SAP SAC Consultant

Employment Type: Full-time (onsite). Contract-to-hire can be considered for exceptional profiles.

Job Title

SAP SAC Consultant

Location

Abu Dhabi, UAE (Onsite)

Joining

Immediate / Short Notice Preferred

About the Role

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. The right candidate will own and evolve existing SAC solutions, ensure data accuracy and consistency vs SAP, and design driver based planning models that support fast, compliant decision making.

Key Responsibilities

• Understand and document how planning is done across the organization.
• SAC Solution Ownership & Enhancement - take end to end ownership of existing SAP SAC landscape (planning models, stories, dashboards, data models).
• Plan, reconcile, and validate data for P&L, Balance Sheet, Cash Flow, Workforce, and Manufacturing functions against SAP sources.
• Design and enhance SAC planning models for revenue, cost, depreciation, headcount, and other driver based planning scenarios.
• Build models that work with historical data scenarios and with blank slate scenarios for new products or lines of business.
• Implement data actions, multi actions, advanced formulas, and driver based logic to automate and streamline planning cycles.
• Collaborate with Finance, HR, Manufacturing and other stakeholders to translate business drivers into technical models.
• Design and build CDS views and data models on S/4HANA tables, SAP Datasphere or BW/4HANA; combine multiple tables into planning ready views.
• Maintain SAC data models using live or import connections as appropriate.
• Ensure consistent handling of master data, currency translation, versions and scenarios, and fiscal/calendar definitions.
• Design and build SAC stories, dashboards, and digital boardrooms aligned to business KPIs and executive requirements; use responsive layouts, scripting, and value driver trees.
• Support and roll out augmented analytics / predictive features (time series forecasting, Smart Predict, Ask/Chat style analytics).
• Implement and maintain security, data access controls, and governance in SAC; 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, investigate and resolve data/logic issues, track incidents, and coordinate with business & IT teams.
• Work as a partner to Finance, HR and Operations to identify opportunities to simplify processes and automate reporting.
• Support continuous improvement of user experience and self service analytics.

Required Qualifications & Experience

• 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 user interfaces.

Data Integration and Connectivity

• Connections to S/4HANA, BW/4HANA, Datasphere (preferred), and non SAP sources.
• Expertise with Live vs Import connections and when to use which.

SAP Data Modelling

• Experience designing/using CDS views (ideally building them 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, including:

• Revenue planning, cost planning, depreciation, working capital.
• Basics of P&L, Balance Sheet and Cash Flow interactions.

Preferred Experience & Nice to Haves

• 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).

Personal Attributes

• Ability to give short, precise, scenario based answers and solutions.
• 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 (written and verbal).
• Comfortable working in an onsite model and collaborating with cross functional teams.

Additional Information

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