Business Object Senior consultant

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What it’s about

We are currently looking for an experienced BOBJ Consultant to join our in-house SAP Centre of Excellence. You will be required to provide 3rd line support, deliver business as usual enhancements for those areas of the business in which SAP has already been implemented, as well as engaging in the ongoing SAP implementation project.

You will be working independently to drive root cause analysis for production incidents as well as managing business stakeholders to gather requirements for enhancements.

The SAP Centre of Excellence is made up of experienced SAP Professionals (Functional, Development and Basis), providing support for examination processing and associated activities in SAP (Finance, procurement, CRM etc.) as well as supporting the continuing Transformation Project establishing and rolling out SAP across the company.

What you’ll be doing

Providing 3rd level support for BOBJ, and to a lesser extent to BW, and associated interfaces and reports.

Liaising with business representatives and Centre of Excellence colleagues to design appropriate solutions.

Understanding complex and variable business requirements, and where appropriate challenging them, and communicating to a range of stakeholders.

Hands-on configuration and customisation alongside root cause analysis.

End to end delivery of enhancements (requirements, solution design, development, testing strategy, documentation)

Supporting the ongoing implementations of SAP across Cambridge Assessment.

What we’re looking for

The ideal candidate will demonstrate:

Business Objects expertise (ideally on 4.1 or 4.2), including but not restricted to: Crystal Reports for Enterprise, Webi, Analysis for Excel using BICS or Universe connections.

BOBJ CMC Administration skills.

BOBJ Authorizations and Security skills.

Data modeling, reporting & analytics solution designs across functional areas (finance, sales, procurement, etc.) using SAP and non-SAP data.

End to end implementation of the solution chosen, ideally both in a project and support background, is desirable.

Good understanding of SAP BW is necessary; experience on SAP BW implementation would be advantageous, ideally on HANA 7.4.

Good understanding of SAP ECC Functional Modules, FI, CO, MM, SD, COPA.

Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Strong analytical and problem solving skills.

Excellent time management and the ability to prioritise own workload within a busy working environment

Working in a user-facing support role

Transforming business requirements into solution designs

Delivering business change and process improvement initiatives

Process frameworks such as ITIL

Drive and enthusiasm alongside a pragmatic and flexible approach.

This is an excellent opportunity to join a market leader and be rewarded with valuable learning opportunities, a competitive salary and benefits.

Benefits

In addition to a competitive salary, we offer a superb range of benefits:

Generous contributory pension

28 days annual leave, plus bank holidays

Annual performance related bonus and increases (discretionary)

Enhanced maternity/paternity pay and childcare voucher scheme

Employee discount and cash back scheme at 2,500 retailers

Cycle scheme

Subsidised canteens

Support for professional qualifications

Who we are

Cambridge Assessment is Europe's largest assessment group, incorporating three major awarding bodies. It plays a leading role in researching, developing and delivering assessment to eight million candidates in 170 countries every year. The Group is a department of the University of Cambridge and a not-for-profit organisation.

Work/life balance is important to us here at Cambridge Assessment, and we offer all our colleagues a range of flexible working options, which suit both the business and the employee. So please let us know of any flexible working requirements when applying and we can see how we can support you.

The closing date for receipt of applications is 02/02/2018 and interviews will be held on 08/02 (phone) - 13/02 (on site) .

To apply please upload your covering letter and CV by clicking the APPLY button.

As part of your recruitment process you will be required to undergo a background screening. This will be carried out by our selected supplier, Credence Background Screening Limited.