S/4HANA Finance and SAC with Our Global Partners
SAP S/4HANA Finance and SAP Analytics Cloud, backed by our global partnerships. Finance and workforce data connected for planning, reporting and close. We confirm scope first.
Straight answers
What does EC Experts actually do in finance?
We offer finance transformation on SAP S/4HANA Finance and SAP Analytics Cloud, backed by our global partnerships: the chart of accounts and cost model, planning and budgeting, executive reporting, group reporting and close acceleration, and the seam where payroll and workforce cost post into finance. We are not a finance-only firm, and we say so. Our advantage is that we understand the HR and payroll data feeding those numbers, which is where most reporting disputes actually start. We confirm scope and what is live in your landscape before we plan.
Can SAP Analytics Cloud replace our planning spreadsheets?
For most planning cycles, yes. SAC handles driver-based planning, workforce cost planning, budget versions and rolling forecasts, with the numbers read straight from S/4HANA rather than exported. What it will not fix on its own is a cost model nobody agrees on. We agree the model first and build the SAC application against it; otherwise you get a faster route to numbers people still argue about.
How do payroll costs get into finance without a monthly reconciliation exercise?
By designing the posting once, properly: cost centre and cost object derivation in Employee Central and payroll, a posting design that matches the S/4HANA finance structure, and reconciliation built into the run rather than bolted on at month-end. We build this seam on SAP Integration Suite and scope both ends of it with you, so there is no argument between an HR vendor and a finance vendor about whose mapping is wrong.
Do we need S/4HANA before we can use SAP Analytics Cloud?
No. SAC reads from ECC, S/4HANA, SAP Datasphere and non-SAP sources. Plenty of organisations start reporting and planning in SAC while the S/4HANA move is still being planned, and it is often a sensible first step because it exposes the data quality problems you would otherwise discover mid-migration.
Who does the work: finance consultants or SAP configurators?
Our own SuccessFactors and integration practitioners cover the HR side, and our global partnerships back our S/4HANA Finance and SAP Analytics Cloud capability. EC Experts stays your point of contact, and we confirm scope and what is live in your landscape before we plan.
Our services
- HCM Advisory SAP SuccessFactors strategy, readiness assessments and workforce technology roadmaps for Canadian enterprises and federal programs.
- Implementation End-to-end SAP SuccessFactors implementation: Employee Central, EC Payroll, Talent, with the same senior team from design to go-live.
- Support & Managed Services Managed services for SAP SuccessFactors that the CHRO and the CIO can both check: each release tested against your configuration, every change on record, and a takeover from another provider when you need one.
- SmartRecruiters for SAP SuccessFactors Design, implementation, integration and adoption of SmartRecruiters for SAP SuccessFactors customers, with responsible AI governance.
- Insights Practitioner perspectives on SAP SuccessFactors, Employee Central, change management and HR technology strategy.