SAP COPA Consultant

• 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 we'll 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 (ie CPA)

Mandatory skills*

• SAP COPA