Senior Application Analyst- SAP Analytics

About the role

Abbott is a global healthcare leader that helps people live more fully at all stages of life. Our portfolio of life-changing technologies spans the spectrum of healthcare, with leading businesses and products in diagnostics, medical devices, nutritionals and branded generic medicines. We are seeking a highly skilled Senior SAP Analytics Analyst to drive enterprise analytics and reporting capabilities using SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC), SAP Datasphere / Business Data Cloud (BDC) and SAP S/4.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for business systems design and configuration, and upgrades and improvements for low to medium complexity applications.
• Design and implement solutions to a wide range of difficult problems that are imaginative, thorough, and practical.
• Responsible for independent development and configuration of an assigned application.
• Identify issues that arise in the application area as well as issues that impact other application teams, and work to resolve them.
• Develop new processes and procedures to meet current challenges.
• Create and maintain system documentation.
• Lead the estimation of enhancement or support requests.
• Guide workflow design, configure and test system changes, and analyze technical issues.
• Liaise with business systems stakeholders and software vendor’s implementation staff to ensure alignment of business needs with the delivery of system changes.
• Develop an understanding of operational needs to set the direction for the organization's workflows; proactively identify opportunities to improve business workflow with technology improvements.
• Participate in developing documentation and participate in trainings and work with end users.
• Troubleshoot problems and questions and provide regular updates on status to key business stakeholders.
• Serve as a subject matter expert of assigned applications.
• Provide end-user production support for issues entered into issue tracking systems.
• Review the status of projects and issues with project leadership.
• Assign or delegate configuration or other activities to other team members.
• Act as delegate for leadership regarding incident or problem resolution.
• Provide mentorship for other peers and take the lead to solve problems, even if outside of normal scope.
• Lead internal process design and documentation to drive continuous improvement for the IT department or team.

Requirements

• Ability and willingness to take ownership of work activities and ensure that they are done in a timely, accurate, and efficient manner.
• Ability and willingness to recognize assignments or tasks that need to be completed, to seek out additional assignments or tasks, and to help others.
• Ability to communicate information clearly and concisely with project leadership, subject matter experts, and key stakeholders.
• Ability to persevere in difficult situations, overcome obstacles, and reach high levels of performance when faced with stressful work situations and time pressures.
• Ability and willingness to learn new software applications.
• Apply flexibility with respect to changing end-user business needs.
• Apply strong analytical skills, business intuition, and organizational ability.
• Apply strong problem-solving skills.
• Apply excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
• Ability to operate in a cross-functional and complex matrix environment.
• Ability to be adaptable, open to change, able to work in ambiguous situations, and respond to new information or unexpected circumstances.

Qualifications

The minimum qualifications for this role include a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field, or a High School Diploma or General Education Degree (GED) and 12 years of relevant experience. The ideal candidate will have 5+ years of experience developing or configuring technology solutions, and demonstrated ability to understand and apply industry best practices.

Preferred Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in business intelligence, analytics, or data engineering, preferably in healthcare or other regulated industries
• 3+ Years of proven hands-on experience building SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC) dashboards, stories, and models.
• 2+ Years of strong experience with SAP Datasphere, and SAP S/4 HANA data structures (CDS views preferred)
• Demonstrated understanding of data governance, compliance, and audit requirements in regulated environments
• Experience integrating data from multiple sources and building enterprise data models
• Knowledge of BTP and Clean Core philosophy

Pay

The base pay for this position is $78,000.00 – $156,000.00. In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.