Product Manager, SAP SAC Financial Planning & Analytics (FP&A)

Position Summary:
The Product Manager, Financial Planning & Analytics (FP&A) is responsible for the day-to-day management, enhancement, and reliable operation of the financial planning and analytics platforms. This role ensures FP&A systems remain stable, performant, and equipped with the functionality needed to support recurring FP&A cycles, operational reporting, and business analysis.
Working closely with Finance, Technology, Data, and regional users, the Product Owner gathers and prioritizes requirements, manages the enhancement backlog, oversees system performance, and partners with support teams to resolve issues promptly. Responsibilities include coordinating releases, validating data loads and integrations, maintaining documentation, and enabling users through training, communication, and best-practice guidance.
Responsibilities:

• Contribute to the FP&A product roadmap, identifying opportunities to streamline planning processes, improve usability, and expand capabilities based on business needs and system performance trends.
• Drive alignment with Data, Finance, and Technology partners to ensure SAC design, data models, and integrations support long-term standardization and scalability across regions and functions.
• Manage day-to-day SAC platform operations, ensuring system stability, performance, and timely availability for planning and reporting cycles.
• Gather, refine, and prioritize business requirements from global and regional finance teams, translating them into actionable user stories and enhancements.
• Maintain and manage the product backlog, coordinating with IT and Finance and support teams to deliver updates, fixes, and new features.
• Coordinate with third party to ensure timely monitoring and resolution of system issues.
• Support planning and reporting cycles, ensuring SAC models, templates, and workflows function correctly and meet business timelines and requirements.

Experience:

• 5–7 years of hands-on experience with SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC), specifically in Planning, Reporting, Data Models, and system administration.
• Direct experience managing SAC planning models, including version management, data actions, advanced formulas, allocations, and workflow/task templates.
• Strong proficiency with SAC integration processes, including data imports, scheduled data loads, validation routines, and troubleshooting data failures.
• Experience configuring and maintaining SAC stories, reports, dashboards, and input templates used by FP&A teams.
  Knowledge of upstream systems connected to SAC (e.g., S/4HANA, BW, BPC) is a strong plus.
• Excellent communication and user support skills, with the ability to explain SAC functionality to non-technical stakeholders.

Education:

• Bachelor's Degree in Arts/Sciences (BA/BS) Technology related field

Skills

• Problem-Solving & Root-Cause Analysis – able to diagnose system issues quickly and drive timely resolutions with SAP and internal teams.
• Backlog & Requirement Management – experience translating business needs into structured user stories, acceptance criteria, and enhancement roadmaps.
• User Support & Enablement – strong capability to train, support, and communicate with users in an accessible, service-oriented way.
• Ability to interact effectively at all levels of the organization; Strong customer, quality, and results orientation.
• Environment Governance & Release Management – skilled in managing dev/test/prod environments, coordinating releases, running regression testing, and preventing production disruptions.
• Collaborative and proactive with a strong service mindset and willingness to dig into issues to keep planning cycles running smoothly.
  Detail-oriented, organized, and calm under deadlines, especially during budget and forecast cycles.