SAP PPM

Job Description

Key responsibilities (please specify if the position is an individual one or part of a team): Key Functional Role Responsibilities – Projects specific: • Perform a key role as part of a team responsible for the delivery of enhancements to the SAP ERP (Finance, HR and Payroll, Asset & Work Management) components within defined Projects for ESB. • Create/maintain project documentation to allow smooth transition of Project into Support organisation • Maintain a common set of scoping, design, implementation and test artefacts and templates in line with agreed ESB Project definitions Key Functional Role Responsibilities – Support Specific: • Support of core business processes • Perform Incident and problem resolution, maintaining the highest levels of customer satisfaction possible • Demonstrate strong task management and problem solving skills • Preventative maintenance tasks to ensure IT systems are operational and secure, and to prevent future incidents • Troubleshoot incident and problem resolution, maintaining the highest levels of customer satisfaction possible • Batch monitoring and recovery of failures with a view to improving the system / batch performance • Monitor and drive improvements to the system/ batch performance • Deliver ad hoc unplanned changes • Document procedures and processes for Enterprise systems and interfacing systems • Manage Project and change request (CR) scoping, estimation and design (i.e. preparing functional specification) through to implementation (completing system configuration, liaising closely with ABAP team during build phase) and preparing and managing all elements of testing (unit, system and integration) • Identify potential process improvements opportunities across the landscape • Work alongside Team Leads, Delivery Leads, Functional SME’s and Solution Architects to Identify and manage risks • Customer communications - Supervisory / Managerial responsibilities (please specify if the position will have persons reporting to it): Team management & coordination with Client - Other responsibilities – Budgets, targets, equipment etc (please specify): - Key Skills/Knowledge: • Relevant degree with good functional experience in the following areas of PPM would be preferable: • Excellent functional expertise and configuration of SAP PPM • Portfolio Management • Project Management • Collaboration Projects (cProjects) • Capacity Planning o Financial Planning • Functional expertise of SAP Project Systems • Experience of integration between SAP PPM and SAP ECC 6.0 Project System (PS) module • Functional knowledge of SAP HR / SAP Cross • Application Timesheets (CATS) • Integration expertise involving SAP PPM and • SAP ECC 6.0 Human Resources (HR) module o SAP Enterprise Portal experience • Expertise of SAP PPM integration with SAP BW for reporting purposes • Implementation of Support Packs and Upgrades o Excellent technical documentation skills Experience required: Knowledge in the following specific areas would be an advantage: o A solid technical background with excellent ABAP debugging skills o SAP FI / CO expertise would be advantageous o Experience in migrating SAP RPM 4.5 implementation onto a SAP PPM 5.0/6.0 platform o LSMW skills o Application Link Enabling (ALE) expertise o Testing (HP Quality Centre 11.0 o Enterprise Edition) and Quality Assurance o Open Pursuit