Head of SAP Practice - Finance

London, England, gb

Job Band

Job Number 21261

Job title: Head of SAP Practise
Division: BBC Technology & Media Operations
Contract type: Permanent 
Band : F

Salary : up to £165,000 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.
Location: London - travel required Cardiff and Birmingham
Agile - 2/3 days per week in office

Our comprehensive benefits package includes:

• An employer pension contribution of up to 10%
• 26 days’ annual leave (based on full time hours) + bank holidays and the option to buy/sell additional days
• Contributory lifestyle benefit options including discounts at hundreds of retailers, cycle to work scheme, discounted gym memberships and healthcare schemes 
• Employee assistance and well-being programmes
• Learning and development tailored to your role – this could include industry recognised qualifications, coaching and mentoring
• An inclusive and diverse environment with opportunities to join staff networks including: Women’s Network, National Disability Networks and many more.

Family friendly flexible working arrangements, such as hybrid working, job sharing, flexi-time and compressed hours can be requested.

We welcome candidates from all backgrounds and especially welcome individuals from underrepresented groups. 

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Introduction

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 Director, Corporate Systems, 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, Procurement & Treasury 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.

Responsibilities

 
Strategic Leadership

 
Team leadership 

 
Project Oversight

 
Stakeholder Engagement

 
Process Improvement

 
Change Management

 
Performance Monitoring

 
Supplier Management

 
Documentation and Compliance

 

Innovation and Trends

Are you the right candidate

Essential Skills

• Extensive knowledge of SAP modules and functionalities relevant to the BBC’s needs now and future (e.g., SAP ECC6, S/4 HANA, HCM, BW, BPC, SFSF, Ariba, BTP, Datasphere, SAC).
• Extensive experience of working within complex SAP and non SAP landscapes and with third party delivery and support providers 
• Senior Leadership relationship management skills, persuasive and able to steer through change.
• Experience in team development 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.
• A leadership role in the delivery of a complex S/4 HANA implementation in the last 3-5 years.

• Strong business acumen and detailed understanding of the financial processes and associated regulatory requirements that underpin a large scale business.

 
Desired Skills

• Understanding of media specific requirements relating to the BBC’s Operations e.g. Rights management, production accounting.

• Financial accountancy qualifications eg ACMA

 

This role plays a pivotal role in shaping how the BBC’s SAP solutions are utilized, ensuring they add value and support the organization’s objectives effectively. If you have more specific questions or need further insights regarding this role, feel free to ask!

About the BBC

The BBC is committed to redeploying employees seeking suitable alternative employment within the BBC for different reasons 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.

We don’t focus simply on what we do – we also care how we do it. Our values and the way we behave are important to us. Please make sure you’ve read about our values and behaviours .

Diversity matters at the BBC. We have a working environment where we value and respect every individual's unique contribution, enabling all of our employees to thrive and achieve their full potential.

We want to attract the broadest range of talented people to be part of the BBC – whether that’s to contribute to our programming or our wide range of non-production roles. The more diverse our workforce, the better able we are to respond to and reflect our audiences in all their diversity.

We are committed to equality of opportunity and welcome applications from individuals, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, socio-economic background, religion and/or belief. We will consider flexible working requests for all roles, unless operational requirements prevent otherwise.