SAP Analytics Cloud Planning - Senior Associate

Overview

Design and deliver SAP Analytics Cloud Planning solutions as a Senior Associate within PwC's Advisory practice, supporting SAP technology and business application consulting for clients across geographies, with mentoring and team-leadership responsibilities.

What you'll do

• Support client needs by designing and delivering planning solutions within the Advisory practice, focusing on SAP technology and business application consulting.
• Contribute to implementation and support activities, applying technical skills to configuration, development and ongoing solution support.
• Understand client requirements, provide solutions, functional specifications and implement technical components accordingly.
• Create Technical Design Documents (TDD) and Unit Test documents for the technical solutions being implemented.
• Troubleshoot SAC Planning issues, including data load failures, data action/multi-action failures, performance issues, authorization issues and planning data inconsistencies.
• Build SAC Stories and planning interfaces.
• Implement planning security and Data Access Controls (DAC).
• Create and maintain import models, applying transformations and dimensions.
• Perform what-if analysis and value driver tree simulation.
• Implement advanced planning functions such as data actions, allocations, distributions and spreading.
• Produce forecasts combining actuals plus plan, predictive forecasting and trend analysis.
• Set up imports and live connections to sources such as BW, BPC, HANA, Universe and SuccessFactors.
• Write data back to standard BPC, embedded BW and S/4HANA.
• Take part in unit testing, integration testing and user support activities across the support project lifecycle.
• Mentor junior team members, conduct knowledge-sharing sessions and lessons-learnt reviews.
• Review ticket quality and deliverables, and provide project status reporting.
• Adhere to SLAs and manage incidents, changes and problems.
• Interact regularly with the onsite team and client, providing status updates in daily or weekly calls and maintaining cordial relationships.
• Lead engagements and workstreams, manage escalations and risks, and collaborate across teams and competencies.

What you'll need

• At least a Bachelor's degree.
• At least 6 years of experience.
• Extensive or at least 6 years of SAP experience, including multiple SAP Analytics Cloud support or implementation projects.
• Good experience creating both analytic and planning data models.
• Strong experience building SAC Stories and planning interfaces.
• Experience implementing planning security and Data Access Controls (DAC).
• Good understanding of SAC data integration and import mechanisms.
• Strong experience creating and maintaining import models, applying transformations and dimensions.
• Strong knowledge of Data Analyzer.
• Experience performing what-if analysis and value driver tree simulation.
• Experience with advanced planning functions such as data actions, allocations, distributions and spreading.
• Experience with forecasting, combining actuals plus plan, predictive forecasting and trend analysis.
• Exposure to setting up imports and live connections to sources such as BW, BPC, HANA, Universe and SuccessFactors.
• Experience writing data back to standard BPC, embedded BW and S/4HANA.
• Exposure to ASAP and other structured ITIL methodologies.
• Ability to create Technical Design Documents (TDD) and Unit Test documents.
• Excellent communication, analytical and interpersonal skills, with the ability to play a key role as team lead.
• Oral and written proficiency in English.

Nice to have

• Good experience in SAC Planning and reporting.
• Good experience in SAP Datasphere.
• ITIL 4 Certification.

Details

• Location: Bangalore.
• Travel requirements: Not specified.