The Consultant will assist the Business Functional Leads, SCEIS Teams and Stakeholders for these projects coordinating the development of the functional design specifications necessary to meet the technical and business requirements. The Consultant must have extensive experience in developing business blueprints, configuring treasury functionality in SAP, and creating requirements documents, test cases/scenarios and training materials. The Consultant must also be able to assist in the design of reports and dashboards. The Consultant will assist in defining the data to be extracted from SAP for the development of reports. It is desired that the Consultant have experience in the development of interfaces with brokers, banks and other financial service providers. The Consultant will coordinate activities with SAP consultants, the SC Office of Information Technology Services (OTIS) and SC Enterprise Information System (SCEIS) Team as necessary to ensure decisions, recommendations and work products are in compliance with best practices and established standards.
DAILY DUTIES / RESPONSIBILITIES:
Provides SAP functional expertise to the SAP SCEIS Team.
Interacts with business users through interviews, status & planning meetings, review of policies/procedures manuals, etc., and translates daily/monthly/year-end activities into business requirements.
Creates and presents proto-types (provides demonstrates) to business users for implementation of out-of-the-box and custom investment,
functionality required to replicate and/or improve these work activities.
Works collaboratively with business and technical personnel to obtain agreement and approval of proposed design/business requirements.
Once approved, creates functional design specification documents and obtains final approval by all parties.
Coordinates with STO and SCEIS Team to configure SAP to provide the functionality in the functional specification documents.
Works closely with Development Team to assist and support development and testing of activities requiring custom development.
Coordinates with STO s IT Division, the SC Division of Technology Operations and SCEIS to define all technical requirements necessary to create test environments needed to properly test and implement the investment functionality in SAP.
Works closely with ABAP and BASIS Teams and project managers at SCEIS and STO to conduct testing, transmit changes through the appropriate release management processes to production to ensure minimal issues and optimal performance.
Provides support to technical/reporting team to create universes, data structures, and to improve and streamline processes regarding data flow and data quality to improve data accuracy, viability and value.
Provides extensive knowledge transfer sessions for IT and business users to ensure functionality and reporting solutions can be created, modified and maintained by STO at the end of this engagement.
Reports to the SCEIS Treasury Team Lead or SCEIS Director.