SAP Analytics Cloud Solution Developer

Purpose of Role

You will ensure that delivered services are optimized to meet business demands, the service operations and improvement initiatives, and serve as a consultant on issues and resolutions. You will also recommend actions that can be taken to optimize investments and benefits and to mitigate risks. You are responsible for ensuring that MDS Finance projects are successfully delivered on time and on budget. This includes adherence to budget and timeline development, build quality, testing and operational readiness, and the completed project’s readiness to go live; work with project resources to provide design collateral and to configure software components so they are aligned with security policy and governance; and ensure adherence to development and configuration standards and processes.

Main Responsibilities: -

• Should possess in-depth knowledge of SAP Analytics Cloud and should play a key role in the development, maintenance, and enhancements of SAP Analytics Cloud planning and reporting applications.

• Team member for in-house SAP analytics cloud developers for Break Fixes, enhancements, reports, and Dashboard developments, SAC security, and system improvements.

• Assisting in the assessment of the impact of systems upgrades and conducting efficient regression testing.

• Follow best practices for system governance topics, such as performance Optimizations, data retention, archival, etc.

• Active participation in discussions on topics like the transformation of SAP analytics cloud process and objects.

• Partner with global and regional FP&A teams to understand ongoing business requirements and be able to translate them into a functional and technical design document.

• Follow the SAP analytics cloud subject matter expert's guidance in order to support the end-to-end project lifecycle, including blueprint, build, integration testing, implementation, and hyper care support for FP&A digital transformation initiatives

• Become part of project teams consisting of in-house developers, external partners, business stakeholders, and process experts.

• Continuous learning of SAP Analytics Cloud and the peripheral system landscape, and the future roadmap.

• Collaborate with Inhouse experts and partners to identify best practices & help our business understand & adopt current technology to achieve operational efficiencies.

Career Experiences Required & Role Implications

Experience:

• Strong expertise in SAP Analytics Cloud with experience of minimum 2-3 implementations.

• Min 4-6 years of experience in SAP analytics cloud. Integration / Security / Dashboarding experience would be an added advantage.

• Experience in planning and consolidation tools and its integration with SAP ECC, S4, Cloud services.

• Understanding of FP&A business processes with business engagement skills.

• Experience of data warehousing concepts and analytical tools like Tableau, Alteryx & Power BI.

• Experience or awareness of Cloud services and functionalities and its used cases for Finance domain.

Key Leadership / Functional Competencies

• Good knowledge of FP&A processes.

• Good knowledge of large projects.

• Excellent stakeholder management skills.

• Strong focus on Cost, Schedule and Quality of Project delivery.

• Planning, Drive for results, Customer focus & Creativity.

Education / Certifications:

• University degree, preferably in IT. Having any degree in Finance would be an added advantage.

• Proven English language proficiency.