SAP Controlling and COPA Lead

SAP Controlling and CO-PA Lead

As an SAP Controlling and CO-PA Lead, you will play a key role in S/4HANA journey toward governing and evolving the established template across Cost Center Accounting (CCA), Profitability Analysis (CO-PA/Margin Analysis), Product Costing, and Profit Center Accounting (PCA) to ensure standardized, compliant, and integrated processes while bridging project delivery and BAU operations.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Collaborate with Business Process Managers (BPMs) and SMEs to align the approved CO/CO-PA/PCA/Product Costing template with business needs.
  
• Oversee CO-PA design consistency (characteristics, derivations, valuation, allocations) and FI CO reconciliation in the Universal Journal.
  
• Govern Controlling master data and structures (controlling area, operating concern, profit/cost center hierarchies, cost component split, Universal Allocation).
  
• Coordinate end-to-end integration with FI SD MM PP (pricing/billing to CO-PA, Material Ledger, WIP/variance, settlement).
  
• Define reporting requirements and adoption (CDS views, Fiori analytical apps) and KPI hierarchies.
  
• Lead business testing (SIT, UAT) planning, execution oversight, and defect resolution.
  
• Guide data migration and cutover rules; oversee mock loads and reconciliations toward go-live.
  
• Support deployments across global markets and drive adoption and compliance.
  
• Provide knowledge transfer and training to global and local teams.
  
• Deliver user documentation and best-practice guidelines and support continuous improvement.
  

What We’re Looking For

• 7 10 years of SAP CO experience across CCA, CO-PA, Product Costing, and PCA.
  
• Strong knowledge of Account-Based CO-PA/Margin Analysis and Universal Journal.
  
• Experience with integration across FI SD MM PP and with Material Ledger, WIP/variance, and settlement.
  
• Experience with reporting enablement (CDS/Fiori) and analytics-driven KPIs.
  
• Strong testing leadership and data migration/cutover oversight.
  
• Strong problem-solving and communication skills for business - IT collaboration.