Simba Ralph Shokobishi

Resume

Work Experience

07/2023 to date
Employer:
Decision Inc
Clients:
Various including a large coal mine, a large manufacturer, and a leading retailer

xP&A Consultant - SAP Analytics Cloud / SAP Datasphere / SAP BW / SAP BDC

  • Design, build, and deploy SAC dashboards, reports, and KPIs for financial, operational, and management reporting.
  • Develop SAC planning models with relevant dimensions, hierarchies, and measures to support forecasting and budgeting.
  • Implement Data Actions, Multi-Actions, and advanced scripting for complex planning logic and automation.
  • Integrate SAC with SAP Datasphere & BW4HANA for real-time analytics and planning data synchronization.
  • Configure SAP Datasphere connections, remote tables, analytical models, SQL and graphical views, replication flows, and task chains.
  • Custom CDS views and CDS view enhancements
  • SAC and Datasphere authorizations, user management, roles, and access controls.
  • Build SAP BW composite providers, ADSOs, InfoObjects, process chains as well as data extraction and reporting using BW Queries or Analysis for Office.
  • Presales, requirement gathering, presentations and technical client playbacks and demos.
10/2021 to 06/2023
Employer:
Advantech
Client:
Ministry of Finance

SAP BW Consultant

  • Building Composite Providers and exposing BW objects in SAP HANA Views, Operational Data Provisioning, ADSOs, etc.
  • Handling new enhancements and changes as per business requirements.
  • Participating in data modeling, planning, and scheduling data extraction from source systems, interacting with users for customized and standard reports, gap analysis, calculation views, and associated solutions.
  • Participating in the creation of stored procedures for complex and regular tasks.
  • Creating and monitoring process chains to automate the loading process for master data and transactional data.
  • Reporting: Analysis of Office, BW Queries, and SAP Analytic Cloud models and stories.
02/2021 to 09/2021
Employer:
Advantech
Client:
Delta Corporation

SAP BW Consultant I

  • Involved in the rectification of load failure errors like Master Data loads and Transaction data loads.
  • Designed and developed process chains for Master data loads and Transaction data loads with the help of Info packages.
  • Complex queries in Sales and Payment Reports using Analysis for Office
  • Query design and report development and testing in Lumira Studio
  • Activation of BI content and Data sources
  • Actualized various types of Bex query variables including User exit, Replacement Path, Text, and formula variables.
  • Created Calculated Key Figures, Restricted Key Figures, and Structures
  • Installing standard BI Content for SD, MM, and FI-GL
07/2020 to 01/2021
Employer:
Advantech
Client:
Ministry of Finance

Junior SAP BW Consultant

  • Involved in requirement gathering, technical design, roadmap development and blueprint preparation.
  • Assisted in analysis of the client’s current state system.
  • Designed and developed of data marts on BW for FI.
  • Assisted in the design, development, and implementation of dataflow from S/4 to BW to BW4 Cockpit including LSA++, Composite Providers , ADSO’S , Open ODS View to access CDS views.
  • Enhanced standard extractors and master data objects.
  • Developed custom data-sources using CDS Views.
  • Installed standard business content.
01/2018 to 06/2020
Employer:
Primetalk, Cape Town

IT Support: Data Services

  • Created and maintained ETL processes.
  • Compiled and presented data insights and reporting to stakeholders.
  • Automated all analytical reporting.
  • Wrote basic SQL statements to query data from Microsoft SQL.
  • Handled the tickets of priority 1, 2, and 3 by following standard operating procedures.
  • Handled all IT requirements of the companies such as Windows 7/10 support, Active Directory user management, printer, server and dialer trouble shooting, system backups, help, and advice.

Valid Certifications

Becoming an SAP Data Architect - Course Completion

2026 - Completed

SAP Certified - SAP Business Data Cloud

Valid until 2026

SAP Certified Associate - Data Engineer - Data Fabric

Formerly SAP Certified Application Associate - Reporting, Modeling and Data Acquisition with SAP BW/4HANA 2.x
Valid until 2026

SAP Certified Associate - Data Analyst - SAP Analytics Cloud

Formerly SAP Certified Application Associate - SAP Analytics Cloud
Valid until 2026

SAP Certified Associate - Data Engineer - SAP HANA

Formerly SAP Certified Application Associate - SAP HANA 2.0 (SPS05)
Valid until 2026

Exploring SAP Datasphere - Record of Achievement

2023 - Completed

SAP Analytics Cloud – Become an Augmented BI Expert

openSAP
2022 - Completed

Education

IMM
(South Africa)

Bachelor of Business Administration Degree

 

 

Soft Skills

Communication, interpersonal and presentation skills

90%

Ability to prioritize, manage time and multi-task

80%

Adaptable, analytical, resilient, stress tolerant, and a keen learner

90%

Ability to work in a diverse team environment

90%