THE ROLE & THE TEAM
Zalando Bucharest is our newest site designed to consolidate and scale expert services, ensuring operational excellence as we evolve our global footprint.
The Senior SAP CO Consultant is a subject matter expert responsible for the design,
implementation, and optimization of SAP Management Accounting solutions. This role focuses
on providing businesses with deep insights into their cost structures, profitability, and operational
efficiency. The consultant will lead the configuration of Cost Center Accounting (CCA), Profit
Center Accounting (PCA), Internal Orders (IO), and ProfitabilityAnalysis (CO-PA), ensuring tight integration with FI, MM, PP, and SD modules.
INCLUSIVE BY DESIGN
If you think you have what it takes, we encourage you to apply even if you don't meet every single requirement. You may just be the right candidate for this or other roles!
At Zalando, our vision is to be the leading pan-European ecosystem for fashion and lifestyle e-commerce – one that thrives on diversity and is truly inclusive by design. We believe that diverse teams fuel innovation and creativity, and we actively seek out talent from all backgrounds.
We actively seek to reduce bias in our hiring and employment processes, focusing on your qualifications, skills, and contributions. To support this, we kindly ask that you refrain from including personal details such as your photo, age, or marital status in your CV, ensuring a fair and equitable evaluation based solely on your abilities and potential.
We are committed to providing an exceptional and accessible candidate experience for everyone. If you require any accommodations to support you throughout the hiring process, please let us know – we are here to assist you.
Discover more about our commitment to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace: https://jobs.zalando.com/en/our-culture/diversity-and-inclusion
WHAT WE’D LOVE YOU TO DO (AND LOVE DOING)
Analyze Business Requirements: You’ll conduct structured workshops with stakeholders to gather operational financial business requirements and translate them into robust functional specifications.
Architect Controlling & Allocations: You’ll design and build the complete Controlling Module and Allocation Process, including Universal Allocation frameworks, Cost Center Accounting (CCA), and Internal Orders (IO).
Drive Profitability & Profit Center Accounting: You’ll design, build, and deploy the CO-PA (Profitability Analysis) module, Profit Center Accounting (PCA), and complex Transfer Pricing architectures.
Manage Enterprise Integration: You’ll utilize foundational SAP FI knowledge to implement Document Splitting and manage integration points between FI/CO and other enterprise modules (SD, MM, PP, and HR) to ensure an accurate financial data flow.
Enable Stakeholders & Teams: You’ll act as the main technical point of contact for the above-mentioned modules for business stakeholders in Finance functions, providing end-user training, operational support, and ongoing knowledge exchange with your direct technical colleagues.
WE’D LOVE TO MEET YOU IF
You’re a Seasoned FICO Professional: You bring a minimum of 8–10 years of experience in SAP FICO implementations, with a track record of at least 2 full life-cycle S/4HANA projects (including specific experience with the SAP S/4HANA 2023 release) and major transformation initiatives.
You Hold Deep Core FI Customizing Expertise: You are highly skilled in configurations and customizing focused on SAP modules and functionalities of General Ledger (FI-GL), S/4HANA Finance, etc.
You possess Comprehensive Functional Knowledge: You have a detailed understanding of the CO-PA module, Profit Center Accounting, Transfer Pricing, and Document Splitting. Additional optional experience with modules CO, AP, AR, MM, and SD is considered a strong plus.
You Build Strong Partnerships: You communicate fluently with English-speaking stakeholders of various functions and departments up to senior management levels (English level B2 or higher), backed by strong presentation skills to shape, share, and reason your technical ideas.
You Drive Collaborative Success: You demonstrate a strong ability to work both independently and within or across teams and project ecosystems, focusing on efficient, respectful collaboration, and taking active responsibility for overall team success.
OUR OFFER
Experience the financial backing, market stability and massive operational structure of the leading European technology platform for fashion and lifestyle, combined with the autonomy, agility and risk-taking spirit of a founder.
Work on a scale where your daily technical choices, architecture decisions and code deployment directly shape the experience of over 60 million active users across Europe.
Our open and collaborative tech radar is a shared platform that inspires our teams to pick the best technologies for new projects, reflect on technical decisions and continuously evolve our software development landscape.
Drive your development through our training platform and biannual peer-to-peer review.
