Act! Functional Analyst Analytics Product Ownership

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Your Role

The role

Within act!, we are looking for a SAP BW and analytics analyst with several years of proven SAP BW experience, with a good technical, data and reporting affinity and background . You will be part of a cross functional team responsible to deliver end to end consistent processes and solutions for the involved process area in line with business council requests. The team is as much as possible self-reliant, organized with agile or project principles depending on the scope and timeline.

The act analytics analyst provides the necessary knowledge and leadership to guide and assist our internal and external stakeholders in the involved knowledge area, and to drive and perform the delivery cycle of the assigned change requests.

You’re a member of a hive/project, reporting to the responsible product manager, and steered by the responsible product owner, solution architect and scrum master.

You will be part of a community with peer solution architects, functional and technical analysts where you will share best practices in alignment with the overall act! strategy.

 
To succeed, you will need  

Roles & Responsibilities

·         Analyze and Understand Business and technical reporting requirements: you will be responsible for understanding the business processes of the organization and support the identification of areas where the act! reporting systems can be utilized to build reports. This involves gathering requirements from stakeholders, conducting workshops, and finetuning business requirements and translate this into reporting solutions.

·         Full Lifecycle Implementation and Support: The act! SAP BW and analytics analyst will be responsible for end-to-end delivery starting from requirement gathering, analysis, solution design, developing solutions according to platform and architecture guidelines, testing, providing support in User acceptance testing and hyper care. Additionally, you will be an escalation point of contact to provide support to end-users, troubleshoot system issues.

·         Documentation and Training: you will be responsible for documenting the technical specifications, testing results and End-to-end solution documentation. You will also be responsible for creating and delivering input for training materials for end-users and do the handover to the involved support organizations.

·         Continuous Improvement: you will be responsible for continuously improving the SAP reporting system by identifying opportunities to streamline your solution, introduce housekeeping activities to improve system performance and functionality, and providing recommendations for future enhancements.

Competences

·         You have experience with solution   and can effectively communicate ideas and recommendations orally and in writing, while considering the viewpoint of others.

·         A customer centric individual who understands customers’ needs and seeks to fulfill or exceed expectations by advising and providing adequate options and solutions.

·         A team player and natural diplomat who interacts and unites team members, customers, all stakeholders.

·         A methodic and structured achiever, who can plan, organize, prioritize, assess, adapt and deliver the promise.

·         A resilient person who can cope with change in an ever faster moving digital landscape and who can spread this attitude of self-sufficiency.

·         An innovative "there is always a better way" person with a positive, flexible, and responsive mindset who embraces a quality and ‘can do’ attitude and promotes digital transformation.

·         Open-minded with a global mindset, curious to understand and learn new perspectives.

·         A person who complies with our DNA => Commitment – Interaction – Innovation.

Technology Experience

·         5+ Years of IS/IT, reporting and related processes background. 

·         General knowledge of SAP ERP Platforms. 

·         Knowledge in SAP Business Warehouse running on HANA and S4HANA Embedded Analytics (CDS Views) is a must.  

·         Experience with SQL, Native HANA modeling is a must

·         Experience with PowerBI and other reporting solutions are a plus 

·         Experience with BW/4HANA is a plus 

·         Ability to work in a structured way and effectively communicate with employees at all levels. 

·         Project Management experience is a plus, specifically the Agile methodology. 0

·         The ability to motivate people. 

·         Good spoken and written communication skills with colleagues at all levels. 

·         Showing a responsible attitude. 

·         The ability to plan and prioritize your own work and having good coordination with the rest of the team, including close cooperation with offshore resources and the support team. 

·         Comfortable working under pressure to tight deadlines. 

Education

·         You hold a master’s degree in IT, Business economics or equivalent experience.

·         You have excellent organizational and planning skills and strong analytical abilities.

·         You have a positive attitude and good presentation skills to communicate complex technical information into understandable business language.

·         You are familiar with the principles of Agile methodology.

·         You communicate effectively in English and are prepared to make short trips abroad when needed.

In return, we offer you

What you can expect from us

·         A challenging process and SAP centric landscape with room for innovation

·         A friendly, family-like atmosphere 

·         Plenty of opportunities to grow and develop

·         A culture known for respectful interaction, ethical behavior and integrity

·         An organization that uses diversity as a driver of performance

·         Potential to see your ideas realized and to make an impact

·         New challenges and new things to learn every day

·         Ability for work from home 40% (flexibility can be offered depending on the assigned tasks)

Diverse by nature and inclusive by choice
Bright ideas come from all of us. The more unique perspectives we embrace, the more innovative we are. Together we build a culture where difference is valued and we share a deep sense of purpose and belonging.