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

EY; Manchester; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Support and coaching from colleagues

Opportunities for career development

Flexible handling of role

Job summary

A consulting firm in the UK seeks a Director for its Technology Consulting team, specializing in SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC) for Financial Planning. The role involves leading complex projects, managing senior client stakeholders, and driving innovations in AI-enabled planning. Candidates should have extensive experience in SAP Analytics, strong business finance knowledge, and the ability to lead teams across functions. They offer flexibility and support for career development.

Qualifications

• Strong experience in SAP Analytics Cloud for planning.
• Proven leadership in transformation programmes.
• Commercial acumen in sales and margin management.

Responsibilities

• Lead project engagements with clients and senior stakeholders.
• Act as senior delivery lead across complex SAC programmes.
• Shape client propositions around FP&A Transformation.

Skills

Delivering SAP Analytics Cloud solutions

Business finance processes understanding

Complex system architecture creation

Leading large-scale transformation programmes

Stakeholder management at executive level

Leading multidisciplinary teams

Tools

SAP BW

Datasphere

BDC

SAP BPC

Tagetik

Pigment

Job description

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 are looking for technologists who are driven to deliver solutions that truly transform clients’ FP&A operations.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead project engagements, working directly with clients and EY Partners.
• Guide the team through all parts of a project – from developing new opportunities and identifying value for clients, to designing and delivering solutions.
• 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).
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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

• 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

• 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.