Job Title: Offshore Lead – SAP Analytics (SAC, Business Data Cloud, Datasphere)
Position Overview
Employment Type: Full-Time
Work Arrangement: Remote / Hybrid (Offshore Location)
Industry: Professional Services / Accounting & Advisory
Experience Level: Senior Lead (6+ Years)
Role Summary
Data and analytics are foundational to our firm's growth, profitability, and client service strategy. We are seeking a highly strategic, forward-thinking Offshore Lead with deep expertise across SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC), SAP Business Data Cloud, and SAP Datasphere.
In this role, you will modernize our core analytics platforms, standardize firm-wide KPIs, and enable trusted, real-time insights for executive leadership. You will shape how the firm leverages enterprise data to improve financial performance, operational efficiency, and strategic decision-making.
Key Responsibilities
- Team Leadership: Manage and mentor a full-time offshore analytics team, fostering a culture of innovation, accountability, and technical excellence.
- Strategy & Roadmap: Translate firm-level business strategy into actionable analytics roadmaps that deliver measurable outcomes.
- Architecture Modernization: Architect, optimize, and scale SAC, Datasphere, and Business Data Cloud environments to support real-time data delivery.
- KPI Standardization: Define, standardize, and operationalize firm-wide KPIs, dashboards, and analytics frameworks.
- Stakeholder Collaboration: Partner with cross-functional leaders in Finance, Operations, and Technology to identify analytics opportunities and deliver data-driven solutions.
- Analytics Delivery: Oversee the development of SAC stories, planning models, predictive analytics, and integrated data models.
- Data Pipelines: Build end-to-end data pipelines supporting real-time and batch analytics across SAP and non-SAP environments.
- Governance & Security: Enforce data governance, lineage, quality, and security standards consistently across all analytics platforms.
- Change Management: Drive continuous process improvement and support change management efforts to increase data literacy firm-wide.
Required Qualifications & Technical Skills
- Experience: 6+ years of hands-on experience with SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC), SAP Business Data Cloud, and SAP Datasphere.
- Leadership: Proven track record leading offshore or distributed analytics teams within a professional services environment.
- Data Integration: Extensive experience integrating data from SAP ECC, S/4HANA, and BW/4HANA into SAP Datasphere using Data Flows, Replication Flows, and CDS/OData-based extraction.
- Data Modeling: Strong proficiency in Datasphere data modeling, including fact/dimension models, semantic layers, federated views, and space-based architecture.
- SAC Connections: Hands-on expertise exposing Datasphere models to SAC through live and import connections for reporting, planning, and dashboards.
- Technical Design: Proven ability designing CDS Views, SAC dashboards, planning models, and optimization mechanisms for seamless data flows.
- Communication: Excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to influence and collaborate with senior stakeholders.
Preferred Qualifications (Nice-to-Haves)
- Background in professional services, financial services, or consulting environments.
- Expertise in KPI standardization, enterprise reporting frameworks, and analytics governance.
- Familiarity with SAP BTP, data federation, and cloud-based data architecture.
- Experience with predictive analytics, advanced modeling, or AI-enabled insights within SAC.
- Proven ability to drive organizational change and increase analytics adoption in fast-paced, high-growth settings.
