SAP Associate - JHB at Ernst & Young Global Limited (EY)

Project Management:

• Participate in SAP client engagements. Consistently deliver quality client services, driving high-quality work products within the expected timeframes and on budget.
• Stay abreast of current business and industry trends relevant to the client's business.
• Should be a self-starter with excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Should be comfortable interfacing with a client on a daily basis.
• This role requires daily interaction with the client at many levels.

Practice Management:

• Demonstrate technical capabilities and professional knowledge.
• Demonstrate ability to quickly assimilate to new knowledge. Possess in-depth business acumen.
• Remain current on new developments in Consulting capabilities and industry knowledge.
• Provide subject matter expertise and design expertise and for a module within the SAP S/4HANA solution set.
• Knowledge of the overall SAP roadmap and experience with assisting clients to understand the myriad of options available to them. This should include supporting with the business case to define an appropriate roadmap for their business and ultimately helping them in executing that roadmap.
• Work effectively as a team member, sharing responsibility, providing support, maintaining communication, and updating senior team members on progress.
• Help prepare reports and schedules that will be delivered to clients and other parties.
• Develop and maintain productive working relationships with client personnel.
• Build strong internal relationships within EY Consulting and with other service lines across the organization.

Skills and attributes for success

• Effectively team with diverse skills and backgrounds and foster an innovative and inclusive team-oriented work environment.
• Strong written and verbal communication, presentation, client service and technical writing skills, coupled with a strong interest in further developing and integrating enterprise domain knowledge with technology skills.
• Demonstrate characteristics of a forward thinker and self-starter that thrives on new challenges and adapts quickly to learning new knowledge.
• A strong work ethic.

To qualify for the role you must have

• A degree in computer science, accounting, finance, or a related field (MBA or Business Undergraduate degree preferred).
• SAP certification/s and relevant project experience
• Approximately 2+ years of total experience and SAP product experience
• Knowledge in SAP S/4 HANA and with relevant implementation experience
• Understanding SAP S/4HANA cloud service offerings
• Experience in one of the functional workstream (FICO, SD, SF, EWM, TM, Ariba, BTP, Hybris, IBP)
• Strong verbal and written communication with out of box thinking abilities.
• Ability to understand Methodologies (Activate, Agile, SDLC, SCRUM) and other industry business fundamentals and ability to showcase a quick learning curve.
• Proficient in MS Office products (Project, Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
• Strong knowledge in business processes and best practices
• Capability of presenting the value proposition in the module / area,
• Very good problem-solving abilities
• Development of project documentation, training materials, requirements gathering, and project management methodology experience required.
• Show initiative and creativity in developing innovative work-around solutions or new processes.
• Demonstrate deep knowledge of SAP solutions and appropriate industries to maintain credibility with prospective customers. Provide proof points with relevant customer stories.
• Support RFx completion in support of customer proposals.
• Engaging with Clients in understanding their requirements, scoping, discovering and defining solutions, explaining business benefits and use cases and a roadmap to meet their goals.
• Creating innovative solution designs that utilize our extensive service offerings.
• Support the SAP implementation project and play solution consultant role binding the solution to meet client requirements

Ideally, you’ll also have

• Comfortable working in a matrix environment due to previous experience
• Technically proficient with globally recognised current and relevant certifications to prove it
• Strong industry experience / exposure
• Comfortable communicating with senior client and EY stakeholders (globally) in verbal and written form
• Consistently deliver quality client services, driving high-quality work products within the expected timeframes and on budget.
• Monitor progress, manage risk, and ensure key stakeholders are kept informed about progress and expected outcomes.
• Systems thinking - the ability to see how parts interact with the whole (big picture thinking)
• Ability to explain complex technical issues in a way that non-technical people may understand
• Project and program management planning and organizational skills
• Ability to deal with abstract concepts and communicate these effectively through compelling written and graphical materials