Lead SAC Functional Consultant - Finance Planning

AstraZeneca plc; Indien; Vor Ort; INR 1.800.000 - 3.200.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

AstraZeneca plc in Chennai seeks a Lead SAC Functional Consultant for Finance Planning to shape the global planning template and ensure SAP standards align with business needs across regions.

You will design SAC models, drive fit-gap assessments, oversee data migration and cutover, and collaborate with IT and business teams to deliver a unified, scalable solution within the Axial programme.

Qualifikationen

• Strong practical experience with SAC Planning and SAP Finance processes.
• Experience leading fit-gap analyses and global template design.
• Knowledge of ERP data models and end-to-end finance cycles.

Aufgaben

• Lead global standard process design for SAC Planning within Finance.
• Conduct fit-gap assessments and align designs with SAP standards.
• Oversee data migration, cutover and hypercare during deployment.
• Collaborate with IT, process owners and stakeholders to ensure alignment.

Kenntnisse

SAC Planning

SAP Finance

SAP S/4HANA

Workshop facilitation

Data migration

Stakeholder management

Tools

SAP Datasphere

SAP S/4HANA

Jobbeschreibung

Role Title: Lead SAC Functional Consultant - Finance Planning

Location: Chennai

We are one purpose-led global organisation. The enablers and innovators, ensuring that we can fulfil our mission to push the boundaries of science and discover and develop life-changing medicines. We take pride in working close to the cause, opening the locks to save lives, ultimately making a massive difference to the outside world. AstraZeneca (AZ) is in a period of strong growth and our employees have a united purpose to make a difference to patients around the world who need both our medicines and the ongoing developments from our science. In this journey AZ must continue to work across borders and with partners and new colleagues in a fast and seamless way. The ambition, size and complexity of the organisation, coupled with the opportunities afforded by new technology, has led the Board to approve a large-scale transformation programme - Axial. The Axial Programme will be powered by S/4HANA a new ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) system which will be implemented right across the organisation and will provide our business with standardised processes, enhanced financial management, common data and real time reporting, transforming the way we work through our entire supply chain - from bench to patient. The new system will be used by more than 20,000 employees daily, is foundational to all AZ entities and is central to most core business processes. This is a once in a generation programme for AstraZeneca and will shape our ways of working globally for many years to come. The Axial programme needs the best talent to work in it. Whether it's the technical skills, business understanding or change leadership, we want to ensure we have the strongest team deployed throughout. We are aiming to deliver a world class change programme that leaves all employees with a fuller understanding of their role in the end-to-end nature of our global company. This programme will provide AZ with a driven edge, to the benefit of our employees, customers and patients. The SAC Functional Consultant - Finance Planning will be responsible for the functional and technical design of SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC) Planning for Finance and related multi-functional capabilities within the Programme. This role will play an integral part in defining AstraZeneca's global Fit-to-Standard planning template, applying SAP standards while ensuring alignment with business requirements and end-to-end processes. The consultant will bring strong SAP Finance planning experience and will lead workshops to demonstrate best-practice approaches, provide functional consultancy, and promote adoption of the global template. The role will support activities across SAP Enterprise Portfolio and Project Management, Finance areas including Capex, Opex, workforce, product costing, etc., and other operational areas including demand, inventory and logistics costs. You will work closely with Enterprise Process Owners, IT Enterprise Business Partners, Product Managers, Finance SMEs, data and integration teams, and external partners to define an integrated solution. This will include designing SAC models, dimensions, hierarchies, versions, drivers, assumptions, allocations, workflows, security and reporting requirements, together with the required integration to SAP S/4HANA, SAP Datasphere and relevant third-party systems. A key responsibility will be to conduct fit-gap assessments, evaluate local requirements and recommend appropriate solutions while protecting the integrity of the global template. The consultant will assess the capabilities of SAC and other relevant platforms, define appropriate system boundaries and recommend where each capability should reside. The role will ensure that the solution is fully documented, tested and governed in accordance with programme standards. During deployment, the consultant will support localisation, business readiness, data migration, cutover, issue resolution and hypercare, ensuring a successful transition to the global solution. The successful candidate will have a solid understanding of SAC Planning and SAP Finance, including awareness of end-to-end Finance processes such as Record to Report, Procure to Pay and Order to Cash. Experience in operational planning, partner management, solution governance and the delivery of standardised global templates will be essential.

What you'll do

Lead the IT solution underpinning the global standard process design for your capability or lead area, including integrations.

Accountable for aligning system design and SAP standards with business capability requirements, ensuring consistency with S/4HANA and SAC standard functionality.

Represent your process domain on internal and external forums and contribute solution and technology opportunities that support the strategic direction.

Support the data team in the definition, migration and creation of data objects required for the AZ global design across the appli