Senior BI/Enterprise Reporting Analyst

Description

Valent recently completed an implementation of the SAP S4/HANA suite of business solutions and is now prepared to address Enterprise Reporting which will give the users to a consolidated set of data/reports for the new SAP S4/HANA instance, legacy data, and external data.
Valent needs a BI/Super Analyst to support Valent in the creation of an Enterprise Reporting Solution along with the identification, evaluation, and selection of the tools and technology to support the strategy across Valent's business entities. This SOW is for the activities referred to as Phase 1 in Valent's overall plans to deliver
Requirements
Valent requires the following An Enterprise Reporting Strategy that outlines the business requirements of the Valent business entities and functions, implementation plan, and outline the highlevel architecture. Initial functional design that outlines the data present within the Enterprise Reporting Solution and the expected feature set of any technical solution. Recommendation, evaluation, and selection of vendor solutions to deliver the business requirements of the final Enterprise Reporting/Analytics Strategy.
Provide leadership to ensure the solution has an acceptable level of adoption. Valent to provide the following
Subject Matter Experts in the key business areas of Finance, Supply Chain, and Sales to gather the Valent business reporting requirements.
Access to development systems that have data inscope for the project
Access to production data for data quality analysis and final data definition
Employee roster of any resources that will be part of the project
Access to Steering Committee team to discuss risk and subsequent mitigation
Deliverables
Enterprise Reporting Strategy Definition and alignment of project scope. Analysis and definition of reporting layers application layer reporting, centralized standard reporting, selfservice reporting. Initial alignment on roles and responsibilities (RACI) across business and technology. Document the business, technology, and people requirements for the overall enterprise reporting strategy to include the benefits and future state expectations across all business units. Key business questions for Enterprise Reporting Solution to answer
Roles and responsibilities of the business, technology, and partners
Definition of selfservice versus standard
Data sources (current and future)
Data update frequency (by type)
SLA's (system availability)
Performance expectation