Are you an experienced SAP Finance professional looking to work on large-scale transformation programs across New Zealand and the wider APAC region?

We are looking for a talented SAP S/4HANA Finance (FINS) Functional Consultant to join our growing SAP practice and help clients modernize finance operations, improve business performance, and unlock the full value of their SAP investments.

This is an opportunity to work alongside some of New Zealand's leading SAP specialists while delivering innovative solutions for enterprise clients across industries.

The Role

As an SAP S/4HANA Finance Functional Consultant, you will play a key role in delivering end-to-end SAP Finance transformation initiatives, from solution design through to implementation and business adoption.

You'll work directly with finance leaders, business stakeholders, and technical teams to define future-state finance processes and deliver scalable SAP solutions that drive measurable business outcomes.

What You'll Be Doing

- Lead client workshops to gather and analyze business requirements.

- Design and configure SAP S/4HANA Finance solutions.

- Deliver finance transformation projects across Financial Accounting and Management Accounting processes.

- Support solution design, testing, cutover, and go-live activities.

- Drive finance process optimization and standardization initiatives.

- Collaborate with architects, developers, and project stakeholders.

- Provide trusted advisory services to CFO and Finance leadership teams.

- Manage project workstreams and mentor junior consultants.

- Contribute to proposals, solutioning activities, and business development initiatives.

To Be Successful, You'll Bring

- 6+ years SAP Finance consulting experience.

- Experience delivering SAP implementation or transformation programs.

- Strong SAP S/4HANA Finance configuration capability.

- Deep understanding of finance business processes and controls.

- Excellent stakeholder engagement and workshop facilitation skills.

- Experience working within consulting, professional services, or large enterprise environments.





Role Description

This is not a consulting role. It is not a project delivery role. It is not a research position. A Forward Deployed AI Engineer is a production engineer who works embedded inside a client's enterprise, shoulder to shoulder with their teams, to make complex AI platforms work in real, messy organizational environments.

You own outcomes: time-to-value, adoption, reliability, and scalability. Not delivery milestones. Outcomes.

The market is beginning to understand what leading technology companies have demonstrated: AI products fail not because the models are weak but because deployment is broken. The gap between a successful AI pilot and an AI capability that scales is bridged by engineers who can translate platform capability into measurable business value inside a real enterprise environment. That is this role.

Forward Deployed AI Engineers form the execution spine of our Reinvention Deployment Engineering pods. We are building the largest FDE capability in the services industry. The engineers who join at this stage will define what the role looks like at scale and will have access to the hardest enterprise AI problems in the market across every industry.

Key Responsibilities

- Lead enterprise AI platform deployments across complex multi-stakeholder client environments — Anthropic, OpenAI, Microsoft, Google, Salesforce, SAP, or Palantir — owning the full programme from architecture through adoption

- Own programme-level delivery outcomes: time-to-value, reliability, adoption velocity, and scalability across multiple concurrent workstreams, with commercial metrics attached

- Lead rapid experimentation at pace:



drive ambiguous business problems to working production systems in days or weeks across complex enterprise environments

- Architect and govern enterprise AI solutions across the full technology stack: identity, data, security, governance, platform layer, and multi-system workflow integration at programme scale

- Shape AI reinvention strategy for client CTO, CFO, and CISO: build value architecture, ROI backlogs, use case prioritisation frameworks, and multi-year AI adoption roadmaps

- Define and publish reusable reinvention blueprints, patterns, and accelerators that scale across multiple client engagements and grow the FDE practice

- Lead architecture design sessions, executive workshops, and code-with sessions with client engineering and C-suite leadership teams

- Codify delivery learnings, failure patterns, and engineering standards that shape the FDE practice and enable the next generation of forward deployed engineers

Compensation at Accenture varies depending on a wide array of factors including but not limited to role, level, seniority, responsibility, skillset, and level of experience. For this position, the job level is under the A1 National Collective Bargaining Agreement. The gross annual salary range is between 50,000 and 86,700 EUR.

Note

- Open to any NZ locations – Auckland / Wellington / Christchurch

- Should be NZ Citizen / PR Holder / other eligible working rights (Partner Visa, Post Study Visa, Open Work Visa).

Benefits of working at Accenture:

- 18 weeks paid parental leave

- Long & short-term career break opportunities

- Structured career development program
- Local and international career opportunities.

- Certified as a Family Inclusive Workplace™

- Flexible Work Arrangements - centered around Accenture’s Truly Human ethos and our commitment to supporting the health and wellbeing of our people.

- We are proud to be in the top 3 of last year’s Diversity & Inclusion Index!

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