Business Objects Administrator Job Description
Business objects administrator
provides support for SAP ERP Central Component (ECC), Business Intelligence (BI), Process Integration (PI) and SAP Solution Manager.
Business Objects Administrator Duties & Responsibilities
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Sample responsibilities for this position include:
Day to day support and operations
Technical problem resolution for all technology related issues with Business Objects XI3.1 and BI 4.0
Assist with On-Boarding new tenants
Act as the Functional Administrator of BOFC used for the group statutory consolidation many other financial reporting information
Manage the day-to-day activities (creation of users, generating monthly packages, running consolidations, uploading exchange rates, etc…)
Provide support to finance key players at the center and in the local markets
Provide support and training to sub-consolidation sites
Assist Head of sales reporting on controlling activities
Provide product and environment support and administration for business intelligence and data integration software environments such as SAP Business Objects, SAS software suite, IBM InfoSphere software suite, Informatica data integration software suite
Manage intake and fill user requests – examples are application and user set up and administration, code promotion requests, software consulting and problem support
Business Objects Administrator Qualifications
Qualifications for a job description may include education, certification, and experience.
Licensing or Certifications for Business Objects Administrator
List any licenses or certifications required by the position: HEG, II, IAT
Education for Business Objects Administrator
Typically a job would require a certain level of education.
Employers hiring for the business objects administrator job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Bachelor's and University Degree in Computer Science, Business, Education, Health Care, Information Technology, Finance, Engineering, Management, Information Systems, Management Information Systems
Skills for Business Objects Administrator
Desired skills for business objects administrator include:
Configuring the SAP integration Kit
Crystal SDK and Windows AD SSO
Unix/Linux and scripting
Auditing
BI Launch Pad
Business View Manager
Central Configuration Manager
Central Management Console
Experience using the BusinessObjects suite of products
Import Wizard
Desired experience for business objects administrator includes:
Strong ability to work in a highly focused technical environment together with other motivated and driven professionals, the ability to work independently
Degree Diploma in finance / University degree in Business, Finance or equivalent / CFC qualification (commercial or equivalent)
First successful experience in a similar job or Accounting/Finance Department in an international company
Experience in SAP – Finance (FICO) is a plus
Previous experience in the use of EIS tools
Good/Excellent knowledge of Excel
Business Objects Administrator Examples
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Business Objects Administrator Job Description
Job Description Example
Our company is growing rapidly and is hiring for a business objects administrator. If you are looking for an exciting place to work, please take a look at the list of qualifications below.
Responsibilities for business objects administrator
- Participate in design and implementation of software product deployment infrastructure
- Participate in design, development, testing, implementation and support system management processes and procedures
- Act as the assistant of the Business Objects Financial Consolidation Administrator (BOFC)
- Provide product and environment support and administration for business intelligence software environments for SAP Business Objects
- Keep abreast of technology landscape and industry trends pertaining to business intelligence
- Administration experience in BOBJ 4.1 at minimum
- Participates in the design and implementation for complex and business critical initiatives related to Business Objects and other reporting/visualization infrastructure
- Maintain/Administer Business Objects 4.1 platform
- Design security for various Business Objects projects
- Work with Accounts Administration team to configure AD groups
Qualifications for business objects administrator
- HEG student (Business Administration or Business Informatics) or Commercial certificate
- Strong interest for Accounting/Finance
- Good command of English (written and spoken) & fluent in French
- Excellent knowledge of SAP Business Object Universes and WEBI reporting
- Production support and after-hours on-call
- Availability to work on after working hours scheduled work as required, examples are project implementation and Disaster Recovery Test
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Job Description Example
Our growing company is looking to fill the role of business objects administrator. If you are looking for an exciting place to work, please take a look at the list of qualifications below.
Responsibilities for business objects administrator
- Provides technical leadership for projects within the Business Objects program to achieve business strategy and vision
- Provides break fix support, Service request resolution, performance tuning and remigration support
- Provides input to long-term BO platform strategy input as to how to maximize business value of the Business Objects solution
- Participates in process improvement efforts for the Business Objects program using advanced continuous improvement tools and skills resulting in significant cost savings
- Makes autonomous, timely decisions based on implementation documents under tight deadlines and pressure
- Provide input to the technical and strategic plans for the Architecture and Technology team
- Migrate code from non-production to production environment
- Provide 24/7 on call support based on “on call roster”
- Provide product and environment support and administration for business intelligence software environments - SAP Business Objects, Microsoft Power BI, Qlikview, Tableau
- Lead/participate in new software and software renewal assessment and implementation projects
Qualifications for business objects administrator
- Assist in system back ups
- Licenses allocation
- Content promotion through the landscape
- Load balancing/ Fail over
- End user security configuration with SSO
- Provide end to end Bobj reporting guidance and project oversight
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Our company is looking for a business objects administrator. We appreciate you taking the time to review the list of qualifications and to apply for the position. If you don’t fill all of the qualifications, you may still be considered depending on your level of experience.
Responsibilities for business objects administrator
- Lead/participate in design, development, testing, implementation and support system management and support processes and procedures
- Serve as a project contributor for creative design efforts, define project requirements, develop production timelines, select appropriate formats, research the graphic content, prepare concepts for customer review, produce final artwork, coordinate with customers, ensure quality control, and prepare and deliver digital files for final output
- Managing and possessing extensive functional knowledge of all financial and material transactions derived from Government Off the Shelf (GOTS) naval ship maintenance applications and information systems to support all specialized data mining operations from MS SQL or Oracle application databases used in the enterprise
- Troubleshoots and resolves basic level system hardware, software and communications problems and aids in performing configurations and adjustments to enhance database file capacity
- Serve as administrator of the BOBJ environment including Webi, Lumira, analysis and Crystal Reports
- Build and maintain Views/universes within the Hana environment
- Build and maintain BOBJ security
- Create technical design for universes and views from functional report specifications
- Identify opportunities to streamline, standardize and automate operational reporting
- Work with enterprise level analytics all organizations across the company
Qualifications for business objects administrator
- Participate in all phases of the development of Business Objects Reports
- Assist in troubleshooting and fine-tuning the Business Objects environment
- Participate in Business Objects requirements gathering meeting with end users
- Provide technical documentation on work performed
- Restful API development for consumption through web services
- Resolve user/system issues and apply preventative measures to improve existing processes and procedures
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Our company is growing rapidly and is hiring for a business objects administrator. Thank you in advance for taking a look at the list of responsibilities and qualifications. We look forward to reviewing your resume.
Responsibilities for business objects administrator
- Perform system administration duties such as software deployments, system backups, software patching and upgrades
- Monitor the environment to proactively identify, troubleshoot and resolve issues
- Participate in the on-call rotation to support the environment and user community
- Administer security permissions, and ensure compliance to required corporate standards, procedures, guidelines and processes, including audits
- Mentor and train end users in the use of the technology
- Monitor the list of activities successfully running in the environment
- Monitor server application to ensure optimize usage of resources
- Monitor the occurrence of spikes in the user data load
- In case of spiking, track the utilization of components and identify the issue, Analyze the log files, if required
- In collaboration with the senior administrator, analyze the tickets raised by customer to identify the root cause
Qualifications for business objects administrator
- Provide afterhours support to users as required
- Perform/Maintain/Improve Documentation of Business Objects Application
- Working knowledge of SAP Business Object Universes, Crystal and WEBI reporting
- Working knowledge of Microsoft Power BI, Tableau, Qlikview
- Working knowledge of network and data connectivity, including connectivity to big data infrastructure
- Working knowledge with Linux, Windows server OS and utilities
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Job Description Example
Our company is looking to fill the role of business objects administrator. Thank you in advance for taking a look at the list of responsibilities and qualifications. We look forward to reviewing your resume.
Responsibilities for business objects administrator
- In case of any network/ database related issues, communicate to the respective teams to resolve the issues
- Perform daily environment health checks and generate reports to capture the findings
- Deploy the latest patches in the environment to improve the stability of development system to avail the latest features and to ensure the bugs of the earlier version are fixed
- Test the latest patches
- Migrate the code to Standbox
- Support the customer in testing of new patches
- Post testing the patches, seek sign off from the customer
- Maintain live and back up server
- In collaboration with the senior administrator, analyze the reports to identify the customer issues
- Resolve the incidents under technical guidance of the senior administrator
Qualifications for business objects administrator
- Working knowledge with sql and relational databases running on Windows, Unix, Linux, and mainframe
- Five years experience working with databases in MS SQL and Oracle formats
- Two years experience working with financial reporting for a major project
- Familiar with DoD Financial Reporting requirements
- Desire familiarity with STARS financial system and Navy ERP
- Applicant must have a current Secret clearance and maintain a Secret security clearance issued by the US Government