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Functional Consultant – S4 Hana Finance
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United Kingdom Job Family Group: Information Technology (IT) Worker Type: Regular Posting Start Date: July 14, 2026 Business Unit: Projects and Technology Experience Level: Experienced Professionals
Job Description
What is the Role?
Your role presents an exciting opportunity to be part of a high performing team within the Finance & Tax Competency as Functional Consultant SME – ERP Finance & Tax. This is a challenging role where you will be responsible for delivering Next-Gen SAP S/4 HANA functional solutions in a complex ERP environment. The functional consultant – S/4 HANA Finance SME (subject matter expert) will be accountable for the solution delivery of all S/4 HANA Finance & Tax projects/use cases for business, working along with a natural team such as S/4 HANA Finance Product Managers, Solution Architects, Functional Analysts, and business process owners/users to ensure robust solutions are built and deployed in the optimal manner.
Key Accountabilities
- Very Strong SAP and S/4 HANA Finance implementation experience with expertise in Finance and Tax areas.
- Need to handle project estimations for finance scope, coaching the broader functional team, and leading the team to deliver the agreed Finance & Tax functional solution scope for complex next-gen ERP transformation programs.
- Work closely with SAP functional analysts, project delivery leads, and business users to translate finance requirements covering legal, fiscal, and regulatory scope into system configurations in line with project delivery scope.
- Take accountability for end-to-end solution delivery which starts from building solution as per design standards from design authorities, testing of solution, managing cut-over, and closely working with business until solution stabilization in production environments and until handover to operations.
- Work in close collaboration with the Finance and Tax Design Authorities to ensure new emerging functionality is understood and that implementation experiences from business deployments are incorporated into the overarching S/4 enterprise design.
- Function as a key collector of product gaps and improvement opportunities, appropriately document these items, and flow these opportunities along with a value case to the appropriate route with SAP (Oil & Gas Consortium, CIO office, Architecture, other SAP engagement bodies as appropriate).
Functional Excellence & Governance
- Implement and continuously improve the Functional Excellence agenda by applying Shell methods, standards, and quality assurance practices.
- Partner closely with the Finance Design Authority to ensure emerging SAP and S/4HANA functionality is understood, assessed, and appropriately adopted.
- Ensure alignment with Finance architecture standards, design principles, and best practices across all deliveries.
- Contribute to the evolution of Finance & Tax delivery standards and ways of working.
Stakeholder Engagement
- Serve as the IT capability face for ERP Finance & Tax across a defined business or regional scope.
- Engage regularly with senior Finance and Business leaders (VP-1/VP-2), building credibility and trust through strong delivery outcomes.
- Translate technology‑enabled vision into tangible business outcomes, influencing stakeholders through clear communication and delivery confidence.
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What you’ll bring
- Senior SAP Finance SME with extensive years of experience, including deep ECC and S/4HANA Finance expertise and a strong track record delivering large, complex ECC-to-S/4HANA transformation programs.
- Proven ability to lead business discussions, manage delivery scope and estimates, plan and guide functional teams, and influence wider finance stakeholders to ensure successful ERP outcomes and value delivery.
- Strong integration and architecture capability across on‑premise, cloud, and legacy systems, with up-to-date knowledge of ERP, finance applications, and next‑generation technologies, and the ability to drive simplification and unified design across multiple businesses and ERPs.
- Strong commercial mindset with a clear focus on business value realization.
- Ability to shape, articulate, and deliver technology‑enabled visions into successful business outcomes.
- Gravitas and excellent communication skills, with the ability to influence senior Finance stakeholders.
- Strong collaboration and partnership skills, particularly with Finance process owners and Design Authorities.
- Resilience, courage, and the ability to constructively challenge and manage business expectations.
- Comfortable working independently under minimal supervision, applying established frameworks while managing ambiguity where precedents are limited.
- Active contributor to high‑performing, outcome‑driven IT teams.
What we offer
You bring your skills and experience to Shell and in return you work with talented, committed people on one of the most important challenges facing our planet. You’ll have the opportunity to develop the skills you need to grow in an environment where we value honesty, integrity, and respect for one another. You’ll be able to balance your priorities as you become the best version of yourself. Progress as a person as we work on the energy transition together. Continuously grow the transferable skills you need to get ahead. Work at the forefront of technology, trends, and practices. Collaborate with experienced colleagues with unique expertise. Achieve your balance in a value-led culture that encourages you to be the best version of yourself. Benefit from a range of flexible working options. Perform at your best with a competitive starting salary and annual performance-related salary increase – our pay and benefits packages are considered to be among the best in the world. Take advantage of paid parental leave, including for non-birthing parents. Join an organisation working to become one of the most diverse and inclusive in the world. We strongly encourage applicants of all genders, ages, ethnicities, cultures, abilities, sexual orientation, and life experiences to apply. Grow as you progress through diverse career opportunities in national and international teams. Gain access to a wide range of training and development programmes.
We are committed to attracting a broader and more diverse pool of candidates. If this position doesn’t feel like the perfect fit for your qualifications right now, we’d still love to hear from you. Shell is working to advance an inclusive, psychologically safe, and accessible environment where people with disabilities can excel. If you require any accommodations or accessibility adjustments (e.g. assistive technology, communication support, or other) during the application or interview process, please let us know when prompted in your application. We strive to ensure that our process and workplace is accessible to everyone and are dedicated to making reasonable adjustments to support your needs.
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