SAP Controlling Product Costing Consultant

SAP Controlling Product Costing Consultant

Requirements

• A minimum of five years of hands-on SAP experience in Controlling and Product Costing, including at least One full cycle S/4HANA implementation in a functional/configuration role.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent (minimum 12 years) work experience. (If Associate Degree, must have minimum 6 years work experience)

Responsibilities

• Own the design, configuration, and delivery for key S/4HANA Controlling areas including Cost Center Accounting, Internal Orders, Product Costing (plan and actual), Material Ledger, Margin Analysis (CO-PA), and Overhead Accounting.
• Translate complex business requirements into detailed solution designs and functional specifications that leverage S/4HANA innovations such as Universal Journal, Margin Analysis, Universal Allocation, Fiori front end.
• Facilitate design workshops and engage directly with client SMEs and business leads to finalize detailed design decisions.
• Configure controlling structures and cost flows across Finance, Manufacturing, Procure to Pay and Order to Cash collaborating with cross-functional team members to ensure end-to-end process integrity.
• Own and manage unit testing and support integration and UAT cycles by resolving functional defects, validating cost flows, and ensuring reporting accuracy.
• Prepare and validate data loads for master data and transactional data related to controlling objects (cost center plans, activity types, etc.).
• Provide inputs to training materials and test scenarios to owned solution areas.
• Ensure timely and high-quality deliverables, pro-actively escalating risks, dependencies or blockers to the overall R2R Lead as needed.

Preferred Qualifications

• In-depth knowledge of standard and actual costing, material ledger, cost object controlling, Account based CO-PA (Margin analysis) and overhead cost accounting with experience using Fiori apps as the front end.
• Strong configuration skills across these areas.
• Proven ability to independently own and deliver solution components while collaborating closely with the broader Record to Report and cross functional teams.
• Strong documentation, testing, and communication skills; comfortable working in a client-facing role under time constraints.