Sr. SAP SD Consultant

Company description

AG, an industry-leading specialist in SAP consulting services, SAP Gold Partner and an SAP Quality Awards Gold Winner, delivers solutions that solve business challenges and understands SAP to an expert level – all reflected by our ISO-Certifications in 9001, 14001 and 45001. We’re proud to employ some of the world’s most talented and best trained SAP and RPA Consultants across all our international locations. Our Consultants have extensive SAP Implementation and ‘real world’ SAP Support experience and are experts in Business Process Enhancements, Data Migration and SAP 3rd Party Application integration. Our solutions are intelligent, practical, based on the latest technology and loved by users. We constantly engage and collaborate with our employees, our partners and our clients, ensuring we maintain our high quality standards and to continue to be innovative across all areas of our business. Helping our employees, partners and our clients to be exceptional has earned AG a place in the Financial Times (FT) 1000 – Europe’s Fastest Growing Companies list 2021.

Headquartered in Slough, UK with offices in Chennai/Hyderabad/Pune/Milan & Aberdeen with teams across Europe and India.

See www.agcapps.com for more details.

Location: Chennai/ Hyderabad/ Bangalore

Position

We are looking for a talented Senior SAP FICO S/4HANA Functional Consultant (Finance & Controlling with PS Experience) ideally with exposure in the Oil and Gas/Energy Natural Resources sector OR Automobile sector with a strong leadership focus. Qualified candidates will work on implementation and support projects. The SAP Finance and Controlling (FICO) Senior Consultant will work with clients to understand their finance business processes and accounting practices, analyzing and translating those requirements to enhance support and facilitate effective solutions, using their business process knowledge and SAP FICO Technical Knowledge. They will assist clients in the implementation, configuration, and support of SAP Functionality. Strong SAP Finance and Controlling skills and S4/HANA implementation experience is required, in areas such as Business Partners, Currency settings, New Fixed Assets, parallel and extension ledgers and Fiori Apps. Additionally, experience of working on an SAP S/4 conversion project, understanding of Central Finance and its application in the HANA landscape would be advantageous as well as experience in Profitability Analysis (COPA), Product Costing, Opentext (VIM), Joint Venture Accounting (JV), or Project Systems (PS) is required. 

Key responsibilities

• Liaise with clients to provide them with full life-cycle project implementation consulting expertise including assessments, blueprinting, configuration, testing, data migration and go-live stabilization.
• Liaise with client to prepare and facilitate assessment/blueprint workshops to analyse clients’ business requirements. Consultant must be able to define the SAP Blueprint by embedding the Business processes and Standard SAP best practices for existing software, hardware, and network provision.
• Examines existing business models and flows of data, and designs functional specifications and test plans for new systems to meet clients’ needs.
• Write detailed functional mapping to SAP applications, functional gap analysis, detailed blueprint design and process documentation, and detailed functional specifications for any custom development. This includes integration points with other SAP modules such as MM (Materials Management), SD (Sales and Distribution) and PS (Project Systems)
• Prepare summary level presentations and facilitate future and emerging state system design and process workshops to obtain client acceptance.
• Perform and/or oversee, configuration of SAP applications, creation of unit test scripts,and execution of unit tests.
• Train client staff on design, application functions and configuration to implement new systems.
• Create and/or support creation of integration/user acceptance test scenarios and scripts, as well as facilitate and provide direct support for user testing.
• Create and/or support creation of Data Migrations scripts and templates, and assist or perform the Data Migration.
• Create and/or support creation of cut over plan, as well as facilitate and provide direct support for production migration and go-live stabilization.
• Provide status updates on assigned work to management and, when required, act as a project manager on small to medium-sized projects. Provide consulting services on both new implementations and existing support projects.
• Complete the necessary training with regards to ISO 9001, 14001 and 45001 and be continually engaged via their work and be more focused and integrated with helping the company succeed in achieving ISO standards of 9001,14001 & 45001 .
• Strive to be aware of processes and procedures to fulfil and adhere to requirements as required under the ISO 9001, 14001 and 45001
• Responsibility for reporting, monitoring measurement, nonconformity and corrective action with regards to ISO 9001, 14001 and 45001

Qualifications/Experience

• Educated to degree level, or relevant accounting or business administration qualification, or applicable work experience would be advantageous.
• SAP S/4HANA implementation experience required. Project references must be verifiable.
• Minimum of 8 years of experience in a full cycle implementation as well as in support projects.
• Experience of undertaking feasibility studies for major IT developments incorporating costs and benefits and present proposals to clients.
• Experience of assisting clients in the implementation, configuration, and support of SAP Functionality.
• Strong communication in English language and good interpersonal skills.
• Ability to multitask and manage multiple deliverables and projects at the same time.
• Must be results oriented, and demonstrate a “can-do” attitude – adaptability, flexibility, and resourcefulness.
• Experience of examining existing business models and flows of data and designs functional specifications and test plans for new systems to meet clients’ needs.
• Experience of working closely with clients to implement new systems. Mentor and/or oversee other consultants assigned to the project.
• Experience in a Utility / Oil & Gas sectors would be an asset. 

Qualification, Experience & Critical Capabilities

• Graduation in Engineering (Preferred Computer Science)/ Post Graduation with 8 years (+) hands on experience working in SAP MDM / MDG.
• Experience in writing User Story/Business Requirement Specification, USDD (User Story Design Document)/Functional/Technical Specifications and understand Devops, Agile methodology/framework.
• Act as a partner to the Business for Business Process Query Incidents, Small Change (Projects), Problem Management and define right solution from Design and Cost perspective by aligning with Chief Architect Group (CAG) as and when needed.
• Coordinates with business users and other IT departments to design, develop, implement, enhance and maintain complex solutions.
• Be able to support and challenge the Partners (Vendors) on quotation of Change efforts, Fulfill the role of a SME (subject matter expert), Oversee and support the development of the solution, Validate the functionality as per business needs, support testing (IST & UAT) and User training.
• Experience in collaboration with different domains (functions) within Syngenta and third-party Partners (Vendors).

Relevant Experience

• 8 years (+) experience working as SAP MDM / MDG Functional Analyst.
• Should have worked on implementation of MDM.
• Good to have: Exposure to migration of SAP MDM to MDG.

MDM:

• Experience in MDM configuration.
• Experience in Integrating business process requirements with the technical implementation of SAP Master Data Management / Governance.
• Set up Validation (Business) rules, Workflow process, Import/Syndication Maps.
• Setup and use of MDM Transport Management.
• Design understanding of material / products master repository architecture.
• Experience working on SAP MDM Production Support and New Enhancements.
• Knowledge of handling MDM integration with different systems. Ex MDM <> ECC, SFDC etc.
• Understanding the Business problem and the different Master data used in the Organization (say if its Material Master/Customer/Vendor/Finance Master data etc.).
• Develops and implements strategies to translate business requirements and models into feasible and acceptable designs to ensure that business needs are met.
• Once the understanding phase is done Functional Analyst will have to work with vendor to provide a Solution through SAP MDM and then design and Implement the solution end to end.
• Strong hands on experience in MDM Console, Data Manager, Import Manager, Syndicator, Workflow, Data modeling, Standardization, Cleansing and SAP ECC.
• Consultant should try to wider there view for all the different platforms that are used with MDM such as Netweaver , XI, ABAP etc.
• Identifies areas for data quality improvements and helps to resolve data quality problems through the appropriate choice of error detection and correction, process control and improvement, or process design strategies.

MDG:

• Configuration exposure with MDG product / material data objects.
• Experience in UI modelling (Design and Creation of UI, Value restriction and Derivation rules).
• Understanding and familiarity with MDG application framework and various governance API's.
• Able to perform MDG configurations and customizations in areas like data modeling, process modeling, key mapping, duplicate checks, validations, replication and MDG error handling.
• Knowledge in activation and configuration of the MDG modules & components.
• Expertise in Data Model Enhancement, Data Transfer (DIF/DEF), Data Replication Framework (DRF) via ALE / IDOC, key and value mapping.
• Able to perform MDG Configurations and Customizations in areas like Data Modeling, Process Modeling, Key Mapping, Duplicate checks, validations and MDG error handling experience.

General Experience and Prerequisites 

• Excellent written and verbal communication around issues, managing escalations.
• Experience in client facing and managing outsourced partners.
• A Team player with a collaborative attitude, proactive and ability to work under pressure.
• Good understanding of agile ways of working (DevOps model), knowledge on ITIL processes.
• Knowledge of Lean/ 6 Sigma, Design Thinking, Agile methodology.
• Certification in SAP MDM / MDG preferred.

• Should have Worked extensively on SAP developments including the Application Design and Document for Custom development, in end to end SAP Implementation.
• Preparation of Technical Spec and Unit Test documents .
• Hands on experience and extensive knowledge on RICEF (Reports , ALE/IDOC, BDC ,Userexit /Enhancements , Script )
• Extensively worked on Data Dictionary objects (tables, structures, data elements and domains)
• Basic Knowledge on ABAP Workflow .
• Knowledge on BADI , User Exits ,BDC recording.
• Performance workbench tools like Runtime Analysis and SQL trace.
• Having good exposure to functional areas like Sales Distribution (SD), Material Management (MM) .
• Should have good analytical skills and ability to quickly grasp customer requirements and convert them into Technical specifications

• Experience on using Mendix Developer Studio for designing and developing Web-based
  applications
  Knowledge of web services
  Knowledge of export & importing data
  Knowledge of debugging the web services & microflows
  Understanding Data models and SQL Query Building
  Build applications using Schema Domain Entity Design, User Interface Development for
  Desktop, Tablet and Mobile devices
  Knowledge of building Microflows and Nanoflows and using Containers
  Understanding Data models and SQL Query Building
  Strong customer intrfacing and conflict resolution skills

• -Will be part of ABAP Team and will play integral role in implementation /support and other projects
• -will be interacting with the client and the key users, involved in scoping studies, suggest solution through SAP , Train the key users, and configure SAP ABAPmodule
• Should have at least one support type of project and At least two full implementation experience
• Should have experience with skills on Adobe forms, module pool programming, interface development, workflow, Webdynpro
• Will also be part of solution building team
• Should have 3+ yrs of SAP experience in ABAP Consulting

Sr. HR Applications Architect

Job Title – Technical Solution Architect/ Sr HR Applications Architect

Team – GIS

Role Type – Individual Contributor

Key relationships –

HR leads of various verticals

Technology and implementation teams

You will be supported by your peers and experts across many fields who will help you succeed.

Job Responsibilities:

COMPANY HR-Applications team is looking for a passionate, engaging Sr HR Applications Technical Architect to join our growing team. This role will perform Technology evaluation, Identification, Solution Design, Execute the design for entire stack of HR-Applications echo-system and perform Technical Production Support.

Designs, develops, modifies, debugs and evaluates programs for functional areas, including but not limited to finance, human resources, manufacturing and marketing. Analyzes existing programs or formulates logic for new systems, devises logic procedures, prepares flowcharting, performs coding and tests/debugs programs. Develops conversion and system implementation plans. Prepares and obtains approval of system and programming documentation. Recommends changes in development, maintenance and system standards. Trains users in conversion and implementation of system. May be internal or external, client-focused, working in conjunction with Professional Services and outsourcing functions. May include company-wide, web-enabled solutions.

Role Purpose:

Lead design and implementation of the HR systems of the organization mainly in SAP SuccessFactors and Cornerstone on Demand

Interface with business stakeholders, assess feasibility of the requirements and guide the Technology Leads and Implementation teams to align the solution development

Front-run the LMS migration initiative from SAP SuccessFactors to Cornerstone on Demand ensuring a scalable solution to accommodate future enhancements and adoption to all BU’s of Company

Explore new technologies and practices, be a part of the core team building an HR COE and define the standards and best practices

Act as a SPOC/L3 for the current product support related activities and the Learning HR-Echo System

Cross- training teams on knowledge transfer across business functions

Qualifications & Experience:

Excellent grasp of one or more HR systems, preferably SuccessFactors and Cornerstone on Demand

Proven experience leading System Integrations, Data Migrations, Implementations, Assessments and Process Improvements on technical stack

10+ years of experience as an HR Enterprise Architect

Knowledge of Learning Management Systems (LMS) is desired

Experience working in a Global Production support model

• Strong analytical skills -ability to understand and analyze business requirements.
• Excellent problem solving and communication skills.
• Strong sense of teamwork, personal integrity, responsibility, and accountability
• Experience working with demanding deadlines, high workload, and some degree of conflicting priorities
• Able to learn quickly with minimal supervision
• Should have extensive knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC) Methodologies and processes
• Must have experience in Functional Testing, Integration Testing, User Acceptance Testing (UAT), Performance Testing, Portal Testing, Translation Testing, Usability Testing
• Must have experience is writing test cases and test strategies based on the customer requirements
• Minimum 3 years to maximum 6 years of SAP Functional Testing experience
• Experience in independently solving Business problems related to Testing and able to drive continuous improvement in Testing space
• Able to bring in Industry Best Practices and arrive at Strategies to benchmark and drive the maturity of Testing Processes
• Experience in Test Management using JIRA
• Experience in Preparation, Execution, Validation, Documentation of Test Processes
• Define, manage and create test data for Demo systems
• Experience in interface testing between SAP & non-SAP applications is needed for specific customers
• Functional knowledge in SAP PM, SAP PLM, SAP MM and SAP ISU will be a plus
• Experience with SAP Mobile Platform is a plus
• Experience of automation test tools will be an added advantage
• Experience in eCATT is a plus
• Experience in setting up Demo data is a plus
• Experience in working with LSMW is a plus

We have opening for SAP PPQM Consultant/Sr. Consultant with leading industry for Kolkata Location.

Qualification Required:-B.Tech

Must Haves:

• Must have 8 years of relevant exp in SAP PP, QM Module.
• Must have 4+ years of SAP PP Experience with at least 2 to 3years of Domain exp
• Must have experience of both PP and QM modules
• Should have experience of executing 1-2End to end Implementations (S4 HANA Preferable).
• Expertise in requirements understanding, system design, development, testing methodologies, training, defining support procedures
• Strong knowledge and experience in SAP PP - SOP, Flexible planning, Capacity planning, Variant Configuration, CBP, Discrete, REM, LTP, Engineering & Organization Change Management, Batch Management as well as PP-PI processes.
• Strong knowledge and experience in SAP QM module - Master data, Batch Management, Notifications, Sample Management, Quality Inspection Plans, Quality Certificates, Stability Study, Deadline Monitoring, Vendor Evaluation.
• Experience in Implementation and Support Projects. In-depth knowledge in the below areas:
• Master Data - Bill of materials, Work centres/ Resources, Routings/ Recipe, Production versions, Inspection Plan, Master inspection, Characteristics, Catalogues and Code groups, Inspection Plan, - Material Requirement Planning (MRP)- Configuration and Integration with, Procurement, Sales and Distribution.
• Production Order Execution - Order confirmation, Goods issue, Goods receipt and Back flushing- Quality Management - Quality in Procurement, Quality in Production, In process inspection, Calibration and Quality in Sales
• Should have experience in writing Functional Specification, co-ordination with ABAP team, testing of new functionalities.
• Must have integration knowledge with FI, CO, SD, MM, PM modules.

Good to Have:

• Preferred if hands-on and good experience in SAP S/4 HANA configuration, migration, Fiori applications on latest HANA releases