SAP CO Top level Advisor at Dangote Industries Limited in India (Hyderabad)

Position Overview

 An skilled and devoted SAP CO Top level Advisor to join Dangote SAP Dispatch Center in India. In this vital function, you'll be in charge of the full lifecycle management of our SAP Directing (CO) initiatives, from thorough design and setup to execution, running test, and continuous help. You will serve as a key domain specialist, operating closely with finance and business participants to convert sophisticated management accounting and directing qualifications into strong SAP functionalities, enhance cost flows, improve profit evaluation, and lead business value through perceptive financial data. The preferred candidate will have in-depth operational proficiency across a extensive range of SAP CO sub-modules, a established history of successful project involvement (which includes S/4HANA scene changes), and robust logical, issue resolution, and verbal abilities.

Project Execution & Dispatch:

• Actively head or engage in all phases of the SAP program duration (e.g., Organize, Explore, Realize, Deploy, Run), taking ownership of allocated outputs connected with Directing.
• Organize thorough operational requirements for custom progress updates (RICEF objects: Documentation, Interfaces, Switches, Upgrades, Forms) and team up with ABAP developers, making sure compliance to design and quality benchmarks.
• Supervise and assist data migration initiatives for CO master data (e.g., cost centers, profit centers, internal orders, material expenses).

Running test & QA:

• Formulate complete test scenarios and scripts for SAP CO functionalities.
• Head and implement unit running test, assistance network consolidation running test (SIT), and coordinate user acceptance testing (UAT) to confirm the capability, precision, and honesty and reliability of directing initiatives.
• Recognize, evaluate, and settle sophisticated concerns, faults, and discrepancies encountered during running test phases and post-go-live, especially those affecting finance reporting and management findings.

Development & Recordkeeping:

Formulate premium quality development materials and carry out specialist-level development sessions for finance, generation, and sales teams on SAP CO functionalities and status updates. Produce and preserve thorough recordkeeping, which includes process flows, operational requirements, setup advisors, and end-user guides.

Guidance & Expert influence:

Offer guidance, direction, and expertise move to entry-level CO advisors and internal assist teams, nurturing their career progression.

Expertise:

• At least 8-10 years of devoted, practical experience as an SAP CO Advisor.
• Demonstrated expertise engaging in a minimum of 2-3 full lifecycle SAP execution projects or significant improvement/rollout projects, particularly including sophisticated CO functionalities.
• In-depth understanding across all SAP CO sub-modules (CO-CEL, CO-CCA, CO-OPA, EC-PCA, CO-PC, CO-PA).
• Comprehensive practical experience with SAP S/4HANA Management Accounting (Directing) is a robust advantage, which includes Margin Evaluation. Expertise with S4 HANA is crucial.

Technical expertise:

• Specialist-level expertise in SAP CO module settings, master data, and industry standards.
• Deep knowledge of management accounting principles, costing methods, and profit evaluation notions.
• Capability to compose clear, thorough, and complete operational requirements for sophisticated custom progress updates (RICEF objects).
• Competence in ABAP diagnosing is highly preferred.
• Expertise with analytics platforms within SAP (e.g., Fiori embedded data analysis, SAP BW, SAC) for directing data.

Core Skills:

• Exceptional logical and strategic challenge-solving competencies, with the capability to recognize root causes and propose efficient, combined SAP initiatives.
• Outstanding verbal and professional writing competencies, with the capability to communicate effectively sophisticated technical and financial/management accounting notions to multifaceted target groups, which includes top level management.
• Robust people skills, competent of developing trust, shaping participants, and pushing general agreement.
• Initiative-driven, self-driven, outcomes-oriented, and highly structured with close focus to description.
• Capability to oversee various key focuses, work with little to no supervision, and thrive under pressure in a dynamic environment.
• Deep knowledge of project coordination structured approaches (e.g., Nimble, Waterfall, Hybrid).

Preferred Credentials

• SAP CO Accreditation (e.g., SAP Accredited Application Associate - Management Accounting with SAP S/4HANA).
• Understanding with financial merger methods and resources.
• Expertise with cost distribution structured approaches and profit center/segment status updates.