SAP SAC Consultant

Employment Type:

Full-time (onsite). Contract-to-hire can be considered for exceptional profiles.

SAP SAC Consultant

Abu Dhabi, UAE (Onsite)

Immediate / Short Notice Preferred

We are looking for a hands‑on SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC) Consultant to support and enhance a complex, enterprise‑wide planning and analytics landscape for a large diversified group headquartered in Abu Dhabi. The environment is SAP‑centric (S/4

HANA, BW/4

HANA, Datasphere) with SAP SAC as the central platform for:

• Financial planning (P&L, Balance Sheet, Cash Flow)
• Workforce / people cost planning
• Manufacturing and operational planning
• Executive dashboards, digital boardrooms, and regulatory/management reporting

This is not a greenfield setup. The right candidate will own and evolve existing SAC solutions, ensure data accuracy and consistency vs SAP, and design driver‑based planning models that support fast, compliant decision‑making.

• Understand and document how planning is done across the organization.
• SAC Solution Ownership & Enhancement – take end‑to‑end ownership of existing SAP SAC landscape (planning models, stories, dashboards, data models).
• Plan, reconcile, and validate data for P&L, Balance Sheet, Cash Flow, Workforce, and Manufacturing functions against SAP sources.
• Design and enhance SAC planning models for revenue, cost, depreciation, headcount, and other driver‑based planning scenarios.
• Build models that work with historical data scenarios and with blank‑slate scenarios for new products or lines of business.
• Implement data actions, multi‑actions, advanced formulas, and driver‑based logic to automate and streamline planning cycles.
• Collaborate with Finance, HR, Manufacturing and other stakeholders to translate business drivers into technical models.
• Design and build CDS views and data models on S/4
  
  HANA tables, SAP Datasphere or BW/4
  
  HANA; combine multiple tables into planning‑ready views.
• Maintain SAC data models using live or import connections as appropriate.
• Ensure consistent handling of master data, currency translation, versions and scenarios, and fiscal/calendar definitions.
• Design and build SAC stories, dashboards, and digital boardrooms aligned to business KPIs and executive requirements; use responsive layouts, scripting, and value driver trees.
• Support and roll out augmented analytics / predictive features (time series forecasting, Smart Predict, Ask/Chat‑style analytics).
• Implement and maintain security, data access controls, and governance in SAC; define and enforce best practices for model design, naming conventions, documentation, and change control.
• Plan and manage testing cycles: unit testing, SIT, UAT, regression testing for new models and enhancements.
• Lead cutover activities and provide hyper‑care and post go‑live support: monitor data loads, investigate and resolve data/logic issues, track incidents, and coordinate with business & IT teams.
• Work as a partner to Finance, HR and Operations to identify opportunities to simplify processes and automate reporting.
• Support continuous improvement of user experience and self‑service analytics.

• 5‑8 years of experience in SAP BI/BO/BW/SAC with strong focus on SAC in the last few years.
• Minimum 2+ end‑to‑end SAP SAC Planning and/or Reporting implementations.

Proven experience designing planning models in SAC for:

• P&L, Balance Sheet, Cash Flow, or Workforce / People Cost planning.

Strong hands‑on experience with:

• Data Actions, Multi‑Actions, Advanced Formulas.
• Forecasting and driver‑based allocations.
• Value Driver Trees and KPI flows.

Proven ability to design driver‑based planning for:

• Manufacturing (e.g., product/recipe‑based planning for cement, paper, tissue, etc.).
• Finance (revenue, cost, margins).
• Workforce (headcount, salary, increments, promotions, benefits).

• Planning models, Analytic models.
• Story building (widgets, charts, tables, input forms).
• Scripting (Advanced Formulas, basic scripting logic).
• Responsive & optimized user interfaces.

• Connections to S/4
  
  HANA, BW/4
  
  HANA, Datasphere (preferred), and non‑SAP sources.
• Experti…