Senior Expert - Reporting & Analytics

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Senior Expert - Reporting & Analytics

Requisition ID: 10754

Location:

Calgary, AB, CA, T2C 5G9 Mississauga, ON, CA, L4V 1S7

Pay Type: Salary

WHO IS LAFARGE?

As a global leader in innovative and sustainable building solutions, Lafarge is enabling greener cities, smarter infrastructure and improving living standards around the world. With sustainability at the core of our strategy, we are becoming a net-zero company, with our people and communities at the heart of our success. We are driving circular construction as a world leader in recycling to build more with less. It’s all thanks to our 70,000 talented people around the world who are passionate about building progress for people and the planet through four business segments: Cement, Ready-Mix Concrete, Aggregates and Solutions & Products.

WHO ARE LAFARGE PEOPLE?

Lafarge people are passionate about finding better ways to build. They embrace innovation and improvement with a pioneering spirit. They work as trusted partners, creating better solutions and experiences for their customers, communities, and colleagues.

About The Role

We are looking for a Senior Expert - Reporting and Analytics to join our team and support our newly implemented SAP Analytics Cloud Platform. This role will be tasked with developing: dashboards, visualizations, grid-style reports, and other types of deliverables in SAC. This role will interact with teams members throughout North America and may work in a remote or hybrid fashion depending on the applicants preference. SAP Analytics Cloud is our visualization front-end that is integrated with Datasphere. Datasphere is our main data warehousing platform.

What You'll Be Doing

• Design, build, and maintain: dashboards, visualizations, and grid-style reports in SAP Analytics Cloud
• Implement scripting, where necessary, to provide a clean and crisp user experience for the aforementioned deliverables in SAP Analytics Cloud
• Partner and build rapport with key stakeholders across North America to solve complex business problems and help the business operate more efficiently wherever possible.
• Gain an understanding of the various product segments in North America to develop standardized reports for Cross-Functional use across the business
• Serve as SME for the SAP Analytics Cloud platform
• Communicate data modeling and data schema requirements to the Datasphere (formerly Data
• Warehouse Cloud) developers and other support team members
• Stay up to date on changes and updates in the SAP Analytics Cloud software via: following the SAP
• Product Roadmap and attending trainings, seminars, and other offerings by SAP as necessary.
• Maintain an understanding on Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and other key company metrics to be able to create and validate the necessary calculations to deliver user requirements in: dashboards, visualizations, and other deliverables in SAC
• Proactively identify potential issues or areas for enhancement to support the company in maintaining a
• Best Demonstrated Practice in their Reporting, Data, and Analytics Initiatives
• Ensure that all reports, dashboards, and other deliverables are developed with: accuracy, performance, and scalability in mind to deliver the best end-user experience possible.
• Other duties as assigned
  
  

Relationships With Other Jobs

• Collaborate with IT, Finance, Commercial, and other teams to understand the diverse needs of the organization when it comes to reports that can serve as the single source of truth for everyone
• Collaborate with SAP Analytics Cloud Administrators, Datasphere developers, and other support team members to collaborate deliver requirements for the organization
  
  

What We Are Looking For

Education: Bachelor's degree or years of equivalent experience

Additional Education Preferred

Field of Study Preferred:

Information Technology, Analytics, Data, Finance/Accounting, or related field of study

Required Work Experience: 8-10 years of experience

Required Training/Certifications

Certifications in SAP Analytics Cloud, Datasphere, SQL, or Python are a plus

Licenses Preferred

SAP Licenses/Certifications related to SAP Analytics Cloud and Datasphere

Required Computer And Software Skills

Experience in any number of the following tools (understanding that Datasphere and SAP Analytics Cloud are the tools that our team actively uses). Since the popularity of certain BI and Data Warehousing solutions change over time, and all BI and Data Warehousing tools are conceptually similar, training will be offered as necessary should the applicant have general experience in BI and Data but not SAP Analytics Cloud and Datasphere specifically.

SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC), Datasphere SAP Business Planning and Consolidation (BPC), SAP Business Objects, PowerBI, Tableau, Qlik, SQL, Python, Scripting, APIs, JSON, OData connections, SAP HANA Databases etc.

Travel Requirements: 20%

Additional Requirements

• Highly visible senior role that requires independence and ability to make decisions use one’s own expertise
• Strong knowledge of BI, Data Warehousing, and related best practices including knowledge of: SQL, Python, ETL/ELT, scripting, and other coding languages commonly used by BI/Data professionals.
• Experience in working with Datasphere or BW HANA, third party data sources, or other data warehousing platforms.
• Demonstrate a commitment to communicating, improving and adhering to health, safety and environmental policies in all work environments and areas. Promote a culture of safety and exhibit these behaviors.
• Successful candidates must adhere to all safety protocols and proper use of Holcim approved Personal Protection Equipment ("PPE"), including but not limited to respirators. Subject to applicable law, employees that are required to wear respirators must be clean-shaven where the respirator seal meets the face in order to pass the qualitative and quantitative fit tests.
• Demonstrate a commitment to communicating, improving and adhering to health, safety and environmental policies in all work environments and areas. Promote a culture of safety and exhibit these behaviors.
  
  

Your Lafarge Experience

At Lafarge, there is endless opportunity for you to play your part. Whether you’re in a technical, managerial, or frontline role, you can shape a career that works for you. With us you’ll have the chance to embrace the passion we share for our planet. You’ll be encouraged to seek out diverse perspectives, share your ideas and build the skills and connections you need to perform at your best. Because it’s only when we work together in a culture where everyone thrives, that we can build the world we all want to live in.