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About the job 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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