SAP FPA SAC Functional

Job Details

• Employment Type: FContract (6 Months)
  

• Work Mode: Hybrid
  

• Location: Pan India
  

• Total Experience Required: 11+ years (Typically 8+ years in financial planning, F&A transformation, or enterprise planning implementations)
  

• Relevant Experience Required: Strong working knowledge of SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC) Planning and SAP finance data structures
  

• Budget / Compensation: 2 LPM
  

Job Summary We are seeking an experienced SAP FPA SAC Functional Consultant to lead the finance process workstream and act as the primary bridge between FPA stakeholders and the SAP Analytics Cloud delivery team. The ideal candidate will translate Capital Management requirements into practical, controlled, and auditable planning processes.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead discovery and design workshops with FPA Finance, Operations, PMO, project owners, and other business stakeholders.
  

• Assess current budgeting, forecasting, capital resource planning, actuals reconciliation, labor capitalization, contingent worker spend, and project cash flow processes.
  

• Document current state and future state processes, business requirements, process flows, decision logs, business rules, and acceptance criteria.
  

• Define planning dimensions, assumptions, drivers, KPIs, input requirements, reporting views, approval points, and financial control requirements.
  

• Guide the design of project funding (committed, planned, and unallocated budget views), monthly forecast refreshes, variance analysis, and management reporting.
  

• Support the definition and validation of SOP, employee labor capitalization, and related calculation or reconciliation requirements.
  

• Work with the SAC Planning SME and Architect to translate business requirements into planning models, workflows, stories, and data actions.
  

• Prepare business scenarios and expected results for system integration testing (SIT) and user acceptance testing (UAT).
  

• Coordinate business validation and reconciliation of budgets, forecasts, actuals, and reports against agreed source data.
  

• Support training demonstrations, UAT readiness, cutover preparation, user adoption, and post-deployment stabilization.
  

• Track functional risks, open decisions, dependencies, and business actions, escalating items that may affect scope, schedule, or solution quality.
  

Requirements

• Strong FPA knowledge across budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, management reporting, and financial modelling.
  

• Experience with capital project planning, project cost management, labor capitalization, and spend forecasting.
  

• Working knowledge of SAP Analytics Cloud Planning and SAP finance data structures.
  

• Ability to facilitate workshops and communicate effectively with finance and technology stakeholders.
  

• Strong documentation, analytical, reconciliation, and issue resolution capabilities.
  

• Typically 8 or more years of experience in FPA, financial planning, or finance transformation, with experience in at least two enterprise planning implementations preferred.
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting SAC Planning, capital management, or project-based financial planning.