SAP SAC Consultant

Job Title

SAP SAC Consultant

Location

Abu Dhabi, UAE (Onsite)

Employment Type

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

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

1. SAC Solution Ownership & Enhancement

• Take end-to-end ownership of existing SAP SAC landscape (planning models, stories, dashboards, data models).
• Understand and document how planning is done across:
• P&L (including revenue, COGS, margins)
• Balance Sheet & Cash Flow
• Workforce / people cost planning
  
• Regularly reconcile SAC data with SAP (S/4HANA, BW/4HANA, Datasphere) and ensure numbers are accurate, consistent, and explainable.
  
  

2. Planning Model Design (P&L, Balance Sheet, Workforce, Manufacturing)

• Design and enhance SAC Planning models for:
• P&L planning, especially driver-based revenue planning (e.g., units, price, product mix, raw material costs, overheads).
• Balance sheet planning, including opening balances, flows from P&L, loans, working capital, and cash planning.
• Depreciation planning (assets, useful life, methods and impact on P&L & BS).
• Workforce / headcount planning (salary structures, increments, promotions, new hires, attrition, benefits).
  
• Build models that work both with:
• Historical databased scenarios, and
• Blank-slate scenarios (e.g., new products, new lines of business without past data).
  
• Implement data actions, multi-actions, advanced formulas, and driver-based logic to automate and streamline planning cycles.
• Work closely with Finance, HR, Manufacturing and other stakeholders to translate business drivers into technical models.
  
  

3. Data Modelling, CDS Views & Integrations

• Work with SAP technical teams to design and build CDS views and data models on:
• S/4HANA tables (e.g., ACDOCA, MATDOC, HR tables, etc.).
• SAP Datasphere and/or BW/4HANA where applicable.
  
• Combine multiple SAP tables into planning- and analytics-ready views, not only reuse existing OData services.
• Design and maintain SAC data models using:
• Live connections (for real-time scenarios).
• Import connections (for replicated / planning scenarios where custom tables are required).
  
• Ensure consistent handling of:
• Master data & transactional data
• Currency translation
• Versions and scenarios (Actual, Budget, Forecast, Rolling Forecast)
• Fiscal/calendar definitions (YTD, QTD, MTD, etc.).
  
  
  

4. Reporting, Analytics & User Experience

• Design and build SAC Stories, dashboards, and digital boardrooms aligned to business KPIs and executive requirements.
• Use responsive layouts, advanced calculations, scripting and value driver trees where needed.
• Support and help roll out augmented analytics / predictive features (e.g., time series forecasting, Smart Predict, Ask/Chat-style analytics).
  
  
  

5. Quality, Governance & Operations

• Implement and maintain security, data access controls, and governance in SAC:
• Roles, teams, data access control (DAC), and story-level restrictions.
  
• 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 & planning cycles
• Investigate and resolve data/logic issues
• Track incidents, prioritize fixes, and coordinate with business & IT teams.
  
  
  

6. Process Improvement & Business Partnership

• Work as a partner to Finance, HR and Operations to:
• Identify opportunities to simplify processes and automate reporting.
• Move from pure GL-based budgeting to more driver-based, operationally grounded planning (e.g., recipe-based manufacturing planning, product-level P&L).
  
• Support continuous improvement of user experience and self-service analytics.
  
  

Required Qualifications & Experience

• 58 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 in 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

• Able to give short, precise, scenario-based answers and solutions (not just general theory).
• 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, both written and verbal.
• Comfortable working in a onsite model and collaborating with cross-functional teams.

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