SAP BPC Senior Consultant

SENIOR SAP BPC CONSULTANT

Business AMS Services – Financial Planning, Consolidation & Performance Management

1. Position Overview

Position: Senior SAP BPC Consultant

Domain: SAP Finance / Financial Planning & Consolidation

Service Model: Business Application Managed Services (AMS) + Enhancement + Continuous Improvement

Level: Senior Consultant

Engagement: Full-Time / Dedicated Business Capacity

Environment: SAP BPC / SAP BW / SAP S/4HANA Finance

Location: To be confirmed based on project requirement

The Senior SAP BPC Consultant will provide functional ownership across SAP Business Planning and Consolidation (BPC), financial planning, budgeting, forecasting, consolidation and management reporting.

The role is designed as a business application services position, combining current AMS/production support with enhancement delivery, business requirements, solution design and continuous improvement.

The consultant will work across Finance business stakeholders, SAP functional teams, technical/ABAP teams, BW/data teams and application support teams.

2. Project / Business Context

The business is establishing dedicated SAP Finance application capability to support:

Financial Planning → Budgeting → Forecasting → Consolidation → Management Reporting → SAP BPC Application Services → Enhancement → Continuous Improvement

The requirement is not limited to BAU ticket resolution.

The consultant is expected to support the current BPC service while developing capacity for:

• Business requirements
• Planning and forecasting enhancements
• Consolidation changes
• Management reporting improvements
• BPC application development
• Data model improvements
• SAP BW integration
• S/4HANA Finance integration
• Testing and deployment
• Process optimisation
• Future Finance transformation initiatives

3. Service Lifecycle

BUSINESS FINANCE DEMAND

↓

BUSINESS REQUIREMENTS

↓

FINANCE PROCESS ASSESSMENT

↓

SAP BPC FUNCTIONAL DESIGN

↓

BPC / BW / S4HANA SOLUTION

↓

ENHANCEMENT / CHANGE REQUEST

↓

DEVELOPMENT & CONFIGURATION

↓

SIT / UAT / REGRESSION TESTING

↓

DEPLOYMENT / GO-LIVE

↓

AMS / PRODUCTION SUPPORT

↓

INCIDENT / PROBLEM / RCA

↓

CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT

↓

FINANCE TRANSFORMATION / FUTURE PROJECTS

4. Primary Scope of Work

A. SAP BPC Functional Ownership

Provide senior-level functional support and ownership for SAP BPC environments covering:

• Planning
• Budgeting
• Forecasting
• Financial consolidation
• Management reporting
• Financial performance management
• BPC applications and models
• Dimensions and master data
• Business rules
• Planning logic
• Consolidation logic
• Data collection
• Reporting structures
• Input schedules/forms
• Process management

B. AMS / Production Support

Provide L2/L3 functional support for SAP BPC services.

Responsibilities include:

• Incident investigation
• Production issue resolution
• Application monitoring
• Data validation
• Planning-cycle support
• Consolidation-cycle support
• Month-end/year-end support
• Root Cause Analysis (RCA)
• Problem Management
• Recurring issue identification
• Service request management
• Change request assessment
• Knowledge-base/documentation updates

The consultant should be capable of distinguishing between:

Incident → Problem → Defect → Enhancement → Business Change

and route each requirement through the appropriate service process.

5. Financial Planning & Consolidation

Support Finance processes including:

Planning

• Annual budgeting
• Rolling forecast
• Long-range planning
• Financial modelling
• Cost planning
• Revenue planning
• OPEX/CAPEX planning
• Business-unit planning
• Scenario planning

Consolidation

• Financial consolidation
• Intercompany processes
• Currency translation
• Consolidation rules
• Elimination processes
• Group reporting
• Consolidated financial statements
• Consolidation adjustments

Reporting

• Management reporting
• Financial dashboards
• Variance analysis
• Actual vs Budget
• Actual vs Forecast
• KPI reporting
• Management performance reporting

6. Business Requirements & Functional Solutioning

Work directly with Finance stakeholders to:

• Understand business requirements
• Analyse current processes
• Identify process gaps
• Translate Finance requirements into SAP BPC solutions
• Define functional requirements
• Prepare functional specifications
• Define solution options
• Assess downstream impacts
• Identify integration requirements
• Coordinate with technical teams
• Validate proposed solutions with business users

The consultant should be able to operate between:

Finance Business → SAP Functional → Technical/Data → Application Services

7. Enhancement & Change Requests

Manage the functional lifecycle of BPC enhancements:

Business Request

↓

Requirement Analysis

↓

Impact Assessment

↓

Functional Design

↓

Technical Coordination

↓

Development / Configuration

↓

SIT

↓

UAT

↓

Deployment

↓

Post-Go-Live Validation

Typical enhancements may include:

• New planning models
• New dimensions
• New reporting requirements
• Planning forms
• Business rules
• Allocation logic
• Consolidation changes
• New Finance KPIs
• Forecasting functionality
• Management reporting
• Data integration
• Master-data changes
• Workflow/process improvements

8. SAP BW / Data Integration

Work with SAP BW and data teams on:

• BPC data models
• BW integration
• Data loads
• Data validation
• Master data
• Transaction data
• Data transformation
• Reporting structures
• Data reconciliation
• Data quality issues

Relevant integration experience may include:

SAP BPC ↔ SAP BW ↔ SAP S/4HANA Finance ↔ SAP FI/CO

9. SAP S/4HANA Finance Integration

Support integration between BPC and the wider SAP Finance landscape.

Relevant areas may include:

• SAP FI
• SAP CO
• General Ledger
• Cost Center
• Profit Center
• Internal Orders
• Asset Accounting
• Accounts Payable
• Accounts Receivable
• Controlling
• Financial master data
• Actual financial postings
• Planning data

Experience with SAP S/4HANA Finance is preferred.

10. Testing & Deployment

Lead or support:

• Test strategy
• Test scenario preparation
• Functional test cases
• SIT
• UAT
• Regression testing
• Defect management
• Business-user testing
• Data reconciliation
• Deployment preparation
• Go-live support
• Post-production validation

Ensure that BPC changes do not negatively impact existing Finance planning, consolidation and reporting processes.

11. Month-End / Year-End Financial Support

Provide application support during critical Finance cycles, including:

• Month-end closing
• Quarter-end activities
• Year-end closing
• Budget cycles
• Forecast cycles
• Consolidation cycles
• Management reporting deadlines

The consultant should understand the business-critical nature of Finance applications and maintain appropriate incident prioritisation during closing periods.

12. Stakeholder Management

Engage with:

• Finance leadership
• FP&A
• Group Finance
• Financial Controllers
• Business Finance teams
• SAP Finance teams
• SAP BW teams
• ABAP developers
• Integration teams
• Data teams
• Application Support
• Project Managers
• Business Process Owners

The Senior Consultant should be comfortable explaining technical SAP matters in business/Finance language.

13. Continuous Improvement

Identify opportunities to improve:

• Planning processes
• Forecasting
• Consolidation
• Reporting
• Data quality
• Application performance
• User experience
• Automation
• Finance controls
• Reconciliation
• Reporting cycle time

The role should contribute to an enhancement pipeline, rather than operating only as reactive production support.

14. Business Application Service Development

The consultant may contribute to future business initiatives involving:

• SAP Finance transformation
• BPC optimisation
• Planning transformation
• Forecasting improvements
• Finance analytics
• Management reporting
• S/4HANA transformation
• Finance data integration
• Application rationalisation
• Digital Finance initiatives

The objective is to establish sustainable SAP Finance/BPC capability that can support both current services and future business demand.

15. Required Experience

Mandatory / Core

• Strong SAP BPC experience
• SAP Finance / FP&A understanding
• Financial planning and budgeting
• Forecasting
• Consolidation
• Management reporting
• SAP BW exposure
• AMS / production support experience
• Enhancement/change-request experience
• Business requirements gathering
• Functional specification
• SIT/UAT
• Stakeholder management

Preferred

• SAP S/4HANA Finance
• SAP FI/CO
• SAP BW/4HANA
• BPC Embedded
• BPC Classic
• SAP Analytics Cloud
• Planning & forecasting transformation
• Finance data modelling
• ABAP/technical coordination
• Integration experience

16. Senior Consultant Competency Model

• CapabilityExpected Level
• SAP BPC
• Advanced
• Financial Planning
• Advanced
• Budgeting & Forecasting
• Advanced
• Consolidation
• Advanced
• SAP Finance
• Strong
• SAP BW
• Strong
• S/4HANA Finance
• Preferred
• AMS / Production Support
• Strong
• Enhancement Delivery
• Strong
• Business Requirements
• Advanced
• Functional Design
• Advanced
• SIT/UAT
• Strong
• Stakeholder Management
• Advanced
• Problem Management / RCA
• Strong
• Continuous Improvement
• Strong

17. Expected Senior-Level Behaviour

The consultant is expected to operate beyond ticket resolution.

Expected progression:

Support

→ Incident Resolution

→ Problem Management

→ Business Requirement

→ Functional Solution

→ Enhancement

→ Testing

→ Deployment

→ Business Improvement

→ Future Project Delivery

The role therefore requires someone who can combine SAP BPC functional expertise with Finance business understanding and application-service ownership.

18. Key Performance Indicators (KPI)

Potential KPIs include:

AMS

• Incident SLA compliance
• Resolution effectiveness
• Recurring incident reduction
• RCA quality
• Production stability

Enhancement

• Enhancement delivery
• Change-request turnaround
• Functional specification quality
• SIT/UAT success
• Defect reduction
• On-time deployment

Business

• Finance stakeholder satisfaction
• Planning-cycle support
• Forecast-cycle support
• Consolidation-cycle stability
• Reporting improvement
• Process optimisation

Capability

• Knowledge documentation
• Knowledge transfer
• Process standardisation
• Enhancement pipeline contribution
• Future project readiness

19. Candidate Profile

Ideal candidates will typically have:

• 8+ years SAP experience, with significant BPC exposure
• Strong Finance functional background
• Hands-on BPC implementation/enhancement experience
• Strong AMS/production-support capability
• Experience engaging Finance business users
• Strong analytical/problem-solving capability
• Experience translating business requirements into SAP solutions
• Ability to coordinate with BW, ABAP, integration and technical teams
• Experience working in enterprise SAP environments
• Ability to operate independently at Senior Consultant level

20. Engagement & Capacity Planning

Engagement: Full-Time / Dedicated SAP Finance Business Application Capacity

The position should be communicated as a dedicated business capacity role, subject to the approved project structure.

The business requirement is intended to provide capacity across:

Current Service

AMS → Production Support → Incident/Problem Management

Business Demand

Requirements → Enhancement → Change Requests → Project Delivery

Future Capability

Continuous Improvement → Finance Transformation → Future SAP Projects

Core Positioning

Senior SAP BPC Consultant – Business AMS Services (Financial) is therefore positioned as:

SAP BPC Functional Leadership + Finance Business Requirements + AMS/Production Support + Enhancement Delivery + Planning/Forecasting/Consolidation + BW/S4HANA Integration + Continuous Improvement.