Business Intelligence and Reporting Development Technician

This position is located in the Operations Support Division, Office of Information and Communications Technology (OICT/OSD) in New York. The Office of Information and Communications Technology (OICT) provides enterprise-wide oversight of ICT programmes, budgets and decision-making to ensure alignment with the Secretariat's overall ICT strategy in support of the Organization's mission. OICT is also responsible for the delivery of applications that satisfy the requirements of the UN Secretariat, field missions and other DOS supported entities. OICT has implemented a range of systems and analytical tools to address the principal requirements of its clients to support and enhance the processes UN undertakes. 

This position is part of OICT’s Reporting and Data Management (RDM) team in Valencia, Spain and will work to deliver data and business intelligence products.

This is a position in UNOPS for supporting projects carried out for or in the United Nations Secretariat. The incumbent of this position will be a personnel of UNOPS under its full responsibility.    

Summary of Key Functions 

1. Business Intelligence (BI) and data development
2. BI and Data support and maintenance
3. Documentation and training

Under the overall supervision of the UNOPS Senior Manager, the incumbent will work under the guidance of the Reporting and Data Management Delivery Lead and directly report to the  Business Intelligence Architecture Analyst in the UNGSC Valencia, Spain and is responsible for the following duties:

• Assist in the design and development of reports and dashboards using tools like SAP Business Intelligence (Web Intelligence and Analysis Workspace) and MS Power BI.
• Analyze requirements and develop visualizations and reporting solutions.
• Support the development of SAP HANA views and SAP BW data models.
• Implement ETL processes to bring data from different data sources into data repositories and warehouses.
• Perform sanity checks and unit testing of reports; participate in end-user testing for bug fixing and issues resolution.
• Liaise with SAP Basis and other operation teams to provide recommendations on performance, security, and user interface.
• Process support Work Orders by troubleshooting and resolving reporting and BI incidents and problems.
• Develop documentation, training materials and conduct training sessions when needed.
• Perform other ICT related duties as required

• High school diploma or equivalent
• First-level university degree in Applied Mathematics, Electronics, Statistics, Computer Science, Information Systems / Technology, Engineering or related field is an asset or advantage

• Minimum of five (5) years of progressively responsible professional experience in the field of ICT, Electronics, Information Systems, or other related fields is required. 
• A candidate with a first level University degree must have at least one (1) year of experience in the relevant area.
• Minimum 3 years experience with Power BI or SAP Business Objects or SAP BW or SAP ERP.
• Minimum 1 years experience with data integration, cleansing, ETL related areas
• Minimum 1 years experience with Microsoft SQL or any other database tool

• Experience in solving analytical problems using quantitative techniques
• Experience in SAP HANA
• Experience in SAP ERP in logistic areas (SAP TM, MM, SRM, PM, etc. )
• Ability to take high level, loosely-defined business problems and identify precise, quantitative solutions.

• Fluency in spoken and written English is a requirement, knowledge of a second UN language an advantage.

Contract type: Staff
Contract level: G5
Contract duration: One year initially, renewable subject to satisfactory performance and funding availability



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• Please note that the closing date is midnight Copenhagen time
• Applications received after the closing date will not be considered.
• Only those candidates that are short-listed for interviews will be notified.
• Qualified female candidates are strongly encouraged to apply.
• UNOPS seeks to reasonably accommodate candidates with special needs, upon request.
• Work life harmonization - UNOPS values its people and recognizes the importance of balancing professional and personal demands. We have a progressive policy on work-life harmonization and offer several flexible working options. This policy applies to UNOPS personnel on all contract types
• UNOPS seeks to reasonably accommodate candidates with special needs, upon request.
• For staff positions only, UNOPS reserves the right to appoint a candidate at a lower level than the advertised level of the post
• The incumbent is responsible to abide by security policies, administrative instructions, plans and procedures of the UN Security Management System and that of UNOPS.  

It is the policy of UNOPS to conduct background checks on all potential recruits/interns.
Recruitment/internship in UNOPS is contingent on the results of such checks.

UNOPS is an operational arm of the United Nations, supporting the successful implementation of its partners’ peacebuilding, humanitarian and development projects around the world. Our mission is to help people build better lives and countries achieve sustainable development.

UNOPS areas of expertise cover infrastructure, procurement, project management, financial management and human resources.

Working with us

UNOPS offers short- and long-term work opportunities in diverse and challenging environments across the globe. We are looking for creative, results-focused professionals with skills in a range of disciplines.

Diversity

With over 4,000 UNOPS personnel and approximately 7,000 personnel recruited on behalf of UNOPS partners spread across 80 countries, our workforce represents a wide range of nationalities and cultures. We promote a balanced, diverse workforce — a strength that helps us better understand and address our partners’ needs, and continually strive to improve our gender balance through initiatives and policies that encourage recruitment of qualified female candidates.

Work life harmonization

UNOPS values its people and recognizes the importance of balancing professional and personal demands.

Background Information: Sustainable Development Cluster(SDC)

Based in New York, the Sustainable Development Cluster (SDC) supports diverse partners with their peacebuilding, humanitarian and development operations.

The SDC’s services include grants management, development and special initiatives support, and technology support to the UN and UN agencies.

The SDC is part of the New York Service Cluster that supports the United Nations Secretariat, as well as a broadening community of other New York-based United Nations organizations, bilateral and multilateral partners in the delivery of UNOPS mandate in project management, infrastructure management, and procurement management.