PE-66,PE-66 / Specialist: HR Services Systems

Key Responsibilities:

IT Applications

  • Ensures efficient and effective use of the HR IT Systems.
  • Ensures interfaces between systems are effective to ensure process flow in all IT systems are managed, resolutions identified, working within fix groups to ensure resolutions and ongoing improvements.
  • Ensure access to systems is managed and audited to ensure system integrity and compliance to BMW Group Policy.
  • To ensure all IT systems (SAP HRP / ELIDA / CCM / HR Portal / ESS / MSS and ServiceNow) are kept up to date and used efficiently and effectively.
  • Keeps users updated in case of system outages or issues.
  • Build and participate in FG network to ensure support is available from the correct channels.

System Changes

  • Take overall ownership for JIRA for the PE-66 team ensuring that stories are being raised, approved and processed within the expected timings.
  • Escalate and seek support where the process does not work as expected.
  • Look for best practise across products and share learnings to ensure PE-66 interests are represented.
  • Ensure relevant business and system documentation is completed.

System Responsibility

  • Understanding HR processes to ensure systems are delivering and are fully documented, up to date and auditable. Supporting the team competency levels through raining the process and service delivery improvements.
  • Ability to provide and deliver professional presentations / topics.
  • Create harmonised documents for South Africa locations.
  • Proactively develops online and interactive training materials to support the business requirements.

Processes

  • Acts as the process expert to understand scope of new change and the impact they will have on current processes.
  • Advises on feasibility, potential issues and impacts of process changes.
  • Document project plan and updates when project owner. Prepare status update and shares with applicable stakeholders.
  • Supports other team members involved in projects.
  • To ensure that PE-66 are represented in all projects and that any new processes are fully assessed for feasibility and implemented in the appropriate way.

Audits

  • Prepare all necessary documentation required by auditors.
  • Liaise with auditors both internal and external to arrange onsite visits.
  • Follow up on queries and resulting audit points to bring them to a satisfactory close.
  • To ensure adherence to process and accuracy of data in accordance with BMW Group and legislative requirements.

Approval of SAP Roles

  • Act as the final HR Services approver when grant SAP access.
  • Approves workflow requests for access.

Team IT Contact

  • Manage onboarding / offboarding systems and IT setup for all HR Services team members.
  • Manage access requests to 3rd party systems.

SLAs

  • Ensure delivery in line with service level agreement.

Attend relevant circles and working groups

  • Act on behalf of the team as the nominated expert.

Promote better ways of working

  • Pro-actively look at ways to drive change within the team through simplification, standardisation and automation.

Education

  • Minimum Bachelor degree in Human Resources or Business Administration.

Work experience, Leadership experience

  • At least 5 years ERP experience.
  • At least 5 years South African Payroll / Benefits / Time experience.
  • Ability to work independently.

Additional skills: special skills/technical ability etc.

  • Strong analytical skills and organized in a problem-solving environment.
  • Excellent communication (written and oral) and interpersonal skills.
  • Attention to details, precision oriented.
  • Strong Excel skills.
  • Minimum of 2 years Project Management experience with small to medium projects.
  • Knowledge of BMW HR processes, policies, instruments and systems.
  • Experience of working both cross-function and / or internationally.
  • Ability to work independently and able to adopt to a proactive approach.
  • Project involvement in a system launch and enhancements is mandatory.
  • Previous IT experience in working with HR environments is desirable.

DUE DATE: 9 October 2025