Job title : SAP Finance Solution Specialist
Job Location : South Africa,
Deadline : January 02, 2025
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Key Responsibilities: Finance and Accounting Solutions Specialist Apply architectural guidelines and principles to solutions. Participate actively in QA, Design Authority, and other governance forums, ensuring quality designs and solutions are well-tested and deployed. Act as the liaison between business teams and the system integration (SI) project team. Validate, socialize, and secure buy-in for business processes within the Greenfield SAP S/4 HANA implementation. Identify and escalate risks or issues to project management while managing mitigating actions. Define archiving requirements and integrate these into an overarching strategy for legacy and SAP solutions. Understand end-to-end processes, identify gaps between standard SAP functionality and critical business needs, and address integration requirements with third-party solutions. Ensure technical design and implementation align with business processes while complying with internal and external audit requirements. Facilitate the integration of third-party solutions and oversee reporting requirements, data migration, and validation processes. Support the development of authorization roles, training material, cut-over plans, and business continuity plans. Review and approve key project documents such as blueprints, test plans, training material, and support processes. Conduct integration and user acceptance testing, ensuring all defects are addressed.
Change Management Support functional leads and the project's change management team with business readiness activities. Provide training and coaching to business leads to ensure go-live readiness and post-implementation support. Equip stakeholders with knowledge to support system changes and drive successful adoption of SAP solutions.
Quality Management Oversee unit and integration testing of the system, validate testing results, and ensure quality standards are maintained. Contribute to audit controls for system migration and live operations.
Qualifications and Experience: IT Diploma or degree. At least 8 years of experience in SAP Finance and Accounting implementations or support. Expertise in FICO, AP/AR, Group Reporting, and Asset Accounting. Experience with SAP Solman and the SAP Activate methodology. Proven ability to test and implement fully integrated SAP solutions as part of major transformation projects.
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