Position Summary

Are you looking for a challenging opportunity to work with a dynamic, highly experienced team in an organisation where you can grow your skills and work on exciting projects and clients?
Zalaris is an SAP gold partner and one of the leading SAP SuccessFactors partners in Europe with an extensive and growing number of Cloud HXM customers. Join us and become a part of the Zalaris Professional Services global team.

Zalaris are looking for a SAP Technical Consultant (Developer) located in the United Kingdom to join our UK Professional Services - Technical Consulting team, working on projects and supporting live customers, so it is essential that you are comfortable with flexible work assignments based on business needs.
This UK role is home based and customer facing, so an openness to travel (subject to business needs and local safety restrictions) is required.

In Summary:

• You will develop, and implement high quality, reliable, cost-effective solutions to technical challenges faced by Zalaris’ customers.
• You will work closely with customers and colleagues to deliver solutions and services that fully meet customers’ needs.

Your Responsibilities

• Responsible for the creation, testing, fixing, implementation, and support of solutions to provide enhancements to existing SAP system functionality, including integrations between systems.
• Responsible for the maintenance, and where possible, increase in personal skill levels through study, training, and certification activities.
• Responsible for working with colleagues across Zalaris to deliver a customer solution.
• Responsible for authoring and maintaining project documentation – e.g., technical references, solution templates, solution overview slide decks, unit test plans, training materials, cut-over checklists.
• Responsible for preparing and delivering information for delivered solutions via knowledge transfer and handover training sessions to both customers and Zalaris support colleagues.
• Responsible for completion of mandatory company processes to ensure business needs are met – e.g., timely completion of timesheets, attendance of team meetings, completion of company training programmes (e.g., data protection, IT security, health & safety).

Skills

• SAP Technical:
  • Must-Have –  ABAP.
  • Nice to Have – Integration (CPI, PI). SuccessFactors, LSMW, Forms (PE51/SAP Script, and Adobe Forms), knowledge of HR (PA/OM)/PY, ESS/MSS (HR), CATS, FI/CO Integration, SAP Roles & Authorisations, ALE.
• Collaborative Working – able to demonstrate an ability to work across multiple parties as one team. This could include working with colleagues, customers, Zalaris partners, customer partners, vendors, etc. It may involve combinations of working face-to-face as well as through virtual channels with collaborators around the world.
• Proactive Assessment – an ability to identify potential issues, opportunities, solutions, and approaches that can then be raised through appropriate channels to be actioned.
• Communication – communicating complex, often technical, points in ways appropriate to audiences that may vary from non-technical to highly technical, and through various verbal and written methods. (English).
• Commercial Awareness – an awareness of commercial aspects and an ability to work to and within those – e.g., budgets, timelines, market gaps, ROI, brand reputation, commercial impact.
• Adaptable – able to adapt one’s own working style and practices and challenge oneself by stepping out of a comfort zone.
• Autonomous Working – able to work proactively, without constant supervision, to meet deadlines.

Education & experience

• We expect this role to be suitable for someone with 3-5 years of demonstrable SAP experience and certification in SAP technologies.
• You must be able to demonstrate your experience of the delivery of ABAP developments.
• You must be able to demonstrate communication skills commensurate with being able to communicate in a variety of ways with technical and non-technical audiences, at a variety of levels within an organisation – e.g., writing technical training materials for administrators using a solution through to presenting to senior managers in a workshop about the benefits delivered by the solution.
• You must have consulting experience in SAP ERP (ECC or S/4HANA).
• Experience with SAP Payroll (GB/IE) is advantageous.
• Experience integrating SAP products with non-SAP solutions is advantageous.

We offer you - Financial Benefits

• Customer and Employee Referral schemes
• Occupational sick pay (8 weeks)
• Occupational maternity leave package (12 weeks)
• Life assurance (3x basic salary)
• Employer pensions contributions of 5%
• Bonus scheme with accelerators
• Private Medical Insurance (with option to add dependents)
• Employee education and apprenticeship opportunities (i.e. free SAP learning and/or relevant qualifications)
• Financial rewards for long service and achievements
• Free eye tests
• Monthly ZALOTTO! (£100 cash prize draw)

We offer you – Non-Financial Benefits

• Work-life balance and flexibility ethos
• Strong leadership with an open-door policy
• Non-hierarchical approach to people management 
• Company social and team bonding events
• Holiday buy back scheme
• Additional leave for Long Service (+1d holiday from start of 5th year of service)
• Sabbatical 
• Corporate branded merchandise
• Employee recognition program
• Zalaris mentorship program
• Mental health support
• Employee Assistance Programme (“Zealth”)
• Paid time off for community volunteering (“The Good Zeed")
• Retirement (financial) information pack (from our pension provider, 6 months prior to retirement)