Responsibilities
- Understand and Lead Business process improvement initiatives with various business unit teams.
- Leverage SAP investment to improve productivity and working capital efficiency.
- Business Reporting application development and support for all business units and all locations.
- Leverage BI tools to provide visibility to accurate & timely information for key decision makers in the business units for reporting, process monitoring, planning needs, key performance metrics, & predictive analysis.
- Training & Support to optimize all reporting and analytical functions across all Business systems.
Requirements
- Thorough knowledge of SAP Business Information Warehouse application development methodology, configuration, and ABAP programming language (including ABAP Objects).
- Thorough understanding of structured analysis, design & programming techniques & structured methodologies.
- Knowledge of SAP (ECC) modules & processes from a technical (tables and fields) & functional perspective.
- Multiple experiences leading the implementation of major project initiatives.
- Experience in analyzing business processes, objectives/requirements and translating them into an application solution.
- Ability to design, develop and implement SAP-based business applications.
- Functional knowledge of SAP Module capabilities and integration with SAP BW.
- 5+ years configuration experience in BI DEVELOPMENT AND QUERY TOOLS SAP Business Warehouse (BW) navigation, configuration, & general capabilities to include but not limited to: Extraction, transformation, and loading (ETL) & Standard Business content.
- Designing and building ODS, InfoCube, Remote Cube, structures.
- Business Explorer (BEx) reporting tool (Version 3.5 * 7.X).
- Web Application Designer (Version 3.5 & 7.X).
- Remodeling, Analysis Process Design.
- Standard SAP change management transport and landscape functions.
- SAP BW Security role structure and authorizations.
- BW Performance tuning, problem root cause identification, debugging, and resolution skills.
- Experience with SAP OSS support functions and escalation methodology.
- Required education: 4 year college degree. 10+ years of relevant work experience in lieu of degree.
Nice to Have
- Experience with Java and Java script web development platforms.
- Building JCO connectors.
- WSDL services and XML.
- BI Portal development.
- BI Development skills not required but a plus to have: Predictive analytics, data mining, BW/CRM integration experience.
- BW/APO integration experience.
- Business Objects Universe and query design.
- QlikView.