IT Application Solution Management III - SAP Business Planning and Anaplan Functional Consultant
Key responsibilities:
- Serve as an interface with a customer sub-group within a business unit or functional area such as Sales, Operations, Engineering, Service and Finance for the purpose of business technology alignment, solution discovery, service management, project portfolio management and relationship management.
- Analyzes business requirements or issues, converts analysis to functional specifications, and designs solutions to meet cross functional business requirements or resolve issues. Perform and document software application configuration, prepare and execute testing scenarios and scripts (unit, integration, performance, regression acceptance) and data conversions.
- Provides business application functional support services to meet performance, availability, customer service level agreement, and customer satisfaction targets. Monitors specific IT systems or set of systems for availability, performance and capabilities and reports anomalies through predefined process. Oversees and/or completes root cause analysis and resolution of complex outages or incident trends working with infrastructure and technical teams, support providers and application vendors. Recommends and executes required corrective actions. Participate in evaluation and recommendation of patches, point releases, major upgrades and new systems.
- Delivers project and support services in area of responsibility within allocated budget. May be responsible for development of budgets for small to mid size projects and/or for timely renewal of maintenance and subscription contracts.
- Adheres to and guides junior staff and contingent workers to adhere to GIS project management, software application development, testing, service management, change management, RCA and other relevant processes, standards, governance and controls. May manage execution of sox controls and testing, and support internal and external audits.
- Plan and manage small to medium sized business application projects to ensure effective and efficient execution in line with guardrails of scope, timeline, budget and quality. May serve as a team lead on a larger, complex project.
- Oversees/manages contingent workers performing project and/or support services. Responsible for the selection, on boarding and off boarding of contingent workers in a timely manner. Mange contingent worker project/task assignments and ensure work product quality. Approves contingent worker time sheets/cost.
Functional Knowledge:
- Demonstrates conceptual and practical expertise in own discipline and basic knowledge of related disciplines.
Business Expertise:
- Has knowledge of best practices and how own area integrates with others; is aware of the competition and the factors that differentiate them in the market.
Leadership:
- Acts as a resource for colleagues with less experience; may lead small projects with manageable risks and resource requirements.
Problem Solving:
- Solves complex problems; takes a new perspective on existing solutions; exercises judgment based on the analysis of multiple sources of information.
Impact:
- Impacts a range of customer, operational, project or service activities within own team and other related teams; works within broad guidelines and policies.
Interpersonal Skills:
- Explains difficult or sensitive information; works to build consensus.
Qualifications
The position is for a SAP Business Planning and Anaplan Functional Analyst (BPC/Anaplan). The roles and responsibilities are as follows:
- Provides support/guidance to the business, product and delivery teams during project execution (analysis, design, configuration, development and testing) for financial accounting processes and solutions.
- Defines technical evaluation criteria for product and technology selection and determine technical approaches to ensure all architectural solutions result in a coherent systems design.
- Partners with business analysts, systems analysts and engineers to define and review requirements.
- Delivers solutions with business users and delivery resources to analyze, design, recommend, plan, develop and implement solutions to meet strategic, usability, performance, reliability, control, and security requirements.
- Provides cost–efficient, high quality, client–focused solutions, according to established policies, procedures, and processes.
- Creates, maintains, reviews and gives guidance on internal documentation for architected solutions
- Contributes to the implementation of innovative project solutions through development and/or configuration activities.
- Performs other job–related duties as assigned.
-- Must Have
- Functional analyst with over 5 years BPC implementation experience including 2-3 full life cycle projects. Have hands on implementation experience in Sales SOP revenue planning, Revenue and Gross Margin planning, RD Project and Opex planning
- Experience with SAP BPC 10.0/10.1 NetWeaver experience
- Experience with BW data extraction and modeling in BW 7.5 HANA environment
- Strong knowledge of BPC planning and forecasting function and process, including Data Manager, Logic Script, BADI
- Strong knowledge of EPM and Macro development
- Experience in integrating BPC with Anaplan Datahub as well as exposure to Hadoop
- Integration knowledge with other SAP Modules such as: FICO/COPA, CRM, Sales and distribution (Sales, Billing, Pricing), Materials Management, Production Planning, etc. would be a definite Plus.
- Excellent English verbal and written skills
- Strong organization skills, self-motivated and take initiative to drive deliverables together with onsite team
-- Education
- Bachelor’s degree or above
Qualifications
Education: Bachelors Degree.
Skills Certifications: Languages:Years of Experience: 7 - 10 Years Work Experience:
Additional Information
Travel: Yes, 10% of the TimeRelocation Eligible:Yes.