Senior Functional Consultant - Kenilworth at Pick n Pay Stores Limited

Minimum requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, or related field or equivalent combination of education and experience
• 3 to 5 years’ hands on SAP BPC 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

Attributes:

• Self-driven
• Curious
• Passionate
• Problem-solver
• Thorough
• Detail orientated  
• Responsible/ Accountable
• Team player

Skills:

• Communication
• Networking/Relationship-building
• Influencing
• Documentation
• Analytical
• Consulting
• Training
• Presenting

Business (Stakeholder) Engagement:

• Eliciting needs and defining information requirements
• Presenting contextualised options, solutions and results in a visual and engaging manner
• Working with business stakeholders and DnA team members to define and implement strategic objectives

Leading:

• Moderate, intermediate, and translate between the different stakeholders and contributors
• Researching, evaluating and recommending new and better ways of doing things based on experience, technology and trends
• Developing junior BPC support team members skills

Collaboration:

• Working with business and technical communities to entrench and evolve solutions while forging better ways of working
• Supporting and growing team members

Analytical & Conceptual Thinking:

• Data Literacy: The ability to read, write and communicate data in context, including an understanding of data sources and constructs and the ability to describe the use case, the application and resulting value
• Information Literacy: The ability to know when there is a need for information; to be able to identify, locate, evaluate and effectively use that information for the issue or problem at hand
• Intimate and deep financial business knowledge and dynamics is essential for understanding data and information in context. The role requires the ability to keep in mind mental models of various data assets and interdependent business process relationships whenever working through analysis

Work Planning:

• Detailed knowledge of delivery life cycle associated with financial planning, consolidation and reporting solutions including but not limited to the key phases, core milestones, critical success factors, typical challenges and mitigation strategies.
• Working with the architectural and solution delivery functions to establish detailed and achievable delivery plans using an Agile methodology

Data/ Information Governance:

• Contributing to, adhering to and enforcing data and information standards, processes, ways of working, policies, testing and quality assurance

Role Specific:

• 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 DnA 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 DnA colleagues
• Assist other team members whenever necessary