The EY organization and SAP have launched a new Integrated Finance Managed Service solution that leverages SAP S/4HANA Cloud to help organizations accelerate enterprise transformation. According to EY, this end-to-end service model will evolve and accelerate critical functions across the enterprise, including human resources, payroll, finance operations, controllership, financial planning and analysis, treasury, and tax.
Combining Tech with Experience
The collaboration combines SAP’s advanced cloud technology with EY’s domain experience to provide businesses with data infrastructure embedded with AI capabilities. For SAP professionals, this development signals a significant evolution in how finance and related operations are delivered and managed in the cloud era.
“Through this collaboration with EY, we are excited to combine SAP’s leading cloud suite, enriched with Business AI capabilities, and EY teams’ deep domain and industry experience to help deliver better insights and drive better outcomes for customers,” said Thomas Saueressig, Member of the Executive Board of SAP SE, Customer Services & Delivery.
The heart of this offering is the combination of SAP S/4HANA Cloud and EY’s on-the-ground experience in finance and industry specifics. The partnership, therefore, provides a service layer to technology, with the former including elements like AI capabilities and a robust data infrastructure.
“The world’s most innovative companies with bold growth and transformation plans are often weighed down by non-core tasks, diverting valuable executive time and resources,” stated Raj Sharma, EY Global Managing Partner – Growth and Innovation.
He added, “The Integrated Finance Managed Services solution can provide companies with a new model, helping businesses operate more efficiently and enabling leaders to focus on what matters most. We believe this solution can fundamentally change how clients think about their enterprise functions.”
A Success Story
IntraBio Inc., a biopharmaceutical company, is an excellent example of how this offering helps industries. By offloading its finance, HR, and accounting heavy lifting to EY’s Integrated Finance Managed Services, IntraBio could hyper-focus on its core mission of developing life-saving treatments. The result? The company received FDA approval for its first product, followed by a successful market launch. That’s a tangible outcome directly linked to shedding operational burden.
This partnership underscores a broader movement in the SAP ecosystem—the increasing reliance on specialized partners to deliver implementations and ongoing, outcome-based services. It highlights the growing importance of cloud expertise, data governance know-how, and the ability to leverage AI for automation and insight.
The EY and SAP partnership gives a glimpse into the future of finance operations powered by intelligent technology and expert services. In this future, SAP professionals will be less consumed by routine tasks and more empowered to be strategic growth drivers.
What This Means for ERP Insiders
Integrated managed services are set to become the cavalry charge for SAP users. If your organization’s days are still bogged down in the trenches of manual processes, reconciliation nightmares, and keeping the lights on in a complex, on-premises world, the integrated managed services offered by SAP and EY can free up valuable time and resources to focus on strategies that truly drive business value. For SAP finance professionals, this trend towards managed services embedded with advanced technology like AI highlights a significant shift in how integrated technology and services operate.
Shift your focus upstream. This offering means companies are looking to offload the operational burden of running core finance and related SAP processes. For SAP users, this is a clear signal to develop skills in higher-value activities like financial planning & analysis, strategic business partnering, and leveraging the real-time data from SAP S/4HANA for insightful decision-making, rather than getting stuck in transactional details.
Managed services require different expertise. While the day-to-day system administration might be handled by the managed service provider, companies will still need SAP professionals who can effectively interact with the service provider, understand the underlying SAP S/4HANA Cloud capabilities, manage configurations, and ensure the service meets business requirements and compliance standards. Thus, for SAPinsiders, your role evolves from doing to managing and optimizing the service delivery.
