Technology Consulting | Director | SAP Data & Analytics
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‑minded, with a genuine passion for connecting SAP technology to real‑world business challenges. We are looking for technologists who are driven to deliver solutions that truly transform the way clients consume data.
Key responsibilities
As an EY Director, you’ll lead project engagements, working directly with clients and EY Partners. You’ll be responsible for guiding your team through all parts of a project – from developing new opportunities and identifying value for clients, to designing and delivering solutions. Alongside your client‑facing role, you’ll also be part of the SAP Analytics Technology leadership team and play a key role across people leadership.
- 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).
- Commercial Leadership: 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.
- Offering & Asset Development: Define and evolve the SAP Analytics offering, including go‑to‑market propositions. Drive AI innovation. Lead development of reusable assets.
- 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.
- 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
- Strong experience delivering SAP analytics solutions (multiple full project lifecyles)
- 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
- Strong stakeholder management at executive level
- Ability to lead multidisciplinary teams across functional and technical domains
Preferred additional qualifications
- Industry expertise (energy / defence / retail / life sciences)
- Experience in non‑SAP cloud data platforms (AWS / Azure / Databricks / Snowflake)
- Experience delivering SAP AI products
What working at EY offers
- Support, coaching and feedback from some of the most engaging colleagues around
- Opportunities to develop new skills and progress your career
- The freedom and flexibility to handle your role in a way that’s right for you
- Competitive remuneration package rewarded for individual and team performance
- Comprehensive Total Rewards package including flexible working, career development, benefits that suit your needs, covering holidays, health and well‑being, insurance, savings and a wide range of discounts, offers and promotions
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