SAP CO Consultant with 8+yrs in Mumbai

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Job Description: SAP S/4HANA CO Consultant
Job Title: SAP S/4HANA Controlling (CO) Consultant
Experience: 8 years

Role Summary
The SAP S/4HANA CO Consultant will be responsible for designing, configuring, implementing, and supporting SAP Controlling solutions. The role requires strong functional expertise in management accounting processes, including cost center accounting, internal orders, profit center accounting, product costing, and profitability analysis.
The consultant will collaborate with finance and business stakeholders to translate business requirements into scalable SAP S/4HANA solutions, support integration with other modules, and contribute throughout the project lifecyclefrom requirement gathering and configuration through testing, go-live, and post-go-live support.
Key Responsibilities
• Participate in SAP S/4HANA CO implementation, rollout, enhancement, and support projects.
• Conduct requirement-gathering sessions and assist in fit-to-standard workshops with finance and business teams.
• Analyze business requirements and map them to SAP S/4HANA Controlling standard processes.
• Configure and support core SAP CO functionalities, including:
o Cost Center Accounting
o Profit Center Accounting
o Internal Orders
o Cost Element Accounting
o Activity-Based Costing
o Cost Allocations, Assessments, and Distributions
o Planning and Budgeting
o Product Costing and Cost Object Controlling
o Material Ledger and Actual Costing, where applicable
o Profitability Analysis (CO-PA)
o Margin Analysis in SAP S/4HANA
• Configure controlling area settings, cost center hierarchies, activity types, statistical key figures, allocation cycles, planning layouts, and reporting structures.
• Support integration between CO and SAP FI, MM, SD, PP, PS, and other relevant SAP modules.
• Assist with master data setup, validation, migration, and reconciliation for cost centers, profit centers, internal orders, cost elements, and related controlling objects.
• Prepare functional specifications for reports, interfaces, forms, workflows, and approved enhancements.
• Perform unit testing and support SIT, UAT, regression testing, defect analysis, and issue resolution.
• Support cutover planning, go-live activities, hypercare, and production support.
• Prepare and maintain functional design documents, configuration documents, test scripts, training materials, and user guides.
• Provide end-user support and training on SAP Fiori applications, controlling reports, and business processes.
• Work closely with FI consultants, technical teams, integration teams, project managers, and client stakeholders.
• Follow SAP Activate methodology, project governance standards, and clean-core principles.
Required Skills and Qualifications
• Bachelors degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Administration, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field.
• 48 years of relevant SAP CO consulting experience.
• Strong hands-on configuration experience in SAP S/4HANA Controlling.
• Good understanding of management accounting, cost controlling, budgeting, planning, and profitability analysis processes.
• Experience in Cost Center Accounting, Profit Center Accounting, Internal Orders, Product Costing, and CO-PA/Margin Analysis.
• Knowledge of actual costing, material ledger, and product cost planning is preferred.
• Strong understanding of integration points between CO and FI, MM, SD, PP, and PS.
• Experience in SAP S/4HANA implementation, rollout, enhancement, or support projects.
• Experience with requirement gathering, solution design, configuration, testing, defect resolution, cutover, and hypercare support.
• Familiarity with SAP Fiori applications, embedded analytics, and standard SAP S/4HANA finance reports.
• Ability to create functional specifications, test scenarios, configuration documents, and user training materials.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills.
• Good customer-facing, communication, stakeholder-management, and delivery capabilities.
• Ability to manage assigned deliverables independently while collaborating effectively with cross-functional teams.
Preferred Skills
• SAP certification in SAP S/4HANA Finance or Management Accounting.
• Experience in SAP S/4HANA Cloud, including Public or Private Cloud implementations.
• Knowledge of SAP Central Business Configuration (CBC) and SAP Best Practices.
• Experience with SAP Analytics Cloud planning, embedded analytics, or SAP Group Reporting.
• Exposure to manufacturing, retail, automotive, consumer products, or project-based industries.
• Knowledge of financial closing, statutory reporting, IFRS, and management reporting requirements.
• Experience working in Agile or SAP Activate delivery environments.
Key Competencies
• Strong functional expertise in SAP S/4HANA CO processes.
• Sound understanding of finance and management accounting principles.
• Customer-oriented approach with effective communication skills.
• Ability to translate business requirements into practical SAP solutions.
• Attention to detail in configuration, testing, reconciliation, and documentation.
• Ability to work under project timelines and manage multiple priorities.
• Strong collaboration skills across finance, supply chain, technical, and business teams