Business Intelligence Senior Specialist

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 various data sources and makes it available to the organization's decision-makers 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 collected in the upstream systems themselves.

The primary objective of the function is to fully support the Center of Excellence Business Intelligence, in particular the support of reports in the SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC), as well as support for finance transformation reporting and FME25 reporting.

Furthermore, this function involves being responsible for BI processes & services and maintaining the corresponding results documents (SAC user documentation, SAC LifeCycle Management & SAC authorization concepts).

Regularly performed tasks that significantly determine the function .

• Support of mathematical modeling
• Support of complex business logic in SAP BWonHana/SAP Datasphere
• Support of (critical) management applications in BI reporting, especially in the SAP Analytics Cloud
• Quality checks and production releases
• Maintenance of BI applications
• Analysis of deviations from the BI template and preparation of solution proposals for decision by the business process owner or business process architect
• Preparation, support and implementation of user tests in the Business Intelligence area, also in FME locations abroad
• Implementation of 1st level support - incident handling
• Preparation and implementation of documentation tasks

Key performance indicators

• Completion of assigned work packages in time, budget & quality
• Adherence to planned milestones, taking into account technical requirements in the execution of projects in the business intelligence environment
• Risks are addressed in good time and countermeasures are initiated
• Independent creation of solution approaches and their execution within the given framework & coordination with the supervisor
• Creation and maintenance/updating of BI result documents
• Incident duration

Requirements:

• At least +4 years of professional experience
• Degree in economics, industrial engineering or business informatics, statistics, physics
• Knowledge of project management
• Very extensive experience in the implementation and support of management information systems, standard reporting & data visualization
• Extensive knowledge of machine learning, mathematical modeling and predictive and prescriptive analytics would be strong benefit
• Experience in BI projects & their management, possibly as sub-project manager
• Knowledge in SAP BI front-end tools, BI back-end systems (preferably SAP Business Warehouse) or similar BI tools
• Experience in the development and implementation of BI strategies, BI templates & governance processes
• Ability to work in a team
• Willingness to identify and support change processes
• Independent development of alternative solutions & solution optimizations
• Structured and systematic approach to solving problems
• Analytical thinking skills
• Ability to set priorities appropriately and meet changing requirements
• Intercultural competence and diplomatic demeanor
• Specialist knowledge in the area of finance & controlling and enterprise KPIs – nice to have
• Definition, determination and interpretation of key figures and KPIs from business processes (Senior Specialist )
• Sound knowledge of project management
• Sound knowledge of requirements analysis and development tests
• SAP expertise (ERP & BW)
• Knowledge of story and application design with BI tools
• In-depth knowledge of the MS Office package
• Knowledge of the SAP front-end tools (e.g. Analysis for Office)
• Sound knowledge of SAP HANA as a data warehouse
• Sound knowledge of SAP BW on Hana/SAP Datasphere