PWC- System Integration Specialist

Department:
Advisory
Closing date:
28-Feb-13
Location:
Nairobi
Reference Number:
123-KEN00041

The Company:

PwC firms help organisations and individuals create the value they’re looking for. We’re a network of firms in 158 countries with more than 180,000 people who are committed to delivering quality in assurance, tax and advisory services. In Sub-Saharan Africa, we're the largest provider of professional services with offices in 26 countries and close to 8 000 people. This enables us to provide our clients with seamless and consistent service, wherever they’re located on the continent. Our in-depth knowledge and understanding of African operating environments enables us to put ourselves in our clients’ shoes and offer truly tailored Tax, Assurance and Advisory solutions to unique business challenges.

Roles & Responsibilities:

We are seeking to strengthen our Advisory Services by recruiting a highly motivated and qualified professional to fill the position of a System Integration Specialist in our Technology team
Key responsibilities will include:
Advise on interactions between infrastructure, data and software prior to installation and/or maintenance tasks.
Have experience in application software testing prior to installation and be familiar with setting up test environments. Have experience in reviewing test specifications and procedures. Tests should include functionality, security, availability and integrity conditions, and any other vendor recommendations.
Be able to inspect the software configuration to confirm that key aspects have been addressed. Ensure only appropriately licensed software is tested and installed and that installations are performed in accordance with vendor guidelines. Identify gaps where vendor guidelines were missed out and remediation on potential impact followed through vendor consultation.
Review adequacy of licenses procured and currently in use by the client ensuring compliance to licensing requirements.
Be able to ensure temporary access granted for installation purposes is monitored and closing loops after installation is completed. Inspection of the application security settings for compliance.
Be able to ensure acceptance procedures are enforced using objective acceptance criteria and assess acceptance criterion consistency with agreed-upon specifications and requirements.
Be able to review agreed-upon specifications and/or SLA requirements, and compare with acceptance procedures identifying areas where procedures are not adequately followed.
Be able to ensure plan and strategy to guide all infrastructure maintenance is in place and all maintenance activities over sensitive infrastructure components are logged, regularly reviewed, documented and key user personnel appropriately trained. Perform an assessment of these reviews and discuss risks identified by the assessment with key staff members
Requirements
The job holder will play a role in the delivery of a key implementation assignments for clients in the public sector.

The role requires the individual to have over 4 years’ experience in system integration and International exposure to major financial implementations and have:

Deep Oracle experience in E-Business suite,Hyperion – planning and budget,HR module
Degree in information science or related discipline
Certification in Oracle
Location
Nairobi, Kenya

Field 6
If you are keen on your career and for more details on the role, visit us at
www.pwc.com/ke/careers. Closing date is 28 February 2013