ROI. It combines our leading business consulting practice, technology capabilities and insights into a complete solution for intelligent enterprises.

The Powered Apps teams are communities of business and technology focussed professionals who work together to deliver KPMG Powered Enterprise through a standardised delivery model. The teams use their functional knowledge and experience (e.g. Finance, Supply Chain, Procurement), technology expertise (S/4HANA, CFin, RISE, BTP, MDG, etc.) and SAP SaaS applications (Ariba, SuccessFactors, etc.) to enable customers run successful business transformation programmes enabled by SAP technology.