SAP Functional Consultant - SF + HCM + Ariba (Ref: 197794)

Forsyth Barnes Consultancy; Dubai; On-site; AED 240,000 - 360,000; Full time

Job summary

Forsyth Barnes Consultancy in Dubai seeks an experienced SAP Functional Consultant to lead analysis and delivery across SuccessFactors, HCM, and Ariba. You will translate business priorities into clear functional designs, guide configuration, and validate outcomes to improve HR, workforce administration, and procurement processes.

Responsibilities span discovery through deployment, with active stakeholder engagement and risk management.

Qualifications

• Several years of SAP functional consulting experience in a client-facing environment.
• Strong SAP SuccessFactors functionality and lifecycle knowledge.
• Working knowledge of SAP HCM and its data and organisational structures.
• Hands-on SAP Ariba experience in procurement or spend-management processes.
• Ability to connect requirements across HR, workforce, and procurement workstreams.
• Experience producing functional specifications, process documentation, test scenarios, and implementation deliverables.
• Fluent English with strong cross-cultural communication skills.
• Willingness to work in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, with client-site engagement as required.

Responsibilities

• Lead functional discovery sessions for workforce, human capital, talent, and procurement requirements.
• Assess processes and recommend SAP-enabled improvements across SuccessFactors, HCM, and Ariba.
• Develop functional concepts, process maps, solution designs, and configuration documentation.
• Coordinate or perform functional configuration activities within SAP modules and support integrations.
• Plan and facilitate workshops, demos, user acceptance testing, and walkthroughs.
• Manage defects, enhancements, dependencies, and scope questions through analysis and resolution.
• Prepare clients for deployment with training input, data readiness, and operational handover.
• Provide post-implementation support and identify opportunities to improve performance and value.

Skills

SAP SuccessFactors

SAP HCM

SAP Ariba

Requirements gathering

Functional specifications

Stakeholder management

Job description

About Us

Management consulting services help organisations strengthen the way they operate, make decisions, and deliver business change. Within this environment, our client brings together enterprise technology expertise and practical advisory support to address complex workforce, human capital, and procurement requirements. Its SAP-focused work connects SuccessFactors, SAP HCM, and Ariba capabilities with the operating models and processes that underpin effective client organisations.

Based in a highly international business hub, this organisation supports transformation initiatives that require both functional depth and commercial awareness. The work calls for consultants who can understand varied business contexts, shape workable solutions, and contribute to outcomes that are sustainable beyond implementation.

Job Description

The SAP Functional Consultant will lead functional analysis and solution delivery across SAP SuccessFactors, SAP HCM, and SAP Ariba. Working across consulting engagements, the role will convert business priorities into clear functional designs, guide configuration and validation activities, and help clients achieve measurable improvements in HR, workforce administration, and procurement processes.

Success will depend on balancing module expertise with strong consulting judgement. You will engage stakeholders from discovery through deployment, challenge unclear requirements constructively, manage functional risks, and provide reliable guidance when solutions need to be adapted to client operating models. The position offers broad scope for a consultant who can work across disciplines while maintaining quality and accountability in every delivery phase.

Operating from Dubai, you will contribute to project planning, workshops, documentation, testing, issue resolution, and post-go-live support as required. Your impact will be visible through well-designed SAP processes, confident client decision-making, controlled delivery, and solutions that are adopted effectively by end users.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead functional discovery sessions to understand workforce, human capital, talent, and procurement requirements.
• Assess existing processes and recommend SAP-enabled improvements across SuccessFactors, SAP HCM, and Ariba.
• Develop functional concepts, process maps, solution designs, and configuration documentation aligned with agreed business outcomes.
• Coordinate or perform functional configuration activities within the relevant SAP modules and support integration considerations.
• Plan and facilitate workshops, demonstrations, conference room pilots, user acceptance testing, and solution walkthroughs.
• Manage functional defects, enhancement requests, dependencies, and scope questions through structured analysis and resolution.
• Prepare clients for deployment through training input, user guidance, data-readiness activities, and operational handover.
• Provide post-implementation support and identify opportunities to improve solution performance, adoption, and business value.

Requirements

• Several years of experience in SAP functional consulting, implementation, or application support within a client-facing environment.
• Strong functional capability in SAP SuccessFactors, with practical understanding of relevant employee lifecycle or talent processes.
• Working knowledge of SAP HCM, including core HR processes and the relationship between employee data and organisational structures.
• Hands‑on familiarity with SAP Ariba and its role in procurement, supplier, purchasing, or spend-management processes.
• Ability to connect requirements across HR, workforce, and procurement workstreams rather than treating each module in isolation.
• Experience producing functional specifications, process documentation, test scenarios, issue assessments, and implementation deliverables.
• Confidence facilitating stakeholder discussions, presenting solution options, and explaining technical or process implications in clear business language.
• Strong analytical judgement, structured problem‑solving ability, and discipline in managing priorities across concurrent consulting assignments.
• Professional fluency in English and the ability to work effectively with stakeholders from different cultural and functional backgrounds.
• Availability to work in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, with flexibility for client-site or project-related engagement where required.

Benefits

• Exposure to varied consulting assignments spanning HR technology, human capital transformation, and procurement digitisation.
• Opportunity to work across three strategically important SAP solution areas and broaden end‑to‑end enterprise process expertise.
• Direct involvement in client workshops, design decisions, implementation activity, and measurable business change.
• Professional development supported through practical project experience, knowledge sharing, and access to evolving SAP delivery methods.
• Career progression potential within a specialist consulting environment where functional expertise can lead to broader advisory responsibility.
• International exposure through work with stakeholders, operating models, and transformation priorities across diverse client organisations.
• A Dubai‑based role offering access to a dynamic regional market and a strong concentration of enterprise transformation activity.
• Competitive employment terms aligned with the scope, experience requirements, and client‑facing nature of the position.

Other

This position is suited to an SAP consultant who is comfortable moving between detailed functional analysis and senior stakeholder conversations. The successful candidate will be expected to bring structure to ambiguous requirements, communicate recommendations with confidence, and remain focused on delivery outcomes across the full project lifecycle.