SAP CO Specialist, Record to Report
3 days ago
Somerset
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.