Role Summary

The SAP BPC Lead is responsible for end-to-end ownership of enterprise planning and consolidation of planning data using SAP BPC (Embedded or Standard). The role ensures consistent, auditable, and reconciled planning data across business units, legal entities, and geographies, aligned with corporate finance and FP&A requirements.

This position bridges operational planning, financial planning, and planning consolidation, ensuring a single version of the plan across the organization.

Key Responsibilities

Planning Leadership

• Lead enterprise-wide planning processes including:
  
  • Strategic and long-range planning
  • Annual budgeting
  • Rolling forecasts
  • Scenario and sensitivity analysis
• Design driver-based and top-down / bottom-up planning models
• Align operational plans (sales, opex, capex, headcount) with financial plans

Consolidation of Planning Data

• Design and implement planning data consolidation across:
  
  • Business units
  • Profit centers
  • Legal entities
  • Regions and hierarchies
• Ensure intercompany elimination, allocations, and currency translation for planning data
• Define planning consolidation logic for:
  
  • P&L, Balance Sheet, and Cash Flow planning
  • Ownership percentages and consolidation methods (for plan data)
• Ensure reconciliation between:
  
  • Local plans and group plans
  • Plan vs forecast vs actuals

Solution Design & Architecture

• Design BPC architecture supporting planning + plan consolidation
• Define:
  
  • Dimensions, hierarchies, and attributes
  • Planning and consolidation models
  • Versioning (Budget, Forecast, LRP, Scenario)
• Ensure seamless integration with:
  
  • SAP S/4HANA
  • SAP Analytics Cloud (planning and reporting)

Development & Configuration

• Lead development of:
  
  • Planning functions & FOX logic
  • Script logic for planning consolidation
  • Allocations, eliminations, and currency translation logic
• Optimize performance for large planning volumes
• Guide developers and review technical designs