Lead Business Analyst Job in Chennai at AstraZeneca

AstraZeneca is hiring for the role of Lead Business Analyst!

Responsibilities of the Candidate:

• Collaborate with multiple business teams and senior leaders within Finance groups, to lead the collection of requirements, existing challenges and business opportunities; working with our delivery partners to make sure the Axial program is writing requirements and specifications at scale and pace, to a high quality. You will need to get hands-on too, writing requirements yourself.
• Lead the integration of analytics and AI into business processes, where possible automating decision making.
• Be engaged in data management work such as: design of an analytics catalogue, promoting data literacy, participating in analytics governance forums and being the champion for citizen data services.
• Develop & embed standards and guidelines for the business intelligence lifecycle.
• Be responsible for navigation of interim states and solving the problems they generate.
• Prepare material, tools, sample data, and processes for Fit-2-Standard workshops.
• Contribute to the analytics and AI operating model.
• Identify learning and development needs.

Requirements:

• Experience in one or more full S/4 HANA implementation cycle/s in Analytics using embedded analytics, SAP Analytics Cloud and understanding of  SAP B/W4 HANA or SAP Datasphere
• Experience in Business Process Management Tools like BIC or NImbus or Signavio
• Regulatory experience, e.g. GxP and SOx.
• Exposure to more than one of the SAP modules such as: MM, PP, IM, EWM, QM, TM, Financial Planning, Finance and / or Controlling etc from business side. Technical or configurations skills are not required for this position
• Familiarity with data science, AI/ML concepts and use cases in Finance.
• Bio-Tech, Pharmaceutical or Life Sciences experience.
• Leading teams of analysts and testers.
• UX experience.
• Experience in Planning tools like Hyperion, SAP BPC  or SAC Planning.
• Certifications in SAP, Project Management, Business Intelligence, Data Management, Lean Framework or Finance.
• Experience in large scale, complex & multi-year projects.
• Strong business analysis experience and knowledge of analytics.
• Influencing design and user experience.
• Considerable experience and exposure to one or more business processes in Finance:
  • Order & Distribution to Cash, 
  • Record to Report,
  • Tax & Treasury,
  • Enterprise Planning,
  • Environmental Social Governance (ESG).
• Experience in working with large and sophisticated data sets in commonly used BI tools like SAP Analytics Cloud, Qlik & PowerBI.
• Strong drive to learn new concepts in business processes, tools and applications.
• A strong ability to convey complex information through analytics, catering from Top-Floor to shop floor