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SAP BI Lead
Senior SAP Reporting Lead (BI/SAC/Data Sphere)
Job ID 2024-12582 Location Cambridge, United Kingdom; Sheffield, United Kingdom Category Architecture Date posted 21/03/2025 Salary range £79,600 - £107,600 per year
Job Overview
The successful candidate will be responsible for:
- Creating, designing, and delivering SAP core reporting capabilities for supported business units, particularly Finance.
- Collaborating to ensure optimised reporting availability, supporting process benefit and facilitating real-time data-driven decision making.
- Leading the SAP Reporting team to rationalise existing, build new, and standardise reporting templates and dashboards for wider business adoption and usage.
- Driving the strategical design, development, and support of SAP reporting using Core BI, SAC (SAP Analytics Cloud), and Data Sphere to deliver optimal analytics capabilities across the organisation.
- Acting as the technical owner and reporting champion of SAP solutions, end-to-end, to provide the "business enabler" for data-driven business decisions.
Responsibilities
Strategic Direction & Leadership
- Provide optimal SAP reporting functional expertise and technical guidance, positioning technology as the "business enabler" for organisational reporting and decision-making.
- Design and implement a best-in-class reporting competency within the Arm SAP Centre of Excellence (CoE), steering the organisation towards:
- Centralised, rationalised, and standardised reporting.
- Optimal data and reporting repositories to empower business functions with fast and accurate decision making.
- Influence key business and senior leadership resources in adopting SAP reporting capabilities, shaping roadmaps to:
- Drive new functionalities that support organisational goals.
- Successfully accelerate change initiatives.
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Team Leadership & Methodology
- Lead and mentor a functional team, focusing on BI, SAC, and Data Sphere.
- Implement optimal methodologies for the reporting lifecycle, including:
- Designing, developing, and supporting standardised SAP and non-SAP reporting templates and dashboards.
- Ensuring methodologies align with strategic enterprise analytics objectives.
Required Skills And Experience
Technical Expertise
- Extensive hands-on technical skills in SAP BI, SAC (SAP Analytics Cloud), and Data Sphere to provide trusted guidance in design and development decisions.
- Strategic understanding of the SAP data and analytics roadmap.
- Demonstrated experience driving continuous improvements in SAP reporting development and support within a large organisation.
Stakeholder & Leadership
- Experience in stakeholder management and relationship-building.
- Ability to communicate complex technical concepts to non-technical leaders (senior management and board-level stakeholders).
- Strong leadership and influencing skills, with the ability to:
- Negotiate priorities with agility.
- Gain confidence in fast-paced environments.
Behavioral Competencies
- Commitment to mentoring, both technical colleagues and key business users, identifying coaching opportunities as needed.
"Nice To Have" Skills And Experience
Additional Technical Expertise
- Experience in SoX-governed environments.
- SAP certifications (e.g., SAP Certified SAP Analytics Cloud or Data Sphere).
- Knowledge of ABAP for robust reading and troubleshooting.
- Familiarity with Agile or Waterfall development methodologies.
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Soft Skills & Global Experience
- Superior mentoring skills for meeting diverse team and stakeholder needs.
- Experience working in a global, multicultural environment ensures capacity to scale approach across geographies.
In Return
Join a role with significant strategic influence, where your leadership will directly shape how Arm leverages data to drive faster, smarter decisions. Enjoy the opportunity to:
- Build and scale a world-class reporting capability from the ground up.
- Define standards, methodologies, and vision for enterprise analytics across the business.
Accommodations at Arm
At Arm, we build extraordinary teams. If you require adjustments or accommodations during the recruitment process, please email [insert contact email].
Hybrid Working at Arm
Arm’s hybrid working framework balances:
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High-performance results with flexibility to foster wellbeing.
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Empowering teams to tailor their own hybrid working patterns, based on project needs.
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Note: Flexibility may be limited by local legal, regulatory, tax, or other considerations. Collaborative solutions are explored to meet individual needs.
Equal Opportunities at Arm
Arm is committed to an environment of mutual respect, providing equal opportunities to all applicants and colleagues. We are a diverse community of dedicated innovators who do not discriminate on the basis of:
- Race, colour, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin.
- Disability, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic.
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