Senior Specialist, Analytics Support at Exxaro Resources

QUALIFICATIONS:
B Tech (Relevant) (Essential/Minimum or)
BSc (Hons) Information Systems Techn (Essential/Minimum)
Management Development Programme (Essential/Minimum)

EXPERIENCE:

6-8 yearsRelevant 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 at Exxaro)
Certificate of Fitness (Essential/Minimum) (To be conducted at Exxaro)

Duties & Responsibilities    
The incumbent will inter alia be responsible for the following:

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
• Enhance Logistics, Finance and custom extractors
• Develop and maintain ABAP User exits
• Provide ongoing support of the existing BO Reporting, Data Services and BW systems
• Translate functional specifications into technical specifications and ensure a comprehensive data warehouse design

Experience

• Experience in SAP BI/BW application development and implementation, specifically with the following: SAP ECC 6.0 integration, SAP BW 7.x, BEx 7.x, ABAP Programming, Business Objects 4.x
• Experience with SAP BW architecture, data modeling, design and development
• Experience with BW administrator Workbench; BW Info Objects, ODS, Info Cubes, Info Packages, Info Sources, Design complex, customs BW solutions translating complex requirements in an optimal BW design
• Planning and organizational skills, including ability to engage with multiple development projects concurrently and working to tight deadlines.