Business Transformation Manager

Position Summary

The Business Reporting Transformation Manager is responsible for leading the transformation to drive harmonization and standardization of the reporting landscape within SAP and structures that define the way ZEISS will work for years to come. You will take responsibility to achieve the best solution for ZEISS, balancing individual functional and business segment needs by improving the SAP reporting requirements.

Responsibilities

• Primary Reporting Contact for Roll-ins: Serve as the initial point of contact for entities involved in roll-ins.

• Intermediary Between Hub and Global Team: Facilitate effective communication and collaboration between the Hub and the Global Team for Business Reporting Transformation (BRT).

• Fit-to-Template (F2T) Introduction Meeting: Organize and provide participants for the Business Reporting Transformation (BRT) F2T Introduction Meeting.

• F2T Workshop: Pre-align with end-to-end (E2E) streams to establish workshop expectations and support the demonstration of available solutions.

• Requirement Analysis: Coordinate and assist in gathering requirements from E2E streams, prepare deviation requests, and align these requests with global E2E teams.

• Process Specification: Define whether requirements are global or local and support the creation of functional specifications (FS) in collaboration with the E2E stream of the Hub or Global Transformation Program (GTP) for reporting needs.

• Testing: Prepare and execute Integration Testing and User Acceptance Testing (ITC & UAT) in alignment with Business Reporting Transformation (BRT) and E2E Stream who needs the report.

Required Knowledge & Experience

• Bachelor’s/Master’s degree in Business Administration, Or Computer Science & Engineering or a related field.

• Minimum of 8 years experience: o Leading Business/Management Reporting OR managing projects focused on SAP BW.

• Experience in SAP BW/4 HANA is good to have.

• Reporting experience, incl. requirement engineering, reporting architecture and various SAP reporting types incl SAP BW/4 HANA.

• Strong Project Management capability to drive Business reporting transformation.

• Results-oriented, analytical and organizational skills paired with strong change communications skills to develop and successfully implement strategic plans.

• Strong interpersonal and communication skills, capable of working with diverse teams and influencing leadership.