The primary purpose of the position will be to establish the overall S/4HANA process design, mechanics and protocols to be followed by all application teams; and to design, develop and articulate solutions based on internal stakeholders strategic business need and technical requirements.
POSITION CONTEXT
- The primary role for the incumbent will be to act as the principal day-to-day point of contact for all things related to SAP S/4HANA Enterprise Application.
POSITION SPECIFICATION
Education
Bachelor of Engineering/ Master of Engineering/ Chartered Accountant
Preferred: Certification in SAP S/4HANA
Experience
- 8-12 years implementation experience in the SAP with at least 2 S/4HANA greenfield implementation experience
- Experience in SAP FICO implementation across multiple company codes and industry verticals
- Experience of successfully delivering high performing application solutions that meet scope, cost, and date parameters
- Experience in design and development of integration solutions with Ariba, VIM, SFDC in at least 1 project/support is mandatory
- Media/Telecom/Utilities industry experience preferred
- Experience in Content Finance/ Anaplan is added advantage
POSITION INTERLINKAGES
WITHIN THE ORGANIZATION
OUTSIDE THE ORGANIZATION
- Business Interface team
- Business Stakeholders
TECHNICAL COMPETENCIES
BEHAVIORAL COMPETENCIES
- Expertise in S/4HANA Finance
- Deep understanding of the SAP S/4HANA Architect, including but not limited to AR, AP, Related Trading Partner, multi-GAAP, Funds management in S/4HANA
- Integration understanding with Ariba (Procurement), Customer Billing/Invoicing as well as Budgeting commercials management
- Strong f amiliarity with related FIORI Apps
- Understanding of Media planning and content management would be added advantage
- Development Methodology: Waterfall, Agile
- Working knowledge of JIRA/Asana would be added advantage
- Strong task orientated, organizational and planning skills
- Strategic thinker balanced with a grasp of details
- Ability to prioritize and cope with competing demands
- Multi-task between project development and customer support
- Excellent execution and project management skills
- Passion for results and excellence.
- Working collaboratively with the team
Lead the SAP S/4HANA Enterprise Architecture
- Architecture success by continuously providing focus and direction on what matters most and searching for and highlighting best practices or potential disconnects that could destroy value or create risk.
- Personally drive the change by being directly and principally involved in the subject matter of major issues so that this role helps manage the white space and dependencies by identifying issues, and then coordinating and communicating resolutions to all involved.
- Applying sound technical management and development skills throughout the delivery lifecycle, producing high quality solutions
- Should be able to understand the technology stack available at SPNI and take call on the ideally suited one for respective interface
- Selecting and delivering on the appropriate integration approach
- Technical Design, solution architecting, Integration and dataflow architecture
Design system integration solutions
- Create and manage the entire SAP S/4HANA solution design
- End to End Technical implementation of SAP integration and business function
- Prepare blueprint for application solution based on business needs
- Translate functional requirements into technical requirements
- Oversee development and implementation of projects/programs
- Utilize expertise in comparing integration approaches and assessing their relative strengths and limitations in terms of meeting business goals
- Deliver the required systems integration solutions for an ongoing transformation and platform changes, ensuring continuity and security of the systems.
- Help define the integration and dataflow architecture and evaluate vendor capabilities. Identify gaps in available enterprise services and work on remediation strategies to ensure stability as the underlying platform technologies continue to evolve.
- Coordination, collaboration towards System integration
- Managing and Timely reporting of various projects in management forums
Drive
enhancement initiatives
- Connect with business stakeholders and application leads to drive the application enhancement
- Oversee architecture alignment of prototyping, testing and roll-out of application upgrades/enhancements
- Landscape enhancement and stabilization
Drive strategic vendor relationships
- Provide technical leadership and support to application vendor management team
- Actively evaluate the efficiency and effectiveness of the vendors implementation and upgrade efforts
- Meeting organizations IT needs with maximum cost efficiency
Project Management
- Develop project plan with schedule and resource commitments in coordination with vendors
- Create all the standard project management documentation, validate project dependencies, managing and mitigating risks
- Status Reporting and Risk/Mitigation planning to the PMO team
- Ensure best practices are documented, reviewed and executed across all integrations
- Foster strong team skills and culture for improving application integration techniques
- Time
- Budget
- Quality of service
- Resource utilization
