Supervisor – IS Financial Systems Controlling & Manufacturing Finance

SUMMARY
The IS Supervisor
- Financial Systems
- Controlling & Manufacturing Finance leads the support, design, enhancement, and roadmap for SAP Finance and Controlling capabilities, with primary focus on Product Costing, Profitability Analysis, manufacturing finance, inventory valuation, actual costing, intercompany accounting, transfer pricing, manufacturing statement reporting, and business unit/segment controllership support. In addition to Controlling and Manufacturing Finance expertise, the role is expected to have a working understanding of core SAP Financial Accounting and Record-to-Report (R2R) processes including General Ledger, Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable, Fixed Assets, Banking, Financial Close, journal entry governance, and SOX-controlled business processes.

The role may serve as system owner for assigned Financial Systems capabilities, ensuring application reliability, process governance, compliance, and continuous improvement. This role provides hands-on SAP FICO/CO subject matter expertise while directly supervising IS Financial Systems analysts, contractors, and partner resources. The role works closely with Accounting, Finance, Controllers, FP&A, Procurement, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Commercial, Customer Service, Credit Management, and IS teams to deliver reliable, integrated, and scalable financial systems solutions.

• Supervise SAP Financial Systems analysts, contractors, and partner resources responsible for SAP FICO/CO, Product Costing, CO-PA, and related Finance applications.
• Provide coaching, mentoring, workload direction, performance feedback, and annual performance reviews.
• Build team capability in SAP Controlling, integration design, application support, project delivery, documentation, and business partnership.
• Promote accountability, continuous improvement, operational excellence, customer service, and effective collaboration across IS and business teams.

• Lead and support SAP Controlling processes including Product Costing, Cost Center Accounting, Profit Center Accounting, cost allocations, overhead costing, Activity-Based Costing, Standard Costing, Actual Costing, and management reporting.
• Provide subject matter expertise for product costing in discrete, continuous, and process manufacturing scenarios, including cost component structures, standard cost estimates, variance analysis, and manufacturing cost flows.
• Support inventory valuation, actual costing, plant-to-plant transfers, terminal/warehouse movements, intercompany inventory transactions, and related financial impacts.
• Support manufacturing statement reporting, plant-level financial reporting, and business unit/segment controllership requirements.

• Lead SAP CO-PA/Margin Analysis and profitability reporting solutions for product, customer, plant, legal entity, sales company, segment, and business unit reporting.
• Support reporting for variable cost, fixed cost, material margin, gross margin, net margin, cash margin, transfer pricing impacts, manufacturing margins, and sales company margins.
• Partner with Controllers, FP&A, Commercial Finance, and business unit leaders to improve profitability transparency and decision-support capabilities.
• Translate controllership and management reporting needs into scalable SAP design, configuration, reporting, and enhancement solutions.

• Lead SAP Financial Systems support and solution design for intercompany accounting processes, including IC Stock Transfer Orders, inventory movements, ownership transfers, goods issue/receipt processing, and related financial postings.
• Support integration with Order-to-Cash for transfer pricing, intercompany billing, and backend IC billing flows where third-party sales generate related intercompany transactions under the Single Sales Company model.
• Partner with Finance, Controllership, Tax, FP&A, Commercial Finance, Manufacturing, and OTC stakeholders to align transfer pricing, IC billing, margin reporting, and legal entity reporting requirements.
• Lead or support automation of intercompany Accounts Payable invoice creation and processing using SAP intercompany billing and RD04 output-type capabilities.
• Ensure CO-PA/Margin Analysis design reflects manufacturing entity margins, sales company margins, transfer pricing impacts, and consolidated profitability considerations.