Job title: IT Lead Business Analyst
Location: Mexico City, México
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About the role:
Role responsibilities:
Strategic Business Partner: Serve as the key liaison between Finance (FI), Sales (SD), and Technology teams, balancing the needs and priorities of multiple stakeholders to translate business requirements into viable S/4HANA functional and technical specifications. Facilitate effective communication across teams, leveraging strong business acumen to align objectives and drive successful outcomes.
Value Management: Develop, analyze, and present business cases to assess the financial and strategic viability of new initiatives, utilizing data analytics, quantitative insights, and executive-level storytelling to clearly communicate expected business impact, support decision-making, and secure stakeholder alignment.
Integration Architecture: Design and oversee the integration strategy between S/4HANA and external systems (Banks, CRM, SAT), defining scalable architectures, processes, and technology solutions that enhance operational efficiency, business continuity, and long-term digital transformation. Apply process and systems design expertise to ensure seamless interoperability across the technology ecosystem.
Vendor & Project Management: Lead and coordinate technology vendors, external support teams, and software development partners, ensuring compliance with service level agreements, quality standards, project timelines, and deliverables through strong project management practices, effective stakeholder coordination, and clear communication.
Data Analytics & Business Intelligence: Define and drive the Business Intelligence and financial/commercial reporting strategy, leveraging advanced analytical tools, quantitative methodologies, and emerging technologies to generate reliable business insights, identify improvement opportunities, and support data-driven decision-making across the organization. Apply a tech-savvy mindset to continuously enhance reporting capabilities and analytics solutions.
Exprience, Skills & Qualifications
Essentials:
Bachelor’s degree in Information Systems Engineering, Information Technology, Computer Science, or a related field.
Minimum of 5 years of experience in SAP Consulting, IT Business Partner, or IT Project Management roles.
SAP S/4HANA Expertise: Advanced functional knowledge of FI (Finance) and SD (Sales & Distribution) modules. Strong understanding of the end-to-end Order-to-Cash (O2C) process is required.
Demonstrated ability to develop business cases, perform cost-benefit analyses, and interpret basic financial statements to support investment and business decisions.
Experience with the conceptual and technical design of system interfaces and APIs (REST/SOAP) to enable integration between enterprise platforms.
Proven experience managing external vendors, project timelines, budgets, and service delivery.
Advanced English (C1): Strong verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to interact effectively with global stakeholders and work with technical documentation.
Desirable:
Business Intelligence Tools: Hands-on experience with Power BI, Tableau, or SAP Analytics Cloud.
In-depth knowledge of Mexican Electronic Invoicing regulations, including CFDI 4.0 and payment complements.
Certifications in SAP S/4HANA, PMP (Project Management Professional), or Agile methodologies such as Scrum and Kanban.
Basic ABAP code reading and debugging skills, as well as intermediate SQL query knowledge.
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Skills Required
- Bachelor’s degree in Information Systems Engineering, Information Technology, Computer Science, or a related field.
- At least 5 years of experience in SAP consulting, IT business partnering, or IT project management.
- Advanced functional knowledge of SAP S/4HANA FI and SD modules.
- Strong understanding of the end-to-end Order-to-Cash process.
- Experience developing business cases, performing cost-benefit analyses, and interpreting basic financial statements.
- Experience designing system interfaces and APIs using REST or SOAP.
- Experience managing external vendors, project timelines, budgets, and service delivery.
- Advanced English proficiency at C1 level, including strong verbal and written communication.
- Hands-on experience with Power BI, Tableau, or SAP Analytics Cloud.
- Knowledge of Mexican electronic invoicing regulations, including CFDI 4.0 and payment complements.
- Certification in SAP S/4HANA, PMP, or Agile methodologies such as Scrum or Kanban.
- Basic ABAP code reading and debugging skills.
- Intermediate SQL query knowledge.
What We Do
Research and learning are the cornerstones of progress, which is why we open doors to discovery for our communities, enabling millions of researchers, clinicians, educators and other professionals to access, trust and make sense of the latest insights. Springer Nature is an ambitious and dynamic organisation. For over 180 years our imprints, books, journals, platforms, and technology solutions have been a trusted source of knowledge to our communities. Today, more than ever, we see it as our responsibility to ensure that fundamental knowledge can be found, verified, understood, and used, ensuring that the world continues to make progress, improving and enriching lives and helping to protect our planet for future generations. Global key facts: Established for over 180 years Nearly 10,000 colleagues 200 offices in 45 countries on all continents World’s largest academic book publisher Publisher of Nature, the world’s most influential journal First company to publish more than 1 million Open Access articles Key brands and imprints: Springer Nature is home to some of the best-known names in research, health, educational and professional publishing. Every day, around the globe, our brands reach millions of people. Nature Springer BMC Palgrave Macmillan Apress Macmillan Education Scientific American Springer Healthcare Springer Medizin Research Square J.B. Metzler BSL Adis
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