SAP Principal Systems Engineer-Reporting

This permanent full-time post sits in the BBC Technology Group's Technology & Media Operations team, supporting the corporate finance systems. The work centres on SAP reporting and data engineering, with incident resolution and technical change delivered alongside an outsourced technology provider. Much of it involves stakeholder work, from clarifying business requirements to shaping a technical roadmap for the systems in scope.

Candidates should expect a two-stage interview with technical questions.

• Help business stakeholders realise greater value from data and reporting investments, combining business understanding, SAP expertise and data engineering
• Build relationships with internal and external stakeholders, advising on best practice and achievable goals
• Partner with data owners and stewards to modernise reporting, optimise existing solutions and support transformation initiatives
• Coordinate small and medium technical changes, clarifying requirements from business users and managing the outsourced provider's change process through to post go-live support
• Work with outsourced technology partners and vendors to resolve incidents of varying severity
• Contribute to a technical roadmap for systems and services within scope
• Act as a trusted technical team member on larger projects, working with project management and stakeholders to deliver timely, high-quality outcomes

• Extensive experience in SAP data extraction, modelling, transformation and reporting using SAP BW, Datasphere, BEx, AFO, SAC or BPC
• Experience across SAP FI, CO, SD, HR, intercompany, tax, procurement, financial statement and financial planning and consolidation
• Experience reviewing technical and functional documentation against SAP best practice, quality, clarity and completeness

• Understanding of SAP data structures and extraction, including augmentation via other integrations
• Guiding a wide range of technical and functional stakeholders, translating requirements into technical solutions
• Engaging and influencing stakeholders at all levels, explaining technical concepts to different audiences
• Leading requirements gathering with business process owners and presenting solution options aligned with BBC Engineering Strategies
• Working in a small team on complex technical issues, multiple priorities and conflict, using influencing skills to deliver projects

• Disclosure of any unspent convictions or police charges before the start date

• Experience with SAP S/4
  
  HANA, SAP ECC, Success Factors, SAP Net Weaver Portal, Ariba, Concur, Blackline or SAP Business Data Cloud
• Understanding of media-specific financial operations requirements, such as production accounting
• Understanding of security, access control and segregation of duties in system design
• Ability to write and communicate complex technology solutions clearly and coherently

• Opportunity to pick up new skills and best practice ways of working
• Flexible working to be discussed, with preference noted in the application or at offer stage