SAP S/4HANA – Functional Consultant - Johannesburg, South Africa - PwC

Description

Description

& SummaryA career within SAP Consulting services, will provide you with the opportunity to help our clients maximise the value of their SAP investment with offerings that address sales, finance, supply chain, engineering, and human capital. We provide comprehensive consulting, system integration and implementation services across multiple SAP applications, products and technologies. Simply put, we focus on delivering business led, technology enabled change for our clients including industry specific enterprise resource planning and the latest in mobile, analytics and cloud solutions.

To really stand out and make us fit for the future in a constantly changing world, each and every one of us at PwC needs to be a purpose-led and values-driven leader at every level. To help us achieve this we have the PwC Professional; our global leadership development framework. It gives us a single set of expectations across our lines, geographies and career paths, and provides transparency on the skills we need as individuals to be successful and progress in our careers, now and in the future.

As a Senior Manager, you'll work as part of a team of problem solvers, helping to solve complex business issues from strategy to execution. PwC Professional skills and responsibilities for this management level include but are not limited to:

Encourage everyone to have a voice and invite opinion from all, including quieter members of the team.

Deal effectively with ambiguous and unstructured problems and situations.

Initiate open and candid coaching conversations at all levels.

Move easily between big picture thinking and managing relevant detail.

Anticipate stakeholder needs, and develop and discuss potential solutions, even before the stakeholder realises they are required.

Contribute technical knowledge in area of specialism.

Contribute to an environment where people and technology thrive together to accomplish more than they could apart.

Navigate the complexities of cross-border and/or diverse teams and engagements.

Initiate and lead open conversations with teams, clients and stakeholders to build trust.

Uphold the firm's code of ethics and business conduct.

Role Summary:

South African Technology & Innovation Centre (SATIC) is the latest part of PwC, a global brand delivering services for the biggest clients in the world. PwC leads the way in human led, technology enabled professional services, working with clients to transform their business and make it fit for the future.

We are looking for candidates who bring in-depth market experience, who see technology as a way to enable and drive human innovation and who want to be a part of a community of solvers, to tackle the biggest challenges in society.

If you are looking for a career where every day is different, where challenges are complex and where you can make a real difference, then we want to hear from you. By choosing to join SATIC, you are choosing to work with teams all over the world, harnessing the power of world leading tech and making a difference to real people's lives.

The successful incumbent will interact with clients at all levels to understand the business requirements to conclude the blueprint, configuration, testing, migration/deployment, support and continuous enhancements of the SAP S/4 HANA solution in the applicable line of business (Warehouse Management,Finance, Procurement, Sales, Supply Chain,
Manufacturing, Sales, Service and Enterprise Asset Management).The SAP S/4HANA professional will design, implement and deploy SAP solutions to achieve defined business goals.

Qualifications /Certifications required:

Bachelor's Degree or Diploma in Computer Science, Information Technology or other relevant fields preferred
Certification in SAP S/4HANA preferred, else the candidate should have sufficient experience in the S/4HANA domain.

Exposure to SAP S/4HANA Public and/or Private Cloud advantageous
Knowledge of SAP Activate, Agile methodologies and Scrum ways of working preferred

Experience required:

At least 10 years of experience in SAP as a functional consultant is an advantage.
Ability to demonstrate understanding of end to end business processes for the applicable line of business.
Ability to lead work streams and mentor junior consultants
Ability to lead engagements with clients and assist in fostering a clear SAP S/4HANA roadmap
Proven record of at least 2 end-to-end SAP implementations
Technology consulting expertise, and ability to drive workshops and conduct training sessions.

Responsibilities of role:

Provide business and functional sexpertise in SAP business processes, including deployment and conversions from legacy SAP systems to SAP S/4HANA..
Assess impact and gaps in current business processes and configuration vs. the equivalent in SAP S/4HANA, and provide alternatives and recommendations on the delta design.
Proficient solution design of the requirements
Liaise with business stakeholders to address technical and operational queries.
Provide technology consulting expertise and develop functional and technical
specifications for the delta design, and for tools to support the SAP S/4HANA deployment.
Execute the necessary system configuration to enable SAP S/4HANA deployment.
Good functional knowledge of integration with other modules
Lead testing and defect resolution in the context of SAP S/4HANA deployment.
Work with stakeholders such as the business and IT clients, as well as the team, both onsite and offshore
Guide and Mentor other consultants in the SAP team
Develop and maintain working relationships with a diverse group of business, functional and technical teams

Desirable skill sets include:

Proven ability to build, manage and foster a team-oriented environment
Proven ability to work creatively and analytically in a problem-solving environment
Excellent communication (written and oral) and interpersonal skills
Excellent leadership and management skills for experienced hires at a management level in the organisation
Strong team building skills, with ability to build quick and effective work rapport with distributed team members.

Role related attributes:

A professional at this position level within PwC has the following responsibilities: Identifies, assesses and solves complex business problems for the area of
responsibility, where analysis of situations or data requires an in-depth evaluation of variable factors.

Education

Degrees/Field of Study required:Degrees/Field of Study preferred:

Certifications

Required Skills

Optional Skills

Desired Languages

Travel Requirements

Up to 20%

Available for Work Visa Sponsorship?

No

Government Clearance Required?

Yes

Job Posting End Date

May 1, 2024