Technical Skills Required:

Total experience: 7+ years in SAP Controlling delivery, functional consulting, Finance transformation or product roles.

Relevant experience: Minimum 5 years of hands-on SAP Controlling experience across implementation, integration, core-model design or deployment activities, including experience challenging and validating configuration and solution deliverables.

Education: Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in Finance, Controlling, Accounting, Information Systems, Business, Engineering or a related discipline.

Certifications (if any): SAP Controlling or S/4HANA Finance certification is an advantage.

Business analysis, product management or Agile certification is also valuable, but not mandatory.

Must Have:

- Minimum 5 years of hands-on SAP Controlling experience gained through implementation, integration, core-model design or deployment projects, not only theoretical knowledge or support coordination.

- Strong SAP CO functional and configuration background, with practical expertise in several of the following areas: CO-PA, Material Ledger and actual costing, Product Cost Controlling, Cost Centre Accounting, Profit Centre Accounting, internal orders and allocations.

- Strong understanding of operational controlling and FP&A processes, including actual profitability, margin analysis, costing, allocations, closing and management reporting dependencies.

- Proven ability to review, challenge and validate functional designs, configuration choices, integration decisions, test evidence and deployment deliverables produced by internal or external teams.

- Experience translating complex Controlling requirements into functional solutions and explaining solution constraints, impacts and trade-offs to Finance stakeholders.

- Experience identifying end-to-end dependencies across SAP CO, FI, MM, PP, SD, master data and reporting or analytics solutions.

- Ability to work autonomously, make recommendations, escalate material risks and act as a credible functional authority without formal hierarchical authority.

- Strong stakeholder management, facilitation, coaching, structured problem solving and clear written and verbal communication.

Good to Have:

- Deep knowledge of a global SAP Finance or Controlling core model.

- SAP S/4HANA Finance or Central Finance exposure.

- Experience with COPA/Material Ledger audit, performance diagnosis, closing issues or data-flow reconciliation.

- Experience with FP&A, profitability reporting, planning, forecasting or downstream enterprise-performance-management and analytics solutions.

- Experience in global core-model governance, design authority or multi-country deployment environments.

- SAP Controlling, S/4HANA Finance, business analysis, product management or Agile certification.

Key Responsibilities:

Core responsibilities:

- Act as the senior SAP Controlling functional reference within the Operational Controlling squad, working with the Senior Product Owner, Product Owner, FP&A and Controlling stakeholders, Product Analysts and delivery partners.

- Protect, maintain and evolve the SAP Controlling core model, ensuring that proposed changes remain coherent, reusable and aligned with global design principles.

- Translate complex controlling and profitability-management needs into clear functional requirements, product artefacts, solution options and acceptance criteria.

- Review and challenge functional designs, configuration choices and solution proposals across SAP CO, including profitability analysis, Material Ledger, product costing, cost centre accounting and profit centre accounting.

- Assess impacts and dependencies across SAP Finance, master data, source transactions, allocations, actual costing, reporting and downstream FP&A or analytics solutions.

- Recommend functional solutions and trade-offs to the Product Owner, making risks, constraints and core-model implications explicit.

Delivery / operational responsibilities:

- Guide and validate work performed by internal delivery teams, AMS providers, system integrators and external SAP Controlling experts throughout design, build, testing, deployment and stabilisation.

- Review functional specifications, configuration rationale, integration design, test scenarios, test evidence, cutover inputs and deployment deliverables.

- Lead or support complex incident and problem analysis, especially where issues affect closing, allocations, costing, profitability data, Material Ledger or Controlling-to-reporting flows.

- Identify root causes, functional dependencies and sustainable corrective actions rather than relying only on short-term fixes.

- Maintain critical SAP Controlling knowledge, design decisions, configuration rationale and product documentation within the internal Product Team.

- Contribute to product performance, continuous improvement, automation and simplification opportunities across the Operational Controlling scope.

Stakeholder & collaboration responsibilities:

- Act as a credible bridge between FP&A and Finance business stakeholders, the Senior Product Owner, squad Product Owner, Product Analysts, other IT&DATA product teams, in particular Finance Accounting teams, Data & Analytics teams, architecture, AMS and external partners.

- Facilitate functional design, impact-assessment and problem-solving sessions and drive alignment where decisions affect multiple processes, systems, entities or geographies.

- Coach Product Analysts and other product members to strengthen SAP Controlling knowledge and reduce key-person dependency.

- Resolve day-to-day functional topics autonomously within agreed product guardrails and escalate only material risks, design exceptions or product-level decisions.