SAP SAC Consultant

Job Title SAP SAC Consultant Location Abu Dhabi, UAE (Onsite) Employment Type Full time (onsite). Contract to hire can be considered for exceptional profiles. Joining Immediate / Short Notice Preferred.

We are looking for a hands on SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC) Consultant to support and enhance a complex, enterprise wide planning and analytics landscape for a large diversified group headquartered in Abu Dhabi. The environment is SAP centric (S/4HANA, BW/4HANA, Datasphere) with SAP SAC as the central platform for: Financial planning (P&L, Balance Sheet, Cash Flow), Workforce / people cost planning, Manufacturing and operational planning, Executive dashboards, digital boardrooms, and regulatory/management reporting. This is not a greenfield setup.

1. SAC Solution Ownership & Enhancement

   Take end to end ownership of existing SAP SAC landscape (planning models, stories, dashboards, data models). Understand and document how planning is done across P&L (including revenue, COGS, margins), Balance Sheet & Cash Flow, Workforce / people cost planning. Regularly reconcile SAC data with SAP (S/4HANA, BW/4HANA, Datasphere) and ensure numbers are accurate, consistent, and explainable.

2. Planning Model Design (P&L, Balance Sheet, Workforce, Manufacturing)

   Design and enhance SAC Planning models for P&L planning, especially driver based revenue planning (e.g., units, price, product mix, raw material costs, overheads). Design Balance Sheet planning including opening balances, flows from P&L, loans, working capital, and cash planning. Plan depreciation (assets, useful life, methods and impact on P&L & BS). Design Workforce / headcount planning (salary structures, increments, promotions, new hires, attrition, benefits). Build models that work with historical data based scenarios and blank slate scenarios (e.g., new products, new lines of business without past data). Implement data actions, multi actions, advanced formulas, and driver based logic to automate and streamline planning cycles. Work closely with Finance, HR, Manufacturing and other stakeholders to translate business drivers into technical models.

3. Data Modelling, CDS Views & Integrations

   Work with SAP technical teams to design and build CDS views and data models on S/4HANA tables (e.g., ACDOCA, MATDOC, HR tables). Use SAP Datasphere and/or BW/4HANA where applicable. Combine multiple SAP tables into planning and analytics ready views, not only reusing existing OData services. Design and maintain SAC data models using live connections (for real time scenarios) and import connections (for replicated / planning scenarios where custom tables are required). Ensure consistent handling of master data & transactional data, currency translation, versions and scenarios (Actual, Budget, Forecast, Rolling Forecast), and fiscal/calendar definitions (YTD, QTD, MTD).

4. Reporting, Analytics & User Experience

   Design and build SAC Stories, dashboards, and digital boardrooms aligned to business KPIs and executive requirements. Use responsive layouts, advanced calculations, scripting and value driver trees where needed. Support and help roll out augmented analytics / predictive features (e.g., time series forecasting, Smart Predict, Ask/Chat style analytics).

5. Quality, Governance & Operations

   Implement and maintain security, data access controls, and governance in SAC: roles, teams, data access control (DAC), and story level restrictions. Define and enforce best practices for model design, naming conventions, documentation, and change control. Plan and manage testing cycles: unit testing, SIT, UAT, regression testing for new models and enhancements. Lead cutover activities and provide hyper care and post go live support: monitor data loads & planning cycles, investigate and resolve data/logic issues, track incidents, prioritize fixes, and coordinate with business & IT teams.

6. Process Improvement & Business Partnership

   Work as a partner to Finance, HR and Operations to identify opportunities to simplify processes and automate reporting. Move from pure GL based budgeting to more driver based, operationally grounded planning (e.g., recipe based manufacturing planning, product level P&L). Support continuous improvement of user experience and self service analytics.

• 5-8 years of experience in SAP BI/BO/BW/SAC, with strong focus on SAC in the last few years.
• Minimum 2+ end to end SAP SAC Planning and/or Reporting implementations.
• Proven experience designing planning models in SAC for P&L, Balance Sheet, Cash Flow, or Workforce / People Cost planning.
• Strong hands on experience with Data Actions, Multi Actions, Advanced Formulas, forecasting and driver based allocations, Value Driver Trees and KPI flows.
• Proven ability to design driver based planning for Manufacturing (e.g., product/recipe based planning for cement, paper, tissue, etc.), Finance (revenue, cost, margins), Workforce (headcount, salary, increments, promotions, benefits).
• Technical skills: SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC) - planning models, analytic models; story building (widgets, charts, tables, input forms); scripting (advanced formulas, basic scripting logic); responsive & optimized UI; data integration & connectivity - connections to S/4HANA, BW/4HANA, Datasphere (preferred), and non SAP sources; expertise with live vs import connections and when to use each; SAP data modelling - experience designing/using CDS views (ideally building with ADT/Eclipse or equivalent); familiarity with key S/4HANA tables (e.g., ACDOCA, MATDOC) and their role in financial and operational reporting.
• Good understanding of financial planning & budgeting processes - revenue planning, cost planning, depreciation, working capital; basics of P&L, Balance Sheet and Cash Flow interactions.
• Preferred experience & nice to have: industry exposure to manufacturing (paper, tissue, cement, metals, chemicals), contracting, and services; experience with workforce / HR planning (headcount, salary, increments, promotions); exposure to SAP Datasphere and/or SAP BW/4HANA data modelling; experience with agile methodologies and tools (e.g., JIRA, Azure DevOps); prior experience in multi company, multi entity groups with strict reporting timelines (e.g., listed, rated, or bond issuing entities).

• Ability to give short, precise, scenario based answers and solutions (not just general theory).
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills; comfortable with complex data and models.
• Business oriented mindset - can talk the language of Finance and Operations, not just technical jargon.
• High sense of ownership - treats SAC planning solutions as a product, not just a project.
• Excellent communication skills in English, both written and verbal.
• Comfortable working in an onsite model and collaborating with cross functional teams.