Solution Delivery Expert

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 projects 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 FP&A 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 FP&A digital transformation initiatives.
• Lead project teams consisting of inhouse developers, external partners, business stakeholders and process experts.
• Deliver digital FP&A 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 FP&A community.
• Modernize FP&A 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 FP&A 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 FP&A 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.