SAP Lead
Armstrong Appointments
- Cape Town, Western Cape
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Gathering details of bugs/issues that are reported from functions.
- Preparing functional specifications, detail the need.
- Opening requests on company’s behalf to third party SAP support team and having it assigned to correct support team members.
- Proposing temporary/emergency solutions as needed
- Prioritization of tickets & coordination/follow up with 3rd party support team considering impact of changes on the business.
- Following up on proposed resolutions, making sure that unit testing is done (by the functional consultant) before moving to QAS and the validation & documentation is provided by business users.
- Regularly communicating the progress to business partners
- Elicit requirements using interviews, document analysis, requirements workshops, surveys, site visits, business process descriptions, use cases, scenarios, business analysis, and task and workflow analysis.
- Reviewing with functional consultants for feasible options, estimations & dependencies
- Providing a project plan to sponsors, benefit of the project, timeline, budget, resources assignments, risks, operating plans, get sponsors approval.
- Coordinating the actions of all parties, making sure that project progresses as per plans.
- Effectively communicating expectations and status to team members and partners in a timely and clear fashion
- Providing user documentation for changes /new functionalities.
- Oversee technical design specifications, define test conditions, develop accurate and complete test plans and conduct/coordinate testing according to plan to follow all change control processes.
- Responsible for ensuring that all documentation accurately reflects the current status of changes and outstanding issues so that business requirements reflect application features and functions.
- Ensure that all items follow the change management process and are entered and tracked through the change management process.
- Work with appropriate personnel to ensure the appropriate level of testing for new functionality or change requests.
- Ensure continuing operational quality by documenting bug fixes and enhancements, testing and releasing updates.
- 8 - 10 + years in leading design, initiatives, and on-going support for Operations functions (Sales and Distribution, Manufacturing, Supply Chain/Materials Management) enabling process and system improvements
- 8 - 10+ years working knowledge of S/4 HANA module configuration (FI, CO, PP , MM, SD, LE) as well as integration within S/4 HANA to other modules.
- 5+ years of S/4 HANA functional experience in the SAP environment or any equivalent combination of education, experience and training that provides the required knowledge, skills, and abilities.
- 5+ years of experience in SAP/business application support and delivery in a manufacturing environment leveraging SAP capabilities and best practices.
- Proven project management and leadership skills, including the ability to gather clear business requirements and develop value-based business cases.
- Detailed knowledge of integration points between FI, CO, PP , MM, SD, LE and other SAP modules.
- Experience with enterprise system migrations across sales, support, finance, and corporate functions
- Experience on ABAP/PO/PI Development
- Strong knowledge on S/4 HANA technology stack and understanding of architecture
- Excellent English written and verbal communication skills with specific departmental knowledge.
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