SAP Developer

This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for an SAP Developer based in Canada. The SAP Developer will play a key role in designing, developing, and optimizing enterprise analytics and financial planning solutions within a complex SAP ecosystem. This position focuses on leveraging SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC), SAP Datasphere, and related technologies to transform business data into actionable insights that support strategic decision-making. You will develop advanced analytical models, planning applications, dashboards, and financial reports while ensuring data accuracy, system reliability, and seamless integration across enterprise platforms. Working at the intersection of technology, finance, and business operations, you will contribute to the modernization of reporting and planning capabilities. The role also involves providing technical leadership, improving system performance, and establishing best practices for data governance and solution architecture. This is an opportunity for an experienced SAP professional to influence enterprise-wide analytics initiatives in a fully remote, contract-based environment.

Design and develop SAP analytics solutions: Lead the design, configuration, development, and ongoing support of SAP Analytics Cloud, SAP Datasphere, SAP CPI, SAP Integration Suite, Analysis for Office (AFO), and SAP SuccessFactors solutions. Build financial planning and reporting applications: Develop and maintain analytical models, planning applications, dashboards, KPIs, and financial reports to support budgeting, forecasting, financial analysis, and management reporting. Optimize planning functionality: Build and enhance SAC Data Actions, Advanced Formulas, Multi Actions, planning workflows, and analytical models to improve planning efficiency and reporting capabilities. Manage data integration: Develop, maintain, and optimize integrations between SAP analytics platforms and enterprise source systems, ensuring reliable data flows and consistent information across applications. Maintain system configuration and change control: Manage SAP transport processes, releases, Transport Management System (TMS) activities, and batch job scheduling across development, testing, and production environments. Ensure data quality and integrity: Validate, reconcile, and monitor data across SAP ECC, SAP BPC, SAP Datasphere, SAP Analytics Cloud, and SAP SuccessFactors to maintain accuracy and consistency. Modernize analytics and reporting: Lead the migration and transformation of existing planning and reporting solutions toward SAP Analytics Cloud and SAP Datasphere, leveraging modern cloud capabilities. Provide technical leadership: Establish solution governance, promote SAP best practices, and guide technical decisions related to analytics, financial planning, reporting, and data modeling. Troubleshoot and optimize performance: Investigate and resolve system, integration, data, and reporting issues while identifying opportunities to improve reliability, efficiency, and overall performance. Support production and deployment activities: Coordinate testing, upgrades, deployments, production support, and ongoing enhancements across the SAP analytics environment. Maintain technical documentation and governance: Document system configurations, security models, data hierarchies, integration processes, and data governance standards. Contribute to strategic technology planning: Support the evolution of the SAP analytics roadmap and assess opportunities to adopt new SAP cloud technologies and capabilities. Requirements: Education: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related discipline, or equivalent qualifications and experience. An MBA or another relevant graduate degree is preferred. SAP experience: At least 10 years of experience working with SAP planning and analytics solutions, including SAP BPC, SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC), SAP Datasphere, SAP HANA Live, and Analysis for Office (AFO). SAP Analytics Cloud expertise: A minimum of five years of hands-on experience developing, configuring, and supporting SAP Analytics Cloud solutions. Analytical modeling: At least 10 years of experience designing and developing analytical models using SAP HANA Live, SAP Datasphere, and SAP Analytics Cloud. Financial planning and analysis: Five or more years of experience in FP&A, including financial statement reporting, report formatting, foreign exchange (FX) impact analysis, Price-Volume-Mix (PVM) analysis, and financial hierarchy management. Advanced planning development: Demonstrated experience building SAC Data Actions, developing Advanced Formulas and scripts in optimized mode, and implementing ETL solutions using SAP HANA Live, SAP Datasphere, and SAC. SAP ECC knowledge: Experience working with SAP ECC data structures and tables, with the ability to understand source data and its implications for analytical reporting. Data reconciliation and validation: Proven experience analyzing, reconciling, and validating data across SAP BPC, SAP Analytics Cloud, and SAP Datasphere. Integration capabilities: Experience designing, supporting, or maintaining integrations between SAP analytics platforms and enterprise systems. Experience supporting outbound interfaces from SAP Datasphere is preferred. SAP SuccessFactors: Familiarity with using SAP SuccessFactors as a data source is an advantage. Analytical and problem-solving skills: Strong technical analysis, troubleshooting, and critical-thinking abilities, with a focus on data accuracy, system performance, and effective solution design. Communication and collaboration: Ability to work effectively with technical teams, finance stakeholders, and business users to translate business requirements into scalable SAP solutions. Organization and accountability: Strong attention to detail, effective prioritization, and the ability to manage complex technical responsibilities while maintaining high standards of quality and documentation. Benefits: Competitive contract opportunity: A specialized role focused on enterprise analytics, financial planning, and SAP technology modernization. Fully remote work: Remote working arrangement, with the position available to candidates based in Canada. Technical ownership: The opportunity to lead complex SAP analytics initiatives and contribute to enterprise-wide reporting and planning improvements. Advanced technology exposure: Hands-on work with SAP Analytics Cloud, SAP Datasphere, SAP BPC, SAP HANA Live, SAP Integration Suite, and related enterprise technologies. Strategic impact: The ability to improve financial planning, reporting accuracy, data integrity, and business decision-making through modern analytics solutions. Professional growth: Opportunities to deepen expertise in SAP cloud technologies, advanced planning capabilities, data integration, and analytics architecture.