Join EY as a Director in Technology Consulting based in Manchester - St Peters Square to lead complex SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC) Planning transformations. In this senior role, you will guide multidisciplinary teams, drive commercial growth, and serve as a trusted advisor to executive clients.
Requirements
Extensive experience delivering SAP Analytics Cloud solutions focusing on planning across multiple full project lifecycles.
Proven track record of leading large-scale transformation programmes and managing executive-level stakeholders.
Deep understanding of business finance processes and ability to create complex system architecture.
Demonstrated commercial acumen including sales, pricing, and margin management.
No specific educational degree or minimum years of experience are explicitly stated in the posting.
Skills & Responsibilities
SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC): Lead complex delivery programmes and architecture design for financial planning use cases.
Commercial Acumen: Own sales pipelines, lead bids, and drive revenue growth and margin performance.
Stakeholder Management: Act as a trusted advisor to senior executive clients including CFOs and CIOs.
Practice Leadership: Build capability, mentor junior colleagues, and contribute to workforce planning and asset development.
Potential transition routes: People from SAP Practice Lead, EPM Program Manager, or Senior SAP Financial Planning Manager roles may bring strong SAP implementation and client management skills, alongside meeting the required SAC planning expertise and commercial acumen.
Job description
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Technology Consulting | Director | SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC) - Planning
At EY, we’re all in to shape your future with confidence.
We’ll help you succeed in a globally connected powerhouse of diverse teams and take your career wherever you want it to go.
Join EY and help to build a better working world.
The opportunity
Our EY EPM team is dedicated to helping clients unlock business value by harnessing the latest SAP innovations. We’re looking for directors who are both tech-savvy and business-minded, with a genuine passion for connecting SAP technology to real-world business challenges. We are looking for technologists who are driven to deliver solutions that truly transform clients’ FP&A operations.
Key responsibilities As an EY Director, you’ll lead project engagements, working directly with clients and EY Partners. You’ll be responsible for guiding your team through all parts of a project - from developing new opportunities and identifying value for clients, to designing and delivering solutions. Alongside your client facing role, you’ll also be part of the EPM Technology leadership team and play a key role across people leadership.
Your key responsibilities:
1. Client Leadership & Delivery Oversight
Act as senior delivery lead across complex SAC programmes focused on financial planning, ensuring successful outcomes across scope, quality, timeline, and budget
Provide oversight and challenge on solution architecture, ensuring alignment with client enterprise data strategies
Manage senior client stakeholders (CFO, CIO, Head of Data/FP&A), acting as a trusted advisor
Resolve critical delivery risks and escalations across workstreams
Ensure integration across finance, data, and technology domains (e.g. SAC Planning, BDC, Datasphere/Databricks/Snowflake)
2. Commercial Leadership
Own and contribute to sales pipelines, leading pursuits and proposals for EPM
Shape client propositions around FP&A Transformation
Lead bid teams, including solutioning, pricing, and commercial structuring
Drive revenue growth and margin performance across engagements
Identify and originate new opportunities within existing client accounts
3. Offering & Asset Development
Define and evolve the EPM offering, including go-to-market propositions
Lead development of reusable assets
Drive innovation in areas such as AI-enabled planning and predictive analytics
4. Practice & Capability Leadership
Build and develop the SAC capability, including mentoring junior colleagues
Support recruitment and workforce planning aligned to growth strategy
Establish delivery standards, methods, and best practices across the practice
Foster a high-performance culture focused on quality, collaboration, and continuous improvement
5. Thought Leadership & Market Presence
Represent the firm externally in client meetings, industry forums, and with alliance partners
Contribute to thought leadership
Position the practice as a leader in SAC and SAP data & analytics solutions
Skills and attributes for success
Key skills & experience required:
Strong experience delivering SAP Analytics Cloud solutions, focusing on planning use cases (multiple full project lifecycles)
Deep understanding of business finance processes and how SAC can be leveraged to support these
Ability to create complex system architecture
Proven track record of leading large-scale transformation programmes
Demonstrated commercial acumen, including sales, pricing, and margin management
Strong stakeholder management at executive level
Ability to lead multidisciplinary teams across functional and technical domains
Ideally, you’ll also have:
Industry expertise (energy / defence / retail / life sciences)
Experience with other EPM tools (SAP BPC / Tagetik / Lumel / Pigment)
Experience with consolidation tools (SAP Group Reporting / Tagetik)
SAP analytics experience (SAP BW / Datasphere / BDC)
What working at EY offers
We offer a competitive remuneration package where you’ll be rewarded for your individual and team performance. Our comprehensive Total Rewards package includes support for flexible working and career development, and with FlexEY you can select benefits that suit your needs, covering holidays, health and well-being, insurance, savings and a wide range of discounts, offers and promotions. Plus, we offer:
Support, coaching and feedback from some of the most engaging colleagues around
Opportunities to develop new skills and progress your career
The freedom and flexibility to handle your role in a way that’s right for you
EY | Building a better working world
EY is building a better working world by creating new value for clients, people, society and the planet, while building trust in capital markets.
Enabled by data, AI and advanced technology, EY teams help clients shape the future with confidence and develop answers for the most pressing issues of today and tomorrow.
EY teams work across a full spectrum of services in assurance, consulting, tax, strategy and transactions. Fuelled by sector insights, a globally connected, multi-disciplinary network and diverse ecosystem partners, EY teams can provide services in more than 150 countries and territories.
If you can confidently demonstrate that you meet the criteria above, please contact us as soon as possible.
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EY | Building a better working world
EY is building a better working world by creating new value for clients, people, society and the planet, while building trust in capital markets.
Enabled by data, AI and advanced technology, EY teams help clients shape the future with confidence and develop answers for the most pressing issues of today and tomorrow.
EY teams work across a full spectrum of services in assurance, consulting, tax, strategy and transactions. Fueled by sector insights, a globally connected, multi-disciplinary network and diverse ecosystem partners, EY teams can provide services in more than 150 countries and territories.
