SBN Finance Function Day 2026 @EY

Many organizations struggle with fragmented, Excel-based planning processes that limit transparency, consistency, and scalability across Finance and operations. SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC) addresses these challenges by providing a unified, cloud-based platform for integrated planning, analytics, and collaboration.

This presentation follows the SAP Analytics Cloud planning implementation journey at Hydro Aluminium Metal and explores how SAC Planning enables standardized end-to-end planning processes, a single source of truth for planning data, and integration with SAP landscapes such as SAP Datasphere.

Speakers

Ane Gravraak Hjort-Larsen

Technology Consultant, EY

Eirik Størmner

FP&A and Performance Management at Hydro | Aluminium Metal Finance, Hydro Aluminium AS

Discover how organizations are moving beyond traditional automation to agentic, AI-driven finance and discover how organizations are moving beyond traditional automation to agentic, AI-driven finance and operations using SAP S/4HANA, Joule, and SAP BTP.

Speakers

Abhishek Tyagi

SAP Agentic AI and Solution Architect, EY

• Single Source of Truth – Employee and organizational data is maintained centrally in SuccessFactors and flows seamlessly into S/4HANA via Business Integration Builder (BiB). No more HR vs. Finance data conflicts.
• Automatic ID Synchronization – One Employee ID in SuccessFactors automatically creates and matches the corresponding Personnel Number in S/4HANA.
• Frictionless Time Recording – Employees record time in CATS using the same unified ID they already know. No confusion, no rekeying, no mismatched records.
• Smart, Automated Processes – Organizational structure replicates cleanly, so approvals route to the right people and cost allocations land correctly—without manual effort.
• No duplicates. No dual maintenance. No constant cleanup. Admin time drops dramatically, errors decrease, compliance improves, and reporting becomes far more reliable.

Bottom line:

• You save time, increase accuracy, and free HR and Finance teams to focus on what actually matters—people and business outcomes, not system reconciliation.
• This is modern HR + Finance working as one system, not two.

Speakers

Peter Danilovic

S5 Consulting

Learn how customers could optimize finance processes with powerful AI capabilities. Customers can leverage SAP Business AI to make the best decisions with real-time data. Furthermore, SAP will show the AI copilot, Joule, in action.

SAP presents selected SAP S/4HANA embedded AI capabilities in Finance and shows how customers can build their own custom AI use cases. And with some of the exciting news from Sapphire 2026 in May.

Speakers

Kurt Iben Kristiansen

SAP Solution Advisor for BTP, SAP

Moritz Back

Solution Advisor for Sustainability, Finance, Analytics, SAP

Discover how enterprise planning is evolving with SAP. SAP Business Data Cloud (BDC) enables Seamless Planning through deep integration between SAP Analytics Cloud and SAP Datasphere, establishing a unified enterprise planning paradigm. In this in-depth session, you will gain a practical overview of Seamless Planning, along with proven approaches to optimize planning and analytics processes powered by next-generation AI. Unlock faster insight-to-action, drive real-time, cross-functional collaboration and build a simplified trusted data foundation. Learn how to elevate your planning and analytics with cutting-edge agentic AI innovations, turning complexity into clarity and strategy into execution.

This session will be contain the following:

• How SAP envisions intelligent business steering
• Delivering Enterprise Planning with SAP Seamless Planning
• Infusing business steering with AI-powered capabilities from SAP
• Live experience (hands-on system demo): Brand profitability planning integrated with workforce planning resulting in fully integrated P&L planning, leveraging SAP Business Data Cloud structures and Seamless Planning
• This example will be further enhanced with a workforce planning scenario, enabling users to simulate workforce FTE changes and immediately see the impact on the P&L. It leverages BDC structures and data products as the foundation (SuccessFactors)

Speakers

Nektarios Vasileiou

Global Domain Advisor, Planning & EPM Solutions SAP Finance & Spend Management, SAP SE

Statkraft is running an initiative to improve both the process and the data quality when it comes to handling incoming invoices. Although Statkraft has well-established statistical models to assign GL accounts and VAT codes, there is still room for improvements in this process. By leveraging AI we have built an AI agent that checks all the invoices that the current statistical models fail to determine a GL account and/or VAT code for. The solution uses the line item information and checks against our chart of accounts texts and works on multiple languages. The plan is to scale on the solution and use it for a number of related scenarios such as checking and correcting the material category on free text POs and to pick up ESG relevant information from invoice line items.

Speakers

Magnus Ollfors

Functional Architect ERP Domain, Statkraft AS

In this session, NTT Data presents the connection between how to solve reporting from standard in S4 to what is done in a data warehouse. Practical demo of review booklets, embedded analytics and queries in S4 - with a focus on Finance.

Speakers

Magnus Dahle

Junior Consultant | Business Analytics | NTT DATA, NTT DATA Business Solutions