Senior Expert Business Intelligence (mwd)

Position Purpose:

The Center of Excellence "Business Intelligence" (CoE BI) is the link between business and IT service providers and, in the course of creating BI applications, brings together information from a wide variety of data sources and makes it available to decision-makers in the organization in processed form with the help of advanced BI systems.

The CoE BI is responsible for coordinating the infrastructure with the IT provider(s), including the required interfaces, but not for the quality of the data captured in the upstream systems themselves.

The primary objective of the role is to provide full support and project work in the Center of Excellence Business Intelligence, mainly the development of stories/applications in the SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC), administration of the setup of the SAC, integration of the Apos platform as well as support of Finance Transformation reporting as well as FME25 reporting.

Furthermore, this role is responsible for BI processes & services and maintaining corresponding result documents (SAC user documentations, SAC LifeCycle Management & SAC Authorization concepts).

• Coordinate and improve the coordination of partners as an interface between IT, internal customers and external consultants
• Development and support of mathematical modeling
• Development of data science use cases in the global finance environment by applying state-of-the-art machine learning algorithms
• (Further) development and support of (critical) management applications in BI reporting, especially in the SAP Analytics Cloud
• Project management further development of the eco-system SAC by adjacent systems (e.g. Apos Publisher, Presto)
• Partial project management for demand &. Apos Publisher, Presto)
• (Partial) project management for Demand & Change processes in the BI context and coordination with IT providers
• Quality check and production releases
• Maintenance of BI applications within the Center of Excellence Business Intelligence
• Analysis of deviations to the BI template and preparation of solution proposals for decision by the Business Process Owner or Business Process Architect
• Preparation, Support and execution of user tests in the Business Intelligence area, also in FME locations abroad
• Support of the setup of the architecture of a cross-region SAC reporting with multiple tenants

• At least 3-5 years of professional experience

• Knowledge of project management

• Very extensive experience in the implementation and support of management information systems, standard reporting & data visualization

• Multi-year experience in a strategy consulting firm (min. 4 years)

• Extensive knowledge in machine learning, mathematical modeling and predictive as well as prescriptive analytics

• Experience in BI projects & leading them, if necessary as subproject manager

• Multi-year (min. 4 years) knowledge in SAP BI frontend tools, BI backend systems (preferably SAP Business Warehouse) or similar BI tools

• Experience in the development and implementation of a BI strategies, BI templates & governance processes

• Team skills
• Willingness to identify and supervise change processes
• Independent development of alternative solutions & Solution optimizations
• Structured and systematic approach to problem solving
• Analytical thinking skills
• Ability to prioritize appropriately and meet changing requirements
• Intercultural competence and diplomatic demeanor
• Experience regarding. BI style guide / IBCS data visualization, BI reference guidelines, BI HowTo papers
• Expertise in Finance & Controlling and Enterprise KPIs
• Data Analysis, Exploration and Visualization (IBCS)
• Definition, Determination and interpretation of key performance indicators and KPIs from business processes
• Founded knowledge in project management
• Founded knowledge in requirements analysis and development testing
• Knowledge in story and application design with BI tools
• Knowledge in administration of SAP Analytics Cloud and authorization control
• Deep knowledge of the MS Office package
• Knowledge in SAP frontend tools (eg. Analysis for Office)
• Founded knowledge in SAP HANA as a DataWarehouse
• Founded knowledge in HANA Eclipse Studio