SAP COPA

SAP COPA (Controlling Profitability Analysis)

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Act as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) for developing

  Management Reporting Solutions

  using

  COPA BI

  , working closely with Business Analysts and cross-functional teams.
• Align with customers to design solutions that address management reporting needs.
• Manage business process design/impact analysis during business blueprint and realization phases.
• Participate in and support the integration testing cycle, with the ability to resolve defects within the COPA/Management Reporting domain.
• Manage the deployment and user adoption of reporting tools, identifying and addressing user pain points.
• Understand project business requirements and timelines, and drive closure of design issues to meet go-live dates.
• Conceptualize designs for Management reporting project requests and provide estimated effort.
• Work with multiple stakeholders in a dynamic matrix organization.
• Act as a self-starter who is proactive, able to manage deliverables, work independently, and understand timelines with minimal guidance.

Skills Required:

• CO / COPA Expert

  with over 5 years of SAP experience.
• Experience in

  2-3 full lifecycle Implementations with Setting up Costing Base COPA

  .
• Expertise in 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-based COPA related Configuration

  (Derivation etc.) and report creation (Report Painter etc.).
• Significant hands-on experience working on

  COPA enhancements and user exits

  .
• Expertise in developing profitability reports in SAP ECC and integrating them with downstream analytics applications like Business Intelligence, Business Objects, BPC, Hadoop, and Tableau.
• Good overall

  SAP FICO expertise

  .
• Excellent communication skills.

• Strongly Preferred:

  Expertise in

  S/4HANA

  with S/4HANA Implementation experience.

• Strongly Preferred:

  Experience in integrating

  COPA with BPC

  , as well as exposure to Hadoop and Tableau.

• Strongly Preferred:

  Experience in Integrating

  CO / COPA with CRM

  .

• Nice to Have:

  Accounting/Financial background, such as a previous experience in a finance-related position or a Finance Degree (i.e., CPA).

QUALIFICATION:

• Bachelor's degree in a relevant field such as Finance, Accounting, or Information Technology, or equivalent practical experience.

  S/4HANA Certification

  is strongly preferred.