Snr SAP Business Warehouse Analyst
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REPORT STRUCTURE
- Reports directly to the GM IT and indirectly to the Enterprise Data Manager.
- No subordinates
PURPOSE
- This role is focused on the preservation, extension and creation of business value from the development, support and administration predominantly of the SAP Business Warehouse application along with other tools used in the pursuit of enterprise wide business intelligence outcomes
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
Before – Expertise for developing digital solutions
- Extend the business value extracted from the existing services
- Proactively identify opportunities to engage business partners regarding requirements gathering, report design, testing and deployment of reporting tools
- Create and maintain documentation of technical solutions
- Update job knowledge by participating in educational opportunities, reading professional publications, maintaining personal networks and participating in professional organisations
Beside – Supporting global manufacturing and sales
- Preserve the business value of existing services
- Understand business processes and outcomes pursued and enabled via the service
- Pursue and implement strategies to maintain service continuity
- Produce, implement and maintain data models and cubes to allow for seamless reporting from different SAP functions and non- SAP system
- Monitor data loads, publication, quality and accuracy of periodical reports
- Serve as subject matter expert for SAP BW and advise business on utilisation of standard content available
- Administration of SAP BW platform which will include user administration, setting up security, platform maintenance
- Ensure high user adoption for any new solution developed
- Participate in Out of Hours support, when required
- Lead, manage and advise other team members
- Comply to corporate OHS&E policies
Beyond – Cultivating business and customer value
- Create new business value from transformative service identification and enablement
- Develop new and optimised reporting metrics and tools
KEY SKILLS
- Solid understanding of leading and contemporary practices/capabilities in information management, data governance, reporting and analytics
- Ability to evaluate and prioritize tasks
- Excellent verbal and written communications skills and ability to articulate and convey information concisely
- Excellent customer service skills with ability manage stakeholder relationships at all levels
- Capability to make informed decisions on wide range of complex business and technical issues to reduce business impact
- Ability to investigate, identify and solve problems quickly and efficiently
- Ability to self-organise within a team environment
QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE
- 8+ years of experience working with SAP BW, SAP BW 7.5 data modelling and administration covering the end to end ETL process including extractors, InfoPackages, DTPs, transformations, DSOs, InfoCubes, MultiProviders, Process Chains, authorisations and security, SAP BW 7.x on HANA and associated data modelling concepts and objects including HANA views, Advanced DSOs, etc.
- Development experience using SQL Server
- Exposure to BW workspace, BW specific ABAP development (transformation routines, customer exits, BADIs, extractors)
- Excellent understanding of Data Warehousing concepts, BEx Query Development, SAP Business Objects Analysis for Office, integration with Business Objects platform and BI content, Business Objects Data Services and Information Steward, SAP ECC
- Experience in data visualisation tool, preferably Qlik Sense
- Experience in Amazon Redshift
- Experience in production support/BAU
- Working knowledge of change control processes and impacts
- Experience in delivering IT technical service and process in line with ITIL methodology