Director - SAP Data & Analytics - BW & BDC - TC - UKI
Location: London
Other locations: Primary Location Only
Date: 15 Apr 2026
Requisition ID: 1687642
The opportunity
Our EY Analytics team is dedicated to helping clients unlock business value by harnessing the latest SAP innovations. We’re looking for directors who are both tech‑savvy and business‑mindful, with a genuine passion for connecting SAP technology to real‑world business challenges. We need technologists who are driven to deliver solutions that truly transform the way clients consume data.
Key responsibilities
1. Client Leadership & Delivery Oversight
- Act as senior delivery lead across complex SAP BDC / Datasphere / BW programmes, ensuring successful outcomes across scope, quality, timeline, and budget
- Provide oversight and challenge on solution architecture, ensuring alignment with client enterprise data strategies
- Manage senior client stakeholders (CFO, CIO, Head of Data/FP&A), acting as a trusted advisor
- Resolve critical delivery risks and escalations across workstreams
- Ensure integration across finance, data, and technology domains (e.g. SAC Planning, BDC, Databricks/Snowflake/Azure)
- Own and contribute to sales pipelines, leading pursuits and proposals for Analytics
- Shape client propositions around Analytics Transformation
- Lead bid teams, including solutioning, pricing, and commercial structuring
- Drive revenue growth and margin performance across engagements
- Identify and originate new opportunities within existing client accounts
- Define and evolve the SAP Analytics offering, including go-to-market propositions
- Drive AI innovation
- Lead development of reusable assets
4. Practice & Capability Leadership
- Build and develop the SAP Analytics capability, including mentoring junior colleagues
- Support recruitment and workforce planning aligned to growth strategy
- Establish delivery standards, methods, and best practices across the practice
- Foster a high-performance culture focused on quality, collaboration, and continuous improvement
5. Thought Leadership & Market Presence
- Represent the firm externally in client meetings, industry forums, and with alliance partners
- Contribute to thought leadership
- Position the practice as a leader in SAP data & analytics solutions
Skills and attributes for success
Key skills & experience required:
- Strong experience delivering SAP analytics solutions (multiple full project lifecycles)
- Deep understanding and experience of leading practices for architecting and building SAP data & analytics solutions
- Strong experience with cross‑system integration
- Deep understanding of multiple SAP process areas and experience designing end to end analytics models
- Proven track record of leading large‑scale transformation programmes
- Demonstrated commercial acumen, including sales, pricing, and margin management
- Ability to lead multidisciplinary teams across functional and technical domains
Ideally, you’ll also have:
- Industry expertise (energy / defence / retail / life sciences)
- Experience in non‑SAP cloud data platforms (AWS / Azure / Databricks / Snowflake)
What working at EY offers
- Competitive remuneration package that rewards individual and team performance
- Comprehensive Total Rewards package with flexible working, career development, and benefits tailored to your needs
- Support, coaching and feedback from engaging colleagues
- Opportunities to develop new skills and progress your career
- Freedom and flexibility to handle your role in a way that’s right for you
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