SAP Business Object Financial Reporting

Position: SAP Business Object Financial Reporting Consultant

Location: San Antonio, TX

Duration: 8+ months

Description:

The candidate should be comfortable working in a collaborative banking/data environment, coordinating with multiple technology and business teams, and providing production support when required.
Key Responsibilities
Lead end-to-end development and support of SAP BusinessObjects financial reporting solutions across enterprise Finance functions.
Design, develop, and maintain complex Web Intelligence (WebI) reports for executive management, finance leaders, and business stakeholders.
Build and maintain Universes (UNX/UNV) using Information Design Tool (IDT) to provide a scalable semantic layer for reporting.
Develop financial and management reports including P&L, Balance Sheet, Cash Flow, Budget vs. Actual, Forecast, and Variance Analysis.
Work closely with Finance, FP&A, Accounting, Treasury, and Controlling teams to gather and translate business requirements into reporting solutions.
Integrate SAP BO reporting with SAP ECC, SAP S/4HANA, SAP BW/BW4HANA, SAP HANA, and non-SAP data sources.
Create executive dashboards, KPI scorecards, and self-service reporting solutions to support strategic decision-making.
Optimize report performance through query tuning, report redesign, indexing strategies, and efficient Universe modeling.
Manage report scheduling, publication, bursting, and automated distribution using SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise.
Ensure data accuracy, reconciliation, and consistency between source systems and financial reports.
Support month-end, quarter-end, and year-end financial closing activities by delivering critical financial reports within strict deadlines.
Analyze and troubleshoot production issues, perform root-cause analysis, and provide Level 3 support for reporting applications.
Collaborate with data warehouse and ETL teams to improve data quality and reporting effectiveness.
Conduct impact assessments during SAP upgrades, migrations, and business transformation initiatives.
Develop technical specifications, functional design documents, and reporting governance standards.
Implement and enforce SOX, audit, security, and compliance controls within reporting solutions.
Lead report migration and deployment activities across Development, QA, UAT, and Production environments.
Train business users on report functionality, self-service reporting, and analytics capabilities.
Mentor junior developers and provide technical leadership on SAP BusinessObjects best practices.
Participate in enterprise reporting modernization initiatives, including migration from legacy reporting platforms to SAP BO and HANA-based reporting solutions
Education: At least a bachelor s degree (or equivalent experience) in Computer Science, Software/Electronics Engineering, Information Systems, or closely related field is required.