SAS South Pacific

SAS

At SAS, our mission is to deliver superior software and services that give people the power to make the right decisions. We want to be the most valued competitive weapon in business decision-making.

What does SAS do?

SAS helps organisations gain critical insight from their ever-increasing amounts of information. This enables them to understand their customers, their suppliers and their internal organisation – the power to know. SAS’s business solutions include e-Intelligence, Customer Relationship Management and Enterprise Performance Management.

SAS – a global perspective

SAS was founded in 1976, and remains the world’s largest privately held software company with more than 8,000 employees worldwide.

SAS customers comprise more than 31,000 business, government and university sites in over 120 countries. Recent research has shown that 98 of the top 100 fortune companies are SAS customers, and there are 3.5 million users of SAS software worldwide.

Our commitment to customer-driven research and development means that we reinvests almost a third of our revenue in R & D, more than double the industry average. Coupled with strategic alliances with other leading technology vendors, this commitment to R & D ensures that our customers gain maximum rewards from their SAS investments.

Our 2000 worldwide revenues totalled $1.12 billion.

SAS in Australia and NZ

SAS Australia and SAS New Zealand have over 1100 licensed sites across the region, within several key markets including:

Financial Services

Energy & Infrastructure

Information, Communication and Technology

Government

Commercial

We have over 170 employees in the region, with offices in Sydney (Head Office), Auckland, Adelaide, Brisbane, Canberra, Melbourne, Perth and Wellington.


SAS – a leading employer

If you treat employees as if they make a difference to the company, they will make a difference to the company.

That has been the employee-focused philosophy behind SAS’s corporate culture since 1976, and the SAS environment is designed to enable employees to perform well at work and to have a life outside of work.

SAS has been ranked No.6 in the top 10 of FORTUNE 2000 magazine’s list of 100 Best Companies to work for in America, and locally SAS is ranked in the top 10 best companies to work in Australia by Hewitt & Associates in 2000.

The Corporate Research Foundations' 1999 studies included SAS in both 'The Most Promising Companies in Australia' and 'The Best Companies to Work for in Australia'. SAS was also included in the 2001 study of the 'The Best IT & T Companies in Australia'.


What sort of people do we employ?

SAS is looking to recruit experienced computing professionals who have one or more of the following:

• Tertiary qualifications in business and information systems and experience in software application maintenance or development
  
  
• Proven communication skills: oral, written and presentation, team work, and problem solving skills
  
  
• Experience in systems analysis and design of significant applications including the development of functional specifications and detailed design documentation
  
  
• Team leadership and project management experience
  
  
• Data manipulation, analysis and data mining skills
  
  
• Significant experience in applications programming, ideally including SAS

For other employment opportunities at SAS, please see our Jobs by SAS.


Benefits

Training - For all new employees, SAS has a comprehensive induction program that covers many facets of SAS’s operations, as well as extensive training in SAS software and business solutions. On-going training and development programs including subsidised tertiary education are designed to enhance employees’ career and personal development.

Career development - at SAS we believe that employees are the most responsible for their own Career Development. Our staff are encouraged to be proactive in planning their own career path and the associated Learning and Development activities that are required to support this.

Offices – SAS’s head office is located in Lane Cove, a harbour-side garden suburb near the Sydney CBD. Sporting & recreational facilities such as tennis and squash, as well as on-site parking and a subsidised canteen are provided. Each of the regional offices in other Australian and New Zealand capital cities provides excellent working environments.

How to apply

Please review our current job opportunities below, or visit www.sas.com for further information.