SAP Snr Consultant-Functional

Minimum requirements:

• Matric / Grade 12 / National Senior Certificate
• Advanced Diplomas/National 1st Degrees
• B.Com/IS/IT ENG/BSc/Com Science related degree
  
• Associate SAP Certification
• Preferred certified in more than one SAP module /ASAP certification
  
• SAP Certification preferable in FI module
• Loans Management/CML will be advantageous
• S4 Hana exposure
• Minimum 5 years SAP Functional experience, specifically CML/Loans Management
  
• Minimum 5 years business and systems analysis experience
• Minimum 5 years testing experience.
• SAP FI / CO
• SAP CML/Loans Management
• SAP Treasury and Risk Management
• SAP Solution Manager
• SAP Multi-currency knowledge
• Basic ABAP understanding
• Test Automation tools
• Project Management principles
• Business Writing skills
• Presentation skills
• Problem Solving skills

Technical / Professional Knowledge:

• Business writing skills
• Functions Specific Policies Procedures and system Knowledge
• Business Acumen
• Regulatory knowledge
• Testing principles and processes
• Data analysis
• SAP Architecture
• SAP System
• knowledge of SAP
• project management principles and methodologies
• Microsoft Office
• Business analysis
• Presentation Skills
• business consulting and facilitation skills
• System Development Life cycle(SDLC)
• ASAP
• Problem solving skills

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 a resources involved and in 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.
• Acts in a functional integration specialist role across various SAP disciplines.
• Actively support other team members on projects as well as SAP internal tasks.
• Share knowledge.
• 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.
• Identify and Mitigate risk.
• Drive problem resolution.
• Keep up to date on company strategy and SAP technologies.
• Feels accountable for own activities and performance.
• 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 and share 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.
• Coach and mentor other resources in technical preparation of SAP Process Procedures, test scenarios, end-user documentation and user manuals. 
• 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.