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Do you want to be part of an inclusive team that works to develop innovative therapies for patients? Every day, we are driven to develop and deliver innovative and effective new medicines to patients and physicians. If you want to be part of this exciting work, you belong at Astellas!

Astellas Pharma Inc. is a pharmaceutical company conducting business in more than 70 countries around the world. We are committed to turning innovative science into medical solutions that bring value and hope to patients and their families. Keeping our focus on addressing unmet medical needs and conducting our business with ethics and integrity enables us to improve the health of people throughout the world. For more information on Astellas, please visit our website at www.astellas.com .

This is a remote position and is based in Ontario, Canada. Candidates interested in remote work are encouraged to apply.

Purpose and Scope:

As individual contributor of a team of individuals in a specific area of digital expertise, you will be a crucial player in driving our digital initiatives forward in our agile organization. Our agile operating model consists of two components – Digital Capability and Digital Execution. Digital Execution are about aligning multiple missions around business goals and facilitating collaboration on a larger scale. Digital Capability, on the other hand, focus on the growth and development of individuals within a specific expertise area. This dual structure enables us to scale agile practices efficiently while maintaining a focus on both product development and individual skill enhancement.

A Business & Technical Analyst is a multifaceted role that bridges the gap between business needs and technical solutions. This position involves analyzing and translating business requirements into technical specifications, ensuring that the solutions developed meet the business goals and user needs. The role requires a blend of business acumen, understanding of technical architectures, and the ability to communicate effectively with both business stakeholders and technical teams.

You will be at the forefront of implementing innovative solutions and will have the opportunity to work on cutting-edge technologies in your field.

Essential Job Responsibilities:

• Business Requirements Analysis: Collaborate with business stakeholders to understand their needs, goals, and objectives. Analyze business processes and workflows to identify improvement opportunities and define requirements for solutions.

• Technical Specification Development: Translate business requirements into detailed technical specifications that guide the development of software applications, systems, or processes. Ensure that these specifications meet both the business needs and technical standards.

• Solution Design and Recommendation: Work with Digital and software development teams to design solutions that fulfil business requirements. Evaluate potential technical solutions for feasibility, cost-effectiveness, and alignment with business objectives.

• Stakeholder Collaboration: Serve as a liaison between business units and technical teams to ensure clear communication and understanding of project goals, requirements, and constraints. Facilitate meetings and discussions to gather feedback and consensus.

• Project Management Support: Assist in project management tasks, such as planning, scheduling, and tracking progress. Ensure that projects stay on track to meet deadlines and budget constraints.

• Testing and Quality Assurance: Participate in the testing of developed solutions to ensure they meet the defined requirements and standards. Assist in identifying and documenting bugs or issues for resolution.

• Training and Support: Develop training materials and provide support to users on new systems or applications. Ensure that end-users are equipped to use the new solutions effectively.

• Documentation: Create and maintain documentation related to business requirements, technical specifications, project plans, and reports to ensure knowledge is captured and shared.

Qualifications:

Required

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in relevant field, e.g., Computer Science/Information Technology /Business Administration in Finance

• 7+ Years of experience of any SAP Planning Applications such as SAP-BPS, IP, BPC including SAC-Planning area with a proven record of accomplishment as a team lead of large and complex SAP business-system transformation programs.

• Good Accounting knowledge would be a plus.

• Relevant experience in business analysis, technical analysis, or a related area, demonstrating a track record of bridging business needs with technical solutions.

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills to understand complex business issues and develop appropriate technical solutions.

• Good understanding of information technology, software development life cycles, and architectural frameworks. Familiarity with programming languages, databases, and software development tools is beneficial.

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to convey technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders and vice versa.

• Ability to work effectively in a team environment, collaborating with diverse groups of stakeholders, including business users, Digital professionals, and management.

• Good knowledge of Agile methodology, principles and practices.

• Precision in documenting requirements, specifications, and project details to ensure clarity and alignment with objectives.

• Flexibility to adapt to changing requirements, technologies, and project priorities.

Preferred

• Minimum 3 to 4 Years of experience in SAC-Planning applications Design, Development and Support.

• Collaborate with finance, R&D, and commercial teams to identify critical financial planning requirements specific to the pharmaceutical industry (e.g., clinical trial budgeting, product lifecycle profitability, R&D spend analysis).

• Design and build sophisticated SAC models, stories, dashboards, and applications to support budgeting, forecasting, financial analysis, and strategic reporting needs.

• Develop data connections, transformations, and calculations within SAC to integrate data from SAP BPC, S/4HANA, clinical trial management systems (CTMS), and other relevant sources.

• Able to configure and test all support related queries in all the SAC, BPC planning.

• Major large, complex high-end SAP implementations; experience in multi-country implementations.

• Broad and deep application and technical knowledge including latest innovations required in BPC and SAC Planning.

• Troubleshoot and resolve SAC-related issues in a timely manner, ensuring system stability and optimal user experience.

• Manage SAC user roles, access, and security configurations, aligning them with pharmaceutical industry compliance standards.

• Good understanding of Planning Process of Budgeting and Forecasting.

• SAC Integration with BPC, S4 and BW4

• Knowledge of group reporting would be a plus

• Hybrid Planning Scenario with Integration with BPC 11.0 Standard Application

• SAC Planning Data modelling with SAC Dashboard reporting

• Good knowledge of Integrated/collaborative Financials Planning in SAC

• Allocations, VDT (Value Driver Tress), Planning Calendar functionalities

• Propose and implement Predictive Scenarios where necessary

• Ability to design and debug the Data Actions

• Propose Performance Optimization and provide best practices on Data retention and Archive process based on Business needs

• Harness the full potential of SAC's predictive analytics and machine learning capabilities for pharmaceutical-specific forecasting and scenario modelling.

• Design dynamic, visually compelling dashboards and reports that provide actionable insights into key financial performance metrics

• Administration systems – Service Now, SAP Solution Manager, HP ALM & TOSCA

• Application integration technologies -- SAP PO, CPI, External gateway systems

• Ability to work in highly matrixed environments managing global teams comprised of employees and system integrators.

Category

Astellas is committed to equality of opportunity in all aspects of employment.

EOE including Disability/Protected Veterans