Business Analyst, Plan Transformation (NCS/Job/ 3516)

As Business Analyst Plan Transformation you will support critical global initiatives in plan and inventory and help establish a globally harmonized view of Plan and inventory data products.

Business:

· Deeply understand business goals and strategies, as well as operational context and processes

· Gather, analyze, document, and validate the needs of business stakeholders. Document business user requirements – BRDs

· Analyze data needs for the report and identify and document source table and field names along with target data structures- MDDs

· Write JIRA user stories, attend scrum calls, manage story progress with IT teams.

· Provide regular, timely, transparent communication on progress to capabilities leadership teams.

· Ensure business solutions are deployed, fully embedded into ways of working, and constantly improved to address changing business needs and transform and mature our business.

· Work closely with data asset and front end powerbi development teams for report builds.

Technical-

· Adept with Azure SQL and Jira, Identify all reporting requirements and business functionality and KPIs, filters, identify source and target tables.

· Perform a high-level analysis of the reports to be built, maintain design documentation and user stories.

· Responsible for identifying and curating L2 data assets(semantic builds) for OneS4 reporting.

· Check if these entities are available in Digital Core

· Sometimes the entities might be available, but this source might not be curated.

· Sometimes the entities might be available, but it might be lacking the necessary columns.

· At times the entity might have to be curated as a new data asset

· Using the above high-level assessment, provide

· Documentation of the curation requirements – possibly with support from Business Analysts/Developers [code analysis]

· Work with data asset teams to model the data requirements into existing/new data assets

· Work with Business Owners for UAT

· Perform adhoc analysis for capabilities as needed

 

What We Are Looking For

Required Qualifications

· A minimum of a Bachelor’s degree is required.

· At least 5-8 years of business experience in master data, supply chain, operations, or multi-functional business environment.

· Overall business understanding of Sales and shipments data, demand and supply planning processes and inventory management.

· Experience working across multiple business functions, especially with Demand/Supply Planners, Inventory managers and various Plan global process owners.

· Experience with SAP (especially S/4 Hana) and Planning systems like Anaplan, OMP, Kinaxis, SAP IBP

· Advanced skills with SQL*Plus

· Advanced Excel skills, and proficiency with PowerPoint

· Strong cross-functional collaboration, communication, and change management skills

· Strong analytical and problem-solving skills

· Understanding of data modelling- star schema, snowflake/databricks.

· Ability to courageously challenge the status quo, influence, and inspire changes to business processes and systems

· Strong communication and presentation skills

· Ability to communicate effectively in business and technical terms with equal effectiveness

· Curious mind with an ability to quickly learn new functions, technologies, and processes

· Experience with Agile product development methodology is required.

· Maintaining Jira boards, stories and epics

· Experience gathering, analyzing, documenting, and validating the needs of the business stakeholders is required.

· Experience writing user stories, attending scrum calls, prioritizing backlog, etc. is required.

Desired Qualifications

· Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Data Analytics, Supply Chain Management, or related field.

· Professional certifications such as CDMP (Certified Data Management Professional) or DGSP (Data Governance and Stewardship Professional)

· Experience with Microsoft Cloud suite (e.g., Azure, Databricks)

· Background in Agile methodologies, particularly experience as a Business Analyst or Product Owner.

· Scrum Alliance certification is preferred (e.g., Product Owner, Developer, ScrumMaster), Project Planning and JIRA