SAP Consultant-Functional

Minimum requirements: 

• Matric / Grade 12 / National Senior Certificate
• Advanced Diplomas/National 1st Degrees
• Minimum 3 years SAP Functional experience, specifically CML/Loans Management, FICO. Solution Manager, Treasury and Risk Management
• Minimum 3 years business and systems analysis experience
• Minimum 3 years testing experience
• Bcom/IS/IT ENG/BSc/Com Science related degree (preferred)
• Relevant SAP module certification (preferred)

Exposure:

• SAP System - Multiple modular knowledge (FICO, CML/Loans Management, Solution Manager, Treasury and Risk Management)
• Business Analysis
• Testing Principles
• Presentation and facilitation skills
• IT Practices and Industry Knowledge
  
• Business Consulting skills
• Proficient Business Acumen
• Strong SAP technical knowledge
• Testing of software solutions
• Managing personal work delivery according to timelines and quality standards
• Building and maintaining effective relationships externally and internally
• Managing customer service and experience through personal delivery
• Contributing to improve team performance
• Mentoring and coaching

Responsibilities: 

• Contribute to quality and financial goals by operating within agreed budget and by conforming to the Service Level Agreements.
• Plans and prioritise work outputs with a realistic sense of time and resources involved.
• Ensures conformance to programming and/or configuration standards and /or documentation in line with best practices.
• Investigate and propose enhancements which will result in improved performance.
• Responds to customers with the appropriate level of urgency.
• Works under limited supervision of mentor/Senior in supporting the achievement of project/deliverables.
• Takes ownership in ensuring that customers expectations are met.
• Customer liaison into business.
• Demonstrates an understanding of how SAP software, services, products and solutions add value to the business.
• Highlights potential project or solution risks and issues to project management.
• Actively support other team members on projects as well as SAP internal tasks.
• Participate in knowledge sharing.
• Prioritise and/or integrate multiple projects /tasks concurrently.
• Provide input to highlight inter dependencies between projects and support.
• Deliver all project activities leading to the implementation of the requirements by applying project management principles.
• Deliver as per approved SDLC.
• Provide direction, configure and maintain the SAP system and provide support through alignment to the standards processes and procedures.
• Assist other resources in technical preparation of SAP Process Procedures, test scenarios, end-user documentation and user manuals.
• Identify and Mitigate risk.
• Apply problem solving skills to resolve identified problems.
• Keep up to date on SAP and company strategy.
• Takes a disciplined approach and works effectively towards clear objectives and prioritises.
• Analyses and appropriately judges the pro's, cons, opportunities and risks of a problem.
• Uses information from different sources to aid in problem solving.
• Effectively resolves complex problems using creative approaches outside area of expertise.
• Maintain and sharing team knowledge.
• Continually develop core skills, cross-functional expertise and business knowledge.
• Participate in company culture building initiatives,
• Participate and support corporate social responsibility initiatives.
• Add value to the company by identifying and recommending opportunities to enhance processes, systems and policies and support implementation of new processes, policies and systems.
• Enhancements to the SAP CML, TRM, SolMan and FICO systems and ad-hoc projects that may arise.
• Enhancements to the SAP CML, TRM, SolMan and FICO systems and ad-hoc projects that may arise.