Management Reporting Expert Consultant (COPA)

Management Reporting Expert Consultant (COPA)Total years of experience: 8 to 10 years plusImplementations: 2-3Location: Santa Clara, CAMain Skills: COPA, Costing, SAP, BI, FICO, Report Painter (development), ECC, Hadoop, TableauJob Description:The position is for a Management Reporting Expert Consultant (COPA), and the roles and responsibilities are as follows:• Be involved in Project and act as an SME in the area of Management Reporting , developing Solutions using COPA & BI , in working closely with the Business Analysts & cross functional teams.• Align with customers to design solutions to address management reporting needs for Specific Projects.• Manage business processes design/impact analysis during business blueprint and realization phases.• Participate and support integration testing & UAT cycle with the ability to resolve defects in the area of responsibility. (COPA/Management Reporting)• Deployment and user adoption of reporting tools. Identify user adoption pain points and work with business users to address them.• Understand the Projects business requirements and timelines and drive closure of design issues to meet the Expected Projects go live dates.• Conceptualize Design for Management Reporting Project requests and provide estimated effort for implementation of the Project requestQualifications and Skills: Must Have.• CO & COPA Expert consultant (over 8 - 10 years of SAP experience), including 2 - 3 full life cycle Implementations.• Strong understanding of controlling processes-CO-PA, Product costing, Cost center accounting, cost object controlling.Thorough Knowledge in FICO integration with following SAP Modules: CRM, SD function, Sales, Billing, Pricing, Materials Management and Production Planning• Strong expertise in COPA related Configuration and Report creation (Report Painter etc)• Significant hands on experience and expertise working on COPA enhancements & user exits.• Must have developed profitability reports in SAP ECC and able to integrate effectively with downstream Analytics application such as BI/BO/BPC.• Ability to work with multiple stakeholders in a dynamic matrix organization• Experience in integrating COPA with BPC is a definite plus• Experience with Hadoop and Tableau is a definite plus• Accounting/ Financial Background i.e. Experience in a Finance related position. Finance Degree (i.e. CPA) is a plus