Business Analyst SAP Reporting & Analytics

About the role
Do you want an opportunity that fosters your creative thinking skills and gives you the chance to build on your solid SAP experience? Would you like to play a key role in enabling the Swiss Re's Finance Reinsurance's transformation with advanced SAP technologies? Do you have a passion for building business critical applications using the newest technologies? Are you looking for a rewarding way to apply your skills in an energetic environment? Then you are exactly the person we are looking for.
You interact with all levels of the business and gain a deep understanding of the Finance Reinsurance reporting processes. By working closely with the business, you will understand and analyze complex business requirements and translate these requirements to reporting and analytical solutions in SAP S/4HANA Finance. 

Your main duties in this role will be

• Define and ensure consistent and standardized reporting capabilities based on SAP S/4HANA FPSL (Financial Products Subledger)
• Collaborate with finance team members to define reporting requirements
• Design and implement reporting using ABAP Core Data Service (CDS) views, Analysis for Office, SAP Analytics Cloud and SAP Datawarehouse Cloud (DWC)
• Analyze financial data through querying the database and running reports to ensure proper report design, and, also to support resolving incidents
• Ensure best practice methods and analysis tools are utilized and reports are well documented, including training and support documentation
• Build stakeholder understanding and engagement on the reporting vision
• Analyze data using advanced reporting tools 
• Work with business team members, product owners, and other team members to define business requirements, functional specifications, use-cases, and test plans
• Translate business requirements into solution design and patterns, which enables quality, re-usability, scalability, availability and maintainability in accordance with the overall business objective and IT standards
• Develop and execute test cases and create functional documentation
• Support the full application life cycle including incidents and change requests
• Contribute to the improvement and optimization of reporting development processes to ensure a stable and high-quality development life cycle

About the team
Subledger reporting squad focuses on producing operational reports for subledger data analysis/validation and helps in preparing the data for external regulatory reporting. The reports are primarily based on SAP S4/HANA FPSL.
 
We are responsible for collecting requirements, developing, and maintaining the reports, and coordinating with other teams within the Reinsurance Product Area and the entire IFRS Delivery program. The current phase of the project is focusing on implementation and rolling out IFRS for Local jurisdictions. This will be followed by the implementation of Group IFRS for all Swiss Re legal entities. Our focus in the upcoming months is to support various testing cycles, react to user inquiries and roll-out the solution to production.

About you

• University degree or similar education
• Strong analytical skills
• Experience with SAP technologies such as SAP S/4HANA Finance, Analysis for Office and SAP Analytics Cloud
• Finance reporting background and accounting knowledge in (SAP S/4 Hana Finance/ SAP Financial Products Subledger experience preferred)
• Familiar with financial statements and disclosure (for legal entities; localization)
• Proven track record working as a reporting business analyst, skills in defining and delivering pragmatic reporting solutions as part of large, complex, multi-geography, multi-year transformation
• 4+ years of reporting experience with external legal entity reporting
• Sound understanding of reporting processes and best-practice industry standards
• Ability to write basic SQL statements for analyzing data (experience to basic SQL is a plus)
• Familiar with Agile/Scrum methodologies and delivery (experience with Jira is a plus)
• Ability to translate data into meaningful financial insights and analysis
• Ability to be a change agent for driving new methods of analysis
• Solid communication skills, ability to interact with all levels within organization
• Excellent active listening skills
• Good understanding of and experience with the application lifecycle process, including planning, design, implementing, testing and releasing new versions
• Experience with incident and change management processes
• Self-starter willing to develop new ideas
• Team player, committed to meeting the common goals and able to excel in virtual teams
• Able to deal with ambiguity and influence positive outcomes
• Pro-active, forward-looking mind set and exceptional delivery focus
• Fluency in English is a must.