Senior Consultant - SAP Analytics Cloud Developer

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Technology Advisory – Senior, SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC)

The Advisory Service Line has a global network of over 23,000 professionals with over 4,000 advisors in the UK & Ireland (UK&I). We provide Performance Improvement, Risk and IT Risk & Assurance services to our customers.

The Advisory line is organized around three markets, Energy and Assets (E&A), Government and Public Sector (GPS) and Products and Services (P&S).

EY Technology sits within the Advisory Performance Improvement team and aims to be recognised as a leading provider of differentiated technology consulting services harnessing new disruptive technology, alliances and talented people to solve our client’s issues. We are looking for talented people who can help us achieve this!

The opportunity

Having undergone a paradigm shift in recent years, SAP offers an innovative high-performance real-time platform and solutions which meet the needs of end-to-end digitised enterprises. Our EY SAP team is focused on working with our clients to leverage these SAP innovations and create business value.

We are looking for technology-minded, business-focused and creative senior consultants with a passion for bringing context to SAP innovations and ability to demonstrate how it can help transform our clients’ day to day operations. We are looking for people who have been there and done it, who want to keep close to the technology and who want to deliver solutions that have optimum impact on their clients.

Your Key Responsibilities

In your role as an EY Senior Consultant you will have responsibility for designing & delivering key aspects of our technology projects within our client base. You will be expected to:

• Manage a work stream within a BI project team on a client-facing engagement, working effectively across the full lifecycle delivery of a large, complex technology programme
• Deliver technology solutions in line with leading practices
• Engage and collaborate with clients’ stakeholders across all levels of the organisation
• Build excellent client relationships
• Work as part of a high performing team, mentoring junior members of staff
  
  

Skills And Attributes For Success

You will have significant knowledge and experience of the following:

• SAC Application Associate - SAP Analytics Cloud certified or equivalent experience
• Able to position the features and limitations of SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC)
• Understanding of leading practices for configuring SAP Analytics Cloud
• Strong functional process knowledge and an ability to contextualise technology solutions to business users and articulate business value
• Full lifecycle project delivery experience including
• Workshop planning and delivery
• Requirements & backlog definition
• Report & user experience design
• Data Model Design
• Creation of Functional & Technical specifications
• System configuration
• Build, Test & Deploy phases
• Hands-on project delivery experience of all core SAC capabilities including:
• Source system connections
• Data acquisition, preparation and modelling
• Story creation – standard visualisations and components
• Analytic Applications
• SAC Scripting, events, variables & arrays
• Outbound integration with external applications (oData, API, RSS etc)
• Augmented Analytics, Smart Insights & Predictive Capabilities
• SAC security, system administration and content management
• SAC performance tuning and optimisation
  

To qualify for the role you must have

• Demonstrable ability to manage work streams
• Understanding of the full life cycle of SAC implementations
• Experience working with waterfall and agile delivery methodologies
• Experience delivering business intelligence & reporting projects
• Excellent communication skills and ability to build ‘Trusted Adviser’ relationships
• Strong presentation skills
• Willingness to travel as required in relation to working at Client Sites on specific engagements
  
  

Ideally, you’ll also have

• SAP data warehousing experience (SAP BW & HANA)
• Experience in complex SAC delivery
• An understanding of User Experience concepts and design
• An understanding of the SAC roadmap and industry trends
• Industry / sector expertise would be advantageous
  
  

What We Look For

You will be comfortable working as part of a multi-disciplinary team, where you operate collaboratively with clients to help them digitize their business processes utilizing the latest SAP technology. You will add value by contextualizing, designing and delivering solutions within your domain expertise, you are expected to continuously develop your skills and product knowledge, staying up-to-date with SAP’s innovations and leveraging this to provide insight and creative solutions.

What Working At EY Offers

We offer a competitive remuneration package where you’ll be rewarded for your individual and team performance. Our comprehensive Total Rewards package includes support for flexible working and career development, and with FlexEY you can select benefits that suit your needs, covering holidays, health and well-being, insurance, savings and a wide range of discounts, offers and promotions. Plus, we offer:

• Support, coaching and feedback from some of the most engaging colleagues around
• Opportunities to develop new skills and progress your career
• The freedom and flexibility to handle your role in a way that’s right for you
  
  

About EY

As a global leader in assurance, tax, transaction and advisory services, we’re using the finance products, expertise and systems we’ve developed to build a better working world. That starts with a culture that believes in giving you the training, opportunities and creative freedom to make things better. Whenever you join, however long you stay, the exceptional EY experience lasts a lifetime. And with a commitment to hiring and developing the most passionate people, we’ll make our ambition to be the best employer by 2020 a reality.

If you can confidently demonstrate that you meet the criteria above, please contact us as soon as possible.

Join us in building a better working world.