Promasidor was founded in 1979 by Robert Rose, who left the United Kingdom in 1957 for Zimbabwe to pursue his African dream. As Chairman of Allied Lyons Africa for over 20 years, he travelled extensively across Africa and gained a unique and thorough knowledge of the food industry throughout the continent. In particular he noticed a lack of availability of the one highly nutritious product that the developed world takes for granted - milk. He realised that with technology in the manufacture of milk powders advancing rapidly, there was an exciting opportunity to provide milk powder in small portions that could be packaged in flexible sachets. It was found that removing the animal fat from the milk and replacing it with vegetable fat allowed for a longer shelf life. This meant that for the first time, milk powder could be distributed across the vast African continent, providing access to affordable milk to everyone in Africa. A passionate belief in this vision fuelled the pioneering concept of selling filled milk powder in small sachets and Promasidor began selling the Cowbell brand in the Democratic Republic of Congo (then Zaire) in 1979. Today Cowbell is sold in the majority of countries across the African continent.
Role Description
The Microsoft Dynamics Navision Functional Analyst is required to analyze business processes and create functional specifications based on information presented by business users in order to recommend and deliver solutions that will improve the overall efficiency and effectiveness of our operations. This includes the design & support of processes as well as training of Nav users on the Microsoft Dynamics NAV application and third party software applications integrated with it.
This role involves:
- Requirements gathering, NAV system support (troubleshooting, proposing solutions…) and training.
- Defining requirements, further enhancements, integrations and customizations to NAV.
- Participating in projects that involve integrating new add-on applications with Nav.
Key Responsibilities:
NAV SUPPORT:
- Support Dynamics NAV Operations
- Contribute to the knowledge base and engage in knowledge transfer activities among team members and users
- Assist in the definition of Navision security settings/access roles for various user groups to ensure segregation of duties.
- Create Navision functional specifications for configuration, integration with third-party applications and Navision customisations.
- Help define the usage and integration of NAV with other systems and implement its features and functions to meet business requirements.
- Document and understand our business requirements, and configure the software (Dynamics NAV) to meet them.
BUSINESS ANALYSIS:
- Elicit requirements using best practice techniques (interviews, document analysis, requirements workshops, surveys, site visits, business process modelling, use cases, scenarios, business analysis, task and workflow analysis, etc.).
- Evaluate information gathered from multiple sources, reconcile conflicts, decompose high-level information into details, abstract up from low-level information to a general understanding, and distinguish user requests from the underlying true needs.
- Carry out requirements management, analysis and communication.
- Work as part of the team to liaise between the business units, technology teams and support teams.
FUNCTIONAL ANALYSIS:
Assist the functional analysis team to translate the results of business analysis into NAV functionality.
including data requirements, configuration, etc.
NAV TESTING:
- Develop and execute test plans
- Validate changes to NAV (for problem fixing, change request reasons or upgrades) and get
- appropriate signoff before the change is put in use in the “live” environment.
- Participate in all phases of the user acceptance testing process and QA as it relates to NAV configuration.
PROJECT MANAGEMENT:
- Support NAV-related projects so that their objectives are achieved within their defined scope, quality, time and cost constraints.
- Act as ICT IS Resource on projects
TRAINING AND COMMUNICATION:
- Provide NAV orientation and training to end users.
- Develop and update users’ manuals.
- Provide comprehensive reporting and status back to ICT Information Systems’ line management.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information technology or any other related course.
- 2+ years of Functional NAV-related work
- Computer or Information Science with Business orientation
- Have an understanding of the issues relevant to NAV software modules, including Production, A/R, A/P, G/L, Inventory and Fixed Assets
- Functional analysis techniques
- Detailed knowledge of Dynamics NAV system
- Strong understanding of accounting rules
- Standard office computer tools (email, word processor, spreadsheet …)
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