Consulting SAP Functional Consultant (Core Procurement) Professional HALIFAX, CA

Avature; Halifax; Hybrid; CAD 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a skilled SAP Functional Consultant specializing in Procurement to join their innovative team in Halifax. This role involves analyzing, designing, and implementing SAP Procurement processes as part of a significant S/4 transformation project. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure the delivery of effective SAP solutions that meet business requirements. The position offers a dynamic work environment focused on continuous skill development and the opportunity to work with cutting-edge technology. If you are passionate about technology and eager to make an impact, this is the perfect opportunity for you.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in SAP Procurement processes including purchasing and invoice processing.
• Strong knowledge of S/4 HANA solutions and configuration.

Responsibilities

• Analyze and implement SAP Procurement processes for S/4 transformation.
• Collaborate with teams to configure SAP modules and develop functional specs.

Skills

SAP Procurement processes

S/4 HANA

Invoice Management

Procure to Pay

Testing and training

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Associate's Degree/College Diploma

Bachelor's Degree

Tools

SAP MM

SAP IM

ARIBA

Job description

IBM Consulting helps our clients fundamentally redesign experiences to create new sources of value, digitally reinvent their operations for greater efficiency and transform their entire enterprises through cognitive. We invite you to consider joining IBM's global reach, outcome-focused methodologies, domain skills and deep industry expertise that are helping transform the way we live and work.

IBM's state-of-the-art Client Innovation Centre (CIC) is the first of its kind in Canada. The Western Canada CIC weaves together IBM’s business insights and industry-leading software portfolio and is ideally suited for any client that needs flexible access to emerging or niche skills that may not be cost effective to grow internally.

In addition, our focus on our team is unparalleled as demonstrated by the following:

• The CIC is one of IBM’s highest performing delivery centres worldwide –for retention, client satisfaction and utilization. Our employees are empowered to stay and grow within IBM.
• We are very focused on continuous skill development –staff training is one of the largest Centre investments. Employees are immersed in a culture of learning and constant growth.
• Investment in key partnership with universities, government and private sector groups which has resulted in IBM having a key influencing role to invigorate Calgary’s technology sector.

The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in SAP Procurement processes, including purchasing, procurement, inventory management, invoice processing, and payments.

In this role, you'll work in one of our IBM Consulting Client Innovation Centers (Delivery Centers), where we deliver deep technical and industry expertise to a wide range of public and private sector clients around the world. Our delivery centers offer our clients locally based skills and technical expertise to drive innovation and adoption of new technology.

Your role and responsibilities:

• Participate in the analysis, design, and implementation of SAP Procurement processes for our S/4 transformation project.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand business requirements and translate them into SAP Procurement solutions.
• Configure SAP Procurement modules, including MM, IM.
• Understand integration points with modules such as OTC, FI & EWM to meet business needs.
• Develop functional specifications for custom enhancements to SAP Procurement processes.
• Conduct testing and training for SAP Procurement processes and solutions.
• Provide ongoing support and maintenance for SAP Procurement solutions.

Must be located in Halifax or willing to relocate to Halifax.

Required education:

Associate's Degree/College Diploma

Preferred education:

Bachelor's Degree

Required technical and professional expertise:

• Work closely with business functions to understand and define system requirements, recommend SAP S/4 HANA solutions to meet business needs.
• Analyze the business impact and highlight the key product/integration deficiency to the product owners.
• Actively coordinate routine/monthly/quarterly regression testing for change deployments.
• Work with project management to document and communicate risks and issues, and then recommend solutions.
• Mapping out visual workflow diagrams on current and future state processes.
• Perform Unit, Integration & Regression E2E Testing.
• Provide training and support to clients to ensure successful adoption of the solutions.
• Implementation Project experience in requirement gathering, explore, design, build, test, deploy and support phases.
• Procure to Pay (Master data, Direct procurement, Invoice Management, Workflows and Invoicing).
• Understand client business requirements and design SAP S/4 HANA Procure to Pay solutions to meet those needs.
• Configure and customize the standard templates to meet the client requirements. Template design as Global Deployment, Rollouts, Process optimization and improvements.
• Extensive experience in Master data objects such as Material Master, Service Master, Business Partner Supplier and Customer Master design and definition.
• Hands on experience in S/4 HANA Flexible workflow configuration for Purchase Requisition, Outline Agreement and Purchase Order as well as Invoice approval.
• Experience in WRICEF design and development and testing across systems.
• Collaborate with other teams such as ARIBA, Third Party systems and integration teams to understand the business requirement and ensure system functionality.
• Hands on new S/4 HANA Configuration set up including special scenarios as Retention, Sub-Contracting, Consignment, Third party dropship, Intercompany STO.
• Well versed with Invoicing plan, Service entry sheet, Invoice Management including OCR integration, and invoice approvals.

Preferred technical and professional experience:

Hiring manager and Recruiter should collaborate to create the relevant verbiage.

ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT

IBM Consulting is IBM’s consulting and global professional services business, with market leading capabilities in business and technology transformation. With deep expertise in many industries, we offer strategy, experience, technology, and operations services to many of the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Our people are focused on accelerating our clients’ businesses through the power of collaboration. We believe in the power of technology responsibly used to help people, partners and the planet.

YOUR LIFE @ IBM

In a world where technology never stands still, we understand that, dedication to our clients success, innovation that matters, and trust and personal responsibility in all our relationships, lives in what we do as IBMers as we strive to be the catalyst that makes the world work better.

Being an IBMer means you’ll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you’ll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background.

Our IBMers are growth minded, always staying curious, open to feedback and learning new information and skills to constantly transform themselves and our company. They are trusted to provide on-going feedback to help other IBMers grow, as well as collaborate with colleagues keeping in mind a team focused approach to include different perspectives to drive exceptional outcomes for our customers. The courage our IBMers have to make critical decisions everyday is essential to IBM becoming the catalyst for progress, always embracing challenges with resources they have to hand, a can-do attitude and always striving for an outcome focused approach within everything that they do.

Are you ready to be an IBMer?

ABOUT IBM

IBM’s greatest invention is the IBMer. We believe that through the application of intelligence, reason and science, we can improve business, society and the human condition, bringing the power of an open hybrid cloud and AI strategy to life for our clients and partners around the world.

Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are not only one of the largest corporate organizations in the world, we’re also one of the biggest technology and consulting employers, with many of the Fortune 50 companies relying on the IBM Cloud to run their business.

At IBM, we pride ourselves on being an early adopter of artificial intelligence, quantum computing and blockchain. Now it’s time for you to join us on our journey to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world.

OTHER RELEVANT JOB DETAILS

Must have the ability to work in Canada without sponsorship.

This role will involve working with technology that is covered by Export Regulations sanctions. If you are a Foreign National from any of the following US sanctioned countries (Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Syria, and the Crimea, Luhansk, Donetsk, Kherson, and Zaporizhia regions of Ukraine) on a work permit, you are not eligible for employment in this position.

Job Title: SAP Functional Consultant (Core Procurement)

Job ID: 24411

City / Township / Village: HALIFAX

State / Province: Nova Scotia

Country: Canada

Work arrangement: Hybrid

Area of work: Consulting

Employment type: Regular

Contract type: Regular

Position type: Professional

Some travel may be required based on business demand.

Company: IBM

Shift: General (daytime)

Is this role a commissionable/sales incentive based position?