Job Description :
The State of South Carolina has implemented the following modules of SAP across all state government agencies: FI, MM, HR, Payroll, SRM, CRM, Treasury Management and PBF. The implementation of SAP began in November 2007 with the FI and MM modules and concluded in June 2013 with the implementation of PBF. The South Carolina State Treasurer’s Office (STO) is currently optimizing the reporting module of an existing investment system in the Treasury Management module of SAP. The ‘go live’ date for the implementation of the investment functionality was September 1, 2015. To assist in the implementation of this project, the STO requires the services of a SAP Functional Consultant with extensive experience in developing business requirements, configuring the investment functionality in SAP, developing test case/scenarios, developing training materials, providing training and implementing the investment and/or debt functionality of the Treasury Management module of SAP.

The Consultant will assist the SAP and Business Functional Leads for these projects coordinating the development of the functional design specifications necessary to meet the technical and business requirements of the Investments Division of the STO. The Consultant must have extensive experience in developing business blueprints, configuring investment 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 in ECC. The Consultant will assist in defining the data to be extracted from SAP into the Business Warehouse for the development of reports in Business Objects by the ABAP Staff. A sound working knowledge of Business Objects is required. 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 Division of Technology Operations 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 Investments Conversion 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 ABAP 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 STO’s Deputy Director and/or IT Director and provides daily updates to the Project Manager for this engagement.

REQUIRED SKILLS (RANK IN ORDER OF IMPORTANCE):
- MUST HAVE THE ABILITY TO TRANSLATE COMPLEX BUSINESS REQUIREMENTS INTO TECHNICAL AND FUNCTIONAL SPECIFICATIONS AND ULTIMATELY INTO PROJECT DELIVERABLES.
- MUST HAVE EXTENSIVE EXPERIENCE DEVELOPING BUSINESS BLUEPRINT DOCUMENTS USED BY DEVELOPMENT STAFF TO CONFIGURE, PROGRAM AND TEST FUNCTIONALITY.
- MUST HAVE A SOUND KNOWLEDGE OF REPORTING AND ANALYTICS PRINCIPLES, THEORIES, CONCEPTS AND TECHNIQUES TO SUPPORT CREATION OF REPORTS/DASHBOARDS FOR INVESTMENT FUNCTIONALITY.
- MUST HAVE A SOUND KNOWLEDGE OF HOW TO CREATE INTERFACES WITH BANKS AND OTHER FINANCIAL ORGANIZATIONS/ INSTITUTIONS.
- MUST HAVE EXCELLENT INTERPERSONAL SKILLS.
- MUST HAVE EXPERIENCE PROVIDING TRAINING TO FUNCTIONAL AND TECHNICAL PERSONNEL ON THE INVESTMENT FUNCTIONALITY IN SAP.
- MUST HAVE A SOUND WORKING KNOWLEDGE OF OTHER TREASURY MANAGEMENT FUNCTIONALITY IN SAP INCLUDING CASH MANAGEMENT.
EXPERIENCE:
- TEN YEARS OF EXPERIENCE IMPLEMENTING SAP IS REQUIRED.
- EXPERIENCE IMPLEMENTING INVESTMENT SAP IN AT LEAST FOUR LARGE ORGANIZATIONS IS REQUIRED.
- AT LEAST ONE OF THESE ORGANIZATIONS MUST BE A STATE, FEDERAL OR COUNTY (PUBLIC SECTOR) ORGANIZATION.
- MUST BE ABLE TO CONFIGURE SAP INVESTMENT FUNCTIONALITY.
- MUST BE ABLE TO DEVELOP HIGH QUALITY BUSINESS BLUEPRINT DOCUMENTS.
- THIS POSITION REQUIRES TECHNICAL AND BUSINESS KNOWLEDGE IN MULTIPLE
TREASURY MANAGEMENT DISCIPLINES/PROCESSES IN ORDER TO AVOID REWORK ON LATER IMPLEMENTATIONS OF CASH AND DEBT MANAGEMENT.
- PERFORMS OTHER TASKS AS DIRECTED BY THE STO PROJECT MANAGER.

REQUIRED EDUCATION:
- BACHELOR’S DEGREE IN COMPUTER SCIENCE, INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY, MATHEMATICS, ENGINEERING OR RELATED DISCIPLINE.
- MASTER’S DEGREE PREFERRED.


Client : Public sector