Principal IT Business Analyst (Analytics)

Make a +Difference at Kraton!

At Kraton, we make a Positive Difference, and we are looking for individuals who are also looking to make a difference in their jobs, for our customers and to the world. We are looking to hire a key member of our Global IT team to be located remotely in the US.

The purpose of the Principal IT Business Analyst role is to analyze business and technical processes to formulate and develop new and modified business information processing systems, such as production and inventory control systems, financial tracking systems, marketing and human resources systems. Incumbents in this role represent the business unit to define requirements and business cases for the technology developments. This role may be assigned to interface with and support one or more client organizations such as Finance, HR, Operations & Supply Chain, Procurement, Commercial/Sales/Marketing, Corporate Development, Legal, IT, Research & Development/Science & Technology, and other internal business partners and regional locations.

Key Responsibilities

The key responsibilities for this position include but are not limited to the following:

• Coordinates with the business and technology teams, ascertains system requirements, such as program functions, output requirements, input data acquisition, and system techniques and controls.

• Delivers on Business Intelligence & Analytics strategy leveraging SAP Business Warehouse (BW 7.5 on HANA), Business Objects (v4.2 WebI), PowerBI and drive alignment with business partners for execution support.

• Act as internal consultant with business users and partner with business process owners/subject matter experts. Identify functionality gaps and continuous improvement opportunities and develop appropriate business cases to support Kraton strategic initiatives and business changes.

• Formulates and defines the objectives and scope of business systems

• Responsible for initiating communication with business partners and other analysts as necessary to ensure clear understanding of business issues, activity status, etc.

• Gathers data and analyzing business and user needs in consultation with both business managers and end users

• Build strong partnerships in support of business and IT strategic plan, ensuring the alignment with Kraton Global objectives Makes recommendations on hardware and software procurement to support business goals.

• This individual also delivers recommendations for change and improvements to the IT leadership as well as identifies and applies system solutions to business problems as directed by the IT leadership. This can include but is not limited to new technology or approaches to process changes.

• Performs other administrative, functional, and technical tasks as needed.

Required Skills

• Minimum of 15 years of relevant work experience designing, building and implementing enterprise level Business Intelligence solutions using SAP BW.

• Advanced knowledge of and experience in Data Warehouse concepts (modeling, tuning, maintenance), data modeling, SQL, ETL/ELT technologies.

• Experience with BW-related BASIS activities and administrative functions in the BOBJ Central Management Console (CMC), as well as knowledge of Microsoft Power BI, Azure DevOps and Azure Data factory are a plus.

• Individuals at this level are considered a subject-matter expert (SME) who works with minimal oversight.

• The individual at this level has broad understanding of the business and deep IT business/management systems knowledge.

• This individual is an architect of solutions who defines the roadmap from concept to design to execution.

• This individual is a strategic thinker with strong influencing, facilitation, communication, and leadership skills to drive change.

• The individual is regarded as a trusted advisor to the business and while he or she operates independently, leading projects and project teams is expected.

Education, Certifications & Licenses

• Minimum bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field of study from an accredited college/university.

The statements above are intended to describe the general nature and level of work performed by employees assigned to this classification. Statements are not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all duties, responsibilities and skills required for this position.

Kraton's internal talent acquisition team manages our recruiting efforts and from time to time works with pre-selected/pre-approved external staffing agencies. We do NOT accept unsolicited resumes or candidate referrals from recruiters and/or agencies who are not pre-selected/pre-approved.

Kraton is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer.