Director - SAP Analytics Cloud Planning

Salary: £58,000 - 98,000 per year

Requirements:

• Strong experience delivering SAP Analytics Cloud solutions, with a focus on planning use cases and multiple full project lifecycles
• Deep understanding of business finance processes and how SAC can support them
• 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, industry expertise in energy, defence, retail, or life sciences
• Experience with other EPM tools such as SAP BPC, Tagetik, Lumel, or Pigment
• Experience with consolidation tools such as SAP Group Reporting or Tagetik
• SAP analytics experience with SAP BW, Datasphere, or BDC

Responsibilities:

• We lead project engagements directly with clients and our partners
• We guide our team through all phases of a project, from identifying client value and developing new opportunities to designing and delivering solutions
• We act as senior delivery lead across complex SAC programmes focused on financial planning
• We oversee solution architecture and ensure alignment with client enterprise data strategies
• We manage senior client stakeholders, including CFO, CIO, and Heads of Data or FP&A, as trusted advisors
• We resolve critical delivery risks and escalations across workstreams
• We ensure integration across finance, data, and technology domains
• We own and contribute to sales pipelines, leading pursuits and proposals for EPM
• We shape client propositions around FP&A transformation
• We lead bid teams, including solutioning, pricing, and commercial structuring
• We drive revenue growth and margin performance across engagements
• We identify and originate new opportunities within existing client accounts
• We define and evolve our EPM offering, including go-to-market propositions
• We lead development of reusable assets
• We drive innovation in areas such as AI-enabled planning and predictive analytics
• We build and develop our SAC capability, including mentoring junior colleagues
• We support recruitment and workforce planning aligned to our growth strategy
• We establish delivery standards, methods, and best practices across the practice
• We foster a high-performance culture focused on quality, collaboration, and continuous improvement
• We represent our firm externally in client meetings, industry forums, and with alliance partners
• We contribute to thought leadership and position our practice as a leader in SAC and SAP data and analytics solutions

Technologies:

• AI
• Cloud
• Support
• SAP
• SAP Analytics Cloud
• Databricks
• Network
• Snowflake

More:

We are EY, a globally connected, multi-disciplinary firm helping clients shape the future with confidence and build a better working world. Our Technology Consulting team works across assurance, consulting, tax, strategy, and transactions, using data, AI, and advanced technology to create new value for clients, people, society, and the planet. This Director role sits within our EPM team in London and offers a competitive remuneration package, flexible working, career development, and our FlexEY benefits, including holidays, health and well-being, insurance, savings, discounts, offers, and promotions. You will also benefit from coaching, support from engaging colleagues, opportunities to develop new skills, and the freedom and flexibility to shape your role in a way that works for you.

last updated 34 week of 2026