Functional Configuration Consultant (Oracle) at FNB South Africa

Experience: Mid-level, Senior-level

Education: Bachelors

Job-type: Full Time

Location: Gauteng

Field: IT

First National Bank (FNB; Afrikaans: Eerste Nasionale Bank (ENB)) is one of South Africa’s “big four” banks. It is a division of FirstRand, a large financial services conglomerate, which trades on the Johannesburg Securities Exchange (JSE), under the symbol: FSR. FNB is also listed on the Botswana Stock Exchange under the symbol FNBB and is a constituent of the BSE Domestic Company Index.

Responsibilities

  • Devise and implement innovations or methodologies that achieve efficiencies and reduce cost based on time, risk, process and re-usability of solutions.
  • Deliver exceptional service that exceeds customers’ expectations through proactive, innovative and appropriate solutions.
  • Maintain close relationships with key stakeholders ensuring appropriate solutions are developed, appropriate and timeous feedback is provided. Escalate challenges to relevant business owners where required.
  • Cultivate and manage objective working relationships with a variety of stakeholders, including end-users, SME’s, project managers and senior staff members, vendors, etc.
  • Provide sound consulting services and recommendations based on customer and client needs, current information and trends analyses.
  • Analyze and interpret business requirements to formulate a solution.
  • Estimate and execute all approved development and configuration items and ensure delivery according to business requirements documentation.
  • Provide input and assist business to achieve efficiencies through optimized processes.
  • Comply, understand and align to all steps within the System Development Life Cycle and ensure governance in terms of legislative and audit requirements.
  • Compile and develop the required technical documentation with clear translation of business requirements into functional requirements. Ensure documentation is prepared across the system development life cycle.
  • Ensure adequate unit tests are performed for all configuration and development tasks and ensure results are successful.
  • Ensure testing yields an acceptable level of performance for the changes being delivered and the applications are not adversely affected.
  • Provide technical support for all requests escalated where relevant.
  • Make use of appropriate resources with the required skill level to deliver within required timeframes.
  • Provide an estimate of the resources and time required to deliver the required functionality.
  • Ensure the effective coordination, development and delivery of training on the solution to internal clients, end users and relevant stakeholders.
  • Participation in creation and ownership of project plans and project management to meet project target dates and milestones.
  • Extract and analyse data against business rules, policy and practice. Formulate on client needs to support new/existing product development projects to derive a clear understanding of the client’s needs and requirements through provision of subject matter expertise.
  • Manage own development to increase own competencies.
  • Participate and collaborate across teams.

Requirements

  • Minimum: Grade 12
  • Preferred: Tertiary qualification in IT or Certificate in Business Analysis
  • 5 – 8 years Functional and Business Analysis experience working within an IT environment.
  • Understanding of System Architecture.
  • Extensive understanding of process mapping.

Benefits

  • Opportunities to network and collaborate
  • Challenging Working
  • Opportunities to innovate

Skills 

  • Strong Financials, Subledger Accounting Rules in the Oracle space.
  • Oracle Cloud will be an advantage.
  • Must have experience in General Ledger and Financial Reporting and Close process.
  • With 8 years’ experience as a functional Configuration Consultant II

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