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Role overview

We're seeking a senior SAP CO-PA Consultant with substantial hands-on experience in costing and profitability analysis to support an AMS engagement across SAP ECC and S/4HANA. The consultant will provide functional production support, resolve complex costing and profitability issues, and deliver process improvements in collaboration with Finance, Controlling, and technical teams.

Key Responsibilities

- Provide AMS support for SAP CO-PA and related Controlling processes, including incident, problem, and change management.
- Troubleshoot end-to-end product costing and profitability issues across planning, cost estimates, cost rollups, production settlement, and margin analysis.
- Support costing processes such as standard costing, actual costing, cost component splits, overhead calculation, WIP, variance analysis, and settlement.
- Analyze cost and revenue flows into CO-PA, including derivation, account assignment, allocations, assessments, and reporting.
- Support both costing-based and account-based CO-PA in ECC, and Margin Analysis in S/4HANA, as applicable to the client landscape.
- Investigate integration issues across FI, CO, Material Management, Sales and Distribution, and Production Planning.
- Perform root-cause analysis for discrepancies in product costs, inventory valuation, profitability reporting, and financial postings.
- Evaluate and deliver configuration changes and enhancements through the AMS lifecycle, including impact analysis, testing, documentation, and release coordination.




- Support month-end and year-end close activities, including cost runs, settlement, reconciliation, and issue resolution.
- Partner with business users to clarify requirements, communicate solutions, and recommend improvements to costing and profitability processes.

Required qualifications

- Significant senior-level SAP CO-PA and Controlling consulting experience, preferably in an AMS or production-support setting.
- Heavy hands-on costing experience, including product cost planning, standard costing, cost estimates, cost rollups, and cost analysis.
- Strong understanding of cost flows across manufacturing and finance processes.
- Experience supporting SAP ECC and SAP S/4HANA environments.
- Knowledge of CO-PA and S/4HANA Margin Analysis, including relevant design and process differences.
- Experience integrating CO-PA and costing with FI, CO-PC, MM, SD, and PP.
- Strong troubleshooting, analytical, communication, and documentation skills.
- Familiarity with IT service-management practices, including incident, problem, and change management.

Job Requirements

Preferred Qualifications

- Experience with Material Ledger and actual costing.
- Knowledge of production order costing, WIP, variance calculation, settlement, and profitability reporting.
- Experience with costing and CO-PA impacts from S/4HANA conversions or deployments.
- Familiarity with SAP analytics and reporting for cost and margin analysis.
- Experience supporting complex manufacturing or multi-entity environments.

📌 SAP COPA Consultant (Costing) (Pune)
🏢 Stefanini North America and APAC
📍 Pune