Director – SAP Data & Analytics – BW & BDC – TC – UKI

Overview

As an EY Director, you will lead project engagements, working directly with clients and EY Partners. You will guide your team through all parts of a project—from developing new opportunities and identifying value for clients to designing and delivering solutions. You will be part of the SAP Analytics Technology leadership team and contribute to people leadership within the function.

Responsibilities

• Client Leadership & Delivery Oversight: Act as senior delivery lead across complex SAP BDC, Datasphere, and BW programmes, ensuring successful outcomes across scope, quality, timeline, and budget. Provide oversight and challenge on solution architecture to align with client enterprise data strategies. Manage senior client stakeholders (CFO, CIO, Head of Data/FP&A) 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, lead 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.

Qualifications

• Strong experience delivering SAP analytics solutions across multiple full project lifecycles.
• Deep understanding and experience with 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

• Industry expertise (energy, defence, retail, life sciences).
• Experience in non-SAP cloud data platforms (AWS, Azure, Databricks, Snowflake).
• Experience delivering SAP AI products.

At EY, we are committed to shaping your future with confidence and helping you succeed in a globally connected, diverse environment. This description reflects the role’s responsibilities and qualifications without including promotional or posting artefacts.

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