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
- Positive 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

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