SAP Application Specialist Worthing (Hybrid) £50,000 - £55,000

Your new company

A national, well known household name who provide essential services all year round. With offices based across multiple regions, this role is headquartered in their Worthing office. They are currently in an exciting period for IT transformation as they are strategically changing the way they deliver IT support and services to their business and end users. For this transformation to be successful they are introducing a new IT Application Team. This will be the delivery unit for the company's users requiring IT support and services along with support, delivering strategic and tactical projects.

Your new role

You will be part of the Business Technology Services team helping deliver the department's overall objectives in the short and long term. In this exciting intersection of responsibilities you will be expected to liaise with the Solution Architecture, Service delivery and project delivery counterparts, to ensure that the applications are supported, and projects are delivered to the highest standards. You will be the integral link between the Business Technology Services Team and the Finance Department and manage a small team of direct reports.

Key Responsibilities


* Implement new business application software, capturing end user requirements and configuring, testing and integrating as necessary.
* Support new project implementation aligned with business objective and solution architecture.
* Implement new releases of existing business application software, capturing end user requirements and configuring, testing and integrating as necessary.
* Provide 2nd line support for business applications under role scope
* Produce specifications and designs for application and its components to meet defined business needs, retaining compatibility with enterprise and solution architectures.
* Specify, design and maintain mechanisms for storage and access to both structured and unstructured information, in support of business information needs.
* Design, create, test and document new and amended programme components, configuration, SQL, packages, code base and programs from supplied specifications in accordance with agreed standards.
* Develop, implement and report the findings of suitable test schedules to measure and improve the quality of application solutions being deployed, to ensure that new and amended systems, configurations, packages, or services, together with any interfaces, perform as specified.


What you'll need to succeed

You will have excellent technical knowledge and ideally experience in finance modules. If you have experience with finance project implementation you will be at an advantage. Proven hands-on experience of finance support, configuration and integration would be preferred.

You will need to have experience of working in large scale and complex SAP environments and a good working knowledge of SAP ISU and CRM as it interfaces into finance. If you have good functional knowledge of UK Financial Reporting Standards and knowledge of IT Service Management toolsets, including Knowledge Base and configuration that will be beneficial.

What you'll get in return


* Salary of up to £55,800
* Good pension package
* 25 days' annual leave (plus bank holidays)
* BUPA health cash plan
* Free annual eye test
* Flu vouchers
* Cycle to Work scheme
* Perkbox (employee benefits, discounts and 'freebies')

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