Business Intelligence/Report Development Lead – SAP Business Objects recruitment

Position Description
Position requires a BI Report developer/practitioner, with lots of experience using the Business Objects suite of reporting tools.  The candidate will work on very critical reporting initiatives working directly with Business Users, as well as other IT teams, providing meaningful BI/reporting solutions to different Business areas across the firm. (Fixed Income, Institutional Equities, FX/Emerging Markets).  Candidate must be very hands on and demonstrate a solid trajectory of successful execution/delivery in prior projects/engagements.

Responsibilities:
- Work with clients, business partners, and other IT/Infrastructure  teams to design, develop and enhance critical reporting solutions sourcing data from a diverse set of  Data Marts.
- Participate in modeling, design and documentation  of Reporting solutions for different Business use case scenarios .
- Work with Business Users gathering requirements
- Ability to plan, prioritize and execute in a fast/ high-pressured environment
- Coordinate and work directly with Offshore teams on a regular basis
- Actively address business requests, clearly communicate commitments, issues, completion dates and provide meaningful status to business stakeholders.

Skills Required
- Strong Experience with SAP Business Objects suite of BI/ reporting tools
- Strong Report design experience using Desktop Intelligence (DESKI) in creating highly complex, accurate and professional looking reports
- Strong understanding  and experience with Businesss Objects Universe design
- Strong understanding and experience with dimensional, relational modeling for data warehouse/ data marts and star schema design.
- Knowledge of BO security and administration models.
- Strong SQL skills (DB2/ Sybase, or any other RDBMS).  Ability to formulate complex SQL queries to obtain desired results.
- Ability to comprehend complex technical and logical concepts and translate into actionable tasks.
- Excellent written and verbal communications and interpersonal skills

Skills Desired
Not required, but could be nice to have:
- Report design experience using Web Intelligence (WEBI)
- Knowledge of the BO SDK for customization work.
- Other reporting tools (Cognos)
- Experience with OLAP tools/concepts.
- Experience with large DW environments
- BI visualization tools (QlikView, Spotfire etc)

Morgan Stanley is an equal opportunities employer and is committed to fair treatment, regardless of background (including criminal record).