Senior SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC) Planning & Analytics Consultant

Senior SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC) Planning & Analytics Consultant

Contract Duration: November 2026 to January 2027, renewable

Work Location: Remote Work in Canada

Senior SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC) Planning & Analytics Consultant with strong hands-on experience in SAC Planning models, hierarchies, stories, data integration/import jobs, security, content transports, and model modernization. The consultant should have experience integrating SAC with SAP S/4HANA, preferably Group Reporting, and a strong understanding of financial planning and actuals reporting.

The resource should also have hands-on experience with the SAC Add-in for Microsoft Excel and SAP Analysis for Microsoft Office (AFO), including the development and support of Excel-based financial reports, queries, variables, hierarchies, formulas, filters, refresh functionality, and reporting templates.

The consultant must be capable of independently assessing the existing SAC and Excel-based reporting landscape, determining the technical impact of IFRS 18 changes, designing and implementing the required changes, evaluating impacts on existing reports and integrations, and documenting the resulting solution.

Description of Services

The Consultant will provide senior functional and technical services for SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC) Planning and Analytics, supporting the implementation of IFRS 18 reporting requirements and related enhancements to the existing planning and reporting solution.

Services will include:

• Assess the existing SAC landscape, including planning models, hierarchies, stories, reports, data integrations, import jobs, scheduled processes, and security.
• Transfer and validate the required SAC Production content in the Quality environment to establish the baseline for IFRS 18 development and testing.
• Assess, design, configure, and test SAC model and hierarchy changes required to support the new IFRS 18 financial statement presentation.
• Assess the impact of IFRS 18 changes on existing SAC integrations, transformations, import jobs, Trial Balance, Cash Flow, and actual-data loads.
• Assess and update impacted SAC stories and reports while minimizing disruption to existing planning and reporting processes.
• Assess and support Excel-based financial reporting using the SAC Add-in for Microsoft Excel and SAP Analysis for Microsoft Office (AFO).
• Assess dependencies between SAC and SAP S/4HANA Group Reporting, including impacts on actual-data integration and financial reporting.
• Review scheduled Production jobs and identify dependencies on individual user accounts, including required remediation to maintain operational continuity.
• Assess the feasibility, effort, dependencies, and impacts of migrating the existing SAC solution to the newer SAC model architecture.
• Support testing, defect resolution, deployment, and post-implementation validation of changes within the Consultant's scope.
• Prepare and maintain the required technical, functional, configuration, and operational documentation.
• Provide knowledge transfer and handover to the relevant business and technical teams.