SAP ABAP and BW Consultant - City Of Johannesburg Metro Verfied

Salary Negotiable City Of Johannesburg Metro, Gauteng City Of Johannesburg Metro, Gauteng more than 14 days ago 01-08-2014 7:26:11 AM
29-08-2014 7:26:11 AM
Purpose of the job
Technical Implementation, Maintenance and support of SAP HR, Finance, SRM and other related systems. Participate in the development , maintenance and support of reporting solutions within for Group HR, primarily using SAP Business Warehouse/Business Intelligence (BW/BI) application.

Key responsibilities
• To implement, maintain and support SAP systems as part of IT strategy to continuously improve business enablement and support in the Bank.
• Perform analysis of SAP business requirements and give recommendations
• Participate in the establishment of a new instance of SAP BW to latest standards
• Work from functional/business requirements to design and develop datasources (install standard datasources, enhance existing datasources and create custom datasources).
• Work from functional/business requirements to design and develop BW objects (installation of standard objects, enhance existing objects and create custom objects) like info objects, info sources, data targets, transfer rules, update rules etc.
• Work from functional/business specifications to develop BW reports primarily using BEx. Integration / BOBJ of SAP BW queries developed using Business Explorer (BEx) / BOBJ and Web Application Designer may be required.
• Work with the SAP BW team to meet reporting requirements and test the project deliverables.
• Document test plans and complete Unit Testing of developed objects and reports.
• Work with Quality Assurance business resources to complete System and Integration Testing.
• Communicate with users for business questions, project updates, follow ups, data and report validations, sign offs and for overall support.
• Analyze and communicate report development issues, including problems with data integrity, data design, and functional and technical software issues.
• Prepare project related documentation (object designs, business rules, technical information etc) during the different stages of the project.
• Provide support and maintenance of the existing BW environments (development, quality assurance and production).

Key requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science OR appropriate combination of education and experience.
5-8 years IT experience, a minimum of 3 years with SAP R3 and SAP HCM modules is essential.

Experience
• 2 - 4 years of ABAP experience and SAP project implementation.
• At least 2 years SAP BW experience
• Worked on SAP ECC 6
• Proficient in ABAP and Workflow.
• Data conversion experience using LSMW, BAPI, BDC, BADI etc.
• Working knowledge of SAP ABAP OO
• Experience with BOBJ is required
• Experience with flat file implementations is required.
• Knowledge of an ETL tool is a plus.
• Experience with SAP BW BEx Query Development and SAP BW Web development, is required.
• Experience with SAP R3 development (ABAP programs, data dictionary objects, infosets, transports etc) is required.
• Financial Services or Insurance experience

Experience in the following areas would be a distinct advantage:
• SAP HCM
• SAP Flex GL
• Bank Analyser
• Worked with various databases and data at all levels e.g.
modeling (Data architecture), profiling, quality.
• Worked with SRM, ABAP Webdynpro, SAP Portal and ABAP HR.
• Experience in the Financial/Insurance industry.
• Experience in SAP XI / PI.

Knowledge and Skills
• Strong analytical, problem solving and multi-tasking skills required,
• Good interpersonal skills and
• Good organizational skills.
• Must be committed to provide a high level of customer service to internal clients.
• Effective communication skills
• Strategic thinker
• High work ethic, sense of urgency and ability to work under pressure
• Negotiation skills
• Team player
• Problem solving abilities and Analytical skills
• Structured approach Logical reasoning
• Results orientation
• Customer Service orientated
• Learning orientated