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

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

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 seek technologists driven to deliver solutions that truly transform clients’ FP&A operations.

Key responsibilities

Your key responsibilities:

1. Client Leadership & Delivery Oversight
2. Act as senior delivery lead across complex SAC programmes focused on financial planning, ensuring successful outcomes across scope, quality, timeline, and budget
3. Provide oversight and challenge on solution architecture, ensuring alignment with client enterprise data strategies
4. Manage senior client stakeholders (CFO, CIO, Head of Data/FP&A), acting as a trusted advisor
5. Resolve critical delivery risks and escalations across workstreams
6. Ensure integration across finance, data, and technology domains (e.g. SAC Planning, BDC, Datasphere/Databricks/Snowflake)

7. Commercial Leadership
8. Own and contribute to sales pipelines, leading pursuits and proposals for EPM
9. Shape client propositions around FP&A Transformation
10. Lead bid teams, including solutioning, pricing, and commercial structuring
11. Drive revenue growth and margin performance across engagements
12. Identify and originate new opportunities within existing client accounts

13. Offering & Asset Development
14. Define and evolve the EPM offering, including go‑to‑market propositions
15. Lead development of reusable assets
16. Drive innovation in areas such as AI‑enabled planning and predictive analytics

17. Practice & Capability Leadership
18. Build and develop the SAC capability, including mentoring junior colleagues
19. Support recruitment and workforce planning aligned to growth strategy
20. Establish delivery standards, methods, and best practices across the practice
21. Foster a high‑performance culture focused on quality, collaboration, and continuous improvement

22. Thought Leadership & Market Presence
23. Represent the firm externally in client meetings, industry forums, and with alliance partners
24. Contribute to thought leadership
25. 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 lifecycles)
• 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)

What working at EY offers

We offer a competitive remuneration package where you’ll be rewarded for your individual and team performance. Our comprehensive Total Rewards package includes support for flexible working and career development, and with FlexEY you can select benefits that suit your needs, covering holidays, health and well‑being, insurance, savings and a wide range of discounts, offers and promotions. Plus, we offer:

• 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

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