SAP Functional Analyst

2 weeks ago

Brackenfell, South Africa Shoprite Group Full time

**Purpose of the Job**:
**Job Objectives**:
Analyse and understand the functional business requirements as defined by the Business Analysts, owners, and other stakeholders. Understand the retail domain and applicable context of various business requirements specifications in relation to the specific SAP systems and operational processes.
Review SAP technical solutions and business processes against the scope of business requirements.
Undertake systems analysis and participate in system design and documentation for all low to medium-complexity solutions including participation in the solution assessment and validation.
Provide input into the scope of a solution and ensure an understanding of the scope by relevant stakeholders.
Provide input on alternatives presented by the system designers and answer detailed questions regarding the business design and applicable configuration options.
Produce fit-for-purpose specification documents for business requirements and processes using appropriate tools.
Deliver in accordance with systems and unit test standards against IT group standards and best practices.
Provide support to the systems designer with solutions for highly complex systems integration.
Provide support in the identification of data conversion and reporting requirements.
Prepare test scripts and execute testing of the configured scenarios.
Facilitate and coordinate User Acceptance Testing.
Troubleshoot system-related issues and channel transactional data.
Assist with and provide timeous feedback on ad-hoc queries from business stakeholders.
Build and maintain a trusting relationship with business and IT stakeholders by delivering what was promised and providing solid knowledge and support.
Work closely with Architects, Designers, and Business stakeholders, in order to design and implement solutions.
Take ownership to gain knowledge of the retail environment and share that knowledge across the team. To continuously support the business environment, you are required to maintain an understanding of initiatives and objectives, its various line portfolios, and the current trends and developments in the technology field.

**Qualifications**:
**Essential**
Relevant Degree (Information Systems, B.Sc Computer Science). If you do not have a degree, then your demonstrable knowledge and practical ability will be considered.

**Experience**:
**Essential**
1-3 years - FA I, 3-5 years FA II, 5-8 years FA III of Experience
3-5 years experience as an Analyst / Programmer or equivalent - including exposure to system integration, testing (unit, system, performance, integration, and volume), design, and architecture.
Relevant and demonstrable experience in systems analysis, configuration, and user testing.
Exposure to and an understanding of the corporate, retail, and financial environment in a similar role.

**The exposure that will be highly advantageous in this role**:
**_Pricing & Promotions:_** configuration ability of SAP SD, Pricing (MM\SD Retail), billing and order management functionality with Retail Pricing, SAP Promotions, and Bonus Buy functionality.
Pricing & Promotion processes and practices.
IS Retail Master data - Article master, Site master, Organisation, and Enterprise Structures.
IS Retail Merchandising - Assortment Management and Layout Workbench.
IS Retail POS Integration - Assortment list, POS Interface, Enterprise services.
Allocation Processing and Import processes.
Understanding of DRF integration and Data-services.

**_ Procurement:_** SAP Planning and Procurement, Merchandise Distribution with hands-on experience in the configurations and business processes in:
Purchase orders
Purchase Requisitions
Collective Purchase orders
Planning and delivery cycles
Allocations
SAP Replenishment
Retail Master Data including:
Article and Article listing, layout modules
Vendor, Customer
Organizational structures
Article and Merchandise hierarchy
Sites, Site groups, assortments
Implementation of SAP IDOC technology
SAP integration for SAP MM, SD, FI, and Retail Master Data to External systems
Functional Experience in SAP PI or any other middleware system
ABAP debugging skills (does not need to develop or maintain ABAP code). Exposure to the integration of legacy systems like demand, warehouse management, and replenishment.
Full Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) experience (Unpacking requirements, functional design, writing functional specifications, interacting with ABAP developers, unit testing, involved with Testing Centre of Excellence (TCOE) in defining test scenarios to be tested and reviewing test evidence before deploying to Production, User Acceptance testing (UAT) and responsible for ensuring cutover tasks completed with deployment to Production environment).
SAP Retail procurement processes and practices.
Retail demand management and order fulfillment.

**Knowledge and Skills**:
Please see "experience" above.

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