Environment:

A leading petrochemical company seeks the expertise of a SAP solution analyst. Your core role will be management of the System Development Lifecycle, IT Services including incidents, service requests and problems, data and systems management and documenting business solutions, compiling end-user guides/manuals and providing input to training material. The ideal candidate requires a BCom/BSc/IT-related (NQF Level 6) tertiary qualification, have 3 year’s SAP experience (FI, CO, PS, IM, PPM, FSCM, Treasury), two years as a solution manager and a year Active/ASAP methodology. Please note this is an Employment Equity position only.

Duties:

System Development Lifecycle Management (SDLC) – work orders/enhancements, projects –

• Analyse, design, develop and implement SAP solutions according to Activate methodology and policies by analysing business requirements, designing system solutions, configuring SAP, executing unit, integration and user acceptance testing to meet business requirements which are aligned with SAP best business practices without compromising on service.

IT Service Management (ITSM) – incidents, service requests and problems –

• Resolve system defects within defined SLAs by applying fixes and SAP notes after a thorough analysis of trends, system logs, incidents, service requests, reported problems and queries to ensure a robust, reliable and stable SAP environment.

Data and systems management –

• Manage systems and data by contributing to the administration of back-up and recovery, security and capacity planning with the use of Data Volume Management tools to trigger the archiving process with which database growth is monitored to maintain optimised systems that deliver accurate and timely information

Knowledge management (business and systems) –

• Share knowledge by documenting business solutions, compile end-user guides/manuals, providing input to training material and standard business processes/procedures, train trainers, coordinators and key users to increase business and systems know-how/proficiency and nurture a skilled workforce.

Requirements:

Qualifications –

• BCom, BSc or IT Degree or related tertiary NQF Level 6 qualification.

Experience/skills –

• Three years of SAP in one of the following (FI, CO, PS, IM, PPM, FSCM, Treasury).
• One year of using Activate/ASAP methodology.
• Two years of as experience as a solution manager.
• Five years of experience in the field.

Advantageous –

• SAP certification in at least 1 module.
• SAP Oil and Gas experience.
• Experience with SAP Enterprise support tools (e.g. Innovation Discovery/ Value Maps).

While we would really like to respond to every application, should you not be contacted for this position within 10 working days please consider your application unsuccessful.

Comments:

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Posted on 21 Aug 13:47