Job Responsibilities: Facilitate IT related projects for the Group and APAC branches that may be assigned from time to time.
Understand business function and analyse user requirements, make a clear scope of project and build consensus with users (Create 'Project Management Plan').
Lead in analysis and scoping of data sourcing and functional enhancements, functional/application design, functional specification discussion, and obtain users agreements.
Obtain commitments from all identified stakeholders on creation of project plan and handle of project change management.
Create project schedule, project activity list and control to keep the schedule and within budget.
Communicate all key project plans, commitments, and changes including requirements, QA plans, schedule, and scope changes.
Arrange with users to conduct User Acceptance Test and arrange with vendor (where relevant) to prepare necessary test environment and support functional testing.
Produce Deployment, Run Books and Implementation Plans.
Prepare necessary documents to facilitate and deliver the project (Release checklist, UAT results, etc.).
Communicate project details and schedules to the Business as required.
Lead and co-ordinate Go-Live activities, including the execution of the deployment plans and checklists.
Ensure that the delivery of assigned projects meet or exceed user expectations.
Review post implementation issues coming out from project implementation.
Manages risks and resolve issues for production incidents assigned.
Manages relationships and coordinate work between different team members, and with developer resources.
Will need to understand impacts of branches and code merges arising from needs of conflicting projects, change requests, and production incident fixes.
Will need to closely supervise developer resources' work, and ensure that quality coding practices and processes have been observed.
Continually works towards making improvements in the FA team's processes.
Job Requirements: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field.
5-10 years of previous project management experience, with exposure to project management best practices/ methodologies/ project lifecycle.
5-10 years of supporting SAP ECC6 environment from a functional perspective, with solid understanding of core Finance modules such as Finance and Controlling (FICO) (including General Ledger (GL), Accounts Payable (AP), Accounts Receivable (AR), Cost Center Accounting (CO-CCA) and Internal Order Management (CO-IO); and Budget Control System (BCS).
Working knowledge of Material Management (MM), Workflow Management functionalities, Flexible Real Estate (RE-FX) and Asset Accounting (AA) is preferred.
Working knowledge of SAP ABAP programming language, Control-M schedule, and JIRA issue management tool is preferred.
Working knowledge of SAP Basis and Oracle databases is preferred.
Formal training in project management practices preferred.
Demonstrated effective leadership and analytical skills.
General PC knowledge including Microsoft Office with expert level knowledge of Excel, and working knowledge of MS Access.
Experience with IT support of Financial Accounting and Procurement business functions is preferred.
Capability in requirement analysis and functional design skills in an SAP ECC6 environment.