Senior SAP BW Business Analyst

About the job Senior SAP BW Business Analyst

Key purpose:

Our company is currently on the hunt to acquire a new Senior SAP BW Business Analyst. The Senior Business Analyst will be joining our team.

Duties and responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain reports in BW Bex Analyzer as requested by the business.
• Resolve calls as logged on service management system within agreed SLA.
• Monitor for and resolve technical SAP BW errors.
• Provide End-user support.
• Perform integrity checks and reconciliations to resolve any user queries.
• Manage and coordinate IT related business projects.
• Drive Continuous Business Improvement (CBI) initiatives.
• Act as Super user for Company End-users.
• All system enhancement requests channelled through the Business Analyst who draws up functional specification documents, designs the solution and implements the development work through to execution and user acceptance.
• New report development in SAP BW/BI.
• Create / Maintain BW Info Providers and objects across the following SAP modules: SD, MM, FI, CO, CRM and other external systems. To this end it is helpful that there is prior knowledge of these SAP source items.
• General Housekeeping including DB size management and PSA maintenance.
• SAP BW System Monitoring & Administration.
• Performance tuning of reports and data providers.
• Information Broadcasting (Workbooks & Web Templates).
• Measuring and testing the impact of any transports in ECC on BW.
• Conduct integrity checks and reconciliations in order to validate BW data vs. SAP ECC.
• Draws up business process flow charts.
• Manage and execute BW system upgrades
• Conducts end user training on existing and new BW reports.
• Creates and maintains user training manuals.
• Determine and implement roadmap and best practices for BW and BI environment
• Work with internal teams on Microsoft PowerBI integration and streamline reporting and datasets to allow this.
• PowerBI knowledge advantageous.

Qualifications and experience:

• Relevant IT/Business educational qualification (BSC, BCOM Degree/ IT Diploma).
• Must be Computer literate (MS Office, Excel, Word, PowerPoint).
• Extensive experience (at least 2 years) in SAP BW development, design and administration including ABAP.
• Must have 2 years business analysis experience.
• High skill level in Business Intelligence and Reporting with particular focus on SAP BW BEX.
• Exposure to various SAP data sources advantageous.
• Development in other BI tools including MS PowerBI advantageous.
• Experience in an FMCG environment.
• Excellent understanding of sales and logistics execution processes.
• Knowledge of management principles and practices.
• Excellent business process and system analysis skills.