AES SAP SD GTS Senior Associate Operate

At PwC, our people in business application consulting specialise in consulting services for a variety of business applications, helping clients optimise operational efficiency. These individuals analyse client needs, implement software solutions, and provide training and support for seamless integration and utilisation of business applications, enabling clients to achieve their strategic objectives. In SAP supply chain and operations at PwC, you will specialise in providing consulting services for SAP supply chain and operations applications. You will analyse client needs, implement software solutions, and offer training and support for seamless integration and utilisation of SAP supply chain and operations applications. Working in this area, you will enable clients to optimise their supply chain processes, improve operational efficiency, and achieve their strategic objectives.

Focused on relationships, you are building meaningful client connections, and learning how to manage and inspire others. Navigating increasingly complex situations, you are growing your personal brand, deepening technical expertise and awareness of your strengths. You are expected to anticipate the needs of your teams and clients, and to deliver quality. Embracing increased ambiguity, you are comfortable when the path forward isn’t clear, you ask questions, and you use these moments as opportunities to grow.

Skills

Examples of the skills, knowledge, and experiences you need to lead and deliver value at this level include but are not limited to:

• Respond effectively to the diverse perspectives, needs, and feelings of others.
• Use a broad range of tools, methodologies and techniques to generate new ideas and solve problems.
• Use critical thinking to break down complex concepts.
• Understand the broader objectives of your project or role and how your work fits into the overall strategy.
• Develop a deeper understanding of the business context and how it is changing.
• Use reflection to develop self awareness, enhance strengths and address development areas.
• Interpret data to inform insights and recommendations.
• Uphold and reinforce professional and technical standards (e.g. refer to specific PwC tax and audit guidance), the Firms code of conduct, and independence requirements.
  
  

Role: Senior Associate

Tower: SAP

Experience: 6 - 10 years

Key Skills: Order to Cash

Educational Qualification: BE / B Tech / ME / M Tech / MBA

Work Location: India

Job Description

As a Senior Associate, experienced SAP SD and AFS Consultant to join our team. In this role, you will be responsible for independently configuring AFS SD functionalities and ensuring smooth order management, delivery processing, billing, and pricing processes. You will also be involved in the migration of sales orders, customer master data, and seasonality. youll work as part of a team of problem solvers, helping to solve complex business issues from strategy to execution. PwC Professional skills and responsibilities for this management level include but are not limited to:

• Configure and maintain AFS SD functionalities, including Seasonality, Allocation Run, Order Management & Fulfillment, Delivery Processing, Billing, and Pricing.
• Possess a clear understanding of Future order, Contracts & Call-Offs, Reorder, Promotions, and Returns management processes in AFS.
• Provide configuration knowledge of Allocation, Pricing, Order Management & Fulfillment, Billing, and Rebates.
• Transfer business requirements into functional specifications and lead the development life cycle from blueprint to go-live, identifying any gaps and proposing solutions.
• Perform impact analysis on existing markets and propose solutions for any identified gaps.
• Develop interfaces for order booking and delivery processing.
• Understand the dependency of AFS/Retail on MM and FI master data.
• Experience in ABAP debugging to facilitate reverse engineering.
• Work on large global projects with heavy customization.
• Lead workshops related to business discussions and guide consultants in AFS SD.
• Coordinate with various businesses, IT stakeholders, and cross-functional teams.
• Possess excellent English communication skills.
• Use feedback and reflection to develop self-awareness, personal strengths and address development areas.
• Proven track record as an SME in chosen domain.
• Ability to come up with Client POC/POV for integrating/increasing adoption of emerging Tech. like BlockChain, AI et al with the product platform they are associated with.
• Mentor Junior resources within the team, conduct KSS and lessons learnt.
• Flexible to work in stretch opportunities/assignments.
• Demonstrate critical thinking and the ability to bring order to unstructured problems.
• Ticket Quality and deliverables review.
• Status Reporting for the project.
• Adherence to SLAs, experience in incident management, change management and problem management.
• Review your work and that of others for quality, accuracy and relevance.
• Know how and when to use tools available for a given situation and can explain the reasons for this choice.
• Seek and embrace opportunities which give exposure to different situations, environments and perspectives.
• Use straightforward communication, in a structured way, when influencing and connecting with others.
• Able to read situations and modify behavior to build quality relationships.
• Uphold the firms code of ethics and business conduct.
• Demonstrate leadership capabilities by working with clients directly and leading the engagement.
• Work in a team environment that includes client interactions, workstream management, and cross-team collaboration.
• Good Team player. Take up cross competency work and contribute to COE activities.
• Escalation/Risk management.
  
  

Position Requirements

 Required Skills: 

• 6+ years of hands-on experience on the SD module in Support/implementation projects 
• Hands-on experience supporting SAP SD and AFS.
• Strong knowledge of AFS SD functionalities, including Seasonality, Allocation Run, Order Management & Fulfillment, Delivery Processing, Billing, and Pricing.
• Proven experience in configuring and maintaining AFS SD functionalities.
• Ability to translate business requirements into functional specifications.
• Experience in interface development for order booking and delivery processing.
• Familiarity with master data and its dependency on MM and FI in AFS.
• ABAP debugging skills for reverse engineering.
• Experience working on large global projects with heavy customization.
• Excellent English communication skills.
• Support/Implementation experience should be in version ECC 6 and should have experience with S/4 HANA
• Thorough understanding of business process – Make To Order (MTO), Make To Stock (MTS), Consignment, Third Party Sales, Intercompany Sales, Rebates, Credit Management, Billing Plans, Shipment etc.
• Hands-on experience in S/4HANA functionalities – Business Partner, Advance ATP (AATP), Condition Contract and Settlement Management (CCM), BRF+ Output Management etc.
• Understanding of Contract & Sales Order Processing, Delivery Execution, Invoicing, pricing procedures, taxes etc.
• Hands on experience in configuring / defining the following in the SD module: 
• SAP SD- Order Management
• SAP SD- Various Pricing techniques
• SAP SD- Delivery
• SAP SD- Shipment
• SAP SD- Billing
• SAP SD- Outputs/BRF+ controls
• SAP SD- Credit Management
• SAP SD- Sales business process such as Third-Party Sales, Intercompany Sales, Cash Sales, Rush orders , Individual purchase orders, Stock Transport orders
• Integration experience with LE, EWM, PP, PS, HCM, MM & FICO
• Excellent skills in Project Management, Functional business analysis and development methodologies.
  
  

Preferred Skills

• Awareness of trade terms used in the AFS world.
• Full life cycle implementation and rollout experience.
• Experience working in a multicultural international environment across several geographies.
• Certification in SAP Sales & Distribution.
• SAP Certification on SD Module and S/4 HANA Sales 
• SAP GTS/ Vistex/ SAP CS and SAP IS retail experience will be added advantage
• Experience in SAP Transportation Management (TM), Hybris Billing (BRIM), C4C - Sales/Service/Marketing, Hybris Commerce
• Strong understanding of integration with other modules like 
• FI/CO
• MM
• PS
• HR
• Exposure to interfaces like ALE/IDOC or EDI/IDOC with little technical knowledge
• Hand of experience in Tools like Service now, Solution Manager, Jira, HP4, MQC,LSMW etc.
  
  

Managed Services- Application evaluation services

At PwC we relentlessly focus on working with our clients to bring the power of technology and humans together and create simple, yet powerful solutions. We imagine a day when our clients can simply focus on their business knowing that they have a trusted partner for their IT needs. Every day we are motivated and passionate about making our clients’ better. 

Within our Managed Services platform, PwC delivers integrated services and solutions that are grounded in deep industry experience and powered by the talent that you would expect from the PwC brand. The PwC Managed Services platform delivers scalable solutions that add greater value to our client’s enterprise through technology and human-enabled experiences.  Our team of highly-skilled and trained global professionals, combined with the use of the latest advancements in technology and process, allows us to provide effective and efficient outcomes.  With PwC’s Managed Services our client’s are able to focus on accelerating their priorities, including optimizing operations and accelerating outcomes.  PwC brings a consultative first approach to operations, leveraging our deep industry insights combined with world class talent and assets to enable transformational journeys that drive sustained client outcomes. Our clients need flexible access to world class business and technology capabilities that keep pace with today’s dynamic business environment.  

Within our global, Managed Services platform, we provide Application Evolution Services (formerly Application Managed Services), where we focus more so on the evolution of our clients’ applications and cloud portfolio. Our focus is to empower our client’s to navigate and capture the value of their application portfolio while cost-effectively operating and protecting their solutions. We do this so that our clients can focus on what matters most to your business: accelerating growth that is dynamic, efficient and cost-effective.  

As a member of our Application Evolution Services (AES) team, we are looking for candidates who thrive working in a high-paced work environment capable of working on a mix of critical Application Evolution Service offerings and engagement including help desk support, enhancement and optimization work, as well as strategic roadmap and advisory level work.  It will also be key to lend experience and effort in helping win and support customer engagements from not only a technical perspective, but also a relationship perspective.

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