Maconomy – Reporting Lead

Posted:
2/16/2025, 4:12:31 PM

Location(s):
Tamil Nadu, India ⋅ Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

Experience Level(s):
Senior

Field(s):
Business & Strategy

WPP is the creative transformation company. We use the power of creativity to build better futures for our people, planet, clients, and communities.

Working at WPP means being part of a global network of more than 115,000 accomplished people in 110 countries. WPP has headquarters in New York, London and Singapore and a corporate presence in major markets worldwide.

We create transformative ideas and outcomes for our clients through an integrated offer of communications, experience, commerce, and technology.

WPP and our award-winning agencies work with most of the world's biggest companies and organisations – from Ford, Unilever and P&G to Google, HSBC, and the UN. Our clients include 61 of the FTSE 100, 307 of the Fortune Global 500, all 30 of the Dow Jones 30 and 62 of the NASDAQ 100. WPP are the leader in the Bloomberg Gender Equality Index and 20th in the FTSE 100 rankings for Women on Boards.

Why we're hiring:

 

At WPP, technology is at the heart of everything we do, and it is WPP IT’s mission to enable everyone to collaborate, create and thrive. WPP IT is undergoing a significant transformation to modernise ways of working, shift to cloud and micro-service-based architectures, drive automation, digitise colleague and client experiences and deliver insight from WPP’s petabytes of data.

As we continue this journey, there is a need for a Maconomy Reporting Lead to support the Maconomy Global ERP rollout programmes along with resolving BAU reporting issues and requests.

The Maconomy Reporting Lead will lead be the first point of contact for all reporting needs from both the Maconomy rollout projects and existing users. The Reporting Lead will need to be able to create, interrogate, amend, and test reports.

 

 

What you'll be doing:

 

  • Lead the reporting development for all new Maconomy projects
  • Maintain, develop, and enhance the reporting capabilities for the Maconomy Core and Legacy systems
  • Customise the standard reporting solution to WPP specifics and standards
  • Resolve reporting issues raised by end users
  • Work with parties and providers
  • Document reporting system related changes for new and existing reports, ensuring an audit trail
  • Optimise the solution and improve performance where possible
  • Liaise with Business key users to understand and deliver reporting needs
  • Lead the implementation of a data warehouse to provide a greater reporting offering

 

What you'll need:

 

  • Experience of Finance ERP Solutions
  • Basic financial, AP, AR, projects, and HR knowledge
  • SAP Business Objects /suite including report design and universe design. Administration, setup, installation
  • Understanding of Business Intelligence requirements
  • Database, MS SQL*SERVER, SQL, PL/SQL
  • Data Warehouse, ETL, Pentaho
  • An understanding of the Software development lifecycle
  • Excellent interpersonal and communication skills both with technical and non-technical audiences

 

 

Who you are:

You're open: We are inclusive and collaborative; we encourage the free exchange of ideas; we respect and celebrate diverse views. We are accepting: of new ideas, new partnerships, new ways of working.

You're optimistic: We believe in the power of creativity, technology and talent to create brighter futures or our people, our clients and our communities. We approach all that we do with conviction: to try the new and to seek the unexpected.

You're extraordinary: we are stronger together: through collaboration we achieve the amazing. We are creative leaders and pioneers of our industry; we provide extraordinary every day.

 

What we'll give you:

Passionate, inspired people – We promote a culture of people that do extraordinary work.

Scale and opportunity – We offer the opportunity to create, influence and complete projects at a scale that is unparalleled in the industry.

Challenging and stimulating work – Unique work and the opportunity to join a group of creative problem solvers. Are you up for the challenge?

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WPP

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Headquarter Location: London, England, United Kingdom

Employee Count: 10001+

Year Founded: 1985

IPO Status: Public

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