A career at our company is an ongoing journey of discovery: our 57,000 people are shaping how the world lives, works and plays through next generation advancements in healthcare, life science and performance materials. For more than 350 years and across the world we have passionately pursued our curiosity to find novel and vibrant ways of enhancing the lives of others.
Your role: An exciting new role has opened in the Life Science Controlling Finance Systems team and will be part of a growing network of Data Analytics experts throughout the company. In this role, you will help shape the future of how we operate by driving new insights, speed, scalability and repeatability into our processes. To get there, you will need a data and system centric approach on processes that today rely heavily on MS Excel. You will identify processes that take too long to perform manually in Excel and determine if these can be scaled more effectively in a system environment. Furthermore you will identify & harmonize similar analytical processes that are done in parallel by different teams and will identify areas that have not been analyzed in a repeated way but would have value in understand trends. In addition you will perform business case analysis to target & prioritize projects.This position will be project based and may work across multiple smaller projects or a single large project utilizing an agile project methodology. Projects will require deep understanding of the underlying problem(s) and modelling new processes/data structures, which can be done with the guidance of the proper technical experts. You will be responsible to develop hypotheses on how to improve; you will then subsequently test these hypotheses with small scale implementations. You will then select the successful ideas and scale accordingly.
Who you are:
* Bachelor Degree in Computer Science, Finance, Engineering, Mathematics, Physical Sciences or related fields
* Passionate about business process design, change management and data led decision making
* 5+ years of experience as a key participant in system engineering or software development
* 3+ years’ experience in data modeling
* Familiarity in engineering with experience in ETL type work with databases (e.g. JDBC, mySQL, Microsoft SQL) and Hadoop platforms. Not all types required.
* Proficiency in SQL / Java / Python (Python required; all 3 not necessary)
* Content: Familiarity with financially relevant business processes (reporting, business case simulation & analysis, forecasting, commercial analytics)
* Experience applying process improvement methodologies (Lean, Six Sigma, Agile, etc.)
* Passionate about business process design, change management and data led decision making
* Excellent communication skills (listening, writing, verbal); Fluent in English
What we offer: With us, there are always opportunities to break new ground. We empower you to fulfil your ambitions, and our diverse businesses offer various career moves to seek new horizons. We trust you with responsibility early on and support you to draw your own career map that is responsive to your aspirations and priorities in life. Join us and bring your curiosity to life!
Curious? Apply and find more information at https://jobs.vibrantm.com