SAP Principle Consultant-Functional

Job Classification

138159 - SAP Principal Consultant 

Closing date - 27 February 2025

Job Family

Information Technology

Career Stream

Application Development

Leadership Pipeline

Manage Self Leading expert

Job Purpose

Performs business and systems analysis, designs, implements, configures, supports and maintains SAP system. Plays a fundamental role in realisation of business benefits across multiple functional areas or modules in the SAP system.  Also involved in solution design and system integration.

Job Responsibilities

• 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 resources 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.
• Share knowledge.
• 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.
• Consult on SDLC processes.
• 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 

Essential Certifications

Preferred Certifications

Preferably certified  in more than one SAP module / ASAP & Solution Manager certifications

Minimum Experience Level

8 to 10  years SAP Functional Experience 

Technical / Professional Knowledge

Behavioural Competencies