Leading Financial Institution based in Johannesburg are seeking a Senior SAP Systems Consultant to join their team
Your skills and experience are required to proactively monitors SAP Early Watch Alert reports from the SAP Technical Support team and take all precautions to enable system stability and availability.
Key areas of focus will include:
• Monitors the SAP production system (IDOCs, queues, workflows, etc.) as agreed with the SAP Systems manager
• Adheres to the production support processes, methodology and standards in order to ensure that the quality and integrity of the system is maintained
• Escalate SAP Centre team's non adherence to processes methodology and standards to the SAP System Manager
• Key client contact and will exercise authority appropriate to particular client requests commensurate with client expectations of decision-making and consistent with policies and practices.
• Endeavour to resolve reported problems within the agreed SLA's, using available resources (e.g. SAP's Knowledge Management and Call Logging System) and record regular updates on the official problem reporting system
• Tests problem resolution deliverables properly before implementation into the SAP production system
• Updates the SAP system documentation
• Works on more than one engagement at a time. Manages small engagements or a portion of a large engagement
• Assists in the development and implementation of the project plan for a project. This includes drafting the project plan (scope, deliverables, timelines and resources), identifying and recruiting team members, and preparing and assisting in the preparation of individual work plans.
• For assigned area, oversees all project activities leading to the implementation of the requirements.
• Contributes to consulting projects by analysing client’s business process SAP solution design. • Leads the execution of assigned project tasks in areas of demonstrated competence. This includes facilitating meetings/task groups, tracking and influencing task group progress, tracking project deliverables, etc.
• Provide SAP functional expert knowledge to business and rest of project team by conducting regular refresher training, where necessary, or workshops to discuss any new functionality available in the system.

Education and skills required:
Matric coupled with Degree or Diploma is essential
Certified in at least one, with proven track record in more than one of the following SAP Areas:
FI, CO, RE/FX, MM, SRM, MDM, PS, GRC, BW, BO, Abap, Xi, Basis, Solution Manager
Certified in the ASAP methodology
Min 6 years of functional / Technical / IT skills
Min 4 years of Business Skills
Min 4 completed SAP projects
Min 4 years SAP support experience, including minor projects.