Business Analytics Specialist

Job Description

Job Description

Title: SAP Business Analytics Consultant

Location: Remote – EST

Duration: 6 Months contract with potential to convert to FTE

Schedule: 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM EST

Key Requirements:

• SAP background, strong communication skills to connect with business stakeholders and clients

Primary Duties and Responsibilities

• Serve as a project team member or lead on complex, major, or highly visible tasks and projects, potentially spanning multiple technologies.
• Leverage expertise in business processes and data domains to translate analytics needs into data visualization and semantic data access requirements.
• Participate in project planning and identify tasks, leading or assisting with timeline estimations.
• Collaborate with team members and business stakeholders to develop business analytics requirements.
• Work with data engineers to design complex data sourcing, transformation, and aggregation logic to meet business analytics requirements.
• Utilize enterprise-standard tools and platforms to visualize analytics insights, often leading a small team.
• Ensure functional and non-functional visualization requirements are met.
• Facilitate knowledge transfer to business stakeholders on using data visualizations effectively .
• Drive adoption of insights-driven decision-making and analytics-enabled business process innovation.
• Develop and enforce data visualization standards.
• Provide technical direction and oversee testing of business analytics solutions.
• Lead the definition and development of test plans and system documentation.
• Conduct testing to ensure solutions meet user specifications.
• Provide technical leadership, coaching, and mentoring to team members.
• Develop reports and presentations for senior management as needed.
• Evaluate new visualization tools and research best practices.
• Participate in Proof of Concept (POC) projects and provide business analytics solution recommendations.
• Conceptualize, design, and develop data visualization solutions that clearly communicate data concepts to key business stakeholders.
• Collaborate with data engineers, analytics experts, and subject matter experts to identify strategically relevant insights.
• Demonstrate strong visual design skills and a passion for creative visualization work.
• Assist in developing best practices for data presentation and sharing across the organization.
• Tailor data visualizations to the audience’s needs, reducing data to the minimum required to communicate effectively.
• Show a drive to learn new tools and innovative ways to visualize data and insights.
• Work closely with business users, vendors, and delivery teams to understand requirements driving business analytics and reporting solutions.
• Exhibit strong team-building, creative thinking, and a commitment to making a difference.

Experience and Educational Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Programming/Systems, Computer Science, or a related field, or equivalent work experience.

Minimum Skills, Knowledge, and Ability Requirements

• 5-10 years of experience developing business analytics solutions, with a focus on requirements gathering and effective visualization of insights.
• 5-10 years of experience with data visualization/BI tools (e.g., Qlik, Tableau ), SQL, and semantic data access mechanisms.
• Proven experience in driving analytics-enabled business process innovation.
• Broad understanding of business information systems.
• Experience leading small project teams and streams.
• Demonstrated ability to analyze and interpret complex problems or processes across multiple business areas, identify requirements, and develop alternative solutions.
• Strong skills in designing, developing, and testing business analytics solutions.