At Booking.com, data drives our decisions. Technology is at our core. And innovation is everywhere. But our company is more than datasets, lines of code or A/B tests. We're the thrill of the first night in a new place. The excitement of the next morning. The friends you make. The journeys you take. The sights you see. And the food you sample. Through our products, partners and people, we can empower everyone to experience the world.
We're a truly global e-commerce company, with business operations in nearly every country and city on the planet. And we want to make it easy for everyone, anywhere in the world, to pay for their travel or do business with our platform - whenever and however it's convenient for them.
Our brand new FinTech business unit - with teams in Amsterdam and Shanghai - develops new products and drives innovation to help us continue removing financial friction from the travel process. That makes buying and selling travel-related products and services simpler for both travellers and partners.
The Financial Systems team provides technology expertise to the finance department, and is responsible for SAP HANA and connected 3rd party systems at Booking.com. We want to change the way people work with SAP, by building a finance application platform that supports simplification of business processes, and empowers the finance community with better financial insights.
As a BI specialist, you will be responsible for building and maintaining reporting solutions. You will have a thorough understanding of SAP HANA, Data Warehouse and data integration and responsible for designing and implementing business requirements as well as data accuracy in reports. You will support the team in day-to-day SAP HANA development and support, monitoring the production environment, identifying and fixing issues, and improving system performance. As this role involves daily interaction with the finance department, it is essential that you have a good background in finance, and strong verbal and written communication skills in English.
Due to the rapid and continuous growth of the organization, the tasks and duties of this role may evolve over time. You will be keen to develop and grow within the role and to take on additional challenges and responsibilities as they occur.
What you'll be doing:
- Development and support of BI environment in collaboration with finance stakeholders
- Ongoing development and maintenance of SAP HANA reporting platform
- Responsible for data loading, monitoring and system performance
- Engage with users to understand their needs and develop/maintain application, logical and technical data architectures
- Integration and implementation of changes
- Training of key users
What you'll bring:
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Mathematics, Computer Science, or related field
- 5+ years of expertise in the IT area
- 3+ years of experience in implementing SAP HANA based data warehousing solutions
- Experience with SAP HANA modeling including Graphical Calculation views, Table Functions and/or Scripted Calculation Views
- Functional knowledge of SAP S4 as a data source (GL, AR, AP, HR etc.)
- Optimization of Models, Understanding Plan Viz Performance tuning
- Understanding of HANA Security and Authorization
- Proven ability to adopt new technologies
- Ability to have good grasp of the detail and manage multiple priorities
- Able to work in a quick turnaround environment
- Strong analytical and problem solving skills
- Strong communication skills in English, both verbal and written
- Independent, organized, flexible, proactive and result-oriented
- Ability to write complex SQL Script is a plus
- Knowledge of agile development processes (SCRUM or Kanban) and experience with Jira a plus
- Knowledge of SAP HANA XSA, SAP SAC, HANA Web IDE, SAP, GIT.
- Knowledge of XSOData, SAPUI5, Gateway, Fiori application deployment is added advantage
- Experience with Tableau is a plus
Pre-Employment Screening
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