Senior SAP Finance Scrum Master

6 months ago

Johannesburg, South Africa NTT Ltd. Full time

NTT is a leading global IT solutions and services organisation that brings together people, data and things to create a better and more sustainable future.

In today’s ‘iNTTerconnected’ world, connections matter more now than ever. By bringing together talented people, world-class technology partners and emerging innovators, we help our clients solve some of the world’s most significant technological, business and societal challenges.

With people at the heart of our success, NTT is committed to attracting and growing the best talent and providing an environment where everyone feels they can belong and their contribution matters.

**Want to be a part of our team?**

Manages the development and implementation process of a company’s products and services.

Coordinates departmental or cross-functional teams, focused on delivering new or upgrading existing products.

Monitors the project from initiation through delivery including planning and directing schedules and monitoring budget/spending.

Organizes cross-functional activities, ensuring completion of the project i.e. product on schedule and within budget constraints.

**Working at NTT**

The Scrum Master guides and coaches the organization and team in the use of scrum / agile practices. They boost the effectiveness of teams by managing key technical programs, championing delivery success and operationalizing underlying processes to make development teams hum effectively. Scrum Masters resolve impediments, monitor and have control over the scrum processes and meetings.

**Key Roles and Responsibilities**:

- Define project initiative scope, goals and deliverables and associated project success criteria that support business goals in collaboration with business stakeholders.
- Experience in managing the delivery of Business Transformation Programmes that utilise the following technologies:

- SAP ECC6 specialising in the functional area of Finance
- SAP S/4 HANA
- Collaborate with business stakeholders, cross-functional teams and assigned development teams to plan and develop scope, deliverables, required resources, work plan, budget and schedules for new project initiatives.
- Effectively communicate strategic guidance and programme expectations to product managers, release train engineers, product owners, team members and stakeholders in a timely and clear fashion.
- Develop new project initiatives to support the strategic direction of the organisation.
- Direct and manage end to end project delivery including acting as a scrum master in accordance with the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) approach.
- Clearly identify stakeholders and keep them updated and engaged on an ongoing basis.
- Set and continually manage project expectations with team members, other scrum masters, product managers and other stakeholders.
- Plan and schedule project timelines and milestones, including full-scale project plans, using appropriate tools.
- Delegate tasks and responsibilities to appropriate team members.
- Track project milestones and deliverables.
- Assume responsibility for the agile team members and vendors.
- Manage teams for optimal return on investment and coordinate and delegate cross-project initiatives.
- Resolve project scope issues.
- Identify and resolve issues and conflicts within the agile team.
- Identify and manage project dependencies and critical path.
- Champion delivery success throughout the team and champion the early delivery of incremental benefits.
- Ensure deliverables from team will form an integrated business solution.
- Collaboratively identify and synchronize project interdependencies across multiple teams.
- Ensure the program benefits remain viable throughout the program, communicating status and date changes and actively manage dependencies.
- Assist product teams in making realistic commitments whilst communicating with business stakeholders.
- Navigate changes and risks that affect the programs.
- Facilitate effective resource allocation across the programs.
- Evangelize Scrum and Agile Development best practices throughout the company.
- Serve as a point of contact for geographically distributed teams.
- Prepare executive status reports for business stakeholders, participate in portfolio review meetings and run executive steering committee meetings.
- Help drive and improve the Program Management Office (PMO) processes.
- Drive continuous improvement of best practices and tools for project execution and management.

**Required Knowledge, Skills and Attributes**:

- Minimum of 5-8 years Project Management experience with the delivery of large IT solutions of which at least 2-3 years must be as a Scrum Master using a proven Agile approach.
- Good understanding of agile delivery methodologies.
- Outstanding leadership, facilitation and organizational skills.
- Self-motivated and capable of managing multiple priorities and tasks as delegated.
- Ability to drive multiple teams to deliver under tight timescales with finite resources

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