Director SAP Analytics Cloud - Planning

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

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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 workstreams
• 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 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

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 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

EY | Building a better working world

EY is building a better working world by creating new value for clients, people, society and the planet, while building trust in capital markets.

Enabled by data, AI and advanced technology, EY teams help clients shape the future with confidence and develop answers for the most pressing issues of today and tomorrow.

EY teams work across a full spectrum of services in assurance, consulting, tax, strategy and transactions. Fuelled by sector insights, a globally connected, multi-disciplinary network and diverse ecosystem partners, EY teams can provide services in more than 150 countries and territories.

If you can confidently demonstrate that you meet the criteria above, please contact us as soon as possible.

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