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• Part of the Business Intelligence team expected to be a BPC support/developer specialist, trainer, facilitator and role model working with all levels of business users from staff to senior management and external consultants. Passionate about utilizing information and processes to measure and manage financial aspects of the business and to improve ways of working. Growing the competence and skill of BI/BPC Support team members.

Key Responsibilities: 

• 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 analyzing 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.

Minimum Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in finance, Accounting, or related field or equivalent combination of education and experience.

Non-Negotiables:

• 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.
   

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Duties and Responsibilities: 

• Using agile methodology values, principles, and practices to plan, manage, and deliver solutions,
• Training, mentoring, and supporting scrum teams to follow agile values, principles, and practices,
• Determining and managing tasks, issues, risks, and action items,
• Scheduling and facilitating scrum events, meetings, and decision-making processes,
• Monitoring progress and performance and helping teams to make improvements,
• Planning and organizing demos and product/system testing,
• Ensuring the proper use of collaborative processes and removing impediments for the scrum team,
• Tracking project processes, deliverables, and financials,
• Preparing and presenting status reports to stakeholders.
• Managing and Coordinating in running quarterly Enterprise-Wide PI Planning sessions for around 194 squads/teams (± 1000) people, including the following: 

Day to day duties:

• Facilitation.,
• Setting up Enterprise Confluence page,
• Setting up Programme Confluence pages,
• Setting up MS Team Channels and break out rooms,
• Setting up the PI Planning ceremonies in Calendars,
• Compiling Communication relating to the PI Planning Ceremonies,
• Creating the PI Planning yearly calendars,
• Assisting teams/squads in setting up pages and training in PI Planning, and;
• Assisting and coordinating all other perspectives of PI Planning Ceremonies.
• Accountable for delivering all Executive Reporting and Reviews of reports with the Divisional Executive Head, these include Steering Committee packs for the On-Boarding and Servicing Steering Committee: 
• App Decommissioning Reporting Coordination,
• Executive IT Committee (EITCo) Reports,
• Group Technology Exco reports, and;
• Group IT Committee (GITCo) reports and Group OPCOM reports.

Adhoc duties:

• Adhoc reports required for the Portfolio Quality assurance,
• Assisting in assurance to ensure that project plans reflect all dependencies on all Programme’s and Projects with Programme/Portfolio, and;
• Flagging of risks, issues and change requests. Managing the Configuration management on SharePoint.

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Details of Role:

Key Responsibilities

• Support BSTD applications through capacity management and performance monitoring.
• Apply corrective measures such as patches, upgrades, and bug fixes.
• Configure and install new application features to enhance functionality.
• Investigate and resolve complex technical issues.
• Provide performance reports and recommendations to senior management.
• Build and maintain stakeholder relationships.