Job Description
Product Cost Controlling
- Standard and Actual Product Costing (Material Ledger)
- Cost rollup validation
- Variance calculation and settlement
- Production order costing support
- Cost component structure validation
Overhead Cost Controlling
- Cost center creation and planning support
- Activity type planning and price calculation
- Allocation cycles (Assessment & Distribution)
- Internal order/Project System management (Capex, R&D, Maintenance)
Profitability Analysis (COPA)
- Support margin reporting by product, geography, and customer
- Assist profitability reporting structures
- Support reconciliation between COPA and Financial Accounting
- BOM and routing validation for costing accuracy
- Batch yield and potency considerations
- Solvent recovery costing
- R&D vs Commercial material treatment
- Multi-plant valuation support (API / OSD / Injectables)
- Export vs Domestic profitability analysis
- Intercompany and transfer pricing costing support
- Functional configuration support under CO Lead guidance
- Unit Testing, Integration Testing, and UAT execution
- Defect tracking and resolution coordination
- Master data validation (costing-relevant fields)
- Data migration validation and reconciliation
- Cutover and go-live support
- Hypercare stabilization activities
- Support SOX compliant finance processes within SAP
- Validate cost flows impacting financial statements
- Maintain functional documentation and test evidence
- Assist internal and external audit requirements
- Ensure reconciliation between FI and CO postings
- Manufacturing & Production Planning
- Plant Finance & FP&A Teams
- Supply Chain & Procurement
- IT SAP Support Organization
- Global Process Owners
- External Implementation Partners
- Support month-end closing activities in CO
- Standard vs Actual variance analysis
- Inventory valuation analysis
- Manufacturing performance reporting
- Margin and profitability analytics
SAP Functional Knowledge
- Cost Center Accounting (CCA)
- Product Costing (Standard Costing)
- Material Ledger (preferred)
- Internal Orders/Project System
- Basic COPA concepts
- CO Period-End Closing
- Integration with FI, MM, and PP modules
Finance & Domain Knowledge
- Cost Accounting fundamentals
- Manufacturing finance concepts
- Inventory valuation principles
- Variance analysis understanding
- Exposure to US GAAP / IFRS concepts
- Pharmaceutical or process manufacturing exposure preferred
Professional & Behavioral Skills
- Strong analytical mindset
- Structured documentation capability
- Ability to work in global teams
- Effective stakeholder communication
- Detail orientation suitable for SOX environment
- Learning agility in transformation programs
Qualifications
Education
- CMA / MBA (Finance) / M.Com / B.Com with SAP training or certification
Experience
- 25 years experience in SAP CO / Costing / Manufacturing Finance
- Exposure to SAP implementation or support projects
- Pharma, Chemical, or Manufacturing industry experience preferred
