Senior Business Analyst – SAP Analytics (Transformation)

KOSTAL Group is a global, family-owned German company that develops market-leading solutions for the solar and automotive industries. The company was established in 1912 and employs about 20 000 people at 47 locations in 22 countries. In Hungary, KOSTAL is building its first business service centre to provide business support in IT, finance, procurement, master data, sales and HR fields. This is a global centre with high value-added and complex processes, which you can help to grow.

The work can be managed remotely – with time-to-time office presence depending on the team’s agreement and the demand of the respective professional area – from any location in Hungary. In case of some company events, office attendance is expected from the colleagues. Technical conditions for working from home are fully in place.

Main tasks, roles and responsibilities

Requirement Engineering & Stakeholder Management

• Elicit, analyze, and document business requirements for analytics/reporting use cases (interviews, workshops, process walkthroughs).
• Moderate workshops and align stakeholders across business functions, IT, and external partners.
• Translate business needs into clear, testable functional requirements (user stories, acceptance criteria, functional specs)
• Ensure requirements are complete, consistent, testable, and ready for implementation.

SAP ERP ECC Domain Focus (Quantities & Value Flows)

• Analyze and map end-to-end business processes and related data flows in SAP ECC (e.g., order-to-cash, procure-to-pay, production/logistics—depending on scope).
• Understand and validate Value and Quantity streams: quantities, values, postings, document chains, and controlling/logistics implications relevant for analytics.
• Ensure correct business logic and semantic consistency for KPIs, measures, and dimensional models.
• Translate business process logic into analytics and reporting requirements.

Analytics & Solution Alignment

• Work closely with solution architects and BI/analytics teams to shape solution options and ensure feasibility.
• Contribute to target concepts for modern analytics (data products, semantic layers, harmonized KPI definitions, governance).
• Support the transition towards modern analytical approaches and platforms (incl. SAP Business Data Cloud direction), ensuring requirements fit the target architecture.

Backlog & Delivery Support

• Create and maintain a prioritized backlog; support release planning and effort/value discussions.
• Coordinate and steer external consultants/developers from a functional perspective (scope clarification, requirement refinement, review of deliverables).
• Support functional testing (UAT preparation, test cases, defect triage) and ensure user enablement (documentation, trainings).
• Ensure proper documentation and user enablement (guidelines, training materials)

Experiences and requirements

Education

• University degree in Business Informatics, IT, Business Administration, Industrial Engineering, or similar.

Work experience

• Several years of experience as Business Analyst / Requirements Engineer / Functional Consultant in an SAP-centric environment (analytics, reporting, or process-related IT).
• Proven track record in requirement engineering and stakeholder management in complex, cross-functional settings.

Domain & SAP knowledge (must-have)

• Strong understanding of SAP ERP ECC processes and data, especially quantities and value flows and how they impact reporting/analytics.
• Experience translating business process logic into KPI definitions and reporting requirements.

Analytics / Data knowledge (nice-to-have)

• Understanding of analytics architectures and concepts (semantic models, data modeling basics, data quality, KPI governance).
• Exposure to SAP BW / BW4HANA, CDS-based concepts, or other SAP analytics components is beneficial (no developer role, but “solution literacy” expected).
• Familiarity with transformation programs (from legacy solutions toward modern data/analytics platforms) is a plus.

Required skills and competencies

• Strong facilitation and communication skills; confident in moderating meetings and workshops.
• Structured, analytical thinking; able to handle ambiguity and drive clarity.
• Ability to translate between business language and IT delivery language.
• High ownership, reliability, and quality mindset (documentation, traceability, testability).
• Experienced working in an international, virtual team.
• Strong requirement engineering mindset (clarity, structure, completeness).
• Confidence in stakeholder management.

Why work with us?

• Flexible working conditions with remote work possibility (in-person presence is required from time to time), you can have a real work-life balance
• Modern, newly renovated, sustainable office with parking space and bicycle storage area in the heart of Budapest
• Competitive salary, benefits and compensation packages (Medicare health insurance with dental care, bonuses, an extra day off on your birthday, eyeglasses contribution)
• Supportive, diverse and highly skilled community
• Ability to really make a difference and build new processes from scratch, you can participate in the formation and shape of the BSC processes
• You can enjoy our value-oriented work culture: we are down-to-earth, appreciative, inspiring and innovative

If you are looking for new challenges, we are looking for you! Shape the future of KOSTAL Hungary while building an international career at a 100+ years old German company! Our flexible working conditions and the excellent team at KOSTAL make the perfect place for your ambitions.