We are looking for an experienced SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC) Planning Technical/Functional Consultant with strong expertise in financial planning, budgeting, forecasting, and SAP Finance processes. The ideal candidate should have hands-on SAC implementation and administration experience, along with knowledge of SAP ECC/S/4HANA Record-to-Report (RTR) processes.
Required Technical/Functional Skills
- Hands-on experience with SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC) Planning.
- Strong knowledge of SAP RTR processes in ECC and/or S/4HANA.
- Experience in financial planning, budgeting, forecasting, and consolidation.
- SAC administration, including Stories, Models, Data Actions, Multi Actions, and Jobs.
- Experience designing and implementing custom SAC Planning Models.
- Knowledge of SAC reporting, dashboards, and analytical applications.
- Experience with SAC Excel Add-in.
- Understanding of General Ledger, Asset Accounting, Profitability Analysis, and Controlling.
- Strong communication, analytical, and stakeholder management skills.
Roles and Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and implement SAC financial planning solutions for revenue and operating cost forecasting.
- Develop SAC Stories and custom Planning Models for strategic, revenue, and operational planning.
- Manage SAC administration, including Data Actions, Multi Actions, Jobs, and planning activities.
- Support monthly/quarterly close, annual planning updates, and actuals-to-forecast processes.
- Collaborate with global FP&A teams to optimize financial planning solutions.
- Lead requirements gathering, functional design, configuration, development, and testing.
- Conduct business workshops to define functional, process, and data requirements.
- Advise stakeholders on best practices for financial and operational planning.
- Drive process improvements and innovation across enterprise FP&A solutions.
Preferred Skills
- SAP S/4HANA Finance and SAP ECC.
- SAP BW/BW4HANA and SAP Datasphere.
- Financial consolidation and enterprise planning.
- SAC security and administration.
- SAP Analytics Cloud certification.