Description:
As project manager you will manage and lead SAP related projects with different levels of complexity. Taking part in our major S4/HANA initiative. You will build and evaluate the project regarding time, budget, quality, and customer satisfaction. You will hand over the project results into daily business. You have profound experience communicating complex concepts to your team and partners on different levels.
You Will
Leads the operating entities (OEs) and delivery teams throughout the implementation project cycle including planning, execution, testing, migration, and cutover of SAP GRP projects and roll outs in Allianz. Develop project scope, including timeline and financials and ensuring technical feasibility. Partners with various functional and technical teams within Allianz Technology such as Ariba, IMA, ABAP, Basis, SAP Authorization. Partners with Financial Transformation team in ensuring the target design aligns with the implementation standards and group reporting requirements. Lead from front on workshops and interviews to analyze business process and reporting requirements of the OEs. Work together with the business, delivery, and financial transformation teams to design the target state SAP solutions for the OE. Influence OEs thinking in adopting leading/ standard practices while developing target state. Understand SAP configuration and perform tests. Develop specifications for development of custom forms/ reports/ interfaces for the OE. Project Governance – monitors and controls project scope, schedule, budget, risk, and issues. Risk Management – identifying potential risks and developing strategies to mitigate them. Regularly monitoring risks and implementing contingency plans when required. Stakeholder Communication – maintaining effective communication with all project stakeholders, including business users, IT teams and executives. Issue Resolution – addressing and resolving project issues that may arise during the implementation, ensuring minimal impact on project objectives. Support change management execution by developing training material, delivering training, and supporting users post cutover. Manage all change requests, validate all budget/schedule impacts, obtain the stakeholder’s commitment, and communicate approved changes to all teams. Reporting – providing regular status updates to project stakeholders and senior management. Finish projects with proper documentation and handover of project results. Oversee the financial data migration process, ensuring data integrity and optimizing performance during the transition from legacy systems to S4 HANA platform of Allianz. Facilitate identification of financial data migration objects. Define, align, and maintain the migration plan per OE and track the execution. Provide best practices and toolkit for data migration (e.g. SAP Migration Cockpit, LSMW) Provisioning/creation of test data for FIT, UAT and other tests as part of trial migrations. Coordinate and monitor trial migrations according to the aligned data migration strategy and concept. Coordinate and safeguard final migration to Production.
Your Skills
Completed a degree in business administration, economics, business informatics, mathematics, or similar. Several years of professional experience in project management in the SAP area with proven expertise in S4/HANA. Good knowledge of SAP migration methodologies Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Computer Science, Actuarial or a related field Experience in at least one SAP full life cycle implementations
Skills, Knowledge & Competencies
Hands on experience in SAP project management Excellent written and verbal communication skill in English Capability to work well under pressure, under cost and time constraints. Ability to excel in a global team environment, effectively communicate and achieve results. Reliable, independent, and result-oriented way of working Quick comprehension, creativity, and organizational skills Excellent teamwork and integration skills in a group-wide environment
Others
Travel ability < 20%
Your benefits:
We offer a hybrid work model which recognizes the value of striking a balance between in-person collaboration and remote working incl. up to 25 days per year working from abroad We believe in rewarding performance and our compensation and benefits package includes a company bonus scheme, pension, employee shares program and multiple employee discounts (details vary by location) From career development and digital learning programs to international career mobility, we offer lifelong learning for our employees worldwide and an environment where innovation, delivery and empowerment are fostered Flexible working, health and wellbeing offers (including healthcare and parental leave benefits) support to balance family and career and help our people return from career breaks with experience that nothing else can teach
About Allianz Technology
Allianz Technology is the global IT service provider for Allianz and delivers IT solutions that drive the digitalization of the Group. With more than 12,000 employees located in 51 countries around the globe, Allianz Technology works together with other Allianz entities in pioneering the digitalization of the financial services industry.
We oversee the full digitalization spectrum – from one of the industry’s largest IT infrastructure projects that includes data centers, networking and security, to application platforms that span from workplace services to digital interaction. In short, we deliver full-scale, end-to-end IT solutions for Allianz in the digital age.
D&I statement
Allianz Technology is proud to be an equal opportunity employer encouraging diversity in the working environment. We are interested in your strengths and experience. We welcome all applications from all people regardless of gender identity and/or expression, sexual orientation, ethnicity and cultural background, age, nationality, religion, disability, or philosophy of life.
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56366 | Project Management | Professional | Non-Executive | Allianz Technology | Full-Time | Permanent