SAP COPA Consultant

Job Description

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