Senior BPC Architect

Job Title: Senior BPC Architect Developer

Location: Mississauga ON Hybrid

Duration: Contract

Mandatory Skills:
SAP Process Modelling Suite (Signavio ARIS Visio)
SAP BPC Embedded Planning (SEM-BPS-BW-IP)
SAP BPC Standard Planning
SAP PAPM

Description

• Governance of the global BPC template solution
• Work on high priority requests for stabilizing existing solution in the near term
• Work on further enhancements to existing solutions Music Planning and creation of a Publishing global template
• Work on wider territory / regional rollouts
• Work on the project plan and design of the reimplementation of solution onto BPC 10.1 Standard on BW on HANA solution
• Delivery of future Planning Reporting initiatives using the BPC tool including system upgrades and patching
• Interface with the Global SAP HFM Support Team for downstream / upstream interfaces and inter-dependencies
• Ensuring UMGs BPC Strategy is aligned with that of SAPs as well as actively investigating new SAP Products and Technologies (BPC Embedded Solution HANA BOBJ etc.)
• Adherence to standards processes and governance in support of the global reporting vision
• Production of functional technical specifications for solution development and implementation
• Production of testing scripts and training materials for new functionality and enhancements
• Providing Level 3 support to the Support Team (occasionally Level 2)

Person Specification

• The candidate must have excellent BPC skills accompanied with a solid understanding of SAP FICO in order to have a good understanding of business requirements. They must be a dynamic and proactive individual with the ability to work alone or within the core tea including business and 3rd party representatives.
• They must have excellent verbal and written communication skills in order to document and present implemented solution strategies standards and concepts to both business and IT audiences.
• The ideal candidate will also possess leadership and management qualities.

Has Advanced Knowledge Of

• Creation of BPC 10.1 standard input schedules and reports with greater usage of VBA wherever required
• SAPs FPA Roadmap including SAC Planning S4 Group Reporting Central Finance B4 HANA BPC 11 PAPM
• Strong ABAP skills with an in-depth knowledge of BPC specific tables customer exits BW variables BADIs BPC specific enhancement spots etc.
• MD on Fly completely based on BPC embedded framework ABAP BW objects and Analysis for Office front end
• BW backend security for BPC
• Performance tuning e.g. COPA load optimisation design for BPC and debugging of standard delivered methods and classes in BPC namespace
• Integration aspects with BW e.g. using BW query as a source to extract data
• Process chain design for BPC calling BPC specific DM package links
• Creation of Data Manager packages and package links adjusting the prompts on them on a regular basis
• Good knowledge of logic scripts

Also Has

• Educated to university degree level or equivalent qualification
• Accounting background experience
• Exposure to IT processes methodologies and best practices
• Experience in managing and supporting BW and other SAP technologies
• Good organisational and time management skills
• Excellent Business Rules and Logic Script skills
• Strong VBA programming skills
• Skills and experience in other FP&A enterprise planning tools such as Anaplan etc. would also be highly advantageous.

Key Skills
Apache Hive,S3,Redshift,Spark,AWS,Solr,NoSQL,Data Warehouse,Internet Of Things,Kafka,DynamoDB,ZooKeeper
Employment Type : Full Time
Experience: years
Vacancy: 1