Sr Finance Transformation Specialist

Duration - 10 Months

Location - Irvine, CA 92618

Max Pay - $95.00-$110.00/hour W2

Responsibilities

Role Expectations - SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC) Planning

Product Enablement | Business Specialist

Role Purpose

• Acts as the right hand to the Product Owner for SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC) Planning
• Responsible for executing the product vision and strategy defined by the Product Owner
• Ensures ideas and strategy are translated into delivered, adopted, and value-adding solutions
• Serves as a key link between business, finance, and IT

Product Execution & Ownership

• Owns and drives in partnership with the IT Scrum Lead the SAC Planning roadmap, aligned to business priorities and product strategy
• Translates Product Owner vision into clear epics, features, deliverables, and OKRs
• Acts as the primary executor, ensuring initiatives move from concept to implementation
• Manages prioritization of enhancements and defects, balancing business value, urgency, and platform sustainability
• Partner with IT Scrum Lead to track progress, dependencies, and risks to ensure successful delivery

Requirements & Model Enablement

• Leads requirements gathering and refinement for SAC Planning models and features
• Owns continuous model refinement and optimization based on user feedback and evolving business needs
• Converts business requirements into clear functional and technical specifications for planning models and features owned by business
• Provides clear business requirements for the creation of functional specifications and sign-offs for planning models and features owned by IT
• Ensures planning models are scalable, performant, and aligned with best practices for planning models and features owned by business
• Provides input and insights into planning model designs that ensures flexibility while maintaining consistency and scalability (supporting IT)
• Supports standardization while allowing flexibility where business needs require it

Collaboration with IT & Delivery Teams

• Works closely with IT, developers, and data teams to analyze, design, build, test, and deploy SAC Planning solutions
• Acts as the functional authority during design, build, testing, and deployment phases
• Leads [s]Supports[/s] UAT and partners with IT for defect resolution, and release readiness
• [s]Ensures alignment[/s] Understands how business decisions impact [s]with[/s] enterprise data architecture and integration standards
• Partners with IT to attend vendor forums and conferences to stay abreast of technology advancements and incorporates into business technology roadmaps where appropriate

Enablement, Adoption & Value Realization

• Drives feature enablement and adoption across business user groups
• Supports change management through documentation, training, and stakeholder communication
• Partners with stakeholders to ensure SAC Planning capabilities are used effectively
• Helps measure and communicate business value and outcomes from SAC Planning solutions

Skills & Expertise

• Strong techno-functional expertise in SAP Analytics Cloud Planning (SAC P)
• Hands-on experience with planning models, data actions, allocations, calendars, and workflows for objects and features owned by the business
• Strong financial planning and accounting acumen, including understanding of P&L, balance sheet, cash flow, forecasting, budgeting, and financial drivers.
• Good understanding of analytics and reporting, enabling integration between planning and insights
• Ability to translate between business needs and technical solutions
• Familiarity with agile or product-based delivery models

Mindset & Ways of Working

• Strong sense of ownership, accountability, and execution focus
• Passionate about SAC Planning and analytics
• Comfortable operating in both strategic and hands-on roles
• Proactive, collaborative, and able to work effectively in ambiguous environments
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, age, ancestry, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, marital status, disability, medical condition, genetic information, pregnancy, or military or veteran status. We consider all qualified applicants, including those with criminal histories, in a manner consistent with state and local laws, including the California Fair Chance Act, City of Los Angeles' Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, and Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance.