GDS Consulting_SAP ABAP Senior Manager

Role summary

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This senior leadership role requires strong SAP ABAP expertise, including custom development, enhancements, integrations, debugging, performance optimization, and SAP delivery practices. The candidate is expected to lead technical teams, manage client engagements, oversee solution quality, contribute to proposals, and support the growth of EY’s SAP consulting practice. Relevant experience with SAP S/4HANA, ABAP Objects, CDS views, OData, Fiori integration, and enterprise implementation projects is highly valuable. The role also calls for excellent communication, stakeholder management, coaching ability, commercial awareness, and the confidence to work with regional and global teams. A bachelor’s degree in IT, computer science, engineering, or a related discipline is typically expected.

About the employer

EY, or Ernst & Young, is a global professional services organization providing assurance, consulting, strategy and transactions, tax, and related advisory services. Its teams work with organizations ranging from large multinational companies to governments and growing businesses. EY’s Global Delivery Services network supports client engagements through technology, analytics, finance, risk, and business process expertise delivered across international centers. In the Philippines, EY has a significant presence in Metro Manila, including Taguig, and provides consulting and technology services to local and global clients. The firm’s SAP practice helps organizations modernize enterprise platforms, improve business processes, and implement or support SAP solutions such as S/4HANA. EY emphasizes integrity, teamwork, professional development, inclusion, and helping clients manage complex business and technology change.

Working in Philippines

The Philippines offers strong opportunities in IT consulting, SAP, software development, shared services, finance, customer operations, and digital transformation, especially in Metro Manila, Cebu, and Davao. The country has a young, English-speaking workforce and a generally warm, relationship-oriented culture. Manila provides the broadest career market but has heavy traffic and a fast-paced urban lifestyle; Cebu offers a more relaxed setting with a growing technology sector, while many islands provide beaches, outdoor activities, and lower living costs. Foreign professionals normally need an employer-sponsored Alien Employment Permit and an appropriate work visa, commonly a 9(g) pre-arranged employee visa; requirements can vary by nationality and employment terms. Relocating candidates should budget for housing, healthcare, transport, insurance, and periodic travel. Employers typically assist with immigration paperwork, onboarding, and relocation arrangements.