SAP ARIBA Professional Senior Associate

Job Description & Summary

A career within digital transformation, SAP Consulting services, will provide you with the opportunity to help our clients maximise the value of their SAP investment with offerings that address sales, finance, supply chain, engineering, and human capital. We provide comprehensive consulting, system integration and implementation services across multiple SAP applications, products and technologies. Simply put, we focus on delivering business led, technology enabled change for our clients including industry specific enterprise resource planning and the latest in mobile, analytics and cloud solutions.

Job Description

You'll work as part of a team of problem solvers, helping to solve complex business issues from strategy to execution. PwC Professional skills and responsibilities for this management level include but are not limited to:

• Proactive involvement in an implementation of SAP Ariba

• Conduct business needs analysis and identify key business challenges with the client teams and key stakeholders

• Identify improvement opportunities to achieve clients desired business outcomes

• Define To-Be stage of processes, solution application requirement and performance measurements

• Co-develop deployment/enablement strategy, roadmap and plan to achieve To-Be stage effectively

• Conduct deployment activities and measure achievement of desired outcomes

• Execute change for large scale multi-site Ariba Implementation and other related transformational change efforts, including but not limited to efficiency and effectiveness initiatives organisational restructurings organisational capabilities development

• Support and pursuits team with gaining access to tenders, build proposals, win work and deliver projects

• Act to resolve issues which prevent the team working effectively.

• Coach others, recognise their strengths, and encourage them to take ownership of their personal development.

• Analyse complex ideas or proposals and build a range of meaningful recommendations.

• Use multiple sources of information including broader stakeholder views to develop solutions and recommendations.

• Address sub-standard work or work that does not meet firm's/client's expectations.

• Use data and insights to inform conclusions and support decision-making.

• Develop a point of view on key global trends, and how they impact clients.

• Manage a variety of viewpoints to build consensus and create positive outcomes for all parties.

• Simplify complex messages, highlighting and summarising key points.

• Uphold the firm's code of ethics and business conduct.

Preferred skills

Roles/Responsibilities:

• Involvement in planning and executing SAP Ariba Implementation / Rollout / Upgrade / Development / Support activities in Ariba Upstream or Downstream modules.

• Ability to configure SAP Ariba Upstream or Downstream conforming to the Client's standards & requirements and integrate it with SAP Materials Management module or other non-SAP ERP systems.

• Secondary skills include: Ariba Cloud Integration Gateway and Ariba Network Integration .

• Capability in business process, configuration, functional specification development, custom object unit test and system integration testing

Skills/Experience Requirements:

• Sound understanding of Source to Pay process and be able to provide an optimum solution utilizing processes available in SAP Ariba

• Exposure to ASAP implementation methodologies or any Accelerated methodologies for quick wins

• Know-how in design & blueprinting, configuration, functional Specification, unit testing, integration testing, user acceptance test, authorisation, data migration and cutover

• Good client engagement skills (requirements gathering, workshops).

• Having the capability to work on milestone-based deliverables.

Prerequisite:

• 3-5 years experience in SAP Ariba modules with 3-4 full cycle implementation experience of mid complexity.

• Good in client facing interactions, conducting client workshop, design & blueprinting, configuration, system build, training and cutover

Education

Degrees/Field of Study required:

Degrees/Field of Study preferred: Bachelor Degree

Certifications

Required Skills

Optional Skills

Desired Languages

Travel Requirements

Not Specified

Available for Work Visa Sponsorship

No

Government Clearance Required

Yes