Ovations Technologies (Pty) Ltd

SAP Analytics Cloud Lead (OVA5798)

Ovations Technologies (Pty) Ltd  •  Johannesburg, ZA (Onsite)  •  52 minutes ago
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Job Description

This is a 12 - month contract with our client in the banking sector.

Key Responsibilities

  • Planning & Solution Architecture: Design, build, and support enterprise SAC planning, forecasting, budgeting, and dashboard solutions. Implement planning models, versions, allocations, data actions, and advanced formulas.
  • Data Modelling & Integrations: Model and optimize data structures for performance and scalability. Integrate SAC with SAP BW/4HANA, SAP Datasphere, SAP HANA Cloud, and S/4HANA landscapes.
  • AI & Advanced Analytics: Leverage Just Ask, Joule, and AI-assisted capabilities to optimize natural language queries, search, and user insights.
  • Reporting & Modernization: Develop SAC Stories, Analytic Applications, and Analysis for Office (AFO) workbooks. Lead migration/modernization initiatives from legacy SAP BI, BOBJ, and AFO environments.
  • Technical Leadership & Governance: Act as a technical integration specialist, consult on SAC best practices, maintain technical documentation, and mentor team members across the SAP analytics landscape.
  • Operations & Delivery: Execute testing, deployment, risk management, and root-cause resolution for production incidents within agreed SLAs under minimal supervision.

Minimum Requirements

Mandatory Experience & Qualifications

  • Certification: Certified SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC) Professional.
  • Core SAC Expertise: Proven track record in SAC Planning and Forecasting end-to-end implementations.
  • Development & Scripting: Strong hands-on experience developing SAC Stories, Analytic Applications, Models, Advanced Formulas, Data Actions, and Scripting in Optimized Stories.
  • Architecture & Connectivity: Experience utilizing Virtual Data Models / Virtual Data Sources and live connectivity architectures.
  • AI & Next-Gen Analytics: Hands-on experience with Just Ask, Joule, and AI-driven analytics functionality within SAC.
  • Integrations: Solid understanding of SAC integration with BW/4HANA, Analysis for Microsoft Office (AFO), and S/4HANA environments.

Preferred Experience

  • Hands-on experience with SAP Datasphere, Business Data Cloud (BDC), or SAP HANA Cloud.
  • Exposure to SAP BW/4HANA and predictive analytics / machine learning capabilities within SAP.
Ovations Technologies (Pty) Ltd

About Ovations Technologies (Pty) Ltd

Enabling the Digital Enterprise

South African business leadership has always been early adopters and significantly used information technology to improve productivity, efficiency, reach new markets and optimize supply chains. What is significant in recent years is that customer expectations have changed radically from the past. The challenge facing all South African and global organisations for that matter is:

• How can they best respond to this paradigm shift?

• How can they take advantage of the opportunity to innovate and grow through technology adoption? And,

• How can they do all this as cost effectively as possible?

This in Ovations’ opinion is the highly strategic journey of Digital Enablement including the critical intersection with Cloud Adoption as the strategic enabler. We, at Ovations, believe that digital enablement incorporates the change associated with the application of modern technology in all aspects of business and society, whereby Cloud Adoption is the way in which all business will implement and accelerate digital enablement.

Ovations has core domain expertise in process automation, content services, data & analytics and financial crime and risk prevention solutions. As Ovations, we provide guidance to our clients through an entire lifecycle of the cloud adoption process including initiatives to mitigate strategic workloads to the cloud deployment models encompassing IaaS, PaaS, FaaS and SaaS. We provide the following summary core cloud adoption services in this regard:

• Enterprise architecture and cloud adoption

• Cloud adoption architecture design

• Cloud people structures, roles and change management

• Cloud governance models and business cases

• Cloud adoption platform and public cloud selection

• Cloud data security and privacy

• Cloud migration strategies

• Cloud operational SLA and platform management

• DevSecOps design and implementations

Industry
IT & Software
Company Size
51-200 employees
Headquarters
Johannesburg, ZA
Year Founded
1998
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