SAP FSCM Functional Consultant (Senior)

About the Role

About Discovery Discovery’s core purpose is to make people healthier and to enhance and protect their lives. We seek out and invest in exceptional individuals who understand and support our core purpose, and whose own values align with those of Discovery. Our fast-paced and dynamic environment enables smart, self-driven people to be their best. As global thought leaders, Discovery is passionate about innovating to not only achieve financial success, but to ignite positive and meaningful change within our society.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design, approval, and delivery of scalable, sustainable solutions that meet business, operational, and regulatory requirements. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to drive strategic initiatives and successfully execute roadmap priorities.
• Own capability roadmap prioritisation by evaluating business opportunities, enhancement requests, and investment demands. Balance business value, risk, regulatory requirements, and operational stability to drive the capability’s ongoing evolution.
• Ensure production stability, service health, and operational effectiveness by driving continuous improvements and resolving root causes of major incidents. Strengthen support processes and reduce operational risk through sustainable, systemic enhancements.
• Ensure capability solutions comply with regulatory requirements, governance standards, and internal controls while maintaining audit readiness. Proactively identify, manage, and mitigate risks and support the delivery of compliance-related initiatives.
• Develop and mentor specialists while fostering knowledge sharing, collaboration, and best practices across the domain. Build future capability leaders, strengthen SME expertise, and contribute to succession planning and organisational growth.
• Drive innovation and optimisation by identifying opportunities to simplify, automate, and improve customer outcomes. Challenge outdated approaches and introduce best practices that support long-term capability and business improvement.
• Build trusted relationships with business and technology stakeholders, acting as a key advisor and decision-making partner. Aligns stakeholder groups, influence roadmap priorities and solution direction, and represent the capability in governance and planning forums.

Requirements

• National Diploma or Degree in Information Technology, Information Systems, Commerce or a related discipline.
• 5–10 years' experience in SAP functional consulting, solution design or enterprise systems delivery.
• Proven experience owning and supporting business capabilities in a complex environment.
• Strong understanding of SAP Banking Services, SAP S/4HANA, CRM or related SAP modules.
• Experience supporting audits, risk management and regulatory initiatives.
• Understanding of Agile, ITIL and enterprise delivery methodologies.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in banking, financial services or regulated industries is advantageous.
• SAP certifications are advantageous but not mandatory.
• Demonstrated capability ownership and successful delivery experience preferred.