Description

Solution Design & Delivery

• Lead the design and development of SAC stories, dashboards, and analytic applications (including KPI definitions, calculations, and responsive layouts).
• Implement SAC Planning models (dimensions, versions, data actions, allocations, advanced formulas) and Forecasting workflows.
• Configure live and acquired data connections (e.g., S/4HANA, SAP BW/4HANA, SAP HANA, OData, SQL sources), ensuring performance and governance.

Data Modeling & Integration

• Build and optimize SAC models (measures, hierarchies, currency conversion, security).
• Collaborate with BW/HANA teams on views/queries (e.g., CDS views, Calculation Views, BEx/BW queries).

Planning & FP&A Enablement

• Design planning templates, driver-based models, version management, and what‑if simulations.
• Implement data actions, advanced formulas, and multi-step allocation logic.

Governance & Security

• Define roles, teams, and authorizations; enforce RLS/column-level security and promote content across tenants.
• Establish naming conventions, transport strategy, and lifecycle management standards.

Stakeholder Engagement

• Run workshops, gather requirements, produce functional/technical designs, and provide UAT support and training.
• Advise on visualization best practices and self-service enablement for business users.

Operations

• Establish monitoring, performance tuning, and housekeeping routines.
• Document solutions (runbooks, user guides) and support hypercare/AMS.

Required Qualifications

• 4–8+ years of analytics/BI experience; 2–4+ years hands-on with SAP Analytics Cloud.
• Proven delivery of at least 2 end‑to‑end SAC implementations (including planning and reporting).
• Strong knowledge of SAC Modeling, Stories, Analytic Designer, and SAC Planning (data actions, advanced formulas, allocations).
• Practical experience with live connections to S/4HANA/BW/HANA and acquired data workflows.
• Proficient in data modeling, calculations, and performance optimization.
• Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and documentation skills.

Generic Managerial Skills, If any

• SAP BW/4HANA or HANA modeling (Calculation Views, SQLScript) exposure.
• Experience with SAC Predictive, Smart Predict, and time-series forecasting.
• Familiarity with SAC APIs, Analytic Application scripting (JavaScript), and custom widgets.
• Knowledge of Group Reporting, BPC to SAC Planning migration, or Integrated Financial Planning (IFP).  
• Exposure to Power BI/Tableau or Azure/AWS data services in hybrid landscapes

Key Skills

Education

Bachelor's degree