SAP Data Management Senior Manager

At PwC, our people in business application consulting specialise in consulting services for a variety of business applications, helping clients optimise operational efficiency. These individuals analyse client needs, implement software solutions, and provide training and support for seamless integration and utilisation of business applications, enabling clients to achieve their strategic objectives. As a SAP consulting generalist at PwC, you will focus on providing consulting services across various SAP applications to clients, analysing their needs, implementing software solutions, and offering training and support for effective utilisation of SAP applications. Your versatile knowledge will allow you to assist clients in optimising operational efficiency and achieving their strategic objectives.

The Opportunity

As an SAP Data Management Senior Manager, unlock your potential and embrace the chance to drive meaningful outcomes that’ll elevate your career. We are looking for an experienced SAP Data Management Senior Manager to lead data strategy, governance, migration, and delivery across complex transformation programs. You will work closely with business and Information Systems (IS) leaders to establish the data vision, facilitate key decisions, and ensure that high-quality master and transactional data is successfully migrated to SAP S/4HANA. Your role will include, but isn’t limited to:

• Lead the data management and migration workstream throughout the complete SAP S/4HANA program lifecycle, from strategy and planning through deployment, go-live, and stabilization.

• Facilitate executive discussions and cross-functional workshops to define the data vision, guiding principles, governance model, scope, and roadmap.

• Lead data discovery, scoping, profiling, cleansing, transformation, mapping, validation, reconciliation, and load activities.

• Facilitate detailed data-mapping workshops with business process owners, data owners, functional teams, technical teams, and source-system specialists.
• Establish the end-to-end data migration strategy, including migration architecture, tools, environments, mock-conversion cycles, cutover, validation, and reconciliation.

• Define the scope and treatment of master, reference, historical, open transactional, and organizational data from multiple source systems.

• Establish data governance, ownership, stewardship, quality standards, business rules, controls, metrics, and decision-making forums.

• Lead and coordinate business, functional, technical, and data teams, ensuring alignment across business functions.

• Manage the data workstream plan, resources, budget, dependencies, risks, issues, decisions, deliverables, and status reporting.

• Drive data readiness by holding business data owners accountable for cleansing, enrichment, mapping, validation, and approval activities.

• Oversee mock conversions and production migration, ensuring defects are resolved and data meets agreed quality and reconciliation thresholds.

• Design and oversee data validation, reconciliation, verification, and business sign-off processes.

• Work closely with program leadership and functional, integration, testing, security, reporting, and change-management workstreams.

• Lead, coach, and develop consultants while promoting collaboration, accountability, innovation, and delivery excellence.

What You'll Bring

Your skills, knowledge, and experiences are what set you apart. Here's what we look for:

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in business, information technology, engineering, information systems, data management, or a related discipline.

• More than 10 years of experience in SAP data management, data migration, governance, or transformation, including leadership roles on large SAP programs.

• Proven experience leading the data workstream for at least three end-to-end SAP implementations, preferably involving SAP S/4HANA.

• Demonstrated ability to lead strategic discussions with senior business and IS stakeholders and translate business objectives into an executable data strategy.
• Extensive experience planning and facilitating data strategy, governance, scoping, mapping, cleansing, validation, and reconciliation workshops.

• Strong knowledge of master and transactional data across finance, procurement, sales, manufacturing, supply chain, and related business areas.

• Experience with SAP data solutions such as SAP S/4HANA Migration Cockpit, SAP Data Services, SAP Landscape Transformation Replication Server, SAP HANA, SAP Integration Suite/CPI-DS, SAP Data Intelligence, and SAP Master Data Governance.

• Knowledge of ETL processes, data profiling and transformation, SQL, Python, and related data-management technologies.

This newly created role reflects our commitment to growth and delivering distinctive value for our clients and stakeholders.

The salary range for this position is $168,000 - $218,000. The posted salary range represents the expected hiring range for PwC locations in major city centres. Given our national recruiting approach, ranges may vary for positions in other locations. At PwC Canada, base salary is determined by your skills, experience, qualifications and work location. In addition to base salary, eligible employees may have opportunities to participate in variable incentive pay programs which are designed to reward individual and firm-wide achievements. We are committed to offering competitive compensation and adhere to all relevant pay transparency legislation. During the hiring process, our Talent Acquisition team will provide details about our comprehensive total rewards package.

Why you’ll love PwC

We’re inspiring and empowering our people to change the world. Powered by the latest technology, you’ll be a part of diverse teams helping public and private clients build trust and deliver sustained outcomes. This meaningful work, and our continuous development environment, will take your career to the next level. We reward your impact, and support your wellbeing, through a competitive compensation package, inclusive benefits and flexibility programs that will help you thrive in work and life. Learn more about our Application Process and Total Rewards Package at: https://jobs-ca.pwc.com/ca/en/life-at-pwc

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