SAP IBP Consultant

SAP IBP Consultant

Whitehall Resources are currently looking for a SAP IBP Consultant based in India for an initial 3 month contract.

Role Summary:

• The IBP Environment Management professional is responsible for the administration, governance, maintenance,
• and continuous improvement of SAP Integrated Business Planning (IBP) environments across Development,
• Test, QA, Pre-Production, and Production landscapes. The role ensures environment stability, transport
• management, release coordination, compliance, security, and operational excellence.

Environment Management:

• Manage SAP IBP environments throughout the application lifecycle.
• Maintain Development, QA, UAT, and Production environments.
• Monitor system health, availability, performance, and capacity utilization.
• Coordinate environment refreshes, copies, and tenant management activities.

Release & Transport Management:

• Plan and execute configuration and code transports across environments.
• Coordinate release schedules with project teams and business stakeholders.
• Validate transport dependencies and ensure successful deployment.
• Support change management and release governance processes.

Incident & Problem Management:

• Troubleshoot environment-related issues and coordinate resolution.
• Perform root-cause analysis for recurring incidents.
• Track and manage service requests, incidents, and problem tickets.
• Work closely with SAP support and infrastructure teams.

Security & Compliance:

• Ensure compliance with organizational security standards.
• Coordinate user access reviews and environment authorization controls.
• Support audit activities and maintain operational documentation.
• Implement environment governance and risk controls.

Monitoring & Automation:

• Establish proactive monitoring and alerting mechanisms.
• Identify opportunities for automating operational tasks.
• Develop and maintain environment health dashboards and reports.
• Optimize deployment and environment management processes.

Stakeholder & Vendor Management

• Collaborate with business, functional, technical, and infrastructure teams.
• Coordinate with SAP and third-party vendors during upgrades and issue resolution.
• Provide regular environment status and risk updates to leadership.

Technical Skills:

• Strong knowledge of SAP IBP (Integrated Business Planning).
• Experience with SAP landscape and transport management.
• Understanding of SAP BTP, SAP Cloud Operations, and integration technologies.
• Knowledge of ITIL processes (Incident, Change, Problem, Release Management).
• Familiarity with monitoring and automation tools.
• Understanding of security, compliance, and audit requirements.

Functional Skills:

• Environment governance and lifecycle management.
• Release and deployment coordination.
• Risk and issue management.
• Documentation and process standardization.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field.
• 5+ years of SAP application/environment management experience.
• Experience with SAP IBP implementations and support projects preferred.
• ITIL Foundation certification is desirable.