Functional Consultant

Job Title: Insights & Analysis - Business Analyst -EPM
AstraZeneca is in a period of strong growth and our employees have a united purpose to make a difference to patients around the world who need both our medicines and the ongoing developments from our science. The ambition, size and complexity of the organisation, coupled with the opportunities afforded by new technology, has led the Board to approve a large-scale transformation programme - Axial.Axial will be powered by S/4HANA a new Enterprise Resource Planning system which will be implemented across the organisation. We will be transforming the way we work through our entire supply chain, from bench to patient.
The new system will be used by more than 20,000 employees daily and will be central to most core business processes. This is a once in a generation programme for AstraZeneca and will shape our ways of working globally.
The Axial Insights & Analysis team is leading the roadmap and delivery of analytics and AI delivery from an end-user perspective.
What you will do:

• Collaborate with multiple business teams and senior leaders within Finance groups, to gather requirements, existing challenges and business opportunities. This will involve proactively running workshops, interviews, surveys etc.
• Produce demo material and art of the possible material to give our users and stakeholders a vision of the future.
• Work with IT and business teams to stress test our architectural assumptions.
• 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.
• 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.

Essential Qualifications:

• Strong business analysis experience and knowledge of analytics
• Clear communications
• Strong stakeholder experience required in engaging internal & external stakeholders
• Considerable exposure to ECC finance reporting especially in CCA PCA CO-PA PS
• Experience in one or more full S/4 HANA implementation cycles
• Experience in SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC) reporting Stories
• Experience in SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC) Planning use

Technical or configurations skills are not required for this position. It is a hands-off role involving no technical configuration.

Desirable Qualifications:

• Experience in other Financial planning tools like SAP BPC ,Hyperion, Anaplan and business planning cycle of long-term planning & mid-term planning
• Jira
• Bio-Tech, Pharmaceutical or Life Sciences experience

When we put unexpected teams in the same room, we unleash bold thinking with the power to inspire life-changing medicines. In-person working gives us the platform we need to connect, work at pace and challenge perceptions. That's why we work, on average, a minimum of three days per week from the office. But that doesn't mean we're not flexible. We balance the expectation of being in the office while respecting individual flexibility. Join us in our unique and ambitious world.
At AstraZeneca, we are driven by an entrepreneurial spirit, enabling us to proactively take initiatives, speak up and see first-hand the difference we've made. We are trusted and empowered to be creative, solving problems by taking risks with science as our guardrail. We embrace continuous change and improvement, encouraged to think differently and develop game-changing ideas. We are fundamentally changing the way cancer is treated through innovation.

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