Overview
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Reporting
This position reports to Head of Integrated Reporting Tools.
Role Purpose
In this role, you will own the delivery of the Integrated Reporting platforms that use SAP BW/4Hanna, SAP SAC & non‑SAP technologies and support the Finance organization of ABB for management and external reporting. You are a professional who oversees the successful delivery of BI solutions, bridging the gap between business needs and technical implementation. You will manage a team, coordinate resources, and ensure the quality and timeliness of BI deliverables.
Key Responsibilities
- Define BI modeling guidelines and best practices, guide the building of reporting solutions and dashboards using best practices and intuitive visualization.
- Work with stakeholders to understand business requirements and translate them into technical specifications for BI solutions.
- Lead the planning, execution, and delivery of BI projects, often utilizing agile methodologies.
- Manage and mentor team members, fostering collaboration and ensuring efficient workflow.
- Communicate effectively with various stakeholders, including design team, business users, IS teams, and vendors.
- Manage the delivery of user‑friendly analytics insights by improving and adapting through continuous solutions delivery, and keep up‑to‑date technologies preference criteria for exposing the data to business users.
- Ensure the quality and accuracy of BI solutions, including data validation, reporting, and analytics.
- Identify opportunities to improve BI processes, tools, and solutions to enhance efficiency and effectiveness.
- Act as a crucial link between the functional architects and the technical teams, ensuring that BI initiatives are effectively delivered and contribute to the organization’s success.
- Have a strong understanding of BW/4Hanna, SAP SAC, S4/Hanna finance data model and data warehousing principles.
Collaboration / Leadership
- Engage with business leaders, consumers, and customers to understand changes to processes, products, services, software, and hardware to improve efficiencies and add value.
- Manage relationships with stakeholders in their own area of responsibility to define solutions and ensure alignment.
- Provide leadership, guidance, or support to temporary work teams, through advising and monitoring task completion without carrying line responsibility.
- Collaborate and provide guidance across ABB across various finance functions.
- Set the example for proactively building working relationships within the team, acting as an escalation point for staff and ensuring relationship challenges are addressed.
- Create an environment to facilitate collaboration between the organization and its technology suppliers, ensuring positive and effective working relationships are developed and maintained.
- Coach and guide Solution Architects on the best practices and latest technology developments to ensure their continuous professional growth.
Qualifications (Mandatory)
- Master’s degree in computer science, finance, statistics, applied mathematics, or related field.
- Minimum 15 years of experience in a functional architecture role on large SAP program.
- Good understanding of financial end‑to‑end processes such as Record to Report, FP&A, Order to Cash, etc.
- Knowledge of working with and using SAP, BW/ BW/4Hana, SAC and SAP MDG is a must. Exposure to non‑SAP data analytics environment like Snowflake is an advantage.
- Strong problem‑solving skills with an emphasis on product development.
- Experience using statistical computer languages (R, Python, SQL, etc.) to manipulate data and draw insights from large data sets.
- Knowledge of a variety of machine learning techniques (clustering, decision tree learning, artificial neural networks, etc.) and their real‑world advantages/drawbacks.
- A collaborative, solution‑focused approach and strong written and spoken communication skills.
- A drive to learn and master new technologies and techniques. Experience with cloud services (SAP Rise, AWS, Azure, GCP) and understanding of scaling analytics projects in cloud environments.
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