Manager, Sap Business Intelligence & Analytics

At Algonquin-Liberty, we hire passionate people who care about doing the right thing for our customers. We are entrepreneurial, creative, and outcome-focused. Here, your natural talent and achievements will flourish in an inclusive environment of teamwork, trust and continuous learning. We are always pursuing excellence to exceed our ambitions goals, rewarding both the goal outcome and how we achieve it.
Purpose
Liberty Utility’s Enterprise Platform Management Team is responsible for the administration, development, support, and availability of the SAP+ landscape. The Team’s core mandate is to enable an efficient operation within Liberty Utilities as the company continues to transform/move its legacy systems to SAP and other ancillary applications.
This role is the functional subject matter expert and design architect for SAP Reporting and Analytics Cloud. This role provides strategic direction, expertise and perspective on all Reporting capabilities. He/she is accountable to understand, implement, and maintain the capabilities of integrated SAC and BW such that they are technically optimized and meet the requirements of the business. He/she is comfortable managing and integrating workstreams as reporting and analytics is cross-functional. The Leader thrives in a team-oriented environment, problem-solving and is a clear and effective communicator.
Accountabilities

• Perform all performance reviews, development plans, coaching, mentoring, time recording approval, and overall management of any assigned staff and consultants
• Collaborate with other areas of the LU Technology to plan integrated activities such as application upgrades, patch application and routine maintenance activities.
• Document the company’s existing Reporting architecture and technology portfolio; make recommendations for improvements and/or alternatives.
• Engage vendor relationships from a day-to-day perspective with respect to Enterprise Reporting
• Defines reporting business requirements and process design
• Provide high-level, as well as detailed cost estimates as warrented for all reporting options associated with any particular project/business objective
• Confer with end-users, clients, or senior management to define business requirements for complex systems and infrastructure development.
• Actively participate in the coordination of changes into SAC and SAP BW. Ensures all changes meet appropriate deadlines for development and testing, user sign off and approval prior to promotion to the productive environment.
• Effective communication of all issues/status of Operations Applications to all stakeholders
• Manage and oversee the SAC, SAP BW (future) ensuring appropriate service levels are met, issues and escalations are resolved quickly, and operational procedures are followed in a satisfactory manner
• Develops technology roadmaps as it relates to Reporting and Analytics
• Promotes the use of SAC, SAP BW within the LU business community, and ensures users are using the optimized tools, and best practice system capabilities.
• Works with Service Provider to ensure appropriate ticket management
• Review new and existing systems design projects, changes and procurement or outsourcing plans for compliance with Reporting standards and architectural plans
• Report delivery from design through testing and deployment

Education and Experience

• Ability to conduct research into emerging technologies and trends, standards, and products as required.
• Strong interpersonal, consultative, and presentational skills.
• Strong analytical and technical communication skills
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Hands on experience with SAP technology (Fiori, Dashboarding and Visualization) is highly desired
• Good knowledge of project planning.
• Intermediate to advanced level knowledge and hands on experience with SAP analytics reporting and Dashboarding/Visualization such as SAC and BW/4HANA
• Minimum of two (2) years of management experience demonstrating the ability to manage both employee and contracting resources (including on-site and off-shore)
• Intermediate level knowledge with SAP new dimensional UI tools and technology such as UI5/Fiori
• Intermediate to advanced level knowledge of SAP modules and how those modules can successfully be deployed to users through a SAC/Fiori environment
• Experience in design, development and support of SAC reporting
• Experience working with non-SAP data sources such as Click Scheduling, Itron AMI, PowerPlan
• Strong project management with SAP BI systems implementation knowledge & skills
• Good knowledge of applicable data privacy practices and laws.
• Good ability to capture and interpret the organization’s goals and objectives.
• Ability to present ideas in user-friendly language.
• Minimum five (5) years of experience in SAP NetWeaver development and support and SAP implementation and design experience
• Minimum five (5) years of experience managing or architecting SAP SAC, SAP BW, ABAP Core Data Services, Fiori Analytical Query Development, and visualization stories
• Expert level knowledge of SAP functionality, data integration, and implementation methodology for platforms including, but not limited to: SAP BW on HANA, SAC, Fiori,

Our purpose is sustaining energy and water for life, and it is demonstrated in everything we do as a business and as an employee team.
Our Mission
We provide safe, secure, reliable, cost-effective and sustainable energy and water solutions. Our mission is how we create value as an organization—it is what drives us every day to fulfill our purpose.
Our Vision
We better the lives of our customers and communities. Our vision is what we see as possible. It's where we aspire to be, what we want to achieve and how we'll make animpact. It guides and keeps us on the right path as we work towards fulfilling our purposes.
Our Guiding Principles

• Entrepreneurial
• Integrity
• Owner mindset
• Teamwork
• Customer Centric
• Continuous learning
• Outcome focused

What We Offer
Collaborative environment with a genuine flexible working policy
Share purchase/match plan
A defined contribution savings plan
Leadership Development Program
Volunteer paid days off
Employee Assistance Program
Achievement fund
Group Benefit Plan
Variety of Health & Wellness programs
Discount and Perks program
We are focused on building a diverse and inclusive workforce. If you are excited about this role and are not confident you meet all the qualification requirements, we encourage you to apply to investigate the opportunity further.
We are an equal opportunity employer and value each person's unique background, diversity, experiences, perspectives and talents.
Full participation of all employees in a safe, healthy and respectful environment is key to individual and company success. We are committed to fully utilizing the abilities of all our employees and expect each of our employees to honour this commitment in their daily responsibilities.