SAP Controlling (CO) Manager

Polaris Inc. • Medina, MN

8d • $142,000 - $176,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

The SAP Controlling (CO) Manager is the functional owner for Polaris’s SAP S/4HANA Controlling domain, responsible 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 into standardized SAP solutions.

The initial focus is implementing product costing and related Controlling capabilities. Following go-live, the role will take broader ownership of finance-related SAP products. The manager will help shape a large-scale SAP transformation and establish costing, asset-lifecycle, and analytical capabilities that support operational and strategic decisions.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Finance, or a related field.
• Minimum of 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 in a hybrid model with three days in the office and two flexible workdays.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with multiple large-scale SAP S/4HANA implementations.

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 profit-sharing plan.
• Company contributions to an 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.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager