Senior SAP TRM Consultant

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Senior SAP TRM Consultant
The TRM Senior Consultant role is a combination of functional solutioning, client-facing, and team leader responsibilities. Their role involves frequent communication with clients and their project team members with a focus on SAP Tax & Revenue Management solutions. The Senior Consultant guides his team to meet the customer requirements while considering functional and technical specifics for a solution deployment in an existing SAP S/4 HANA system environment. The role also requires working as an individual contributor to the customer project to add value based on his functional domain expertise in taxation and accounting. With this role, strong communication skills are required to convey and consult business processes pertaining to tax declarations of business taxes like Corporate Taxes but also to interact with project team members by understanding underlying problems and the solution approach in SAP. In addition, the consultation requires the setup of demos, mock-ups or proof of concepts to support the understanding and visualization of the business flow and to secure the success of the overall solution deployment incl. roll-out.

Responsibilities

• Undertakes functional solution responsibilities considering SAP TRM / PSCD
• Understands the business processes and business challenges by applying SAP standard processes wherever possible
• Provides support to project manager(s) in sharing the various tasks of their solution to conclude on the project planning, deliverable specification, and effort estimations
• Responsible for client interaction and management during all workshops, meetings, and informal contacts
• Leading or supporting workshops while ensuring all requirements are captured and compared to planned scope of work and previously specified deliverables
• Clearly articulates the requirements and identifies the gaps by agreeing with the customer including potential additional scope
• Supports project managers in bringing the clarity on additional scope and effort estimations
• Conducts or supports meetings, provides regular updates to customer / project team members
• Ensures that all risks and mitigation processes within their solution are identified and documented
• Supports and prepares all project deliverables and actively participates in the complete project life cycle documentation from their solution perspective
• Periodically monitors and supports the progress of the activities within his solution scope and ensures to take timely actions to avoid delays
• Supports or leads demo or proof of concept (PoC) preparations and conducts business process demonstrations to our clients
• Undertakes or supports the required resource interviews for team identification & deployment
• Recommends business process improvements where applicable
• Provides solution and effort estimations for change requests
• Overall functional accountability for his solution delivery in his project without any escalations by customers, project managers, project team members or any other stakeholder
• Ensures that the smooth success of the project is the highest priority
• Provides support to the Management and contributes to the business success by sharing all relevant information in a professional manner
• Ensures that the ethics and the culture code of InvenioLSI are kept intact during the engagement with all internal and external stakeholders
• Participates in peer reviews of other projects and shares the feedback to the Practice Lead / Practice Head concerning problems, concerns or any shortcomings
• Follow-up with the respective project team members and ensures that the feedback / observations / recommendations are incorporated and monitored
• Actively participates in all TRM practice activities
• Supports Practice Lead / Practice Head on the strategy activities / road map definition
• Proactively informs of project delays and seeks mitigation
• Proactively seeks additional support within the practice on knowledge gaps
• Participates in the various recruitment drives and actively conducts interviews to identify resources with adequate skill sets and practice knowledge
• Being a role model, mentor, and guide for the consultants in his team
• Design and develop new TRM solutions to widen our product catalogue
• Coach and mentor team members

Qualifications and Experience

• 5+ years of experience with TRM project implementations
• Expert level knowledge concerning SAP TRM and PSCD
• Excellent understanding of Tax Authority business processes and legislation
• Follows industry trends and focuses to become a thought leader in his area of expertise
• Exposure to new technologies in the SAP space for functional considerations
• Exposed to multiple Implementation methodologies like ASAP, Activate, Waterfall, Scrum etc.
• Able to communicate with customer confidently, convince / coach clients on the most appropriate solution and agree on an effective way forward
• Excellent communication skills in all areas (oral, aural, written)
• Strong coaching and leadership skills with interest in consultants in their area of expertise
• Strong presentation skills at all levels of engagement with the customer
• Leadership and management of assigned team members
• Arabic speaking 

Business Skills

• Excellent oral and written communication skills, the ability to clearly and concisely communicate with others.
• Experience with Microsoft Office suite including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Visio.
• Understand business processes for focus area or module.
• Research and perform detailed tasks.
• Strong analytical skills.
• Understand business functionality related to SAP module/application as well as can identify and understand touch points between modules.
• Understand how to solve detailed SAP problems.
• Understand and can explain best business practices, especially those that SAP enables.

Consulting Skills

• Aptitude for working in a team environment; problem solving skills, creative thinking, communicating clearly and empathetically, strong time management and ability to collaborate with all levels of staff.
• Explain ideas and concepts to other project team members and to client personnel.
• Solid foundation for consulting “soft” skills necessary on client engagements.
• Interpret requirements and apply SAP best practices.
• Identify upsell opportunities and assists in management of scope.

Supervision Skills

• Self-starter with the ability to manage their own time and task in order to meet project milestones.
• Manages their own / team task lists in order to meet project milestones.
• Monitors team status and reports variances.

Leadership Skills

• Maintain a positive working relationships with others.
• Seek ways to increase their level of contribution and team effectiveness.
• Work in conjunction with peers.
• May mentor to other associate consultants.
• Works well as a member of a team.
• Seek ways to increase their level of contribution / team effectiveness.
• Work well as a leader of a team (motivates team).
• Seek ways to increase the team’s level of contribution / team effectiveness.

Personnel Development

• Further self-development of SAP skills and management skills.

General Skills/Tasks

• Lead and focus project team efforts in developing solutions for client situations.
• Evaluate and design application and/or technical architectures.
• Lead team effort in developing solutions for projects.
• Complete assignments within budget, meet project deadlines, maintain sensible commitments to client and team.
• Meet billing efficiency targets, complies with all administrative responsibilities in a timely and effective manner.
• Keep project management aware of project direction and client concerns.
• Understand client’s business and technical environments.
• Prepare status reports regularly.

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