SAP IM (BI\BW) Senior Associate

Line of Service Advisory

Industry Products & Services Industries
State & City IL-Chicago
Travel Requirements 81-100%
Auto req ID 7133BR

Are you interested in the opportunity to work for an industry-leading company that services Fortune 500
companies, and will give you the experience and exposure you need to build your career? If you are, then
PricewaterhouseCoopers (www.pwc.com/us) network of firms is the firm for you.
PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (PwC) is well placed to help clients meet the challenges and opportunities
of the US marketplace in the areas of assurance, tax, and advisory. We offer the perspective of a global
network of firms combined with detailed knowledge of local, state and US national issues. More than
163,000 people in 151 countries across our network share knowledge, experience and solutions to
develop fresh perspectives and deliver practical advice.

At PwC, you will be part of a learning culture, where teamwork and collaboration are encouraged,
excellence is rewarded, and diversity is respected and valued. We offer a flexible career progression
model that allows for a variety of challenging opportunities throughout your career. We provide
unparalleled coaching, mentoring, and career development programs; global opportunities; and state of
the art technology-driven methodologies to help you provide quality service to our clients.

At PwC, you will find Advisory professionals with unparalleled financial and accounting expertise,
knowledge of business processes, industry insight and technology, and customer relationship skills. Our
Advisory professionals help companies anticipate, create and manage change. In short, we help
companies to : (1) respond to crises, (2) improve business processes, and (3) transform their business.
Note that across all of these solutions, we embed sustainability into our approach. This also includes
helping clients to sustain prior changes that may have been undertaken to address a crisis.

Members of our Advisory practice provide a valuable service to our clients and strive to differentiate PwC
by executing the following:

* We put our clients first: Each client situation is unique, and we tailor our approach to every relationship
and engagement;
* We view the world from a client's perspective: From the initial client meeting onward, we listen first, and
then assemble a hand-picked team from across the firm;
* We create lasting value for our clients: We bring together the precision, structure, and deep analytical
capabilities of audit and tax and the creative mindset and problem-solving skills of consulting; and
* We focus on action, impact, and value: We don't just assess and recommend; we also help our clients
implement with agility and flexibility.

Job Description

As a member of the PricewaterhouseCoopers Advisory team, you will join professionals with unparalleled
financial and accounting expertise, industry insight, knowledge of business processes and technology,
and customer relationship skills. Through our capabilities in these areas, we assist our clients in
translating strategy into action.

PwC offers advice and support for key client issues, using technology, data services and change
management effectiveness skills to provide you with the best solution. Enterprise application services we
provide include the following:

âeuro¢ Architecture: Rationalizing a portfolio of applications from integrated systems, best-of-breed

solutions, and other software implemented over the years or inherited with mergers and acquisitions
âeuro¢ Selection: Facilitating an objective, fact-based process to weigh the most viable options for
integrated systems (e.g. ERP) and/or best-of-breed, point solutions
âeuro¢ Implementation: Assessing, designing, developing, testing, deploying, and supporting Oracle and
SAP system components to meet business requirements
âeuro¢ Optimization: Assessing and redesigning processes in Oracle, SAP, or other leading ERP
systems

Position/Program Requirements

Knowledge Preferred:

Considerable knowledge and understanding of Netweaver based solutions. Considerable experience

consulting, architecting, implementing and contributing as a technical team member.

Considerable knowledge and experience assisting clients in the implementation and support of
Netweaver based solutions and enabling business process improvement.

Considerable knowledge and exposure to the common issues facing clients who provide products and
services within one or more of the following sectors aerospace and defense, automotive, consumer and
retail, energy, industrial products, technology or utilities. Participate in proposal development efforts.

Skills Preferred:

Considerable experience and broad subject matter expertise with Netweaver application assisting with
technical efforts including development, designing, implementing and supporting business processes in a
Netweaver environment. Considerable experience in designing, building, testing and deploying
Netweaver technical solutions.

Demonstrated experience identifying and addressing client needs: actively participating in client
discussions and meetings; communicating a broad range of Firm services; managing engagements
including preparing concise, accurate documents and balancing project economics management with the
occurrence of unanticipated issues.

Demonstrated experience as a team leader: creating a positive environment by monitoring workloads of

the team while meeting client expectations and respecting the work-life quality of team members;
providing candid, meaningful feedback in a timely manner; and keeping leadership informed of progress
and issues.

Minimum Years of Experience Necessary:

Minimum Degree(s) and Certification(s) Required:

Bachelor of Science or Bachelor of Arts degree required.

Travel requirements: 80% Additional InformationThe candidate must have 3+ years experience.
He or she must have
• Functional and technical knowledge in SAP BI/BW.
• The candidate must have at least 1-2 full life cycle implementations.
• Candidate must know the SAP ASAP implementation methodology.
• He or she must understand the end to end architecture and positioning of the solutions: ETL, Data
Administration/Management and deployment.
• The candidate must also have a working knowledge of SAP NetWeaver Portals.
• The candidate must have experience in working with the client and participating in blue-print/design
workshops, integration and user acceptance testing, and issue management and resolution.
• The candidate must have a working knowledge of using standard project tools such as Microsoft
Project.
• Candidate must have an understanding of Information Management principles, methodologies and
technologies, such as data quality and data cleansing, integration, data conversion and migration, data
governance, etc.
• The candidate must also have an understanding of SAP functional areas such as, finance, order to
cash, procure to pay, in ECC, CRM or SRM.

"Business Explorer", SAP Business Warehouse Accelerator, SAP BWA, HANA and Business Explorer
experience.