Job Description

SAC IT Profile

Experience: 2-3 years working with SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC) in either Reporting or Planning. 5-6 years of overall SAP BI Reporting/Planning experience.

Skill Set: SAC Reporting, SAC Planning, SAP BW, SAP BPC, SAP HANA

Primary Skills & Responsibilities:

General:

• Working effectively as part of a Global and Agile Delivery team to implement reporting and planning routines.

• Responsible for solution design, system architecture, operation and advanced technical system integration.

• Excellent knowledge in configuration of live data and import data connections and data acquisition

• Strong knowledge of SAP HANA, SAP BW, SAP BPC, SAP S4HANA, SQL, OData Services, 3rd party Cloud applications

• Strong experience in data modelling and preparing datasets, merging, appending, custom hierarchies, custom calculations, groupings, formatting values, data wrangling, dimensions and measures.

• Experience in connecting various on premise and cloud databases with Analytics cloud.

• Familiarity with analytic applications or with SAP Lumira Designer (Design Studio), screen layout, widgets, custom scripts JavaScript

• Experience in Finance, Controlling and Planning data

• Knowledge of SCRUM framework/agile work methods & tools (Jira, Confluence)

• Pro-active and accountable with the confidence to intervene when requirements are not clear and complexities need to be directly addressed.

• Open and team-oriented communication, providing a transparent view on what is being worked on, any risks and future outlook.

• Must be solution orientated and be able to work independently

Planning:

• SAC native modelling

** classic account model vs. measure model

** data imports for transactional & master data

** good understanding of data modelling incl. model formulas

** good understanding of DAC and version management

• Data Actions

** Good understanding and hands-on implementation of data actions

** Creating process chains with multiactions

• Story Design

** Creation of planning tables incl. basic story calculations

** Understanding of data entry/data publishing mechanism

• Analytical Application Design

** Basic understanding of JavaScript applications and creation of simple application

** Other frontend programming languages are beneficial

• Data Import and Export

** Good understanding of data imports in SAC (BW, HANA, oDATA, Live Connection)

** Good understanding of data exports from SAC to target systems (oDATA export, openAPI,...)

Reporting:

• Well versed in visualizations and their usage - charts, tables, maps, filters, dropdown menus, hiding functions, interactive objects, pictures

• Good understanding in the handling of templates and design specifications

• Good overview for which requirements stories can be used and when applications

• Open and interested in the regular updates of SAP and the new features that come with it.

*Good to Have Skills:*

• Provide best practices in respect of the specific configuration of SAP Analytic Cloud in alignment to on-premises SAP BW/HANA architecture so as to maximize optimal integration, high performance and stability of the SAC implementation.

• Knowledge in predictive capabilities, Smart Assist, Smart Predict

• Knowledge in configuring security and performing administration tasks such as defining users and teams and assigning roles and privileges

• Knowledge of R in general and how is used in SAP Analytic Cloud

• Knowledge of error debugging in SAP Analytic Cloud