Principal Data Analyst

Cummins is seeking a hands-on SAP Data professional who is equally comfortable analyzing data, resolving complex issues, engaging with business stakeholders, and executing migration activities. This is a critical role and requires a self-starter who takes ownership, delivers outcomes, has the credibility and experience to lead critical data activities and data quality across complex business and technical environments within a major S/4HANA transformation program.

Location – This role could be based in any major Australian city.

To be successful in this role you will need the following: 

• Analyze legacy data sources and SAP data structures.
• Define and execute source-to-target mappings for master and transactional data.
• Perform detailed data profiling, quality assessments, and root cause analysis of data issues.
• Drive data cleansing, enrichment, standardization, and remediation activities across business functions.
• Build, validate, and execute migration datasets for multiple migration cycles.
• Support ETL development, data transformation, load execution, and reconciliation activities.
• Perform hands-on data validation and resolve migration defects through to closure.
• Develop migration rules, automation framework, establish reusable components to support factory model, data quality controls, and governance standards.
• Lead data readiness assessments and provide clear reporting on migration progress and risks.
• Partner with business stakeholders, SAP functional consultants, and technical teams to ensure successful migration outcomes.
• Support mock conversions, dress rehearsals, cutover activities, and production deployment.
• Take ownership of data issues, driving resolution and ensuring delivery against program milestones.

To be successful in this role you will need the following: 

• Proven experience delivering SAP data migration workstreams on large-scale transformation programs.
• Strong SAP S/4HANA knowledge with a solid understanding of key business processes and data models.
• Experience migrating both master and transactional data across Finance, Procurement, Supply Chain, Manufacturing, and Service Management domains.
• Build, validate, and execute migration datasets using SAP BODS, BDC, and other migration tools. 
• Strong ETL, data quality, data governance, and data management expertise.
• Hands-on experience with data extraction, transformation, cleansing, reconciliation, and migration execution.
• Ability to work independently, challenge stakeholders, and drive delivery in complex environments.
• Experience with SAP S/4HANA 2021 and higher implementations and upgrades is essential.
• Exposure to SAP Business AI capabilities and SAP Joule within the S/4HANA ecosystem and leveraging AI-assisted tools for data analysis, data quality assessment, data mapping, and migration acceleration, is highly desirable and will be key differentiator for the candidate.

At Cummins, we are an equal opportunity employer dedicated to diversity in the workplace. Our policy is to provide equal employment opportunities to all qualified persons without regard to race, gender, colour, disability, national origin, age, religion, union affiliation, sexual orientation, veteran status, citizenship, gender identity and/or expression, or other status protected by law.

Seeking a hands-on SAP Data professional who is equally comfortable analyzing data, resolving complex issues, engaging with business stakeholders, and executing migration activities. This is a critical role and requires a self-starter who takes ownership, delivers outcomes, has the credibility and experience to lead critical data activities and data quality across complex business and technical environments within a major S/4HANA transformation program.