SAP Data Analytics Architect Finance background 

Netherlands, North Brabant, 's-Hertogenbosch 

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Expectations & Tasks

Advise – your role is to advise customers and work with them to enable them to be successful with SAP. With your knowledge of SAP and SAP products, you could:

• Support customers in defining and planning their Intelligent Enterprise roadmap, using as much of standard SAP processes and content, with a focus on Data, Analytics and Finance.
• Support customers to accelerate their projects and roadmap execution, by supporting the set-up of Design Authority Boards providing directions and guidance.
• Participate in Design Authority Services delivery to guide and advise customers in the execution of projects and programs.
• Support customers to align project and program execution with their strategy.
• Advise and support customers in their business transformation by focusing on process excellence and automation, infused by Business AI across the SAP product portfolio and accelerated by SAP Best Practices and Industry references.

Design – our customers design processes and work on implementations. Partners may have a role in this, as well as SAP, where we safeguard their success. As part of your role, together with a team, you:

• Support the customers in their business, process and technology designs, by aligning the work of a team of architects.

Sales and Business Development Support – your role is to help our Services Sales staff in commercial activities. This translates to:

• Promotion of the SAP brand, SAP products and SAP best practice approaches
• Supporting sales in the evaluation process
• Identification of SAP Services leads and opportunities

Implementation – in some cases we assist customers with specific needs in implementations. We assist by providing guidance and advisory, which leads to:

• Support management of the implementation phase
• Provide leadership of a team of analysts and functional consultants
• Be a solution advisor to customer/partner analytic- and data teams
• Undertaking team planning and performance monitoring tasks when required

Education & Qualifications / Skills & Competencies

Required skills:

• Experience with SAP Cloud Solutions focusing on Data & Analytics with a Finance background.
• Experience of operating at Domain Architect level & knowledge of SAP Architecture.
• Proven working experience with analytics and data management solutions in an enterprise SAP environment
• Experience of SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC)
• 2nd experience on DWC and/or Data Intelligence would be highly appreciated
• Proofed Knowledge by some years working in the area of SAP Data Warehousing, Datasphere, Data Management as consultant, end- or power user, developer. (SAP certified associate: Data Engineer - Data Fabric – Data Mesh)
• Team player, who can collaborate with Sales, Presales and other stakeholder to ensure smooth operation.
• Experience on Data Mesh and Data Fabric architectures
• As Data & Analytics Architect you will focus on Analytics Architecture with a Finance data & processes background
• Have an Architect approach to helping customers to design E2E Solution Concept
• Actively participate in delivery roles to show how SAP modern solutions can be taken into use
• Manage internal and external 3rd party vendor teams on the solution approach defining process
• Build trusted advisor relationship with customer stakeholders
• Work as Counterpart for Client to understand business context, IT landscape, business and technical requirements
• Work as Counterpart of SAP Sales and Account teams to present the benefits and value proposition of the solution.
• Work together with Sales in demand creation by attending customer or prospect meetings to present SAP’s Services capabilities and delivery approach.
• Drive solution strategy and create win proposals responding to client’s business requirements.
• Business and Commercial acumen.
• Effective communication skills.
• Business communication in both English and Dutch .

Key Areas of Responsibility:

Design

• Detailed design of customer business processes based on SAP product-family, and customer specific development, that maps to the current or future customers process-, application- and system landscape
• Preparing and running workshops with subject matter experts and other staff, including. preparation of formal presentations, to define processes and agree functional design of SAP implementations Analysis of business processes, information flows and functional requirements, documenting these to a high standard
• Design architecture based on process requirements, application, and system landscape
• Analyze and define requirements for customer-specific development needs or integration requirements
• Review of business processes and corresponding mapping into IT architecture
• Define customer-roles to execute the business processes
• Conducting one-to-one interviews for information gathering purposes

Implementation

• Support management of the implementation phase
• Provide leadership of project team, undertaking team planning and monitoring tasks if required

Experience

• Extensive SAP implementation experience in multiple industry sectors
• Extensive experience of operating at Solution Architect level or willingness to build path
• Knowledge of SAP Cloud Architecture, SAP Cloud Solution(s), and/or SAP HANA would be a distinct advantage
• Familiarity with SAP Activate methodology, and with SAP implementation tools such as SAP Solution Manager would be a distinct advantage.

Preferred skills

• Finance & Architecture Knowledge & Experience eg. APQC, Signavio, LeanIX
• Experience on cooperating with architects on an Enterprise Architect level
• Experience in Finance, Controlling, Tax and Treasury

Work experience

• Extensive SAP implementation experience (5+ years) in multiple industry sectors.

Location

• Healthy combination of Den Bosch Office, at customers primarily in the Netherlands and working from home. This role is based in the Netherlands and we are not able to consider candidates who will require a relocation.

Expected travel

• Expected travel abroad is between 10-25%. We try to work as much as possible at Dutch customers, sometimes that means some travel abroad like to Walldorf.

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Requisition ID: 415236 | Work Area: Consulting and Professional Services | Expected Travel: 0 - 10% | Career Status: Professional | Employment Type: Regular Full Time | Additional Locations: #LI-Hybrid.

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