Senior Functional Specialist (Payroll) at Exxaro Resources

Job Advert Summary    
PURPOSE:

•  To configure and prototype applications, conduct end-user training and ensure compliance to demand management processes.

MAJOR CHALLENGES:

•  High number of request volumes.  High number of projects.

Minimum Requirements    
QUALIFICATIONS:

•     BSc (Hons) Information Systems Techn (Essential/Minimum)
•     Management Development Programme (Essential/Minimum)

EXPERIENCE: 

• 6-8 years  Relevant Information Technology/Business process and application support experience. With a minimum of 3 years managerial experience  (Essential/Minimum)    Operational

REQUIREMENTS: 

•     Psychometric Assessment (Essential/Minimum) (To be conducted by Exxaro)
•     Certificate of Fitness (Essential/Minimum) (To be conducted by Exxaro)

Duties & Responsibilities    
Best Practice and Knowledge Management  

•  Identify and implement initiatives to improve systems and processes by extracting information and compiling new reports and or existing standard reports on best practice systems and processes to identify and meet organisational needs
•  Pursue exchange and preservation of information between operations and individuals to facilitate effective knowledge management according to organisational objectives

Business Performance and Operations    

•  Release value through ongoing application maintenance, development and optimisation
•  Compliance to demand management process
•  Escalate major developments to Solution Specialist
•  Analyse business solution and utilisation metrics
•  Responsible for analysing incidents and resolving them
•  Implement solution enhancements and analysing Preventative Maintenance
•  Develop and build strategic internal and external partnerships

Compliance, Governance and Assurance    

•  Ensure all information and reporting has integrity and is in strict compliance with proper accounting principles and law
•  Recognise understand and take action to mitigate and manage risks that can impact on implementation of business strategy
•  Conduct assurance reviews on complex integrated systems

Functional Excellence    

•  Adhere to functional policies, standards, guidelines, procedures, end- to-end processes, tools, templates etc.
•  Assist in standardising, simplifying and speeding-up functional processes, eliminating duplication/bureaucracy
•  Apply functional best practices, promote sharing of best practices/knowledge

Functional Management  

•  Governance: Ensure function adheres to governance, policies, standards, statutory and legal compliance. Entrench a culture of discipline
•  Engagement/communication: Communicate and engage functional employees, including virtuals. Engage with managers, operations and cross-functionally with peers
•  Support coordination of functional/cross-functional activities to ensure functional alignment

SAP Solution Delivery    

•  Configure and prototype applications
•  System operational and technical application support according to standards
•  End user training and development of training material
•  Exploitation of applications by applying functional knowledge and knowledge sharing
•  Effective collaboration in order to facilitate integration between processes and applications
•  Ensure solution supports business process
•  Responsible for developing functional requirements
•  Analyse solution functionality and optimisation

Safe and Healthy Work Environment    

•  Maintain and ensure a healthy environment, safe operations and practices, ensuring compliance with all applicable Safety Health and Environmental (SHE) policies and procedures in line with set standards
•  Encourage a culture that focuses on safety in all operations

Behavioural Alignment    

Demonstrates the following:

•  Creativity, collaboration, sociable and awareness to the ecosystem
•  Stewardship, accountability, ability to develop trust, safety conscious and ethical
•  Ability to respond quickly to business needs/agility, flexibility, continuous learning, innovation and proven ability to experiment on creative business solutions
•  Ability to be inclusive, eagerness for multiple skills, embraces multiple cultures, accepts different approaches and be human-centric/empathetic
•  Results oriented, quality driven, excellence, entrepreneurial abilities, efficient and effective