SAP Controlling Architect

Description :

Position Summary :

We are seeking a skilled and motivated SAP CO Consultant to join our collaborative team supporting SAP Finance and Controlling efforts.

This role involves full-cycle SAP implementation, support, and enhancement of financial systems to meet evolving business needs.

Key Responsibilities :

- Configure and support SAP CO submodules including CCA, PCA, IO, COPA, and Product Costing (CO-PC).

- Deliver cost closing activities including WIP, variance analysis, settlements, and cockpit management.

- Lead profitability and margin analysis across product lines using COPA.

- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate CO-PC with MM, PP, SD, and FI modules.

- Provide insights into inventory valuation, material ledger, and cost transparency for process industries.

- Ensure seamless integration between SAP CO and modules such as FI, MM, SD, PP, HR, and FM.

- Support integration with external systems including Concur, Vertex (Tax), VIM, and Ariba.

- Apply knowledge of SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS in relevant SAP contexts.

- Maintain application documentation and provide Level 2/3 support.

- Lead workshops, define business rules, and support change management initiatives.

- Conduct As-Is and To-Be process mapping and sponsor innovation opportunities.

- Support ERP deployments, optimization projects, and migrations.

- Collaborate with finance and operational teams to design effective cost allocation methods.

- Develop detailed documentation and user training materials.

- Provide training for business users and technical teams.

- Benchmark processes against industry best practices.

Required Qualifications :

- Bachelors degree in Finance, Accounting, Computer Science, Information systems or related field (Masters preferred).

- Min 10+ years of SAP FI/CO implementation experience, with strong focus on CCA, PCA, CO-PS, RA and COPA.

- Experience with SAP ECC version and also with RISE.

- Strong understanding of Order to Cash, Procure to Pay, Plan to Produce, and Record to Report flows.

- Experience with SAP Solution Manager, Onesource, Vertex, and other SAP add-ons.

- ABAP debugging knowledge is a plus.

- Knowledge of Event-Based Revenue Recognition (EBRR) or SAP RAR.

- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.

- Proven ability to collaborate across sales, logistics, customer service, and finance teams.

- Familiarity with SAP RISE, BW/BObj, BTP, Process Orchestration, SuccessFactors, ARIBA, Concur,BPC and other financial integrators like vertex, onesource, open text etc.

- Strong understanding of integration patterns, architectures, and tools including APIs, middleware, and ETL technologies.

- Strong proficiency in MS Office Suite and project management tools.

- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.

- Ability to work in a fast-paced, matrixed, and international environment.

- Prior experience in professional services industry preferred.

- Experience with SAP integration across modules and external systems.

- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

- Proven ability to work in fast-paced, matrixed environments and drive consensus.