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Key Responsibilities:
Position Overview:
Our client recently implemented SAP BPC for business planning needs and processes. They are looking for a mid-level developer who can automate new business needs and support existing functionality. Candidate must possess a Bachelor degree; Masters is a plus
Essential Job Functions:
- Document business requirements, and analyze requirements with users
- Translate business requirements in to solution requirements and specifications
- Discuss solution options with users
- Determine the integration needed with other systems to solve the business needs
- Design and develop the necessary models, cubes, input-forms, business process flows, VB macros, reports, BADIs and data interfaces from BW
- Develop mechanisms to transform and load data from BW in to BPC
- Enhance existing system functionality and resolve production issues
- Develop/update test cases for the solution
- Develop/update user guides for the functionality developed
- Document solution design and how the solution is to be used
- Maintain user roles and authorizations in the system; and perform other administrative activities.
Educational Qualifications and Experience:
- Education: Bachelor's degree is a must;
- Further education in Financial planning or Accounting is a plus
- Role Specific Experience: Minimum 3+ years of hands-on experience in automating business planning processes that includes two of any of the following planning processes a) Budget formulation b) Revenue/Expense c) Staff cost planning d) Activity planning and e) Capital investment planning.
Certification Requirements:
- SAP certifications is a plus
Required Skills/Abilities:
- Candidate should have development experience in minimum two of any of the following planning processes a) Budget formulation b) Revenue/Expense c) Staff cost planning d) Activity planning and e) Capital investment planning
- Must be skilled in gathering and translating business requirements in to solution specifications
- Hands-on experience in designing Dimensions, Models, input-forms, reports, business process flows, workflows for business needs conforming to the product standards
- Ability to maintain and configure environment
- Ability to create custom data manager packages
- Ability to configure currency conversion business rules
- Ability to prepare good test cases
- Ability to write macros in BPC reports and input forms
- Ability to create user manuals and impart training to business and admin users
- Ability to perform and configure SPRO Parameters for Environment and Application Level
- Ability to design and configure transformation and conversion files
- Ability to develop, test and debug BADIs
- Ability to design and configure roles and authorizations
- Ability to enable self-service capabilities in BPC and train users on the same
- Perform system administrative functions in BPC and train users on activities appropriate to them
- Proper knowledge of the SAP FI, FM and CO objects, structures, data sources and flows
Desired Skills/Abilities (not required but a plus):
- Head count management in PeopleSoft
- Development of BW reports
- Managing requirements and test cases in HP Application Life-cycle Management (HP ALM)
- Retraction to ECC
- Extraction from ECC.
Experience Matrix for Levels:
2. Level II 5+ years of hands-on BPC experience
In addition to Level I
- Proficient in the planning processes to guide users on using BPC effectively to meet their needs conforming to the product standards
- Proficient in budgeting, forecasting and financial consolidation
- Ability to educate users on the various options in the product and their pros and cons
- Design the integration of BPC with other SAP and non-SAP systems
- Should be able to conduct workshops for both planning and financial consolidation
- Understanding of the overall information management architecture with components like BW and MDM
- Ability to understand perform BW work in terms of modeling
- Ability to debug and understand ABAP code
- Ability to analyze 'As Is' and 'To Be' business processes, complete complex business design for gap / interfaces and configure system based on user requirements.
