SAP Principle Consultant (SAP BPC)

Job Classification

Job Req - 142269

Closing date - 9 October 2025

Job Family

Information Technology

Career Stream

Application Development

Leadership Pipeline

Manage Self Technical

FAIS Affected

Job Purpose

A seasoned professional specialising in SAP BPC (Business Planning and Consolidation) solutions. The role encompasses business and systems requirement analysis, technical design, development, configuration, and end-to-end landscape implementation. Proficient in both SAP BPC Standard and Embedded solutions, ensuring high-quality design and development aligned with agile methodologies realising business benefits across BPC Standard, Embedded, and BW4HANA modules within the SAP eco system.

Job Responsibilities

• Expert knowledge in: BPC Standard and Embedded, Planning, Consolidations, Master data modelling, Script development, Fox development, BW modelling and ETL, A4O reporting and EPM reporting.
• Ability to design best practice solutions according to business requirements, technically develop the solutions, user acceptance testing and promoting to Production.
• Contribute to quality and financial goals by operating within agreed budget and by conforming to the Service Level Agreements.
• Plans and prioritise work outputs with a realistic sense of time a resource involved and in conformance to programming and/or configuration standards and /or documentation in line with best practices.
• Investigate and propose enhancements which will result in improved performance.
• Responds to customers with the appropriate level of urgency.
• Manage own work and time to achievement of project/deliverables.
• Takes ownership in ensuring that customers’ expectations are met.
• Customer liaison into business.
• Demonstrates an understanding of how SAP software, services, products, and solutions add value to the business.
• Highlights potential project or solution risks and issues to project management.
• Acts in a functional integration specialist role across various SAP disciplines.
• Provide and develop new proposals to key stakeholder.
• Provide Industry solutions and bets practices knowledge to clients.
• Maintain and expand client contact as a high level and build credible relationship with key client personnel.
• Actively support other team members on projects as well as SAP internal tasks.
• Knowledge Sharing
• Prioritise and/or integrate multiple projects /tasks concurrently.
• Provide input to highlight inter dependencies between projects and support.
• Consult on project activities leading to the implementation of the requirements by applying project management principles across multiple projects.
• Provide direction on all aspects of SAP systems and integration thereof.
• Identify and Mitigate risk.
• Drive problem resolution.
• Involved in pre- project planning e.g., determining scope and solution.
• Keep up to date on Nedbank strategy and SAP technologies.
• Accountable for own activities and performance.
• Takes a disciplined approach and works effectively towards clear objectives and prioritises.
• Analyses and appropriately judges the pro's, cons, opportunities, and risks of a problem.
• Uses and share information from different sources to aid in problem solving.
• Effectively resolves complex problems using creative approaches outside area of expertise.
• Maintain and sharing team knowledge.
• Continually develop core skills, cross-functional expertise, and business knowledge.
• Coach and mentor other resources in technical preparation of SAP Process Procedures, test scenarios, end-user documentation and user manuals.
• Responsible for contributing to professional development of consultants.
• Play a role in the recruitment of new consultants.
• Participate in Nedbank Culture building initiatives.
• Participate and support corporate social responsibility initiatives.
• Add value to Nedbank by identifying and recommending opportunities to enhance processes, systems and policies and support implementation of new processes, policies, and systems.

Essential Qualifications - NQF Level

Preferred Qualification

Bcom/IS/IT ENG/BSc/Com Science related degree  

Preferred Certifications

Certified in multiple SAP modules /ASAP & Solution Manager certifications.

SAP Business Planning and Consolidation certification

SAP Business Planning and Consolidation 10.1 and 11.0. (Standard / Embedded)

Minimum Experience Level

 8-10 years BPC plus SAP Functional experience

Technical / Professional Knowledge

Behavioural Competencies