Profitability Costing and Allocations Senior Manager

Deloitte Deloitte · Consulting

This Senior Manager role in Deloitte's Business Finance offering focuses on Profitability, Costing, and Allocations. The role involves leading client engagements, responding to RFPs, managing project teams, and overseeing data analysis. A key responsibility is to steer the development and deployment of technology-driven business solutions, including automation and machine learning, to deliver strategic insights for clients. The role requires significant experience in profitability and costing, leadership, project management, and data analytics, with a preference for SAP PaPM and related technologies. While AI/ML is mentioned as a tool for clients, the core of the role is finance transformation and operational strategy, not direct AI/ML development or research.

What you'd actually do

  1. Deliver service excellence by identifying and addressing complex client business issues, serving as a trusted advisor to senior client stakeholders.
  2. Lead the response to Requests for Proposal (RFPs) and other client opportunities, shaping solution approaches and guiding pursuit teams.
  3. Lead and oversee multiple project teams, ensuring the quality, consistency, and impact of deliverables across large and complex engagements.
  4. Oversee and validate analysis, ensuring recommendations are aligned with client objectives and the broader engagement context.
  5. Drive and leverage the use of SAP PaPM and advanced analytics to deliver strategic insights.
  6. Lead the design and implementation of profitability and costing methodologies.
  7. Steer the development and deployment of technology-driven business solutions, including automation and machine learning.
  8. Manage and develop diverse teams, providing mentorship, coaching, and performance feedback to support professional growth and project.

Skills

Required

  • Profitability reporting
  • Product/service costing
  • Cost allocations
  • People management
  • Project management
  • Data analysis
  • SAP PaPM
  • SAP S4 HANA
  • Oracle
  • Pre-sales
  • RFP response

Nice to have

  • BW/4 HANA / Native HANA Model
  • CostPerform
  • Hyperion
  • Anaplan
  • Big Data Tools (e.g., Hadoop, Hive, Pig, Impala, Mahout)
  • Machine Learning/Cognitive (e.g., Python, Mahout, CognitiveScale)
  • Predictive Analytics/Data Mining: (e.g., IBM SPSS, SAS Enterprise Miner, RPL, Python, MATLAB)

What the JD emphasized

  • Profitability, Costing & Allocations Experience: 10+ years of technical or advisory-related experience in profitability reporting, product/service costing, and cost allocations.
  • Leadership: 5+ years of direct people management experience, including leading teams on complex projects
  • Project Management: 4+ years’ experience overseeing multiple project teams, experience leading or managing teams and change initiatives (especially in a project management role); experience with budgetary responsibilities related to projects or resources.
  • Data Analytics: 4+ years’ experience working with and managing data sets, including extraction and mergers from source systems, transformation, and providing preliminary descriptive analytics.
  • Technology: 3+ years’ experience BW/4 HANA / Native HANA Model with PaPM Model; working knowledge of SAP S4 HANA and/or Oracle
  • Sales: 2 + years’ experience with pre-sales, proposals, and RFP activities.