Job Description

Job Summary:

The SAP CO Specialist, Record to Report will ensure a relationship with business stakeholders, cross-functional teams, external project consultants and COE team members to design, build, test, deploy solutions in SAP S4 HANA CO module. This role will also have a key responsibility in providing the support for day-to-day Record to Report (RTR) operations, month-end, and year-end closing activities. The ideal candidate should have good listening skills, pro-active, team player and have the ability work with cross-functional teams and the business stakeholders.

Job Details:

• Accountable for design and implementation of SAP S/4 HANA capabilities supporting Finance functions in Cost Center Accounting, Product Costing, Profitability Analysis and Project Systems.
• Work with business to map the new capabilities and build solutions with the advanced features in CO-PA.
• Accountable for supporting the annual standard and ad hoc cost estimates, transfer pricing, and additive cost and other costing related activities.
• Responsible for supporting the profit center reorganization to align the products with new profit center as the business needs evolve.
• Responsible for managing the overhead groups, costing sheets and template allocation.
• Actively engage in setting up the CO-PA assessments to allocate the cost to the product.
• Responsible to support issues related to production order settlements, WIP and variance calculations.
• Provide support for business in setting up allocations and distributions to allocate the cost from sender objects to receiver objects.
• Accountable to support Project Systems module with the creation, addition of budget, executing the project and settling the project costs.
• Responsible for designing solution with internal orders and the settlement process.
• Responsible for providing the support to manage cost center planning, loading the budgets, and creating new planning layouts to support the evolving business needs.
• Accountable for creating new activity types, supporting business to load the activity rates/prices and other required support.
• Actively engage with business, SAP COE leader, cross-functional teams, external consultants to provide best fit technical solutions while aligning to global template solution.
• Perform FIT/GAP analysis and write functional specifications for RICEFW.
• Actively engage with business, SAP COE leader, cross-functional teams, external consultants to provide best fit technical solutions while aligning to global template solution.
• Support month-end and year-end activities and resolve issues in a timely manner.
• Help Perform risk assessments of enterprise apps and work closely with project teams on building/configuring applications security.
• Develop User Documentation in collaboration with Business Team and external consultants.
• Support SAP COE in testing and validation efforts related to Maintenance Patches, Version Upgrades, and integration on New Bolt-on Applications from time to time as required.
• Monitor and respond to help desk tickets in a timely manner, and work with business to understand the issue, and provide the solution.
• Provide functional advisory support to ad hoc SAP/Non-SAP led initiatives in other subsidiaries to support managerial decision making.
• Drive the Functional Integration of all E2E processes enabled by SAP S/4HANA to ensure proper design, development, testing and the cutover activities.
• Work with other Process Team(s) in development and execution of the test scripts in the integration testing cycles and regression testing.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Knowledge of Cost center accounting, Profitability Analysis (CO-PA), Project systems and Product Costing (CO-PC).
• Certification in S/4 HANA
• Excellent communication and presentation skills
• Ability to work on projects with cross functional teams, external resources, and PMO.
• Manage business users independently, be self-motivated, proactive and a team member.
• Ability to embrace new technologies and adopt to an evolving environment.
• Ability to adopt flexible schedule to meet multiple time-zones for meetings with peers and stakeholders.

Qualifications/Background Experiences:

• Bachelor’s degree is required, preferably in Finance or related field, or equivalent work experience.
• Minimum 10 years of experience with Process Design, Deployment and/or support experience utilizing and configuring the SAP FICO module with a heavy focus in Cost Center Accounting, Product Costing, Profitability Analysis and Project Systems.
• Experience in Medical Device / Life Sciences Industry preferred.

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