AES SAP Ariba - 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 procurement at PwC, you will focus on implementing, configuring, and maintaining the SAP Procurement module within an organisation. You will utilise this module to streamline and automate the procurement process, including purchasing, supplier management, contract management, and inventory management.

Driven by curiosity, you are a reliable, contributing member of a team. In our fast-paced environment, you are expected to adapt to working with a variety of clients and team members, each presenting varying challenges and scope. Every experience is an opportunity to learn and grow. You are expected to take ownership and consistently deliver quality work that drives value for our clients and success as a team. As you navigate through the Firm, you build a brand for yourself, opening doors to more opportunities.

Skills

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

• Apply a learning mindset and take ownership for your own development.
• Appreciate diverse perspectives, needs, and feelings of others.
• Adopt habits to sustain high performance and develop your potential.
• Actively listen, ask questions to check understanding, and clearly express ideas.
• Seek, reflect, act on, and give feedback.
• Gather information from a range of sources to analyse facts and discern patterns.
• Commit to understanding how the business works and building commercial awareness.
• Learn and apply professional and technical standards (e.g. refer to specific PwC tax and audit guidance), uphold the Firm's code of conduct and independence requirements.
  
  

Role: Associate

Tower: SAP

Experience: 3 - 5 years

Key Skills: Ariba ( Supplier Risk & Onboarding)

Educational Qualification: BE / B Tech / ME / M Tech / MBA / B.SC / B.Com / BBA

Work Location : India

Job Description

As an Associate, you'll 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:

• Collaborate effectively with others.
• Identify and make suggestions for improvements when problems and/or opportunities arise.
• Handle/analyze data and information responsibly.
• Follow risk management and compliance procedures.
• Keep up to date with developments in the area of specialization.
• Communicate confidently in a clear and concise manner.
• Uphold the firm's code of ethics and business conduct.
• Work in a team environment that includes client interactions, manage deliverables independently, and cross-team collaboration.
• Good Team player. Take up cross competency work and contribute to COE activities.
  
  

Position Requirements

Required Skills:

• Has a minimum of 3-5 years of experience and has worked on at least one SAP Ariba implementation project?
• Sound understanding of end-to-end Ariba upstream and downstream processes and be able to provide an optimum solution utilizing processes available in Ariba.
• Hands on experience in configuring the following Ariba modules:
• Ariba Supplier Risk
• Ariba Onboarding
• SAP Ariba Supplier Lifecycle and Performance.
• Buying & Invoicing
• Contracts Management
• Catalog Solutions
• Good Knowledge in configuring approval workflows across upstream and downstream solutions.
• Good knowledge and experience with Ariba Supplier Network
• Has hands on experience of integrating SAP and Ariba via CIG
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Strong analytical skills
• Should demonstrate a team oriented and collaborative approach.
• Experience in handling technical and functional support issues
  
  

Preferred Skills

• Exposure / Awareness to SAP MM would be an added advantage.
• Exposure to preparing training documentation and user manuals.
• Exposure to procurement processes in various industries will be a huge advantage.
• ITIL 4 Certification
  
  

Managed Services - Application Evolution 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. Everyday 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.