Introduction
As an Application Package Specialist, you'll help clients in the selection, implementation, and production support of application packaged solutions. You'll gain in-depth consulting skills, business knowledge, and packaged solution expertise to effectively integrate packaged technology into the clients' business environment. Join us and start your path as a key player to achieve client expected business results and become the expert you want to be.
In this role, you'll work in one of our IBM Consulting Client Innovation Centers (Delivery Centers), where we deliver deep technical and industry expertise to a wide range of public and private sector clients around the world. Our delivery centers offer our clients locally based skills and technical expertise to drive innovation and adoption of new technology.
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Your role and responsibilities
We are currently recruiting for top talent in SAP Practice. If you are someone who thrives in challenges than we want to hear from you.
You have a solid business background in your field, hands-on experience in consulting, SAP S4HANA/ECC 6.0 implementation experience in HR (Time Management) and understand just how important resource time management is to business operations. By joining IBM in this area, you will be instrumental in ensuring our clients workforces are properly scheduled, forecasted, and available to enable the business to achieve its goals and service its clients. You'll also be joining the premier SAP implementor in Canada in which to grow your career and eminence.
In this role, you'll work in our IBM Client Innovation Center (CIC), where we deliver deep technical and industry expertise to a wide range of public and private sector clients around the world. These centers offer our clients locally based skills and technical expertise to drive innovation and adoption of new technology.
Your responsibilities will include:
- Conducting Fit/Gap analysis and business/process modeling
- Business/application requirement gathering
- Business processes based on accepted industry practices
- SAP HR Time Management application configuration and testing
- Lead development of functional and systems specifications
- Write and maintain necessary documentation
- Educate client team members
- Provide deployment support as necessary
- Provide support (i.e., break-fix, how-to expertise, minor enhancements, monitoring, testing) to our clients to maintain efficient operations of their SAP payroll application.
- The ability to troubleshoot issues and provide solutions through using replicable problem-solving methodology
- Critical, creative, thinking that is solution focused.
Mandatory Qualification
- Strong ability to understand and analyze HR management process
- Excellent interpersonal skills
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to adapt to changing environments and evaluate complex challenges
- Ability balance simultaneous assignments
- Project management experience is an asset
- Previous consulting experience is an asset
Required education
Associate's Degree/College Diploma
Preferred education
Bachelor's Degree
Required technical and professional expertise
3 years minimum hands-on configuration experience of SAP HCM Time Management
• Experience with forecasting, scheduling, vacation management, and leave management
• Experience testing annual HR support pack upgrades and related defect corrections
Preferred technical and professional experience
5 years minimum hands-on configuration experience of SAP HCM Time Management
• Have completed a minimum of 3 full life cycle implementation of SAP
• Successful completion of the HR200 SAP ERP HCM Time Management
• Experience working in an environment with multiple collective agreements
• Eligible for Canadian Reliability Clearance.
Required Education
Associate's Degree/College Diploma
Preferred Education
Bachelor's Degree
ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT
IBM Consulting is IBM's consulting and global professional services business, with market leading capabilities in business and technology transformation. With deep expertise in many industries, we offer strategy, experience, technology, and operations services to many of the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Our people are focused on accelerating our clients' businesses through the power of collaboration. We believe in the power of technology responsibly used to help people, partners and the planet.
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Being an IBMer means you'll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you'll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background.
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Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are not only one of the largest corporate organizations in the world, we're also one of the biggest technology and consulting employers, with many of the Fortune 50 companies relying on the IBM Cloud to run their business.
At IBM, we pride ourselves on being an early adopter of artificial intelligence, quantum computing and blockchain. Now it's time for you to join us on our journey to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world.
OTHER RELEVANT JOB DETAILS
Must have the ability to work in Canada without sponsorship.
This role will involve working with technology that is covered by Export Regulations sanctions. If you are a Foreign National from any of the following US sanctioned countries (Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Syria, and the Crimea, Luhansk, Donetsk, Kherson, and Zaporizhia regions of Ukraine) on a work permit, you are not eligible for employment in this position.