Senior Functional Consultant - Kenilworth at Pick n Pay Stores Limited

Purpose:

We are looking for a BPC Specialist.

Streamlining and supporting engagement between the Pick n Pay business, technical and partners related to the provisioning of financial planning, consolidation and reporting information and insights. Constantly exposing the opportunities and constraints within the systems and data while facilitating the optimal performance of the system and use of data resulting for insights-driven decision making and opportunity identification. Up-skilling and cross-skilling BI support team members

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, or related field or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• 3 to 5 years’ hands on SAP BPC11 embedded development and support.
• 2 years as a Team Lead.
• Understanding of accounting principles and standards with specific reference to IFRS requirements.
• Knowledge of SAP FI modules and BW / Business Intelligence systems.
• Ability to design and interpret reporting architecture for SAP BW.
• Understanding of SAP ECC and non-SAP data structures and interfaces to SAP BW

Competencies:

• Business (Stakeholder) Engagement
• Ability to lead
• Collaboration
• Analytical and conceptual thinking
• Work planning
• Data/Information Governance
• Self-driven
• Problem-solver
• Good communication
• Influencing

Requirements:

• Structure system development approach and strategy through development of systems requirements through the design, prototyping, testing, training, defining, and implementation of procedures for support of practical business solutions.
• Provide SAP BPC best practices on application development and reporting requirements.
• Ensure that both business processes and systems are aligned to latest SAP BPC and related technologies based on SAP strategic roadmap.
• Effectively support and maintain IFRS-compliant consolidations and financial reporting.
• Provide first and second level incident support to the business by analysing and clarifying the issue and resolving issues within the agreed operational and service level agreement (OLA/SLA).
• Map and trace data from system to system in order to solve any given business or system problems.
• Ensure all support knowledge for resolving incidents and service requests are up to date.
• Document or update functional specifications for system developments to be done and work with senior developers on requirements.
• Establish the root cause of repeated incidents and recommend resolutions or procedural process changes to relevant stakeholders.
• Share resolution knowledge and experience with team and provide training and mentoring to team members where required.
• Able to work on simultaneous assignments/complex projects.
• Configure approved system changes or enhancements in SAP BPC and/or BW modules.
• Prepare test scripts for testing the configured scenarios and perform unit and regression testing of system configuration or development changes before releasing the changes to QA/Regression and Production systems.
• Escalate issues timeously to the BI Support Team Lead for support when a solution is not forthcoming.
• Ensure business compliance to processes and procedures.
• Actively monitor processes (e.g., daily batch jobs in the system, LFL setup and other operational activities).
• Ensure alignment across SAP modules and any non-SAP systems.
• Ensure consistency, completeness and clarity of own deliverables, and their acceptance by business stakeholders and BI colleagues.
• Assist other team members whenever necessary.