The successful candidate will act as the interface between Technology Teams, SAP CoE, Finance, Business stakeholders, Technology Partner & 3rd Parties, through a set of tasks and techniques, to recommend solutions (New and or improved business process, information systems, software applications) that enable the Functional Department/s and Business to achieve its goals.

You will have the opportunity to diagnose problems, identify solutions, propose improvements and execute action plans.

We're a fully in-office team. This role is based at our Support Centre in Kuils River, Cape Town. 

Experience Required

Essential

• Proven experience in a Finance environment

• Proven experience in SAP Finance support, SAP PO / SAP Integrator (10 years +)

• Proven experience in Financial Systems & processes
• Proven experience of business processes flowing into journal entries & finance reporting, incl tax 
• Proven working experience in a distributed systems landscape
• Proven experience in Business Analysis, SAP System analysis, Business process development and improvement, including the facilitation of workshops, stakeholder management
• Proven experience in Finance System support: maintaining an incident management process; analysing the nature of incidents; liaising with system developers in order to resolve incidents
• Proven experience in quality assurance testing

Preferred

• Working in a shared services / multi brand environment
• An understanding of SAP, in-store & website transactional messaging environment

• Finance inventory/ finance treasury/ revenue/ cash reconciliation experience
  

• Thorough grasp of business fundamentals and strategic priorities from a financial perspective
• Understanding of writing business requirements, system requirements and functional specifications
• Project Management responsibilities
• Proven experience to successful technology implementation and process projects (SAP / ERP Greenfield / Brownfield implementation experience

Qualification Required

Essential

• Grade 12 Certificate/Matric
• SAP FI/CO Qualification
• CA(SA) and or a relevant Degree and or Higher National Diploma (Information Technology, Computer Science, System Design, Management Science, Business studies, Information Systems, Business Analyst)

Preferred

• Business Analyst Qualification
• Project Management Diploma/Certificate

Skills & knowledge Required

Knowledge required:

• Waterfall and Agile working methodologies and principles.
• Working knowledge of implementing and maintaining systems/services/applications.
• Knowledge of PMBOK and BABOK management principles
• Ability to compile quantitative and or qualitative information/reporting
• Microsoft Suite Advanced user
• SAP Finance System integration principles
• Knowledge of Personal Data Protection – POPIA
• Working knowledge of:
• Cloud based (SaaS) software applications that can enable services.
• Hardware and Software lifecycle management
• SDLC
• Change Control governance principles and Defect management.
• Fit for purpose system integration in an ERP- and non-ERP environment.
• Utilising various modelling techniques
• UI / UX
• Process Mapping tools (Draw.io, etc)
• Financial Reporting

Skills required

• Planning
• Analytical
• Critical thinking
• Multi project/activity management
• Prioritisation of projects/activity/resources
• Requirements elicitation
• Risk management
• Facilitation
• Communication