Business Systems Analyst SAP IBP at Albemarle in Banglore

Job description

Be an essential element to a brighter future. We work together to transform essential resources into critical ingredients for mobility, energy, connectivity and health. Join our values-led organization committed to building a more resilient world with people and planet in mind. Our core values are the foundation that make us successful for ourselves, our customers and the planet. Job Description Function Information Technology/Enterprise Business Systems/IBP Position Overview The Business Systems Analyst (BSA) is responsible for supporting, enhancing, and optimizing enterprise applications and business processes within an assigned functional domain. The BSA serves as a trusted partner to business stakeholders, providing functional expertise, solution analysis, process improvement recommendations, and day-to-day operational support to ensure enterprise systems effectively enable business objectives. The BSA works closely with business users, the Manager Enterprise Systems, Digital Business Partners, technical teams, and third-party service providers to deliver stable, efficient, and scalable technology solutions. This role is responsible for analyzing business requirements, identifying process improvement opportunities, coordinating solution delivery, supporting system enhancements, and ensuring the successful adoption of new capabilities. In addition to operational support responsibilities, the BSA contributes to continuous improvement initiatives by identifying opportunities to leverage automation, analytics, AI-enabled capabilities, and process standardization to improve efficiency, effectiveness, and user experience. Domain Responsibility Summary Planning Process Ownership Serve as the functional owner for SAP IBP Time Series Planning and Demand Planning processes. Support mid-term and long-term supply planning processes. Facilitate planning activities supporting S&OP and Integrated Business Planning processes. Partner with Supply Chain, Operations, Commercial, Procurement, and Finance stakeholders to define planning requirements and drive business value. Monitor planning process performance and identify opportunities for improvement. Support planning cycle readiness and issue resolution. Ensure planning solutions align with business objectives and industry best practices. SAP IBP Functional Administration Maintain and support SAP IBP planning models and planning structures. Manage planning areas, planning levels, key figures, attributes, and master data structures. Maintain SAP IBP business roles, security roles, and permission filters. Support user provisioning, role assignments, access requests, and security audits. Troubleshoot planning book, workbook, and planning view issues. Monitor application jobs and planning process execution. Support system upgrades, testing activities, and release deployments. Excel Add-In Support Serve as the subject matter expert for the SAP IBP Excel Add-In. Resolve workbook, planning view, synchronization, and performance issues. Troubleshoot advanced Excel-based planning solutions. Develop and maintain standardized planning templates. Support user training and adoption activities. Identify opportunities to improve planner productivity within Excel-based planning processes. Data Integration, Extractors & Interface Management Serve as the functional owner for SAP IBP inbound and outbound interfaces. Support integration between SAP IBP, SAP S/4HANA, and external planning systems. Provide functional oversight for standard and custom extractors supporting planning data integration. Partner with development teams to define, prioritize, and implement enhancements to existing extractors. Analyze business requirements and translate them into extractor enhancements and interface improvements. Support testing and validation of custom extractor enhancements and interface changes. Evaluate opportunities to improve data extraction, transformation, and load performance. Troubleshoot planning data issues