SAC Planning Consultant

NTT DATA strives to hire exceptional, innovative and passionate individuals who want to grow with us. If you want to be part of an inclusive, adaptable, and forward-thinking organization, we are currently seeking a SAC Planning Consultant to join our team in Hyderabad, Telangana (IN-TG), India (IN).

• Work closely with Finance and business stakeholders to understand planning, budgeting, forecasting, and reporting requirements.
• Participate in requirement gathering, solution design, testing, deployment, documentation, and user adoption activities related to planning initiatives.
• Design and implement planning solutions supporting annual budgeting, rolling forecasts, FP&A processes, and long-range planning.
• Collaborate with business and technical teams to integrate planning solutions with SAP and non-SAP enterprise systems.
• Recommend process improvements and planning best practices based on implementation experience.
• Support production planning activities, issue resolution, and continuous enhancements.

• Hands-on experience delivering SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC) Planning solutions in enterprise environments.
• Experience implementing planning processes such as FP&A, Opex Planning, Workforce planning, CAPEX planning, Revenue planning, and management reporting.
• Experience supporting complex planning environments involving multiple business units, planning cycles, scenarios, versions, and approval workflows.
• Background in SAP BPC, BW-IP, BW Planning, Anaplan, or similar enterprise planning solutions is highly preferred.
• Experience working within integrated landscapes including S/4
  
  HANA, Success Factors, Datasphere, and non-SAP source systems.
• Ability to work directly with business stakeholders and translate planning requirements into scalable solutions.

• Limited experience or interest in taking ownership of work, issue resolution, and not having delivery outcomes mindset.
• Have only completed SAC Planning training or certification but have not participated in a production implementation.
• This role is focused on enterprise planning and forecasting solutions.
• Candidates with experience primarily in SAC reporting, dashboards, stories, and analytics, without significant SAC Planning implementation experience, may not be a fit.

Ideally, a resource that has integrated SAC planning with Group Reporting, Project Systems and / or PPM would be perfect, but this is not a hard requirement.

NTT DATA is a $30 billion business and technology services leader, serving 75% of the Fortune Global 100. We are committed to accelerating client success and positively impacting society through responsible innovation. We are one of the world's leading AI and digital infrastructure providers, with unmatched capabilities in enterprise-scale AI, cloud, security, connectivity, data centers and application services. our consulting and Industry solutions help organizations and society move confidently and sustainably into the digital future.

As a Global Top Employer, we have experts in more than 50 countries. We also offer clients access to a robust ecosystem of innovation centers as well as established and start‑up partners. NTT DATA is a part of NTT Group, which invests over $3 billion each year in R&D. Whenever possible, we hire locally to NTT DATA offices or client sites.

This ensures we can provide timely and effective support tailored to each client’s needs. While many positions offer remote or hybrid work options, these arrangements are subject to change based on client requirements. For employees near an NTT DATA office or client site, in-office attendance may be required for meetings or events, depending on business needs. At NTT DATA, we are committed to staying flexible and meeting the…