What you’ll be doing
as an SAC Planning Consultant
1. Lead the end-to-end development and execution of SAC Planning solutions, ensuring alignment with strategic goals.
2. Engage directly with business stakeholders, including C-suite executives, to define and deliver impactful planning and reporting solutions.
3. Design and build advanced SAC planning models, data actions, value driver trees, and workflows that support financial and operational forecasting.
4. Act as the main escalation point for SAC planning issues, ensuring timely resolution and a seamless user experience.
5. Ensure effective data versioning and implement row-level security measures to meet data governance and compliance needs.
6. Manage the SAC product backlog, prioritising and refining user stories to deliver high-quality functionality on time.
7. Participate in technical architecture and solution design discussions within the BI and data engineering teams.
8. Communicate complex SAC concepts clearly to non-technical stakeholders to ensure understanding and alignment.
9. Deliver training sessions and documentation to empower business users and promote self-service reporting.
10. Champion the use of SAP Analytics Cloud across the business, demonstrating its value and leading demos for key stakeholders.
11. Stay up to date with SAC product updates, industry trends, and best practices, contributing to continuous improvement.
12. Work closely with the Data Engineering team and collaborate with other IT and digital workplace teams to support integration and operational excellence.
Base location – Hybrid – Clearwater Court, Reading.
Working pattern – 36 hours Monday to Friday.
What you should bring to the role
To thrive in this role, the essential criteria you’ll need is:
13. Extensive experience in implementing and configuring SAP Analytics Cloud Planning solutions.
14. Deep understanding of financial planning, workforce planning, and driver-based planning methodologies.
15. Proficiency in data modelling, scripting, and analytics within the SAC platform.
16. Experience integrating SAC with SAP BW/4HANA, SAP Datasphere, and other enterprise data sources.
17. Proven experience leading SAC initiatives in Agile project environments with successful delivery of business-critical solutions.
18. Ability to communicate clearly and effectively with senior stakeholders, including presenting complex ideas to executive audiences.
19. Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with a proactive and detail-oriented mindset.
Desirable qualifications and experience
Extra qualities that would be a great fit for our team:
20. SAP Analytics Cloud certification or equivalent SAP planning credentials.
21. Experience integrating SAC with S/4HANA systems.
22. Experience of SAC to Datasphere integration.
23. Experience working in large-scale enterprise or regulated industries.
24. Experience mentoring or training users on BI tools and dashboards.
25. Familiarity with tools like Power BI or Tableau in addition to SAC is a plus.
What’s in it for you?
26. Competitive salary up to £72,000 per annum depending on experience.
27. Annual Leave - 26 days holiday per year, increasing to 30 with the length of service. (plus bank holidays)
28. Performance-related pay plan directly linked to company performance measures and targets
29. Generous Pension Scheme through AON.
30. Access to lots of benefits to help you take care of yourself and your family’s health and wellbeing, and your finances – from annual health MOTs and access to physiotherapy and counselling, to Cycle to Work schemes, shopping vouchers and life assurance.