SAP Functional Expert

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Description

The company
The Harvey Nash Group was founded in the UK in 1988, and now hasoffices throughout Europe, America and Asia. The Harvey Nash Group isknown for the thousands of successful assignments completed throughoutthe world.
From more than 39 offices, and with 5000 staff and associates, we offera unique range of consulting recruitment specialising in ITrecruitment, benefits subcontracting and outsourcing services to ourclients. Our departments of Executive Search and Interim Managementsupport our customers around the world by placing the senior managersessential to business growth and effective management.

For one of our clients, we're looking for an SAP functional expert whois skilled in the following SAP modules:
-Plant Maintenance (PM)
-Material & Inventory Management (MM)
-Purchasing of industrial goods and services (MM)
Knowledge of one of these SAP modules is a plus: IM/PS, QM, WM
Knowledge of APO is a plus

Organization:
Branch: Refining & Chemicals
Department: Business Systems
Team: Production Activities

Environment:
Department customers: About 4000 users located worldwide (Europe, Asia,Middle East) from at least 7 Industrial plants with specific contactswith some departments (Maintenance, Corporate & Local Purchasing, Engineering).

Office:
-Mission based in Brussels
-Ready to occasionally work on week-end
-Ready to travel to industrial sites occasionally when needed for shortterm missions to give courses or understand the specific requirementsof some users
-Meetings with corporate departements in Paris

Scope:
SAP Modules

Model:
The domain Production Activities includes the following functionalities:

In SAP ERP:
-Material & Inventory Management (MM)
-Purchasing (MM)
-Production Planning (PP)
-Plant Maintenance (PM)
-Investment Management (IM) & Project System (PS)

Mission & Objectives:
Evolutions: Management of system evolutions requested by the businessand assigned by the Production Activities Process Experts:
-Analysis of the request with different business representatives(Users, Key Users, Organization & Method Manager)
-Definition of evolution perimeter to avoid undesired side-effects andto keep a global business model
-Design of a solution maximizing the use of SAP standardfunctionalities and minimizing in-house specific developments whilechecking consistency with existing model
-Customizing (including the maintenance of structural data) and ifneeded, writing functional specifications for development
-Testing
-Transferring knowledge to Business Support team and preparing go-livesupport plan with them
-Delivering all necessary documentation and use the evolutionmanagement tools
-Update critical processes in Solution manager if needed
Particular attention should be given to Sarbanes-Oxley compliance

Projects: Management of projects following project managementmethodology is a plus (depending of opportunities and existing workload)
Support
-Provide Level 3 Support to end users when Level 2 support team cannotprocess an incident
-Work with incident management tool and promote coaching rather thanintensive interventions in production system while ensuring knowledgetransfer to Level 2 Support

Other:
-Contribution to retain internal knowledge: writing technicaldocumentation, sharing experience with internal team
-Work closely with US team to share experience
-Regular Reporting to the Process Experts

SKILLS & COMPETENCES:

Technical skills
-Deep knowledge and minimum 5 years experience in SAP ECC6 on severalSAP modules: PM, MM,
-Basic knowledge of SAP BW
-Knowledge of integration and potential impacts with PS and FI/COmodules

Ongoing development of technical skills (new SAP functionalities, Business Process and Organization) is critical in staying competitive

Competences:
-Analytical and synthesis skills
-Initiative and autonomy
-Customer-oriented
-Team spirit and ability to work in project organizations
-Strong communication skills
-Ability to prepare and give presentations (for project reviews as wellas giving trainings to end-users)
-Fluent in English and French both writing and speaking
-Basic knowledge of Dutch is an asset

Start date
ASAP
Duration
12 months
From
Harvey Nash IT Recruitment Belgium
Published at
15.11.2012
Project ID:
447675
Contract type
Freelance
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