Business Analyst

Would you like to join an international atmosphere and be involved in projects across Europe and with impact worldwide having the opportunity to consolidate your career? This is your opportunity!

We are looking for a Business Analyst to join our team!

About Us

SAP Solutions area is part of FCOS Madrid and an integral part of the central Finance \& Controlling (FC) organization of Mercedes-Benz Group.

Our team of \~67 professionals combine SAP consultancy excellence with product steering capabilities. We operate within the Dual Operating Model (Capabilities \& Products) and actively contribute to the Agile Release Trains (ARTs) under the SAFe framework across FA/SC and ITG.

Our focus lies on delivering and steering Finance Solutions based on SAP technologies, covering core end-to-end financial processes such as:

• Record-to-Report (R2R)
• Purchase-to-Pay (P2P)
• Order-to-Cash (O2C)
• Financial Services \& Mobility
• Finance Business Intelligence (FI-BI)

We provide deep expertise in Mercedes-Benz Finance templates, SAP Finance architecture, data \& analytics solutions, and agile delivery models. As a capability-driven organization, we are responsible not only for delivery excellence but also for people development, skill evolution, and long-term capability readiness aligned with MB strategy.

We operate in a highly international, matrixed environment, closely integrated with FCOS Stuttgart and global stakeholders.

Role Purpose

The Business Analyst acts as a strategic connector between business operations and technology teams. By combining data analysis, process modeling, and structured requirements gathering, the role identifies improvement opportunities, propose actionable solutions, and enhance organizational efficiency.

The role ensures the successful implementation of changes and new systems that align with the company’s strategic objectives, while enabling data‑driven decision-making and continuous process optimization, and it is based on the Profit ART and the Profit New Vehicles product.

Key Responsibilities

• Requirements Engineering \& Documentation

— Gather, analyze, specify, and validate business needs through interviews, workshops, and data analysis, ensuring clarity and alignment across stakeholders.

• Process Analysis \& Improvement

— Assess current business processes to identify inefficiencies and optimization opportunities, developing solutions that streamline operations and enhance performance.

• Solution Design \& Implementation

— Translate business needs into functional specifications for IT and development teams, supporting system implementation, testing, and rollout activities.

• Stakeholder Management

— Collaborate effectively with cross‑functional teams and stakeholders at all organizational levels, managing expectations and ensuring alignment on project goals and outcomes.

• Data Analysis \& Reporting

— Conduct system analytics, create financial models, perform variance analysis, and develop dashboards and reports to support data‑driven decision-making.

• Risk Identification \& Mitigation

— Identify potential risks associated with proposed solutions and contribute to the development of mitigation strategies.

• Data Interpretation

— Interpret complex datasets using statistical techniques, identify trends or patterns, and provide ongoing reports and actionable insights.

• Reporting \& Communication

— Prepare reports and create dashboards, graphs, and visualizations (e.g., Tableau, Power BI) to communicate findings effectively to both technical and non‑technical audiences.

• Process Improvement

— Collaborate with management and other teams to identify opportunities for process improvements, recommend system modifications, and support the development of data governance policies.

• Problem Solving

— Translate complex datasets into meaningful insights that enable informed decisions, uncover opportunities, and optimize operations.

Qualifications

Educations \& Experience

• Degree in Business Administration, Finance, Economics, Accounting, Industrial Engineering, Information Systems, Data Analytics, or related field with a strong focus on Controlling and Financial Reporting.
• More than 5 years of experience in Controlling, Accounting, or Financial Data Analysis, ideally including Sales – Revenue Controlling, contribution margin or EBIT and reporting environment.
• Understanding of Mercedes-Benz sales and revenue business processes and drivers.
• Experience designing or assessing financial processes, reporting structures, and internal control systems related to financial and sales processes.
• Ability to gather, structure, and translate business requirements into functional specifications for IT and development teams.
• Experience in SAP Finance environments (FI/CO, COPA, BW) and/or Finance Data \& Analytics.
• Experience in SAFe-based Agile environments within large-scale organizations.

Technical \& Professional Expertise

Controlling \& Finance

• Strong understanding of Controlling processes, including Sales Controlling, profitability analysis, cost accounting, cost allocation, and financial performance tracking.
• Understanding of revenue structures, pricing, margins, and profitability drivers.
• Ability to analyze EBIT contribution from sales activities.
• Knowledge of IFRS and its application in revenue reporting and ensure compliance with internal governance rules (e.g., FA Golden Rules)
• Ability to interpret actuals, understand bookings, and identify and explain deviations and underlying drivers.
• Hands‑on experience with COPA (value fields, characteristics, reporting logic) and familiarity with Mercedes‑Benz systems such as IMPACT, CoFiCo, MIF is highly desirable, for revenue and profitability reporting.
• Experience reconciling financial information across systems (e.g., COPA) and ensuring data quality and consistency.

SAP \& Financial Systems

• Strong knowledge of SAP ERP, particularly FI/CO, COPA, and CO‑OM in S/4HANA.
• Ability to trace figures end‑to‑end across the financial system landscape and identify breakpoints or inconsistencies.

BI \& Data

• Functional knowledge of BI and reporting tools: MS Fabric, Power BI, SAP AFO, SAP Analytics Cloud.
• Ability to run lightweight queries using SQL or similar tools to support variance analysis and cross‑system validation is desirable.
• Basic to intermediate knowledge of Python for data manipulation and validation is desirable.
• Understanding of data governance, data quality principles, and Finance analytics architecture.
• Understanding of AI‑based analytical methods.

Agile

• Knowledge and experience in SAFe, Scrum, and Agile methodologies.
• Strong understanding of Jira/Confluence, Azure DevOps, or comparable toolchains.

Competencies

• Strong analytical and problem‑solving abilities.
• Excellent communication skills for technical and non‑technical audiences.
• High ownership, structured working style, and stakeholder orientation.
• Ability to work in cross‑functional and matrix environments.
• Customer- and value-oriented mindsets aligned with MB standards.

Language Skills

• Fluent in English (spoken and written)
• Fluent in German is an advantage but not mandatory.

Availability for Travelling

• 25% of the time maximum.

Within our benefits as employee, we provide:

-Competitive salary \+ variable compensation

-60% Mobile work

-Flexible entering hours

-30 working days of holidays

-Annual Training Plan

-Mercedes-Benz benefits (Renting plans, employee discount)