SAP Analytics Cloud Planning - Senior Associate

PwC Acceleration Center India; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 1,800,000 - 2,800,000; Full time

Job summary

PwC Acceleration Center India is seeking a Senior Associate to design and deliver SAP Analytics Cloud Planning solutions within Advisory, leveraging SAP technology to improve planning and reporting for clients.

You\'ll mentor juniors, lead engagements, coordinate with global teams, and ensure delivery quality while managing SLAs and incidents.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required.
• Minimum 6 years of experience in SAP analytics/planning.
• Fluent English: oral and written proficiency required.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with the team to solve complex business issues from strategy to execution.
• Mentor junior resources and conduct knowledge sharing sessions.
• Ensure adherence to SLAs and manage incidents, changes, and problems.
• Interact with onsite teams and provide project status updates.

Skills

English proficiency

Leadership

Communication

Client interaction

Team leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

SAP Analytics Cloud

SAP Datasphere

SAP BW

SAP BPC

HANA

S/4HANA

Job description

The Opportunity

Join our Acceleration Center India and help shape the future of business for our diverse client portfolio across geographies and jurisdictions. You'll work at the heart of global teams across Advisory, Assurance, Tax and Business Services - solving real client challenges through connected collaboration. We'll help you grow your skills so you can go further. With hands-on learning, cutting-edge tools and an inclusive culture, this is your opportunity to do inspiring work that makes a difference - every day.

As a SAP Analytics Cloud Planning Senior Associate you will support client needs by designing and delivering planning solutions within our Advisory practice, focusing on SAP technology and business application consulting. As a Senior Associate you will analyze complex situations, build meaningful client connections, guide junior team members, and use critical thinking to develop deliverables that fit broader project objectives and business context. In this role at PwC, you will help clients optimize operational efficiency through SAP Analytics Cloud Planning, contribute to implementation and support activities, and apply your technical skills to configuration, development, and ongoing solution support.

Responsibilities

As a Senior Associate, you'll work as part of a team of problem solvers, helping to solve complex business issues from strategy to execution. PwC Professional skills and responsibilities for this management level include but are not limited to:

• Use feedback and reflection to develop self-awareness, personal strengths and address development areas.
• Proven track record as an SME in chosen domain.
• Ability to come up with Client POC/POV for integrating/increasing adoption of emerging Tech. like Blockchain, AI et al with the product platform they are associated with.
• Mentor Junior resources within the team, conduct KSS and lessons learnt.
• Flexible to work in stretch opportunities/assignments.
• Demonstrate critical thinking and the ability to bring order to unstructured problems.
• Ticket Quality and deliverables review.
• Status Reporting for the project.
• Adherence to SLAs, experience in incident management, change management and problem management.
• Review your work and that of others for quality, accuracy and relevance.
• Know how and when to use tools available for a given situation and can explain the reasons for this choice.
• Seek and embrace opportunities which give exposure to different situations, environments and perspectives.
• Use straightforward communication, in a structured way, when influencing and connecting with others.
• Able to read situations and modify behavior to build quality relationships.
• Uphold the firm's code of ethics and business conduct.
• Demonstrate leadership capabilities by working with clients directly and leading the engagement.
• Work in a team environment that includes client interactions, workstream management, and cross-team collaboration.
• Good Team player. Take up cross competency work and contribute to COE activities.
• Escalation/Risk management.

What You Must Have

• At least a Bachelor's degree
• At least 6 years of experience
• Oral and written proficiency in English required

What Sets You Apart

• Have extensive or at least 6 years of SAP experience and has worked on multiple SAP Analytics Cloud support or implementation projects..
• Understand client requirements, provide solutions, functional specifications and implement technical components accordingly.
• Ability to create Technical Design Documents (TDD) and Unit Test documents for the technical solutions being implemented.
• Excellent Communication, analytical and Interpersonal skills as a Consultant and play key role of team lead.
• Good experience in creating both analytic and planning data models.
• Troubleshoot SAC Planning issues, including data load failures, data action/multi-action failures, performance issues, authorization issues, and planning data inconsistencies.
• Strong experience building SAC Stories and planning interfaces.
• Experience implementing planning security and Data Access Controls (DAC).
• Good understanding of SAC data integration and import mechanisms.
• Strong experience in creating , maintaining import models, applying transformations, Dimensions etc.
• Strong knowledge of Data analyzer
• Experience in performing what if analysis & value driver tree simulation.
• Experience in advanced planning functions like data actions, allocations, distributions & Spreading
• Forecasting by combining actuals plus plan, Predictive forecasting, Trend analysis
• Has exposure in setting up import & live connection to various sources like BW, BPC, HANA, Universe, Success Factor etc.
• Experience in writing data back to Standard BPC, Embedded BW & S4HANA.
• In addition to the above the candidate should have been involved in the following during the life cycle of SAP support project
• Unit Testing, Integration Testing
• User Support activities
• Exposure to ASAP and other structured ITIL methodologies
• Regularly interact with the onsite team/client
• Provide status updates in daily/weekly conference calls
• Maintain cordial relationship with onsite team/client

Preferred Skills

• Good Experience in SAC Planning and reporting
• Good Experience in SAP Datasphere
• ITIL 4 Certification