AES SAP IBP Senior Associate Operate

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Job Description & Summary

Driven by curiosity you are a reliable contributing member of a our fast-paced environment you are expected to adapt to working with a variety of clients and team members each presenting varying challenges and scope. Every experience is an opportunity to learn and grow. You are expected to take ownership and consistently deliver quality work that drives value for our clients and success as a team. As you navigate through the Firm you build a brand for yourself opening doors to more opportunities.

Examples of the skills knowledge and experiences you need to lead and deliver value at this level include but are not limited to:

• Apply a learning mindset and take ownership for your own development.
• Appreciate diverse perspectives needs and feelings of others.
• Adopt habits to sustain high performance and develop your potential.
• Actively listen ask questions to check understanding and clearly express ideas.
• Seek reflect act on and give feedback.
• Gather information from a range of sources to analyse facts and discern patterns.
• Commit to understanding how the business works and building commercial awareness.
• Learn and apply professional and technical standards (e.g. refer to specific PwC tax and audit guidance) uphold the Firms code of conduct and independence requirements.

Job Summary -

At PwC we relentlessly focus on working with our clients to bring the power of technology and humans together and create simple yet powerful solutions. We imagine a day when our clients can simply focus on their business knowing that they have a trusted partner for their IT needs. Every day we are motivated and passionate about making our clients better.

Within our Managed Services platform PwC delivers integrated services and solutions that are grounded in deep industry experience and powered by the talent that you would expect from the PwC brand. The PwC Managed Services platform delivers scalable solutions that add greater value to our clients enterprise through technology and human-enabled experiences. Our team of highly-skilled and trained global professionals combined with the use of the latest advancements in technology and process allows us to provide effective and efficient outcomes. With PwCs Managed Services our clients are able to focus on accelerating their priorities including optimizing operations and accelerating outcomes. PwC brings a consultative first approach to operations leveraging our deep industry insights combined with world class talent and assets to enable transformational journeys that drive sustained client outcomes. Our clients need flexible access to world class business and technology capabilities that keep pace with todays dynamic business environment.

Within our global Managed Services platform we provide Application Evolution Services (formerly Application Managed Services) where we focus more so on the evolution of our clients applications and cloud portfolio. Our focus is to empower our clients to navigate and capture the value of their application portfolio while cost-effectively operating and protecting their solutions. We do this so that our clients can focus on what matters most to your business: accelerating growth that is dynamic efficient and cost-effective.

As a member of our Application Evolution Services (AES) team we are looking for candidates who thrive working in a high-paced work environment capable of working on a mix of critical Application Evolution Service offerings and engagement including help desk support enhancement and optimization work as well as strategic roadmap and advisory level work. It will also be key to lend experience and effort in helping win and support customer engagements from not only a technical perspective but also a relationship perspective.

Minimum Degree Required (BQ) *: BE / B Tech / ME / M Tech / MBA / / B. Com / BBA

Required Field(s) of Study (BQ):

Preferred Field(s) of Study:

Minimum Year(s) of Experience (BQ) *: 6-10 years of experience

Certification(s) Preferred:

Preferred Knowledge/Skills *:

General skill set:

As a Senior Associate youll 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:

• Use feedback and reflection to develop self-awareness personal strengths and address development areas.
• Proven track record as an SME in chosen domain.
• Ability to come up with Client POC/POV for integrating/increasing adoption of emerging Tech. like Blockchain AI et al with the product platform they are associated with.
• Mentor Junior resources within the team conduct KSS and lessons learnt.
• Flexible to work in stretch opportunities/assignments.
• Demonstrate critical thinking and the ability to bring order to unstructured problems.
• Ticket Quality and deliverables review.
• Status Reporting for the project.
• Adherence to SLAs experience in incident management change management and problem management.
• Review your work and that of others for quality accuracy and relevance.
• Know how and when to use tools available for a given situation and can explain the reasons for this choice.
• Seek and embrace opportunities which give exposure to different situations environments and perspectives.
• Use straightforward communication in a structured way when influencing and connecting with others.
• Able to read situations and modify behavior to build quality relationships.
• Uphold the firms code of ethics and business conduct.
• Demonstrate leadership capabilities by working with clients directly and leading the engagement.
• Work in a team environment that includes client interactions workstream management and cross-team collaboration.
• Good Team player. Take up cross competency work and contribute to COE activities.
• Escalation/Risk management.

Strong Knowledge in:

• At least 6 year experience working in SAP integrated business planning.
• Very good knowledge and understanding of different IBP models such as IBP for S&OP and IBP for demand IBP for supply
• Good understanding on IBP for Inventory IBP for supply and response IBP for Control tower.
• Experience working with integration tools such as HCI/SDI to integrate between different source systems with IBP.
• Experience in APO DP and SNP would be an added advantage.
• Ability to create Process Definition Document / Design Document (PDD) and Business Process Procedure (BPP) for the solutions provided.
• Ability to create Process Flows in Microsoft Visios for the clients proposed business processes.
• Understanding of CI-DS integration tool
• Experience in Job monitoring and scheduling in IBP
• Experience in ECC production planning would be an added advantage.
• Understand client requirements provide solutions functional specifications and configure the system accordingly.
• Ability to create Process Definition Document / Design Document (PDD) and Business Process Procedure (BPP) for the solutions provided.
• Ability to configure SAP IBP module and deliver work products / packages confirming to the Clients Standards & Requirements.
• Strong configuration hands on experience in planning and execution
• Integration of the SAP IBP module with other SAP modules such as SAP BPC ECC and with external applications as well.
• Ability to create presentation/workshop decks for Blueprint that need to be conveyed and be able to present them to the client.
• Ability to create Process Flows in Microsoft Visios for the clients proposed business processes.
• End to End process knowledge for upstream and downstream data modeling.
• In addition to the above the candidate should have been involved in the following during the life cycle of SAP implementation:
  • Unit Testing Cycle Testing
  • Integration Testing
  • User Manual Preparation
  • User Support activities
  • Exposure to different implementation methodologies
  • Regularly interact with the onsite team/client
  • Provide status updates in daily/weekly conference calls
  • Maintain cordial relationship with onsite team/client
• Strong Knowledge and hands on with the following aspects of DP:
  • At least one implementation experience
  • Hands on configuration experience on APO DP
  • APO BW modeling/ planning area configuration
  • Integration with TPM will be a nice to have experience

Preferred Skills:

• Worked on integration with other modules like PPDS and PP
• Exposure to interfaces like ALE/IDOC or EDI/IDOC with little technical knowledge
• ITIL 4 Foundation Certification

Travel Requirements

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