Director - SAP Analytics Cloud; SAC - Planning - TC - UKI

Location:

London

Other locations:
Primary Location Only

Date: 15 Apr 2026

Requisition

Technology Consulting | Director | SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC) - Planning

Our EY EPM team is dedicated to helping clients unlock business value by harnessing the latest SAP innovations. We’re looking for directors who are both tech‑savvy and business‑minded, with a genuine passion for connecting SAP technology to real‑world business challenges. We are looking for technologists who are driven to deliver solutions that truly transform clients’ FP&A operations.

1. Client Leadership & Delivery Oversight

• Act as senior delivery lead across complex SAC programmes focused on financial planning, ensuring successful outcomes across scope, quality, timeline, and budget
• Provide oversight and challenge on solution architecture, ensuring alignment with client enterprise data strategies
• Manage senior client stakeholders (CFO, CIO, Head of Data/FP&A), acting as a trusted advisor
• Resolve critical delivery risks and escalations across work streams
• Ensure integration across finance, data, and technology domains (e.g. SAC Planning, BDC, Datasphere/Databricks/Snowflake)
• Own and contribute to sales pipelines, leading pursuits and proposals for EPM
• Shape client propositions around FP&A Transformation
• Lead bid teams, including solutioning, pricing, and commercial structuring
• Drive revenue growth and margin performance across engagements
• Identify and originate new opportunities within existing client accounts
• Define and evolve the EPM offering, including go-to-market propositions
• Lead development of reusable assets
• Drive innovation in areas such as AI‑enabled planning and predictive analytics

4. Practice & Capability Leadership

• Build and develop the SAC capability, including mentoring junior colleagues
• Support recruitment and workforce planning aligned to growth strategy
• Establish delivery standards, methods, and best practices across the practice
• Foster a high‑performance culture focused on quality, collaboration, and continuous improvement

5. Thought Leadership & Market Presence

• Represent the firm externally in client meetings, industry forums, and with alliance partners
• Contribute to thought leadership
• Position the practice as a leader in SAC and SAP data & analytics solutions

Key skills & experience required:

• Strong experience delivering SAP Analytics Cloud solutions, focusing on planning use cases (multiple full project life cycles)
• Deep understanding of business finance processes and how SAC can be leveraged to support these
• Ability to create complex system architecture
• Proven track record of leading large‑scale transformation programmes
• Demonstrated commercial acumen, including sales, pricing, and margin management
• Ability to lead multidisciplinary teams across functional and technical domains

Ideally, you’ll also have:

• Industry expertise (energy / defence / retail / life sciences)
• Experience with other EPM tools (SAP BPC / Tagetik / Lumel / Pigment)
• Experience with consolidation tools (SAP Group Reporting / Tagetik)
• SAP analytics experience (SAP BW / Datasphere / BDC)

• Support, coaching and feedback from some of the most engaging colleagues around
• Opportunities to develop new skills and progress your career
• The freedom and flexibility to handle your role in a way that’s right for you