Manager - SAP Analytics Cloud

Job Description

You provide software and applications expertise, and be responsible for implementation of the solutions. How you will contribute You will oversee the planning and execution of software and applications. To do so, you will manage an internal team and partner with external suppliers and use your deep technical and market knowledge and thorough understanding of our business goals find and deploy the right software and application solutions for the future. You will support programs to implement regional and global software and application strategies, offer input to financial planning and controls for software and applications on a regional and global level, collaborate with management and follow-up on requisitions, purchase orders, invoices, and payments, explores opportunities to leverage scale and drive savings, and ensure that support service level objectives and key performance indicators are accomplished. What you will bring A desire to drive your future and accelerate your career. You will bring experience and knowledge in : Managing staff and line responsibilities Managing large-scale software and application services Service delivery, support and excellence Program/Project management with experience managing multiple projects for budgets, resources, schedules and quality General technical background Understanding of integration and how different applications talk to each other Process and service orientation Business processes Purpose of Role : You will ensure, delivered services are optimized to meet business demands and the service operations strategy, plan, measure, report and communicate service 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 project governance, 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. Role Responsibilities Should possess in depth knowledge of SAP Analytics cloud and should play key role for maintenance, governance and enhancements of SAP analytics cloud planning and reporting applications. Lead team of inhouse SAP analytics cloud developers for Break Fixes, enhancements, report and Dashboard developments, SAC security and system improvements. Responsible for assessing impact of systems upgrades and conduct efficient regression testing. Lead system governance topics, such as performance Optimization, data retention, Archival etc Facilitates consultation with key business stakeholders to strategize transformation of SAP analytics cloud applications. Partner with global and regional FPA teams to understand ongoing business requirements and be able to translate them into functional and technical design documents. Act as SAP analytics cloud subject matter expert in order to support the end-to-end project lifecycle including blueprint, build, integration testing, implementation and hyper care support for FPA digital transformation initiatives. Lead project teams consisting of inhouse developers, external partners, business stakeholders and process experts. Deliver digital FPA initiatives and ensure they are scaled globally in a consistent and efficient way. Develop a clear understanding of the SAP Analytics Cloud and peripheral system landscape and be able to govern the future roadmap. Partner with solution architects serve as a trusted technology advisor to the global FPA community. Modernize FPA processes by providing relevant, agile innovative solutions using latest techniques tools. Learn current technology trends influencing finance processes, causing digital disruption in the CPG industry which includes intelligent automations and digital innovations. Collaborate with 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 3 implementations. Min 5-7 years of experience in SAP analytics cloud. Integration / Security / Dashboarding experience would be an added advantage with overall experience of 10-15 years. Experience in planning and consolidation tools and its integration with SAP ECC, S4, Cloud services. Understanding of FPA 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. Leadership Competency: Planning, Drive for results, Customer focus, Creativity, Peer relationships, Informing. Functional Competency Good knowledge of FPA processes. Good knowledge of large projects. Excellent stakeholder management skills. Strong focus on Cost, Schedule, and Quality of Project delivery. Education / Certifications: University degree, preferably in Finance and/or IT Proven English language proficiency.