GPEX is a global team that delivers services in the area of process and control transformation, simplification, and digitization. This role is part of GPEX Insights & Automation team that supports initiatives by identifying analytic opportunities, leading solution development from ideation to delivery and continuing with sustainment, managing milestones & stakeholder expectations, and ensuring insights are developed in compliance with the governance structure. The GPEX Analytics Sr. developer role will.
- Design, document, develop and sustain analytics solutions which include E HANA, Power BI, Tableau, SQL, Chatbots, AI based solution, & Machine Learning products for PepsiCo’s Controls organization.
- Develop Analytics standards on various automation tools by leveraging industry best practices and partnering with both internal and external peers in same capacity across different groups and organizations.
- Act as a technical SME to provide guidance and trainings to associates within GPEX automation & controls business teams.
- Contribute towards the overall GPEX goal of identifying process efficiency and optimizations by promoting integration of appropriate technology into business processes.
- Deliver capability build sessions with business teams to grow awareness and champion citizen development model.
- Develop network with peer groups across different organizations and collaborate on analytics best practices and standards.
- Act as innovation lead by learning about new products, capabilities and driving pilots and Poc’s to show their value.
- Thrives on solving complex problems through insights & innovation impacting change at scale in a diverse environment.
Responsibilities
- Drive Analytics opportunity assessment and value realization – Decision, Execute
Work with GPEX Process Transformation, Risk Internal Controls & Business teams to conduct analytics opportunity assessment sessions and identify potential value. - Analyze and assess analytics feasibility, translating business requirements into technical designs
Design/build/test/deploy analytics utilizing SAP HANA and build analytic/visualization output in Tableau/Power BI/Alteryx/ Tellius. - Create analytic procedures, data transformation, and analysis methods.
- Identify opportunities to drive efficiencies within processes by suggesting new and innovative ways to leverage technology.
- Work with business partners to identify analytic opportunities.
- Leverage leading best practices to build analytics and share with cross functional teams.
- Partner with Control Insights & Automation team to drive common governance standards, policies and procedures, etc.
- Train end users on how to use the analytics and understanding of data.
- Manage projects related to the expansion of automation technology use in Support planning and prioritization of deliverables along with managing stakeholder expectation.
- Work independently but also function well within a team of developers to drive cross functional learning, development and sharing of leading practices – Execute, Consult.
- Develop strong working relationships with internal partners, both business users and technical resources.
- Participate in strategy development sessions with manager.
- Collaborate with technical architect & development team to solution Analytics & automations.
- Participate in reporting automation, optimization, and other projects related to analytics and reporting.
- Provide status and escalate issues to supervisor.
- Contribute to continuous improvement – Execute, Consult.
- Work with business partners to understand areas for improvement and document those opportunities.
- Continuous assessment of analytics standards and governance processes, enahce them in compliance with PepsiCo’s control framework.
- Identify opportunities for replication and reusability of existing logics & technology to drive additional organizational efficiency.
- Collaborate with other members of the Global Virtual Team to create comprehensive documentation in accordance with published standards.
Reporting – Execute
- Provide quality review of analytics documentation.
- Develop project tracking and efficiency reporting templates.
- Monthly and quarterly reporting of deliverables and achievements to leadership.
Qualifications
- Deep understanding of SAP technical/functional design, IT, risk, controls, and segregation of duties
- Expert level data analytics knowledge required withbroader understanding of business processes, financial Analysis and Controls.
- Advanced analytics experience which includes ability to work with macros, formulas, big data and building analytic procedures in SQL, SAP HANA XSA, R programming.
- Experience of design and implementation of SAP compliance and reporting tools.
- Experience with Visualization tools (Tableau, Power BI, Alteryx), presenting large dashboards and KPIs.
- Client and delivery orientated along with leadership experience to lead a team of global developers.
- Ability to manage complexity and work independently with large amounts of information.
- Higher education degree; Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Mathematics. Management.
- Information Systems, Finance, Accounting, Procurement, business or related field.
- Cross-functional business and application knowledge.
- Ability to create proper functional/ business requirements, document process flows and detailed specifications.
- Ability to learn new technologies and processes quickly.
- Ability to break down business problems into logical tasks and think creatively.
- Project and change management experience, preferably involving IT implementations and UAT management.
- Well versed with lean Six Sigma, Agile and other project methodogies.
- Strong facilitation/presentation skills.
- Ability to work with a large, global, functionally diverse, and informed user base that demands high-quality applications.
- Must be able to work on multiple initiatives simultaneously and prioritize assignments to deliver quality work in a timely manner.
- Ability to effectively engage and work with a global team.
- Must possess atleast Data Analyst certification.
- Knowledge on Power Platforms and RPAs.
- Knowledge of/experience with SAP.
- Strong Communication and presentation skills with Positive attitude.
- Self-motivated and willing to work in an energetic, fast-paced environment.
- Potential adhoc travel – no more than 10%.
- Experience in at least 1 AI and ML tool.
- Project Delivery Experience.
- Offshore Delivery interaction and management.