SAP COPA

Total Years of Experience*

5 + years of relevant experience

Relevant Years of Experience

5 + years of relevant experience

Detailed JD *(Roles and Responsibilities)

Act as an SME for developing Management Reporting Solutions using COPA & BI working closely with the Business Analysts & cross functional teams.

Align with customers to design solutions to address management reporting needs.

Manage business processes design/impact analysis during business blueprint and realization phases.

Participate and support integration testing cycle with the ability to resolve defects within COPA/Management Reporting domain.

Deployment and user adoption of reporting tools. Identify user adoption pain points and work with business users to address them.

Understand the projects business requirements and timelines and drive closure of design issues to meet the projects go live dates.

Conceptualize design for Management reporting project requests and provide estimated effort for the requested Design

Mandatory:

CO / COPA Expert (over 5 years of SAP experience), including 2 - 3 full life cycle Implementations with Setting up Costing Base COPA.

Expertise of controlling related processes: CO-PA, Product costing, cost center accounting, cost object controlling, Profitability analysis.

Exposure to Service contract related Business processes. (Cost object settlement, Revenue recognition method)

Thorough Knowledge of FICO integration with other SAP Modules such as: CRM, Sales and distribution (Sales, Billing, Pricing), Materials Management, Production Planning, etc.

Expertise in Costing base COPA related Configuration ( Derivation etc...) and Report creation (Report Painter etc.)

Significant hands on experience working on COPA enhancements & user exits.

Expertise in developing profitability reports in SAP ECC and able to integrate effectively with downstream analytics application such as Business intelligence/ Business Object /BPC/ Hadoop/ Tableau

Ability to work with multiple stakeholders in a dynamic matrix organization

Good overall SAP FICO expertise

Excellent Communication skills.

Self-starter and proactive, including managing deliverables, able to work independently, understanding timelines and deadlines with minimal guidance

Strongly Preferred:

Expertise in S4 Hana with S4 Hana Implementation experience.

S4 Hana Certified

Experience in integrating COPA with BPC as well as exposure to Hadoop and Tableau would be a definite Plus.

Experience in Integrating CO / COPA with CRM

Nice to Have:

Accounting/ Financial Background such as a previous Experience in a Finance related position.

Finance Degree (i.e. CPA)

Mandatory skills*

SAP COPA