Director - SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC) - Planning - TC - UKI

Job :
London, GB, SE1 2AF
Job Function:
Technology Consulting

Employer:

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Company: EYAt EY, we’re all in to shape your future with confidence. We’ll help you succeed in a globally connected powerhouse of diverse teams and take your career wherever you want it to go. Join EY and help to build a better working world. Technology Consulting | Director | SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC) - Planning At EY, we’re all in to shape your future with confidence.

We’ll help you succeed in a globally connected powerhouse of diverse teams and take your career wherever you want it to go. Join EY and help to build a better working world. The opportunity

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.

Key responsibilities

As an EY Director, you’ll lead project engagements, working directly with clients and EY Partners. You’ll be responsible for guiding your team through all parts of a project - from developing new opportunities and identifying value for clients, to designing and delivering solutions. Alongside your client facing role, you’ll also be part of the EPM Technology leadership team and play a key role across people leadership.

Your key responsibilities:
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)2. Commercial Leadership Own and contribute to sales pipelines, leading pursuits and proposals for EPMShape 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
3. Offering & Asset Development 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

Skills and attributes for success

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

Strong stakeholder management at executive level

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)
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