General Information

Location:

• City: Carnaxide
• Country: Portugal
• Region: Europe

Job Category: Information & Knowledge Job Type: Regular Type of Contract: Permanent Working time: Full-time Work schedule: Day shift Solvay is a science company whose technologies bring benefits to many aspects of daily life. With more than 24,100 employees in 64 countries, Solvay bonds people, ideas and elements to reinvent progress. The Group seeks to create sustainable shared value for all, notably through its Solvay One Planet plan crafted around three pillars: protecting the climate, preserving resources and fostering better life. The Group?s innovative solutions contribute to safer, cleaner, and more sustainable products found in homes, food and consumer goods, planes, cars, batteries, smart devices, health care applications, water and air purification systems. Founded in 1863, Solvay today ranks among the world?s top three companies for the vast majority of its activities and delivered net sales of ?10.2 billion in 2019. Solvay is listed on Euronext Brussels (SOLB) and Paris and in the United States, where its shares (SOLVY) are traded through a Level I ADR program.
Solvay Busines Services (SBS) is the global organization supporting internal and external growth by integrating the major end-to-end administrative processes as well as the information services of the Solvay Group, through three strategic objectives: strategic agility and customer centricity, service excellence and talents and innovation.

Job Overview and Responsibilities

Within the Procurement Service Line in Solvay Business Services and in particular within the IS Design & Build team, your main responsibilities will include the design & maintenance of Purchasing reports to support GBUs decision making process. The maintenance & making available the catalog of reports.

Some key responsibilities will be: Drive business requirements gathering and gap analysis via conducting workshops, assessment of operational processes and analyzing how these can be implemented within SAP.

• Project leader for the Purchasing Reporting projects, be involved in various sized IS projects for business process improvement, new legal requirements, and Digital IT enablement i initiatives.
• Coordinate the diagnosis and the functional specification design of finance reports working with the reporting platform and the Data Solutions team
• Assess the feasibility and quality (design, performance,etc.) of the Customer reporting requests related to the Purchasing Data and processes
• Ensure proper delivery and evolution of reports according to Customer reporting support requests (maintenance)
• Monitor the reporting solutions markets and propose innovative solutions for customers (technological watch).
• Manage external providers
• Participate in the actions of standardization, optimization, automatization of the Reports
• Market watch and benchmark our process/solutions
• Interest in the WEB technologies, keep up to date with advances in computer technology and how this affects the business environment
• Lead projects of being involved in various sized IS projects for reporting improvement, new business requirements, and Digital IT enablement initiatives.
• Work with SAP developers implementing custom code solutions when necessary

Coordination role with IT Data teams, Procurement/Finance Data service units & different Solvay stakeholders to facilitate collaboration & deliverables.

Education and Experience

• University degree
• Minimum 5 years? experience in SAP Reporting (BW)
• Experience of working in an international and multicultural environment.

Skills

• Strong knowledge of SAP and BW
• Good analytical and Project Management Skills
• Good communication and listening skills in order to translate functional needs into design specifications
• Fluency in English, written and oral, in order to be able to attend/conduct meetings with customers, colleagues and providers and to write business specifications and technical documentation
• Ability to influence the organisation to change how it works and to demonstrate change agent behaviours

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