SAP Analytics Cloud Consultant

Chicago, IL / Remote

SAP Analytics Cloud

Full Time

Must Have Technical/Functional Skills

Key job responsibilities

• Seeking an experienced SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC) Consultant to design, build, and optimize enterprise analytics solutions across BI reporting, dashboards, planning, and predictive scenarios. The ideal candidate has end to end SAC implementation experience, strong data modeling skills (SAC + SAP BW/HANA), and the ability to partner with business stakeholders to convert requirements into scalable, secure analytics products

Roles & Responsibilities

Solution Design & Delivery

• Lead the design and development of SAC stories, dashboards, and analytic applications (including KPI definitions, calculations, and responsive layouts).
• Implement SAC Planning models (dimensions, versions, data actions, allocations, advanced formulas) and Forecasting workflows.
• Configure live and acquired data connections (e.g., S/4HANA, SAP BW/4HANA, SAP HANA, OData, SQL sources), ensuring performance and governance.

Data Modeling & Integration

• Build and optimize SAC models (measures, hierarchies, currency conversion, security).
• Collaborate with BW/HANA teams on views/queries (e.g., CDS views, Calculation Views, BEx/BW queries).

Planning & FP&A Enablement

• Design planning templates, driver-based models, version management, and what if simulations.
• Implement data actions, advanced formulas, and multi-step allocation logic.

Governance & Security

• Define roles, teams, and authorizations; enforce RLS/column-level security and promote content across tenants.
• Establish naming conventions, transport strategy, and lifecycle management standards.

Stakeholder Engagement

• Run workshops, gather requirements, produce functional/technical designs, and provide UAT support and training.
• Advise on visualization best practices and self-service enablement for business users.

Operations

• Establish monitoring, performance tuning, and housekeeping routines.
• Document solutions (runbooks, user guides) and support hypercare/AMS.

Required Qualifications

• 4 8+ years of analytics/BI experience; 2 4+ years hands-on with SAP Analytics Cloud.
• Proven delivery of at least 2 end to end SAC implementations (including planning and reporting).
• Strong knowledge of SAC Modeling, Stories, Analytic Designer, and SAC Planning (data actions, advanced formulas, allocations).
• Practical experience with live connections to S/4HANA/BW/HANA and acquired data workflows.
• Proficient in data modeling, calculations, and performance optimization.
• Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and documentation skills.

Generic Managerial Skills, If any

• SAP BW/4HANA or HANA modeling (Calculation Views, SQLScript) exposure.
• Experience with SAC Predictive, Smart Predict, and time-series forecasting.
• Familiarity with SAC APIs, Analytic Application scripting (JavaScript), and custom widgets.
• Knowledge of Group Reporting, BPC to SAC Planning migration, or Integrated Financial Planning (IFP).
• Exposure to Power BI/Tableau or Azure/AWS data services in hybrid landscapes