Current Vacancies at Liberty Group South Africa

Purpose

As an SAP FI S4HANA Consultant, you will play a critical role in the analysis, design, implementation, and support of SAP FI solutions in alignment with business as well as project requirements and objectives. Your expertise will be essential in ensuring smooth financial operations, process optimization, and integration of financial data within the S/4HANA environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Participate in end-to-end SAP FI S/4HANA implementation projects, including blueprinting, design, configuration, testing, and post-go-live support.
• Configure and customize SAP FI modules to meet business needs, including General Ledger (GL), Accounts Payable (AP), Accounts Receivable (AR), Asset Accounting (AA), Financial Supply Chain Management (FSCM), and Controlling (CO).
• Collaborate with business stakeholders to understand finance processes and provide expert guidance on leveraging SAP FI functionalities.
• Conduct workshops and training sessions to educate end-users on SAP FI capabilities and best practices.
• Participate in data migration activities and ensure the integrity and accuracy of financial data in the S/4HANA system.
• Identify opportunities for process improvements and recommend solutions to streamline financial processes, enhance reporting capabilities, and support decision making.
• Provide ongoing support and maintenance for SAP FI systems, addressing issues, and resolving technical problems.

Additional Key Responsibilities

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate SAP FI with other SAP modules and external systems.
• Stay updated with the latest SAP FI S/4HANA trends and advancements, ensuring the organization's finance systems are up-to-date and aligned with industry standards.
• Perform system testing, including unit testing, integration testing, and user acceptance testing, to ensure the quality and accuracy of SAP FI configurations.
• Act as a subject matter expert in SAP FI S/4HANA, providing technical support and guidance to the finance team and other stakeholders.
• Stay abreast of changes in financial regulations and accounting standards, ensuring SAP FI configurations remain compliant with relevant requirements.
• Collaborate with external consultants and vendors when required, managing relationships and ensuring the successful delivery of outsourced services.

Minimum Experience

• 5 years of experience in SAP FICO with a proven track record of successfully delivering multiple SAP FI projects, including full lifecycle implementations, upgrades, and rollouts.
• Must have worked on at least 1 S4 Project.
• Minimum two E2E Implementation project experience in SAP FICO required.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor`s Degrees and Advanced Diplomas [NQF Level 07] in Information Technology and Computer Sciences.
• SAP FI/S4HANA Certification or equivalent.
• Knowledge of SAP S/4HANA Finance.

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Purpose

• To contact prospective customers to sell products and achieve set targets in compliance with set quality standards through the execution of predefined objectives as per agreed standard operating procedures (SOPs).

Minimum Experience

• 1 - 2 years experience in a similar environment

Minimum Qualifications

• Further Education and Training Certificate (FETC) [NQF Level 04] in Office Administration

Process

• Adhere to prescribed timekeeping standards at all times and attempt to improve own standards continuously.
• Align and integrate own administrative support tasks and activities in accordance to required response time, quality and service delivery standards.
• Accountable for own work quality, standards and outputs related to policies, procedures and defined processes.
• Proactively identify problems, apply known solutions and escalate more difficult problems.
• Plan for task execution and adjust priorities against an established plan.

Customer

• Liaise and interact with customers via approved communication channels in a positive and helpful manner.
• Resolve client queries and escalate problematic queries to the correct level to ensure prompt and effective resolution, enhancing the client experience.
• Conduct outbound call centre calls in a professional manner, ensuring an excellent and accurate client service enhancing org reputation.
• Conducts financial needs analysis and generates sales of Liberty products by matching client needs to relevant Liberty product.
• Executes activities to ensure customer service delivery that meets or exceeds customer expectations aligned to Treating the Customer Fairly (TCF) principles.

Finance

• Achieves monthly sales targets and production requirements by ensuring that customer leads and prospective customers translate into professional needs based sales revenue.
• Adhere to specified standards, policies and procedures to prevent potential losses/wastage.

Learning and Growth

• Contribute positively to own area-specific knowledge improvement.

Governance

• Comply to set governance and compliance procedures and processes related to an area of work and continuously identify, rectify and escalate risks where necessary.

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Purpose

To provide specialist advice & support in the development & implementation of solution architect applications addressing problems on systems integration, compatability and multi platforms.

Key Responsibilities

• Responsible for assisting in the establishment of an IT Architecture practice, and the adoption of an architecture and standards methodology.
• Manages activities that take place during solution ideation, solution design, and solution implementation.
• Reviews business context for solutions to company challenges as well as defining the vision and requirements for the solution, recommending potential options, (which may include RFIs, RFPs or prototype development), selecting the most optimal option, and the development of a roadmap for the selected solution.
• Communicates the architecture to the stakeholders and collaborates and coordinates with existing domain architects in the formalization and adoption of IT standards and procedures.
• Champions a structured approach to business application solutions.

Additional Key Responsibilities

• Directly assists in the development of a solutions architecture program including departmental roadmaps and project portfolios for IT systems architecture.
• Assures solutions not only are a fit for the specific purpose but also closely align with the standards guidelines of technology solutions.
• Influences changes to standards when necessary.
• Assists domain architecture team on solutions management and timing of financial spend for application solutions.
• Supports the architectural aspects of all application projects in peer IT portfolios.
• Directs the identification and recommendation of appropriate solutions, upgrades, replacements, or decommissioning options incorporating business and technology productivity, usability, and total cost of ownership.
• Develops and executes solutions which further reduce the percentage of time spent on reactive work.
• Provides analysis of security protection technologies as necessary.

Minimum Experience

• Minimum of 7 – 10 years of experience related to IT Management or other information technology solutions architecture role.
• Demonstrated ability to communicate the complexities of technical programs.
• Proficiency with information technologies in a secure network environment.
• Expertise with personal computers in a secure network environment and Microsoft applications (Outlook, Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint and SharePoint) or similar software.
• Experience in Cloud Platforms (AWS, Azure, Salesforce) - Similar platforms.
• Tracking the progress of projects.
• Documenting procedures, architecture principles, and patterns.
• Evaluating and implementing new technologies.
• Collaborating with other teams to improve business processes.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor`s Degrees and Advanced Diplomas [NQF Level 07] in Information Technology and Computer Sciences.

Certifications

• TOGAF Certification is mandatory.
• AWS, Azure, Salesforce (Experience).

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Purpose

To plan, manage and monitor the implementation of branch management activities and processes in order to deliver on approved operational plans in an effective and efficient manner.

Minimum Experience

• 3 - 5 years experience in a similar environment, of which 1 - 2 years at junior management level

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor`s Degrees and Advanced Diplomas [NQF Level 07] in Generic Management

Additional Minimum Qualifications

Outputs

Process

• Develop market position through the identification of target markets, building relationships and negotiating and closing business deals.
• Plan for, manage and ensure the effective administration of area related support services in alignment with team and individual performance objectives.
• Manage business retention through the application of various sales techniques such as rate negotiations, product comparisons and changing perceptions.
• Ensure customer understanding of org. brand messages, products and services in order to facilitate messages appropriately and successfully.
• Manage branch operations.
• Accountable for maintaining quality, service and outputs related to a work area, ensuring compliance with set policy, procedures and standards.
• Proactively identify operational problems, determine cause and effect, select and implement the best solution to solve problems based on previous experience and understanding of the context.
• Plan for and organise multiple work activities for team execution by assigning priorities against the set framework in light of the specific situational context.

Customer

• Manages to ensure service excellence in support of Treating the Customer Fairly (TCF) principles to build positive relationships and creates opportunities for exceptional service delivery.

Finance

• Identify solutions to enhance cost effectiveness and increase operational efficiency.
• Compile a budget aligned to the operational or area specific delivery of plans; monitor and report on variances and make sure that planned objectives are reported, escalating any deviations.

Learning and Growth

• Manage teams within the context of defined processes, set required performance parameters and act as technical coach where required.
• Schedule, allocate and effectively manage human resources within own area of responsibility in line with specified and specific constraints or parameters.

Governance

• Create awareness to ensure the effective implementation of changes in policy, laws, regulations and associated industry practices.
• Implement and utilise risk, governance and compliance policies and processes effectively, to identify and manage risk exposure.

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Purpose

• To contact prospective customers to sell products and achieve set targets in compliance with set quality standards through the execution of predefined objectives as per agreed standard operating procedures (SOPs).

Minimum Experience

• 1 - 2 years experience in a similar environment

Minimum Qualifications

• Further Education and Training Certificate (FETC) [NQF Level 04] in Office Administration

Process

• Adhere to prescribed timekeeping standards at all times and attempt to improve own standards continuously.
• Align and integrate own administrative support tasks and activities in accordance to required response time, quality and service delivery standards.
• Accountable for own work quality, standards and outputs related to policies, procedures and defined processes.
• Proactively identify problems, apply known solutions and escalate more difficult problems.
• Plan for task execution and adjust priorities against an established plan.

Customer

• Liaise and interact with customers via approved communication channels in a positive and helpful manner.
• Resolve client queries and escalate problematic queries to the correct level to ensure prompt and effective resolution, enhancing the client experience.
• Conduct outbound call centre calls in a professional manner, ensuring an excellent and accurate client service enhancing org reputation.
• Conducts financial needs analysis and generates sales of Liberty products by matching client needs to relevant Liberty product.
• Executes activities to ensure customer service delivery that meets or exceeds customer expectations aligned to Treating the Customer Fairly (TCF) principles.

Finance

• Achieves monthly sales targets and production requirements by ensuring that customer leads and prospective customers translate into professional needs based sales revenue.
• Adhere to specified standards, policies and procedures to prevent potential losses/wastage.

Learning and Growth

• Contribute positively to own area-specific knowledge improvement.

Governance

• Comply to set governance and compliance procedures and processes related to an area of work and continuously identify, rectify and escalate risks where necessary.

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Purpose

As an IT: Operations Manager your main role is to for manage the delivery of ongoing service improvement activities within the 24x7 IT Operations and identifies opportunities to improve the performance of services to deliver enhanced value to the business.

This is an on-site position.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and monitor the team to execute a high standard of service and process adherence to ensure superior service delivery and quality of work.
• Use practical knowledge and theoretical guidelines, to diagnose area of specialisation problems and generate workable solutions.
• Engages with the different IT disciplines to improve service delivery and maintains close relationships with Business and Technology Teams.
• Provide specialist expertise and advice to internal/external customers, that builds strong relationships and creates a favourable impression aligned to Treating the Customer Fairly (TCF) principles.
• Appreciates and  understands the technical strengths and weaknesses of the team to delegate work appropriately to the right people.
• Comply to risk and governance policies, implement and provide subject matter input to the development of related processes, applicable to the area of specialisation.

Minimum Experience

• 3 - 5 years’ experience in a similar environment, of which 1 -2 years at a specialist level
• 3 -5 years’ experience within a mainframe and control-M environment.
• 3 – 5 years of management experience.
• Monitoring tools such Check_MK and Dynatrace is an added advantage.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor`s Degrees and Advanced Diplomas in Business, Commerce, Information Technology and Management Studies.
• Skilled in IT Operations
• Skilled in Agile methodology
• SAFe Agilist (Leading SAFe), AWS/ MS Azure Foundation
• Professional Cloud Service Manager Certification
• ITIL framework

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Purpose

As a Senior SAP Basis Consultant, you will play a key role in managing the technical foundation of our SAP landscape.

Your primary responsibility will be to ensure the stability, performance, and security of our SAP systems, enabling seamless business operations. Collaborating with cross-functional teams, you will lead initiatives to optimize and enhance the SAP environment, contributing to the overall success of our IT landscape.

Key Responsibilities

• Oversee the installation, configuration, and maintenance of SAP systems, ensuring optimal performance and reliability.
• Implement SAP patches, upgrades, and system enhancements in alignment with business requirements.
• Conduct regular performance monitoring and tuning to ensure SAP systems meet performance benchmarks.
• Collaborate with application teams to optimize SAP configurations for improved efficiency.
• Lead efforts to establish and enforce SAP security policies, ensuring compliance with industry standards and regulations.
• Conduct regular security audits and implement measures to mitigate potential risks.
• Design and implement robust backup and recovery strategies to safeguard SAP system data.
• Develop and maintain disaster recovery plans for SAP landscapes.

Additional Key Responsibilities

• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to junior Basis consultants.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to align SAP initiatives with overall IT and business goals.
• Manage SAP software installations, upgrades, and application of Support Packages.
• Oversee the installation of add-on software components and SAP profile parameter changes.
• Conduct workload analysis to optimize system resources and enhance overall performance.
• Perform system error analysis, troubleshooting, and resolution.
• Establish and maintain standard Basis background jobs to streamline system operations.
• Implement and manage system health checks and monitoring procedures.

Minimum Experience

• Minimum of 5 years of experience in SAP Basis administration.
• Proven experience in SAP implementation, system upgrades, and migrations.
• Strong background in SAP security and compliance management.
• Demonstrated expertise in performance tuning and optimization of SAP landscapes.
• Experience in SAP HANA administration is highly desirable.
• Advantageous: Experience in SAP Solution Manager, showcasing proficiency in end-to-end application lifecycle management and monitoring.
• Advantageous: Familiarity with SAP workload analysis tools.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Technology, or a related field.
• SAP Certification or equivalent certification.

Technical Competencies

• In-depth knowledge of SAP NetWeaver architecture and components.
• Proficiency in SAP ECC, S/4HANA, and other SAP modules.
• Expertise in SAP Basis administration tools and utilities.
• Strong understanding of database management systems, especially SAP HANA.
• Familiarity with cloud platforms and SAP on cloud infrastructure.