for a position at NJ - Long Term Contract
Job Title : SAP Lead Analyst: CO
Technical/Functional Skills :
• SAP CO Consultant with very good knowledge of FI and New GL
• Interfacing with PP/SD/MM & SAP BW and non-SAP Modules.
• Ability to map the user requirements
• Good verbal and written communication skills.
• Lead the onsite and offshore team
Experience Required:
•SAP ECC 6.0 COPA
•Financial Accounting & Cost Accounting. Expert level SAP FICO / Product Costing/CO- PA/CCA/PCA/IO/New GL
•This person will be responsible for production support, configuration, testing, documentation, functional specifications for the development objects/reports. This will be responsible for providing training and recommendations to ensure leading-practice standards are met.
•At least 5 to 7 years of solid SAP FICO project implementation and support experience in CO Product Costing, CO Profitability Analysis & Cost center / Profit center accounting including integration with in ECC modules & BW. At least 2 full life cycles and 2 years of production support experience required.
•Need deep understanding, expertise and in depth knowledge of CO- Product Costing, Profitability analysis and its integration with logistics modules such as SD/MM/PP. Must have knowledge of finance business processes within a manufacturing & distribution environment. Need to have skills in troubleshooting the issues, finding solutions and providing recommendations to the business users. A self starter & be able to independently resolve issues, coordinate and communicate with the business users and Plant managers.
Controlling/Cost Management Functions
Cost Center & Profit Center Hierarchies ,Cost Center Budgeting, Automated Cost Center postings ,Automated Profit Center postings, Standard Costing / Inventory Valuation, Activity Based Costing, Variance Analysis & Reporting
Activity prices for cost centers, Manufacturing Close process, Material Ledger closing and actual costing, Cost Allocations, Cost Center Planning, Functional area reporting, Maintaining Material Master/Recipes/ BOMs for Product Costing and annual planning & integration to New GL.
COPA
•CO PA (Costing Based) and its integration with GL, SD and MM. COPA Planning, Planning upload integration with excel, external data transfer and integration with GL. CO PA reports, and business knowledge for integration with BW.
GL Functions
•Chart of Accounts, Validation and Substitutions, New General ledger functionality, Cost Center management
Currency Translation (Parallel Currencies), Statistical Accounts (headcount, square feet, etc.)
External Reporting, Report Painter, Report Writer, Queries, G/L month end closing support, Interface from Payroll /Expense reporting and other external system Upload / Download MS Excel based budget tools
• Experience in requirement gathering, fit/gap analysis, documenting design, test planning and execution, training strategy, and overall implementation planning with SAP methodologies and tools. Experience in production support, month end close support.
Roles & Responsibilities :
• Analyze new business requirements and changes to existing functionalities (small and medium size projects)
• Maintain and support the specific SAP solutions towards the J&J affiliates Key Users (2nd & 3rd Line support)
• Document user requirements (URS)
• Translate the user requirements into functional and technical design, application configuration and testing scenario’s
• Act as a CO lead for new releases, updates, go lives, etc.
• Documenting all aspects of the system (e.g. URS, process flows, functional specifications, technical design, application configuration, test scenario’s, etc.) according to internal procedures