Assistant Manager Jobs - Cairo Egypt

<p><h4>We help the world run better</h4> <p>At SAP, we keep it simple: you bring your best to us, and we'll bring out the best in you. We're builders touching over 20 industries and 80% of global commerce, and we need your unique talents to help shape what's next. The work is challenging u2013 but it matters. You'll find a place where you can be yourself, prioritize your wellbeing, and truly belong. What's in it for you? Constant learning, skill growth, great benefits, and a team that wants you to grow and succeed.</p> <br> <p><strong>Do you like to help others?</strong> Hint u2013 you actively listen to connect people with solutions</p> <p><strong>Do you like telling stories?</strong> Hint u2013 from beginning to the end, people actively listen to you</p> <p><strong>Do you have a creative side?</strong> Hint u2013 bringing a story visually to life is exciting for you</p> <p><strong>Do you like working on a team?</strong> Hint u2013 you offer a point of view and collaborate well in a group</p> <p><strong>Do you wish you had more influence?</strong> Hint u2013 you have domain expertise in finance and would love to show it off</p> <br> <p>If you relate to the above questions, you just might have a future as part of the Presales Solution Advisory organization!</p> <p>In Solution Advisory, we listen and get to know a customeru2019s business. We learn what needs to change and why. We help business leaders ideate and think through what is possible. We help them envision how technology and automation could support their winning strategy. We connect their vision and needs to a solution designed with SAP Cloud applications and technologies.</p> <p>Thatu2019s where <strong>YOU</strong> come in!</p> <br> <h4>The Team</h4> <p>We foster a supportive team environment and work as integral members of SAP account teams which serve our customers. You would be joining one of the most elite presales teams in Middle East North. You will work with some of the most innovative technologies in the industry. You will be empowered and supported to do what is right for our customers while expressing your creativity and ingenuity. Our Solution Advisors shine doing what they love to do u2013 help people, tell stories and connect opportunity to a solution with passion!</p> <br> <h4>The Role</h4> <p>The primary role of the Finance Solution Advisor is to focus on presenting the value of SAP Finance and Risk Management portfolio. This Solution Advisor would possess advanced/expert-level knowledge of Finance Operations, Financial Planning & Analytics, Accounting & Financial Close, Treasury & Working Capital Management. This advisor would also be able to understand the deep integration and financial experience. In this role, the advisor will be asked to learn Best Run Finance to help position the intelligent enterprise and showcase the value to both the C-suite and Office of the CFO.</p> <p>The Solution Advisor interacts with prospective customers through executive meetings, discovery conversations, solution demonstrations, executive presentations, and follow-up discussions. The primary role of the Solution Advisor during an active sales cycle is to gain acceptance from the customer that the SAP solution can solve the customeru2019s problem and is the right choice over other competitive offerings. During these cycles, they may also take on the role of a Solution/Deal Captain. In addition to deal support, a Presales Senior Specialist collaborates with Sales and Industry Value Engineering teams to plan and execute business development strategies using Design Thinking tools and techniques.</p> <p>The Solution Advisor is knowledgeable in finance business processes and adoption of new technologies. Additional value would be derived from having experience with cloud implementation best practices.</p> <br> <h4>As a specialist in the Finance and Risk Line of Business space, you will focus on one or more of the following areas:</h4> <br> <h4>Deal Support:</h4> <ul> <li>Compose and deliver superior sales presentations covering SAP and partner software solutions to prospective customer audiences. The presentations must articulate the sales message, differentiate SAP, and leave a strong and positive impression to audiences which can include senior company executives.</li> <li>Prepare and deliver value-based software demonstrations and presentations in support of sales cycles. Preparation includes personalization of materials to ensure delivery of a simple, appealing, and compelling customer presentation.</li> <li>In advance of a demonstration or key presentation, conduct discovery sessions with representatives from the prospective customer to build relationships with the customer and understand their unique needs.</li> <li>Demonstrate deep knowledge of SAP solutions and appropriate industries to maintain credibility with prospective customers. Provide proof points with relevant customer stories.</li> <li>Support RFI and RFP completion in support of customer proposals.</li> <li>Ability to effectively present to customers in a virtual environment using virtual technologies (Zoom, Teams, etc.).</li> <li>Provide limited post-sale support to key customers primarily to the project/implementation team to ensure a smooth transition.</li> <li>Able to lead as a Solution Captain when deals require complex solutions across multiple lines of business to support a successful customer presentation or demo.</li> <li>Effectively leverage support teams who are there to support solution advisory success (Global/Regional Solution Specialists, Center of Excellence, Industry Value Engineer, Solution Hubs, Deal Advisors, Solution Experience, Product Management).</li> </ul> <br> <h4>Demand Generation:</h4> <ul> <li>Support one-to-many sales and marketing events both on-site and virtually.</li> <li>Lead and support Design Thinking workshops to promote new and innovative solutions for customers and prospects.</li> <li>Collaborate with the sales team to identify whitespace opportunities at accounts.</li> </ul> <br> <h4>Solution Advisory Readiness:</h4> <ul> <li>Develop close relationships with market unit sales teams to promote effective sales methodologies.</li> <li>Participate in demo scenario design and planning and assist in configuration as needed. Participate in new product release input, testing, and training of peers.</li> <li>Serve as a champion for or participate as a leader in Line of Business or Solution Hubs and provide knowledge transfer to colleagues as needed.</li> <li>While people might not use the word u201cGuruu201d out loud to describe you, it is what they will be thinking!</li> </ul> <br> <h4>Qualifications and Experience u2013 Do yours line up?</h4> <p>Hint: you donu2019t have to be an expert in everything and itu2019s okay if you havenu2019t had a Presales role in the past. If what youu2019ve read so far excites you, we want to talk!</p> <br> <h4>Experience:</h4> <ul> <li>5+ years of experience in SAP Finance implementation or relevant Finance/Accounting role.</li> <li>Experience in one or more of the following functional areas: Finance Operations, Financial Planning & Analytics, Accounting & Financial Close, Treasury & Working Capital Management, Enterprise Risk and Management.</li> <li>Experience in finance operations is a plus.</li> <li>Demonstrates 5-7 successful engagements implementing financial solutions.</li> <li>Expert knowledge/expertise on end-to-end processes/solutions for banking, cash, and treasury risk management is a plus.</li> <li>Public accounting or internal audit experience is a plus.</li> <li>Experience in sales and sales processes.</li> <li>3-5 years of presales experience preferred.</li> <li>Excellent presentation and communication skills.</li> <li>English: proficient.</li> <li>Business level local language: expert.</li> </ul> <br> <h4>Education:</h4> <ul> <li>Bachelor equivalent: minimum requirement.</li> <li>Master equivalent: preferred MBA.</li> <li>Certified in SAP finance-related solutions is highly recommended.</li> </ul> <br> <h4>Bring out your best</h4> <p>SAP innovations help more than four hundred thousand customers worldwide work together more efficiently and use business insight more effectively. Originally known for leadership in enterprise resource planning (ERP) software, SAP has evolved to become a market leader in end-to-end business application software and related services for database, analytics, intelligent technologies, and experience management. As a cloud company with two hundred million users and more than one hundred thousand employees worldwide, we are purpose-driven and future-focused, with a highly collaborative team ethic and commitment to personal development. Whether connecting global industries, people, or platforms, we help ensure every challenge gets the solution it deserves. At SAP, you can bring out your best.</p> <br> <h4>We win with inclusion</h4> <p>SAPu2019s culture of inclusion, focus on health and well-being, and flexible working models help ensure that everyone u2013 regardless of background u2013 feels included and can run at their best. At SAP, we believe we are made stronger by the unique capabilities and qualities that each person brings to our company, and we invest in our employees to inspire confidence and help everyone realize their full potential. We ultimately believe in unleashing all talent and creating a better world.</p> <p>SAP is committed to the values of Equal Employment Opportunity and provides accessibility accommodations to applicants with physical and/or mental disabilities. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to their age, race, religion, national origin, ethnicity, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, etc.), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, protected veteran status, or disability, in compliance with applicable federal, state, and local legal requirements. Successful candidates might be required to undergo a background verification with an external vendor.</p></p><p></p>

<p><h4>Join us<\/h4>\n<p>At Vodafone, weu2019re not just shaping the future of connectivity for our customers u2013 weu2019re shaping the future for everyone who joins our team. When you work with us, youu2019re part of a global mission to connect people, solve complex challenges, and create a sustainable and more inclusive world. If you want to grow your career whilst finding the perfect balance between work and life, Vodafone offers the opportunities to help you belong and make a real impact.<\/p>\n\n<h4>Role purpose<\/h4>\n<p>To design a unified, scalable, and secure data blueprint in conjunction with the tech group to integrate scattered network and business data. This role ensures that all data projects align with the business vision while maintaining a unified standard across all departments to avoid data silos.<\/p>\n\n<h4>Role profile<\/h4>\n<p><strong>Technology stack ownership and alignment with data group technology:<\/strong> Lead the evaluation and selection of all data tools and ensure group approval for these tools (e.g., choosing the data virtualization tools, choosing the cloud provider, or the data lake technology). Also responsible for reporting to the group architecture maturity index and initiating any project to meet it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Enterprise data transformation:<\/strong> Assess current and planned architecture and identify gaps towards trustworthy data and work on high-level design for these projects to ensure engagement of business and governance u2013 during the project, the principal architect will be responsible for ensuring that objectives and KPIs are achieved.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Data infrastructure readiness for AI:<\/strong> Preparing the data foundation so that internal data scientists can safely use data in their models to learn. If any gaps are discovered, a roadmap should be put in place to close them.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Architectural enablement for \"Intelligent Data Apps\":<\/strong> The architect must ensure the data infrastructure perfectly supports intelligent data software products that add more analytical insights for business (inbound and outbound data flow) and future-proof visualization tools.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Business alignment, governance, and lifecycle management:<\/strong> The architect ensures the technology roadmap serves business demand and maintains the long-term health of the data ecosystem.<\/p>\n\n<h4>Responsibilities<\/h4>\n<p><strong>Technology stack ownership and alignment with data group technology:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Negotiate with group architecture on yearly plan and budget.<\/li>\n<li>Responsible for evaluating SOA and identifying gaps to be studied and budgeted for implementation.<\/li>\n<li>Cross-domain modeling alignment: Collaborate with group architecture to review data attributes across complex domains (e.g., network core, BSS\/OSS, retail transactions), ensuring schemas are optimized for high-performance processing inside intelligent data apps.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p><strong>Enterprise data transformation<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Assess current and planned architecture and identify gaps towards trustworthy data and work on these projects until they are transferred from a gap to a project with an initial study document including high-level design, KPIs, and budget u2013 during the project, act as principal architect responsible for low-level design and ensuring that objectives and KPIs are achieved.<\/li>\n<li>Introduce advanced data virtualization strategies (e.g., Trino, Denodo) to sit on top of all data sources, allowing real-time, low-latency querying without moving raw data unnecessarily.<\/li>\n<li>Data lakehouse evolution: Serve as the principal architect for migrating the companyu2019s legacy big data (Hadoop\/On-Prem) estate to a modern, cloud\/hybrid data lakehouse environment (e.g., Databricks, Snowflake, Delta Lake). Design the multi-phase migration roadmap, focusing on decoupling compute\/storage separation and concurrency standards.<\/li>\n<li>Data governance integration: Architect automated hooks within the lakehouse migration so that data metadata, schemas, and lineage are automatically captured by the governance framework at ingestion.<\/li>\n<li>DaaS evolution: Review and expand the existing DaaS (API) infrastructure. Document the blueprint for the underlying current\/new architecture that exposes data assets via secure, high-speed APIs, allowing developers to query enterprise data.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p><strong>Data infrastructure readiness for AI<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Prepare the data foundation so that internal data scientists and external enterprise AI clients can safely consume the telecom data core.<\/li>\n<li>Semantic layering for GenAI (\"Chat with Data\"): Architect the semantic data layer and vector\/graph database integration guidelines. This allows LLM applications to securely map natural language queries directly to mature DaaS APIs, grounding the AI and preventing data hallucinations.<\/li>\n<li>Data architecture for autonomous agents: Design high-concurrency, immutable data snapshot patterns. This ensures that when multi-agent AI systems query network or commercial data simultaneously, they work from a consistent, synchronized state without causing database deadlocks or performance lags.<\/li>\n<li>AI data-sourcing and feature engineering standards: Establish standardized, reusable data-delivery interfaces for data scientists ensuring clean, governed telemetry is served with minimal latency.<\/li>\n<li>Next-gen visualization (\"Chat with Data\"): Explore, architect, and run proof of concepts (PoCs) for generative AI\/LLM integration (e.g., retrieval-augmented generation \/ RAG architecture), enabling business managers to ask natural language questions directly to the data lakehouse.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p><strong>Architectural enablement for \"Intelligent Data Apps\"<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ensure the data infrastructure perfectly supports business-facing software products and future AI tools.<\/li>\n<li>Architecting for intelligent apps: Design the high-throughput, reusable data blueprints required to power complex internal software products (e.g., retail management system, roaming insights platforms). Ensure data flows seamlessly to support real-time calculations and predictive forecasting engines.<\/li>\n<li>Enterprise AI readiness assessment: Systematically audit the data estate to evaluate if the data is structurally ready for AI\/ML. Define architectural prerequisitesu2014such as feature stores and low-latency data pipelinesu2014needed to support production-grade AI models in these intelligent data apps.<\/li>\n<li>Next-gen visualization (\"Chat with Data\"): Enable this concept for internally developed intelligent data apps by designing a semantic layer.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p><strong>Business alignment, governance, and lifecycle management<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Translate business demand to tech strategy: Act as a high-level internal consultant to commercial, digital, and network business units. Translate complex commercial goals into structural data requirements to ensure technology investments directly unlock business value.<\/li>\n<li>Architecture review board (ARB) leadership: Act as a vital member of the data ARB, reviewing and approving technical designs submitted by various business units to prevent the creation of new data silos.<\/li>\n<li>Legacy decommissioning and technical debt management: Author the architectural \"sunsetting\" roadmaps for legacy telecom data silos to reduce corporate infrastructure costs and manage technical debt during major platform cutovers.<\/li>\n<li>Act as cross-functional orchestration and guardrails for data organization:<\/li>\n<li>Ensure the standard macro-ingestion and integration patterns (e.g., real-time event streaming standards vs. batch window architectures).<\/li>\n<li>Ensure data modeling is according to industry standard guidelines (aligning closely with TM Forum SID telecom models).<\/li>\n<li>Partner with governance to define architectural requirements for automated metadata cataloging, master data management (MDM) for entities like retail sales reps, and data lineage tracking.<\/li>\n<li>Ensure compliance mandates (GDPR, local telecom privacy laws) and zero-trust security architecture requirements into the macro designs, ensuring sensitive commissioning and network data is strictly protected.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<h4>Core competencies and qualifications<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Technical expertise:<\/strong> Strong understanding of modern data architectures (e.g., big data, data warehouse, AI systems, and real-time data streaming), tools, and programming languages.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Leadership:<\/strong> Ability to inspire and align diverse teams, manage complex projects, and influence cross-functional stakeholders.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Strategic thinking:<\/strong> Capable of balancing short-term deliverables with long-term vision and scalability.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Communication skills:<\/strong> Clear articulation of technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Problem-solving:<\/strong> Proactive and solution-oriented, with the ability to tackle complex challenges under tight deadlines.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Agile community experience:<\/strong> Experience working in Agile teams to ensure delivery of needed quality gates and proactive actions.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Must have technical\/professional qualifications:<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>10+ years of experience in IT and maintaining large-scale data solutions.<\/li>\n<li>Knowledge of different vendors' technology in telecommunications and IT industry.<\/li>\n<li>Customer focus and ability to interact with decision makers.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<h4>Not a perfect fit?<\/h4>\n<p>Worried that you donu2019t meet all the desired criteria exactly? At Vodafone we are passionate about empowering people and creating a workplace where everyone can thrive, whatever their personal or professional background. If youu2019re excited about this role but your experience doesnu2019t align exactly with every part of the job description, we encourage you to still apply as you may be the right candidate for this role or another opportunity.<\/p>\n\n<h4>Who we are<\/h4>\n<p>We are a leading international telco, serving millions of customers. At Vodafone, we believe that connectivity is a force for good. If we use it for the things that really matter, it can improve people's lives and the world around us. Through our technology we empower people, connecting everyone regardless of who they are or where they live and we protect the planet, whilst helping our customers do the same.<\/p>\n<p>Belonging at Vodafone isn't a concept; it's lived, breathed, and cultivated through everything we do. You'll be part of a global and diverse community, with many different minds, abilities, backgrounds, and cultures. We're committed to increasing diversity, ensuring equal representation, and making Vodafone a place everyone feels safe, valued, and included.<\/p>\n<p>If you require any reasonable adjustments or have an accessibility request as part of your recruitment journey, for example, extended time or breaks in between online assessments, please refer to the application adjustments guidance provided by Vodafone.<\/p>\n\n<p><strong>Together we can.<\/strong><\/p><\/p><p><\/p>