Lead Business Analyst - Finance Analytics - Pharma (15-18 yrs)

A Global Pharma company is looking for Chennai GITC

Lead Business Analyst

Experience in S/4 HANA Implementation

Job Role Details:

What you will do:

- Collaborate with multiple business teams and senior leaders within Finance groups, to lead the collection of requirements, existing challenges and business opportunities; working with our delivery partners to make sure the Axial program is writing requirements and specifications at scale and pace, to a high quality. You will need to get hands-on too, writing requirements yourself.

- Lead the integration of analytics and AI into business processes, where possible automating decision making.

- Be engaged in data management work such as: design of an analytics catalogue, promoting data literacy, participating in analytics governance forums and being the champion for citizen data services.

- Develop & embed standards and guidelines for the business intelligence lifecycle.

- Be responsible for navigation of interim states and solving the problems they generate.

- Prepare material, tools, sample data, and processes for Fit-2-Standard workshops.

- Contribute to the analytics and AI operating model.

- Identify learning and development needs.

Essential Qualifications:

- Strong business analysis experience and knowledge of analytics.

- Influencing design and user experience.

Considerable experience and exposure to one or more business processes in Finance:

- Order & Distribution to Cash

- Record to Report

- Tax & Treasury

- Enterprise Planning

- Environmental Social Governance (ESG).

- Experience in working with large and sophisticated data sets in commonly used BI tools like SAP Analytics Cloud, Qlik & PowerBI.

- Strong drive to learn new concepts in business processes, tools and applications.

- A strong ability to convey complex information through analytics, catering from Top-Floor to Shop-Floor.

Desirable Qualifications:

- Experience in one or more full S/4 HANA implementation cycle/s in Analytics using embedded analytics, SAP Analytics Cloud and understanding of SAP B/W4 HANA or SAP Datasphere

- Experience in Business Process Management Tools like BIC or NImbus or Signavio

- Regulatory experience, e.g. GxP and SOx.

- Exposure to more than one of the SAP modules such as: MM, PP, IM, EWM, QM, TM, Financial Planning, Finance and / or Controlling etc from business side. Technical or configurations skills are not required for this position

- Familiarity with data science, AI/ML concepts and use cases in Finance.

- Bio-Tech, Pharmaceutical or Life Sciences experience.

- Leading teams of analysts and testers.

- UX experience.

- Experience in Planning tools like Hyperion, SAP BPC or SAC Planning.

- Certifications in SAP, Project Management, Business Intelligence, Data Management, Lean Framework or Finance.

- Experience in large scale, complex & multi-year projects.