Sydney Water is modernising its financial planning landscape to support a growing customer base, increasing capital investment and faster business decision-making. Rather than simply replacing legacy planning tools, the organisation has embarked on a finance-led transformation to unify planning across OPEX, CAPEX and financial statements using SAP Analytics Cloud Seamless Planning.

Delivered through a collaborative partnership between Finance and Digital, the program is taking an iterative, in-house approach, replacing a fragmented planning landscape spanning SAP BPC, S/4HANA, non-SAP systems and spreadsheets. Along the way, the team is introducing a Self-Service Data Model, embedding analytics-focused business roles, and exploring the predictive and AI capabilities of SAP Analytics Cloud to improve planning, adoption and decision-making.

This session offers a timely look at Sydney Water's transformation as the team approaches its October 2026 go-live, sharing the business drivers behind the program, the realities of delivering a major planning initiative in-house, and the lessons learned along the way. Whether you're considering the move from SAP BPC, reducing reliance on spreadsheets, or exploring how AI can support modern financial planning, you'll gain practical insights from a team actively navigating the journey.

What You'll Learn

• How Sydney Water is modernising financial planning across OPEX, CAPEX and financial statements using SAP Analytics Cloud Seamless Planning.
• How Finance and Digital partnered to deliver an iterative, in-house transformation, including lessons learned from moving beyond SAP BPC, spreadsheets and traditional implementation models.
• How predictive analytics and AI can support modern financial planning, and key considerations for organisations looking to build a more agile, scalable and business-led planning capability.