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Senior Platform Engineer-SAP BPC SAC & GR

Astellas Pharma Inc

  • Northbrook, IL
  • 12 days ago

    Highlights

    Design and configure advanced SAP Analytics Cloud Planning solutions, including planning layouts, value driver trees, predictive forecasting models, executive dashboards, advanced models, public dimensions, complex dimensions, and multi-currency versions. The role exists to provide advanced technical and functional expertise across enterprise planning, forecasting, dashboarding, data integration, and financial performance management, ensuring scalable, reliable, and future-ready solutions for finance and executive stakeholders.

    Numbers & Facts

    LocationNorthbrook, IL
    IndustryBiotechnology/Pharmaceuticals
    Company Size2,500 to 4,999 employees
    Websitehttps://www.astellas.com/us/

    Description

    Purpose and Scope:

    The Senior Platform Engineer - SAP BPC & SAC is responsible for managing and supporting existing SAP BPC Standard environments while leading the systematic evolution of planning and consolidation capabilities toward SAP Analytics Cloud and aligned SAP finance platforms. The role exists to provide advanced technical and functional expertise across enterprise planning, forecasting, dashboarding, data integration, and financial performance management, ensuring scalable, reliable, and future-ready solutions for finance and executive stakeholders.

    Responsibilities and Accountabilities:

    • Manage, support, and enhance existing SAP BPC Standard environments, including planning models, consolidation processes, logic scripts, FOX formulas, EPM formatting, Business Process Flows, and operational support activities.
    • Own and maintain the solution roadmap for systematically migrating planning and consolidation workloads from legacy SAP BPC systems to SAP Analytics Cloud and relevant S/4HANA finance capabilities.
    • Design and configure advanced SAP Analytics Cloud Planning solutions, including planning layouts, value driver trees, predictive forecasting models, executive dashboards, advanced models, public dimensions, complex dimensions, and multi-currency versions.
    • Develop robust corporate planning architectures using Advanced Formulas, Advanced Data Actions, multi-step allocations, Multi-Actions, complex scripting, and FOX-equivalent planning logic.
    • Configure, validate, and maintain live and import data connections between SAP Analytics Cloud, S/4HANA, Group Reporting, and BW/4HANA to enable integrated planning, consolidation, reporting, and analytics processes.
    • Design rich, responsive corporate storyboards, management dashboards, and predictive forecasting workflows that provide meaningful insights for finance, business, and executive leadership teams.
    • Partner with Finance, DigitalX, PlatformX, and cross-functional technology teams to translate business requirements into scalable SAP BPC and SAC planning, forecasting, dashboarding, and reporting solutions.
    • Ensure platform stability, data integrity, performance, documentation, governance, and process reliability across SAP BPC and SAC Planning landscapes.
    • Provide senior-level technical guidance, troubleshooting, continuous improvement recommendations, and subject matter expertise for complex enterprise planning and financial performance management initiatives.
    • Maintain awareness of SAP certification standards and leading practices in SAP Analytics Cloud Planning and SAP BPC, applying them to solution design, delivery, and support activities where appropriate.

    About Company

    Astellas Pharma US, Inc., is a U.S. affiliate of Tokyo-based Astellas Pharma Inc. Located in Northbrook, Illinois, the company serves as the headquarters for the Americas and employs nearly 3,000 people. Astellas is a pharmaceutical company dedicated to improving the health of people around the world through the provision of innovative and reliable pharmaceutical products. Our commitment to changing tomorrow is measured not only by our focus on bringing innovative and effective new medicines to patients and physicians, but also by the importance we place on the impact we can make within the communities where we work and live. Astellas supports many causes and has created two initiatives to demonstrate our commitment: Changing Tomorrow Day, an annual, worldwide volunteer event, and Science WoRx, a nationwide mentoring program and online resource network for science teachers and their students.

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