Senior SAP Analytics Cloud & Datasphere Consultant

Anywhere in United States

Description

The People Analytics Consultant is part of Rizing’s Strategic Analytics practice, responsible for helping Rizing’s clients shift to data-driven decision-making and achieve true insights from their data. As an analytics subject matter expert and consultant, you will be supporting the implementation of Rizing and SAP analytics solutions for customers and may also be involved in internal product and solution accelerator development.

Essential Functions

Essential duties and responsibilities might typically include the following but other duties and responsibilities might be assigned:

  • Involved in process and functional/technical design activities.
  • Involved in analysis of as-is and to-be processes.
  • Running analytics workshops and programs, including KPI definition, analytics systems implementations, data governance, and analytics competencies.
  • Creating functional or technical requirements and documentation as an input to application design.
  • Involved in application build, test, and deploy activities.
  • Plans and executes data conversion, extraction, wrangling, and cleansing activities.
  • Develops and tests detailed functional and technical designs for business solution components.
  • Drives test planning and execution break-fix, enhancements, and problem management delivery.
  • Develops analytics stories in canvas, responsive, grid, advanced story designing blending data, formulas, cross calculations, input controls, and linked analysis.
  • Connect data sources to SAP to enable live feeds.
  • Builds analytics and planning models, and visualizations with their usage charts, tables, maps, filters, dropdown menus, hiding functions, interactive objects, and pictures.

Essential Functions (Continued)

  • Supports business development processes as a subject matter expert.
  • Performs other duties as assigned.

Required Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in computer science, business, or statistics, or a related field.
  • SAP Analytics Cloud certification (or WFA certification and willing to attain SAC certification).
  • Experience creating Dashboards on several SAP systems (e.g. S/4 HANA, SAC, SuccessFactors) as well as Non-SAP systems (Flat Files, other non-SAP Data sources).
  • Must have worked on a minimum of 2 implementation projects in either SAP Analytics Cloud or WFA.
  • Experience in creating models, Interactive Stories/Dashboards, and storyboards using Input controls, filters, tables, charts, geo maps, smart data insight, smart discovery, and mobile-enabled dashboards.
  • Experience in SAP Analytics Cloud and/or WFA security concepts, authorizations, roles, and collaborations.
  • Fluency in English, with professional communication skills.

Desired Qualifications

  • SAP Analytics Cloud Planning experience and certification.
  • Experience with tools and languages including R, Python, SQL, R, Power BI, Tableau, and in the design and implementation of data pipelines that support the continuous delivery of insights.
  • SAP Workforce Analytics certification and experience.
  • Experience using SAP platforms, including SuccessFactors, S/4 Hana, and C/4.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities (KSAs)

  • Advanced knowledge of MS Office programs including Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
  • Advanced knowledge of R and Python is preferred.
  • Understand business requirements through interacting with data analysts and end-users.
  • Ability to build strong relationships with customers and senior stakeholders.
  • Knowledge of data modeling and preparing datasets, merging, custom calculations, formatting values, dimensions, and measures.
  • Demonstrable track record of dealing well with ambiguity, ability to self-motivate, prioritizing needs, and delivering results in a dynamic environment.
  • Combination of deep technical skills and business savvy to interface with all levels and disciplines within our and our customer’s organizations.
  • Ability to extract, manipulate, transform, and analyze large volumes of data with a high level of accuracy.
  • Excellent at presenting data visually.
  • Excellent attention to detail - you value getting things right.
  • Ownership mentality: don't just execute what's asked, consider whether it could be done a better way.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities (Continued)

  • Conflict resolution skills, with the ability to influence decisions and manage relationships.
  • Ability to meet a deadline and manage priorities.

Work Environment and Special Consideration

  • Work is home-based as part of a global organization. Some travel to office or customer site and working outside of core hours may be required.
  • Routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, keyboards, printers/scanners, and telephone applications.

Competencies

Collaboration
Courage
Excellence
Integrity
Respect

Rizing provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.

Ready to become someone’s hero?

At Rizing we solve business challenges. We create solutions that accelerate our clients’ ability to excel at what they do best – so they can get back to doing more of what they do best. Our secret sauce is combining our industry knowledge with SAP technical expertise.

We’re a multi-million-dollar global SAP professional services firm who chose a specialized focus on SAP Enterprise Asset Management, Consumer Industries and Human Capital Management. We win through recognition that diversity spurs creativity. Our teams place collaboration, integrity, courage, mutual respect, and a commitment to excellence as their top priorities. And we often accomplish this through remote and virtual work environments.

We’re not so big to have lost sight of our mission and vision or to have lost connection with our clients. We’re the right size to deliver personal professional services and to give our employees opportunities that often aren’t available at larger firms.

If your passion is solving puzzles, improving processes, leading change as part of a team of SAP experts, then this might be the place for you.