SAP SAC Consultant

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

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
• 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.

Take end-to-end ownership of existing SAP SAC landscape (planning models, stories, dashboards, data models).

Understand and document how planning is done across:

• P&L (including revenue, COGS, margins)
• Balance Sheet & Cash Flow
• Workforce / people cost planning

Regularly reconcile SAC data with SAP (S/4

HANA, BW/4

HANA, Datasphere) and ensure numbers are accurate, consistent, and explainable.

Design and enhance SAC Planning models for:

• P&L planning
  , especially driver-based revenue planning (e.g., units, price, product mix, raw material costs, overheads).
• Balance sheet planning
  , including opening balances, flows from P&L, loans, working capital, and cash planning.
• Depreciation planning (assets, useful life, methods and impact on P&L & BS).
• Workforce / headcount planning (salary structures, increments, promotions, new hires, attrition, benefits).

Build models that work both with:

• Historical databased scenarios, and
• Blank-slate scenarios (e.g., new products, new lines of business without past data).

Implement data actions, multi-actions, advanced formulas, and driver-based logic to automate and streamline planning cycles.

Work closely with Finance, HR, Manufacturing and other stakeholders to translate business drivers into technical models
.

Work with SAP technical teams to design and build CDS views and data models on:

SAP Datasphere and/or BW/4

HANA where applicable.

Combine multiple SAP tables into planning- and analytics-ready views
, not only reuse existing OData services.

Design and maintain SAC data models using:

• Live connections (for real-time scenarios).
• Import connections (for replicated / planning scenarios where custom tables are required).

Ensure consistent handling of:

• Currency translation
• Versions and scenarios (Actual, Budget, Forecast, Rolling Forecast)

Design and build SAC Stories, dashboards, and digital boardrooms aligned to business KPIs and executive requirements.

Use responsive layouts, advanced calculations, scripting and value driver trees where needed.

Support and help roll out augmented analytics / predictive features (e.g., time series forecasting, Smart Predict, Ask/Chat-style analytics).

Implement and maintain security, data access controls, and governance in SAC:

• Roles, teams, data access control (DAC), and story-level restrictions.

Define and enforce best practices for:

• 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 & planning cycles
• Investigate and resolve data/logic issues
• Track incidents, prioritize fixes, and coordinate with business & IT teams.

Work as a partner to Finance, HR and Operations to:

• Identify opportunities to simplify processes and automate reporting
  .
• Move from pure GL-based budgeting to more driver-based, operationally grounded planning (e.g., recipe-based manufacturing planning, product-level P&L).
• Support continuous improvement of user experience and self-service analytics
  .

58 years of experience in SAP…