SAP Data Steward - (EE) - Cape Town

SUMMARY:
Seeking a SAP Data Steward with a Bachelor’s degree in Commerce, Accounting or Finance (or relevant field) plus 2 years in-depth knowledge and understanding of Accounting principles, for an EE position with a large corporate in Cape Town.

POSITION INFO:

Job Role

• Receive, Assess and Execute on all lean requests made by various buyers based on the business rules stipulated.
• Responsible for processing requests for vendor onboarding and ensure they have been uploaded on to the system in an accurate manner.

Responsibilities

 Vendor Onboarding

• Review applications based on business rules provided and ensure that all fields have been completed correctly and there are no duplications detected.
• Instruct the buyer to complete the request on the system once it has been approved and ensure they complete the additional items on the request.
• Populate the request via a dropdown in SAP (Company code data) 
• Amend the selected request and resubmit it to the approver and ensure all information captured has relevant supporting documents attached.
• Inform the requestor of the rejected request and provide reasons to the buyer in a timely and professional manner.
• Populate the requests via a dropdown in SAP (Purchasing data) 
• Amend the purchasing data request and resubmit it to the approver and ensure all information is correct 
• Inform the requestor of the rejected request and provide reasons to the vendor.
• Initiate a request to block/unblock a vendor on SAP. 
• Inform the requestor of the rejected request and provide reasons to the buyer.
• Proceed to block/unblock a vendor once the request has been approved and ensure any vendors marked for deletion have been reversed on the system.
• Initiate a request to mark a vendor for deletion in SAP  

Material Master Management

• Perform a duplicate check prior to creating a material on the system and ensure there are no pre-existing or similar materials already on the system.
• Confirm if the material needs to be extended or a duplicate can be used and inform the requestor of an existing material and terminate the request on the system.
• Create a material if the request is valid and no duplicated have been identified and ensure that all mandatory fields have been completed accurately on the system.
• Perform validity checks on all material edit requests prior to editing the material on the system and ensure that changes made do not affect any parties that use the material. 
• Ensure a valid request to edit a material is logged and submitted on the system before effecting any changes and reject the request if information is not complete.
• Inform the requestor of an invalid / rejected request providing reasons to the rejection and ensure that the request has been marked as closed on the system.
• Edit a material if the request to edit is valid and ensure all pertinent information has been captured accurately and logged on to the system.
• Perform validity checks on the deletion of material requests from the system and ensure all materials flagged for deletion are accurate.
• Ensure a valid request to delete a material is logged and submitted on the system before effecting any changes and reject the request if information is not complete.
• Inform the requestor of the successful deletion of the material from the system and ensure the material is unavailable on all platforms.
• Perform duplicate checks on creating purchasing information records on the system and ensure there is no pre-existing records.
• Inform the requestor of a duplicate purchasing record via email and ensure the request is terminated on the system.
• Create a purchasing information record based on a unique combination as requested by the requestor and ensure all information provided has been captured.
• Perform validity checks to edit purchasing information request from the system and ensure that the changes do not affect the parties using the record.
• Inform the requestor of an invalid / rejected request providing reasons for the rejection and ensure the request has been marked as closed on the system.
• Edit the valid purchasing information record and update all mandatory fields in the system sch as material group or vendor to change the existing record.
• Delete the purchasing information record on the system and ensure the change is reflected on the system.
• Inform the requestor of the successful deletion of the material from the system and ensure it is reflected on all platforms.

Requirements

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Commerce, Accounting or Finance or relevant field.

Experience

• 2 years in-depth knowledge and understanding of Accounting principles.
• 1 year experience with relevant Master Data Financial Management Systems.
• 1 year functional knowledge in SAP Master Data Governance / ERP experience.

Skills/ Knowledge

• Accounting Principles
• Financial Systems
• Data Governance
• SAP Technologies

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