SAP BAS Functional Consultant (Senior) at Discovery Limited

Job Purpose
Participating in the planning, development, maintenance, and enhancement of SAP applications. Customizing applications from the Integrated Solution Architecture and Design, Business Requirements Documents from Functional Specifications or RUN THE BANK Incident to meet defined Business needs.

Areas of responsibility may include but not limited to:

• Make configuration changes as required.
• Adhere to Governance Processes always.
• Configure solutions that will provide excellent Customer service.
• Ensure Quality Assurance of new and added system functionality throughout the development life cycle.
• Facilitate the activities necessary to ensure a smooth transition onto the new functions and applications.
• Adapt to new application solutions and/ or changes to existing applications.
• Ensure requirements such as audit standards, data management standards, safety related standards, best practice, legislation and risk during Project and Change participation.
• Build and maintain a large and diverse array of relationships across GIT, including all levels of the organisation (from executive to front-line staff) across the whole IT Value chain. This is required on a Preferred Qualification and Experience
• Continuous Improvement by identifying new and alternative approaches to performing business activities. 
• Quality Assurance 
• Change Management  
• Ensure that system business processes within the area of responsibility are optimised.
• Ensure alignment to Release methodology and procedures.
• Verify the quality of functionality delivered.

Technical Skills:

• Core Retail Banking Implementations with specific focus on the end-to-end product life cycle for the following products:
• Savings Products (with and without Notice)
• Term Deposit Products
• Transactional Products (with and without overdraft)
• Master Contract Products
• Loans Management Products

The End-to-end product life cycle must include all areas of the product, namely:

1. Payments
2. Product
3. Pricing

• Account Maintenance and Servicing (all business operations and maintenance activities)
• End of Day processing and exception handling
• Experience must include hands on functional configuration, good understanding of technical components, all round unit testing and support thereof.

Education:

• Matric
• BSc Computer Sciences/ Information Systems or equivalent IT tertiary qualification
• Banking Services Certification or relevant SAP certification

Experience:

• Several years of experience in the SAP environment and in the area of SAP Financial Services development 
• Comprehensive technical and professional knowledge of the technical architecture and database structure from at least one SAP Financial Services module
• SAP Banking Services and SAP S4/HANA experience an advantage
• An independent, motivated, and results-oriented way of working using analytical and conception methodologies
• You enjoy working in a customer- and team-oriented way
• Strong communication skills and a confident and positive manner