SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC)/FP&A Senior Manager – High Tech

Accenture PLC; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 123,000 - 261,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

Dental benefits

Vision benefits

401(k)

Paid holidays

Paid time off

Job summary

Accenture is seeking a Financial Planning and Analytics Transformation leader to reinvent how organizations plan, forecast, and allocate resources using SAP analytics and AI capabilities.

You will partner with CFOs and FP&A executives, lead cross-functional planning programs, guide change management, and build high-performing teams to deliver measurable business value across global deployments.

Qualifications

• 8+ years delivering EPM/FP&A, budgeting, forecasting, or related finance solutions.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent required; 6+ years if associate degree.
• Experience leading planning transformation initiatives with process redesign, analytics, and technology enablement.

Responsibilities

• Lead Enterprise Performance Management and FP&A transformation programs.
• Engage CFOs and FP&A leaders to improve planning, forecasting, budgeting, and EPM.
• Originate and shape planning transformations from initial discussions to delivery.
• Design and deliver end-to-end planning solutions using SAP Analytics Cloud and SAP S/4HANA.
• Lead large-scale planning transformations from strategy to value realization.
• Guide clients in budgeting, forecasting, workforce, capital, and profitability planning.
• Define AI-enabled planning strategies leveraging SAP Business AI and related tech.
• Collaborate with Data & AI, Finance Transformation, and Industry teams.

Skills

EPM experience

FP&A expertise

Budgeting

Forecasting

Finance transformation

Leadership

Client engagement

SAP Analytics Cloud

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

SAP Analytics Cloud

SAP S/4HANA

SAP BW/4HANA

SAP Datasphere

SAP Business Data Cloud

SAP S/4HANA Finance

SAP Joule

Job description

We Are:

As part of Accenture Reinvention Services, we help CFOs, FP&A leaders, and business executives modernize planning, accelerate decisions, unlock insights, and drive sustainable growth through intelligent, data-driven performance management platforms.

Accenture's SAP practice helps clients unlock value from their SAP investments by combining deep industry experience with leading SAP technologies. We help organizations modernize planning, forecasting, budgeting, profitability analysis, and performance management capabilities.

Our SAP professionals work with many of the world's largest organizations to design and implement innovative solutions powered by SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC), SAP S/4HANA, SAP Business Data Cloud, SAP Datasphere, SAP Business AI, and other SAP technologies. With deep SAP delivery experience, industry assets, and a global network of specialists, we help clients reimagine how Financial Planning organizations create value.

You Are:

You are a Financial Planning and Analytics Transformation leader who helps organizations reinvent how they make decisions. Combining expertise in planning, analytics, business processes, and AI. You help clients move beyond traditional budgeting and forecasting toward connected, intelligent, and predictive planning.

You bring a unique blend of C-suite advisory experience, SAP technology expertise, and transformation leadership, enabling clients to create measurable value through data-driven decision making. You are equally comfortable engaging with CFOs and FP&A executives, leading solution architecture workshops, shaping complex pursuits, and overseeing large-scale SAP Planning transformations.

You thrive in dynamic environments, enjoy solving complex business challenges, and have a passion for building high-performing teams while delivering innovative planning solutions that create measurable business outcomes.

The Work:

• Lead Financial Planning Reinvention programs that transform how organizations plan, forecast, allocate resources, and drive performance.
• Engage with CFOs, FP&A leaders, and business executives to identify opportunities to improve planning, forecasting, budgeting, and enterprise performance management capabilities.
• Originate, shape, and lead planning transformation opportunities from initial client discussions through proposal development, contracting, and delivery.
• Design, architect, and deliver end-to-end planning solutions leveraging SAP Analytics Cloud Planning, SAP S/4HANA, SAP Business Data Cloud, SAP Datasphere, SAP Business AI, and related SAP technologies with user experience in mind.
• Lead large-scale financial planning and Enterprise Performance Management transformation programs from strategy and roadmap development through implementation and value realization.
• Guide clients in modernizing budgeting, forecasting, workforce planning, capital planning, sales planning, profitability planning, and scenario modeling processes.
• Define and implement AI-enabled planning strategies leveraging SAP Business AI, SAP Joule, predictive forecasting, machine learning, scenario simulation, and intelligent automation capabilities.
• Help clients identify and prioritize AI use cases that improve forecast accuracy, planning productivity, decision intelligence, and business performance.
• Collaborate with Data & AI, Finance Transformation, Supply Chain, and Industry teams to deliver connected enterprise planning capabilities.
• Help clients develop connected financial planning capabilities that integrate forecasting, budgeting, profitability analysis, management reporting, and broader Enterprise Performance Management processes.
• Drive executive workshops and facilitate key business processes, operating model, and solution architecture decisions.
• Lead cross-functional teams across planning, analytics, data integration, reporting, testing, and change management workstreams.
• Build trusted advisor relationships with CFOs, FP&A leaders, Controllers, and business executives.
• Build thought leadership, accelerators, and innovative offerings that advance Accenture's SAP Planning, Finance Transformation, and AI capabilities.
• Mentor and develop consulting professionals while building the next generation of Finance and Planning transformation leaders.

Travel may be required for this role. The amount of travel will vary from 0% to 100% depending on business need and client requirements.

Here’s What You Need:

• Minimum 8 years of experience delivering Enterprise Performance Management (EPM), Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A), budgeting, forecasting, finance transformation, or related solutions.
• Minimum 5 years of experience with SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC) Planning.
• Minimum 3 full lifecycle SAP Planning, SAC Planning, BPC Planning, or Enterprise Performance Management implementations.
• Experience leading planning transformation initiatives that combine process redesign, organizational change, analytics, and technology enablement.
• Experience integrating SAP Analytics Cloud with SAP S/4HANA, SAP BW/BW/4HANA, SAP Datasphere, or other enterprise platforms.
• Experience managing large, geographically distributed delivery teams in a global delivery environment.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent (minimum 12 years' work experience). If associate’s degree, must have equivalent minimum 6-year work experience.

Bonus Points If

• You have a MBA, CPA, CMA, CFA, or other professional Finance certification.
• You are a SAP Certified Associate in SAP Analytics Cloud (C_SAC_2601 or current successor certification), SAP Datasphere, SAP Business Data Cloud, SAP S/4HANA Finance, Group Reporting, BW/4HANA, or Integrated Business Planning (IBP).
• You have experience with SAP Business AI, Joule, predictive forecasting, machine learning, intelligent automation, and generative AI technologies.

Role Location Annual Salary Range

California $132,500 to $302,400

Colorado $132,500 to $261,300

Connecticut $132,500 to $261,300

District of Columbia $141,100 to $278,200

Illinois $122,700 to $261,300

Maine $112,900 to $222,500

Maryland $132,500 to $261,300

Massachusetts $132,500 to $278,200

Minnesota $132,500 to $261,300

New York $122,700 to $302,400

New Jersey $141,100 to $302,400

Ohio $122,700 to $241,900

Virginia $122,700 to $278,200

Washington $141,100 to $278,200

We anticipate this job posting will be posted until 12/01/2026.

Accenture offers a market competitive suite of benefits including medical, dental, vision, life, and long-term disability coverage, a 401(k) plan, bonus opportunities, paid holidays, and paid time off.

See more information on our benefits here: U.S. Employee Benefits | Accenture

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