SAP HCM Functional Consultant at The South African National Roads Agency (SANRAL)

POSITION OBJECTIVE

The objective of this role is to provide consulting support primarily in the HR Master data and payroll areas. As such you will be expected to analyse and create solutions for business and technical issues identified. The main job purpose is to provide mentorship and drive the business process and technology solutions of SANRAL in SAP and Cloud products. The job description taking responsibility for maintaining, configuring, and operating HR business solutions. Common responsibilities linked to the role are translating business requirements into workable solutions, crafting and implementing a quality solution for all SAP functional, and project management areas; identifying opportunities for efficiencies in work processes; managing the consistency of data, and managing the relationship with key internal functions; assisting in training users; and maintaining SAP SF and HCM solutions.

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS

• Relevant NQF 7 Qualification
• 5 to 7 years HCM and SAP SuccessFactors support and at least two end to end HCM implementations
• SAP certified in at least one of the following SAP SuccessFactors modules: Employee Central, Recruitment Management, Learning Management System, On boarding and Off-boarding, Performance & Goal Management

WORKPLACE COMPETENCIES

The successful incumbent will be able to effectively demonstrate these competencies: 

• Detailed knowledge of the integration into key business processes
• Solid understanding, and experience in implementing one or more SAP/HCM modules
• Strong knowledge and hands-on experience with SAP S4 HANA and employee self-service solutions  
• SAP HCM on S4HANA, including payroll and travel management
• SAP SuccessFactors
• Liaise with SAP Premium Engagement team
• Analyse business requirements and draw up specification
• Conduct and facilitate UAT sessions
• Understanding SAP integration architecture in S4HANA and SAP Cloud Integration Platform
• Manage and control transport process via SAP CHARM
• Reviewing existing workflows and process design to arrive at desired business state
• Interpersonal Skills
• Ability to manage multiple tasks simultaneously
• Ability to work under pressure
• Ability to influence people outside of your reporting structure
• Independent thinker

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Scoping of Identified support tasks:

• Develop high level project plan for identified projects
• Identify key stakeholders
• Identify deliverables
• Co-ordinate working committee and obtain sign off of roles from committee members per milestone / gate
• Translate business requirements and objectives into a project and process plan
• Identify resources needed and assign individual responsibilities per project activity

Management of support tasks

• Coordinate implantation and execution of project work plan and revise as appropriate to meet changing needs and requirements
• Track and monitor project deliverables 
• Co-ordinate and facilitate regular status meetings with project team 
• Provide ongoing feedback to senior management and stakeholders in respect of milestones and slippage etc
• Follow up on Action items
• Continuous communication with stakeholders
• Identify potential risks and develop back up plans
• Information distribution to all stakeholders and management

System Documentation

• Project Plan with milestones, resources, dependencies etc to be in place per project allocated where agreed with management
• On-going updates to project plan
• Sign-off from all stakeholders (project plan)
• Project Risk Management
• On-going feedback to project stakeholders
• On-going updates to management

Support tasks

• Project Risk Management – document risks (ensure project team sign-off)
• Align risks identified with SANRAL ICT, SANRAL users as well as Internal Audit
• Ensure the project objective is documented as well as milestones, deliverables, technical requirements, exclusions, sign-off, processes
• Ensure that the following stages are included on the project plan:
• Definition Stage
  -Define the task Scope
  -Create the work breakdown structure
  -Estimate costs and budget (where required)
• Planning Stage
  -Provide estimate time for deliverables
  -Project schedule, detailing all tasks and resources
• Execution Stage
• Delivery Stage

Stakeholder liaison

• Arrange and co-ordinate specification handover meetings between various stakeholders (Users, Managers, and ICT Testers).
• Facilitate common understanding of business needs.
• Monitor and resolve queries raised by the Users, Developers and Testers.
• Coordinate unresolved queries with Business if not present during handover and facilitate that all queries are resolved.
• Monitor that specification is updated with any additional requirements.
• Communicate & update various stakeholders across the business of any changes.