Account to Report Product Costing Senior Professional - SAP Center of Excellence (COE)

The A2R – Product Costing Senior Professional Provide L2/L3 support for SAP CO-PC incidents, defects, and service requests, ensuring adherence to SLAs. Execute and monitor critical period-end closing activities, including Costing Runs, Material Ledger (ML) closing, WIP calculation, variance analysis, COPA and settlement. Works closely with: Manufacturing & Supply Chain teams, Finance Controllers, Data & Test Teams, AMS Partners, SAP COE Leads

Goal of function:

Act as the liaison between business process owners, functional consultants, and the offshore/onshore technical team.

1) Key tasks:

 1. Run Operations & Expert Support

• Provide L3 functional support for SAP S/4HANA Product Costing covering:
• Material cost estimates
• Cost component splits
• Standard and moving average price management
• Inventory valuation and postings
• Resolve complex issues related to:
• Cost rollups
• Price differences
• Settlement and variance postings
• Integration between PP, MM, CO, and FI
• Support month-end, quarter-end, and year-end close for costing and inventory valuation.

2. Problem Management & Root Cause Analysis

• Lead root cause analysis (RCA) for recurring and critical Product Costing issues.
• Identify configuration gaps, process weaknesses, and data defects.
• Drive permanent fixes through controlled change.

3. Change & Enhancement Support, under the governance of ITS COE A2R

• Analyses business change requests related to:
  • Cost management&control
  • Cost estimates&std. prices
  • Variances
• Design and implement:
  • Configuration changes
  • Functional specifications/Technical Specifications
  • Testing and UAT support
• Ensure changes comply with:
  • ESPHORA Template set up
  • Internal controls
  • Audit requirements

4. Reconciliation & Control

• Ensure reconciliation between:
  • Inventory valuation (Material ledger – FI General Ledger)
  • Data flow in Margin Analysis
• Support financial controls, audit queries, compliance reviews, global transfer prices process and management/legal reporting.

2) Stakeholder Engagement

Internal:

• ITS COE A2R
• Production Controllers
• Data Support & Governance teams
• Operational Transfer Pricing team
• GBS Operations A2R/FP&A

External:

• SAP Support
• System Integrators

Key Performance Indicators

• Service availability and reliability
• Service Quality & performance
• Operational Excellence
• Risk & compliance

Qualifications, experience, know-how and skills critical for success*

1) Required training and education:

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Data Management or a related field.

2) Required professional experience (in years):

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, IT, or related discipline
• 8–12 years experience in SAP Controlling
• 4–6 years hands-on experience in Product Costing and all other CO modules
• Account-to-Report processes

3) Important personal qualities:

Excellent analytical and problem-solving abilities, with high attention to detail

Effective communication skills for interacting with business stakeholders and technical teams

Ability to manage multiple tasks, tickets, and priorities in a fast-paced environment

Experience documenting data policies, functional specifications, technical specifications.

4) Other specialized knowledge:

a) IT skills

• Strong hand-on configuration skills on SAP S/4HANA Controlling/SAP ECC Controlling with focus on Product Costing

• SAP S/4HANA on other Controlling modules like: Margin Analysis, Overhead Management, Project Systems
• Excellent understanding of integration with PP, MM, CO and FI
• Good understanding of end-to-end processes related to material life cycle

b) Product knowledge

• Product Cost Planning (CO-PC-PCP): Costing variants, valuation variants, cost component structure, and marking/releasing standard costs.
• Cost Object Controlling (CO-PC-OBJ): Production order costing, cost collectors, WIP calculation, and settlement.
• Actual Costing/Material Ledger (CO-PC-ACT): In-depth knowledge of actual cost calculation, multi-level price determination, and inventory valuation
• Margin Analysis/Overhead Management/Investment Management/Project Systems

Tools

• SAP Products
• SAP S/4HANA
• SAP SAC/Datasphere
• SAP Solution Manager
• SAP Fiori & UI5
• SAP CPI / PI-PO

Supporting Platforms

• ITSM tools (ServiceNow preferred)
• Monitoring tools (SAP ALM, APM, AIOps)
• Cloud platforms (AWS / Azure / GCP – SAP workloads)

5 ) Special personal requirements:

• Working on CET zone