SAP Controlling (CO) Manager

Polaris•Medina, MN

7d•Hybrid

About The Position

At Polaris Inc., the SAP Controlling (CO) Manager serves as the functional owner for the SAP S/4HANA Controlling domain, with primary responsibility for management accounting, manufacturing cost management, product costing, profitability analysis, planning, and financial performance reporting. This is a hands-on individual-contributor role that translates requirements from Finance, Operations, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, and Technology teams into standardized SAP solutions. The initial focus is implementing product costing and related Controlling capabilities, followed by broader ownership of finance-related SAP products after go-live. The role offers the opportunity to contribute to a large-scale SAP transformation and establish costing, asset-lifecycle, and analytical capabilities that support operational and strategic decisions. The position follows a hybrid model with three days in the office and two flexible workdays. The Minnesota starting pay range is $142,000 to $176,000 per year. Individual pay depends on factors including education, experience, knowledge, skills, and geography.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Finance, or a related field.
At least 10 years of overall IT experience with increasing scope and responsibility.
At least 5 years of hands-on experience configuring and implementing SAP Controlling solutions.
Experience completing at least one full SAP implementation.
Experience supporting SAP S/4HANA implementations, conversions, or brownfield transformations.
Current hands-on SAP S/4HANA configuration experience in Margin Analysis and CO-PA, Product Costing, Material Ledger, Cost Center Accounting, and FI-CO integration.
Strong knowledge of manufacturing costing, standard costing, moving-average costing, inventory valuation, cost-component structures, overhead allocation, management reporting, and profitability analysis.
Experience designing integrated business processes across SAP Finance, Asset Accounting, Materials Management, Production Planning, Project Systems, and related solutions.
Experience defining SAP integrations and collaborating with finance and manufacturing stakeholders, technical resources, data-migration teams, and system integrators.
Experience supporting SAP FI-CO, financial close activities, costing runs, allocations, settlements, inventory valuation, asset-lifecycle processes, and profitability reporting.
Experience authoring and executing integration-test scenarios, supporting solution deployments, and working with SAP Business Technology Platform products.
Ability to communicate complex financial, operational, and technical concepts to senior leaders, business users, and technical team members.
Ability to work within a hybrid model consisting of three days in the office and two flexible workdays.

Nice To Haves

Multiple large-scale SAP S/4HANA implementations are preferred.

Responsibilities

Serve as the Controlling functional lead for the SAP S/4HANA implementation, integrating finance processes with manufacturing, supply chain, procurement, product lifecycle management, Project Systems, Asset Accounting, planning, and reporting solutions.
Lead fit-to-standard workshops to capture business requirements, define future-state Controlling processes, identify solution gaps, and guide stakeholders toward SAP standard practices and clean-core principles.
Perform and validate hands-on SAP configuration for Cost Center Accounting, Internal Orders, Product Costing, Material Ledger, Profit Center Accounting, Margin Analysis, planning processes, and related finance capabilities.
Design and implement manufacturing and product-costing methodologies, including standard costing, moving-average costing, inventory valuation, cost-component structures, overhead allocation, and month-end costing processes.
Partner with business stakeholders to determine appropriate costing granularity and define cost elements such as labor, overtime, parts, overhead, and freight.
Define and support profitability analysis and Margin Analysis capabilities, ensuring consistency among product costs, operational activity, financial results, and management reporting.
Establish integrated processes across SAP Finance, Materials Management, Production Planning, Project Systems, Asset Accounting, and Material Ledger to support asset creation, product manufacturing, distribution, settlement, and lifecycle cost analysis.
Serve as the functional design authority by reviewing and approving system-integrator designs, SAP configurations, enhancements, interfaces, reports, analytics, and data-conversion approaches.
Own Controlling master-data requirements, including cost centers, profit centers, internal orders, activity types, statistical key figures, cost elements, and allocation structures.
Develop and execute integration-testing scenarios; maintain functional and configuration documentation; and support deployment, training, knowledge transfer, financial close, and post-go-live optimization activities.

Benefits

Competitive compensation, including a market-leading profit-sharing plan.
Company contributions to the Employee Stock Ownership Plan and discounted employee stock purchases.
Generous matching contribution to 401(k).
Financial wellness education and consultation.
Health, dental, and vision insurance.
Wellness programs.
Paid time off.
Gym and personal training reimbursement.
Life insurance and disability offerings.
Paid volunteer time off through Polaris Gives.