ERP Functional Specialist

About the position

• Lead a team in the provision of functional support to the Organisations users on the allocated modules, with a focus on testing, business analysis, configuration and general support.
• Take responsibility for driving business analysis initiatives and lead a team of ERP business analysts or a cross-functional team on multi-year projects characterised by a high level of solution complexity in the ERP domain.
• Develop a partnership role with business owners and interact with clients independently to define future business requirements, identify opportunities for optimisation, and propose and develop solutions.
• Lead engagements with business customers or clients, taking responsibility for managing the relationship and interface with customers for the business analysis and optimisation stream within the ERP domain.

• Support business architects in defining, analysing and developing the business architecture, reference model, frameworks and implementation roadmaps required to enable the strategy from an ERP perspective.

• Provide substantive input to ERP support disciplines (e.g. systems development, project management and change management).

• Quality assure the work and outputs of other ERP business analysts.
• Apply industry best practice to re-engineer effective and efficient business processes.
• Participate in external industry forums and contribute to developing and furthering the ERP business analyst body of knowledge.
• Plan and coordinate user acceptance testing and configure processes within the system for improvement and specialised functional support.
• Develop system training manuals and training plans, and present training courses in support of new implementation.
• Identify and register risks within their ERP functional streams.
• Lead the analysis/solution life cycle for initiatives, from problem identification to the management of change requirement and training.

Desired Skills:

• quality assurance knowledge and skill
• Continuous Improvement
• ERP domain management knowledge

Desired Work Experience:

• 5 to 10 years

Desired Qualification Level:

• Degree

About The Employer:

- 8 to 10 years' experience within an Oracle Financial Application support or project environment. Experience must include development and maintenance of existing software.


The following will be an added advantage:

- Cloud-based ERP technology and implementation experience.



- Competences: Additional requirements include:
- industry, organisational and business awareness;
- quality assurance knowledge and skill;
- continuous improvement;
- continuous learning and/or professional development;
- business transformation and optimisation;
- elicitation techniques;
- realisation and testing practices;
- ERP domain management knowledge, including SQL;
- ability to communicate with diverse audiences;
- understanding of business customers' processes and functions;
- strong aptitude for accounting and detecting errors;
- problem-solving and analytical skills;
- service-oriented, where excellence in service delivery is of utmost importance;
- a drive for results;
- strategic thinking;
- managing complexity and ambiguity;
- planning and organising;
- conceptual thinking;
- judgement and decision-making skills;
- resilience;
- impact and influence; and
- building and maintaining relationships.