Job Description

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.