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SAP CO Consultant - Material Ledger and Actual Costing expert

Alcobendas, Spain
Only remote
Double Degree in Law and Business Administration, URJC
Alcobendas, Spain
Only remote
Double Degree in Law and Business Administration, URJC

Profile attachments

CV_RicardoDiazGarcia_SAP CO-PC (EN) - IK.pdf

About me

Real experience exceeds theoretical experience (> 8 years). I conceive consulting as an ideal integration of consulting company, consultants, and client, where knowledge flows for the correct achievement of projects, with transparency, TEAMWORK and empathy.

SAP S/4HANASAP COSAP Customizing/KonfigurationSAP PSSAP AMS
SAP Controlling (CO) consultant with 8+ years of experience specializing in Product Costing (CO-PC), Material Ledger (ML) and Actual Costing (AC) in SAP S/4HANA and ECC environments.

Proven expertise in greenfield and brownfield implementations, migrations (Smart Brownfield, Selective Data Transition), rollouts, and AMS projects across manufacturing, chemical, energy, and industrial sectors.

Core SAP skills: CO-PC · Material Ledger · Actual Costing · CO-PA · Margin Analysis · CO-PS · Investment Management (IM) · FI-CO integration · Month-End Closing · Cost Center Accounting · Variant Configuration · Make-to-Stock · Make-to-Order · Fiori Apps · SAP ECC · SAP S/4HANA (On-Premise & Private Cloud) · SAP Activate Methodology

Tools & Technologies: ServiceNow · JIRA · HP ALM · Solution Manager · PowerBI · AFOs · Microsoft Office

Industries: Food & Beverage · Oil & Gas · Plastics & Chemicals · Renewable Energy · Manufacturing · Port Terminals · Cosmetics · Wood Panels

Languages: Spanish (native) · English (B2 – FCE Cambridge)

SAP Certified: Management Accounting (S/4HANA 2020) · Financial Accounting (S/4HANA 2020) · Production Planning & Manufacturing (S/4HANA 2020)

Experience

Professional experience5 - 10 years
Freelancer since2018

Languages

EnglishFluentSpanishNative speaker

Project history

SAP CO-PS CONSULTANT - M&A/Carve-out

ABB & Gamesa Electric

Industry & Mechanical Engineering

Migration project (part-time):

• Responsible for CO, and PS in the acquired company: Integration of
Gamesa Electric into ABB’s SAP ecosystem.

SAP CO-PS CONSULTANT - AMS

Siemens Gamesa

Industry & Mechanical Engineering

Migration and AMS project:
• Responsible for FI-CO-PS: Service Manager for FI, CO and PS modules in Electric, Generators and GearBoxes Business Units (Spain, India, China and USA). The most important module is CO-PC with Actual Costing.
Company code splitting, support in month end closing, resolution of Incidents, Evolutives and Internal Improvements.
Management of consultants located in India.

SAP CO CONSULTANT - S/4 HANA Greenfield Implementation (Clean Core Approach) – Cloud Private (Rise)

SONAE ARAUCO (Accenture)

Industry & Mechanical Engineering

Greenfield project (Clean Core Approach) – Private Cloud (Rise):
• Co-Responsible for CO-PS: The most important module is Margin
Analysis and CO-PC without Actual Costing.
Make to stock and Make to order with variant configuration.
• Fiori apps.

SAP CO CONSULTANT - Smart Brownfield conversion/DLS (Selective Data Transition)

COTY (Accenture)

Other

Migration-Smart Brownfield project/DLS (Selective Data Transition):
• Responsible for CO-PC (SCF): Migration/system validation and
business processes. Solution design to solve migration issues related to Material
Ledger/Actual costing tables.
Merging of 2 Controlling Areas, removal of CO-PA.

SAP CO CONSULTANT - S/4 HANA Greenfield Implementation + Roll-outs

SEIDOR

Other

FEBRUARY 2022 – MARCH 2023
Greenfield Implementation in the chemical sector:
• Responsible for CO: Greenfield project. I was in charge of the
Controlling module, with Product Costing and PA. Make to stock.

MARCH 2022 – MARCH 2023
Greenfield Implementation in the port terminals sector:
• Responsible for CO y PS.

JUNE 2022 – JANUARY 2023
Roll-out: United States
• Responsible for CO-PS-IM: Workshops to obtain information on possible localisms. I configured the system, performed UATs and go-live with success.
Focused in Product costing with Actual costing.

JUNE 2022 – SEPTEMBER 2022
Presale implementation project in the plastic sector:
Re-implementation of Product Costing and improvement of SAP CO
• Responsible for CO (SAP ECC): the client has SAP ECC, but before migrating to S/4HANA they wanted to improve the analytical processes: to have a product costing that contains the cost of other companies, a more complete real cost, that cost centers have more relevance than profit centers, etc.


FEBRUARY 2022 – MAY 2022
SAP PS-IM CONSULTANT, SEIDOR

Split project: Separation of a plant in two and belonging to another company
• Responsible for PS-IM: understand the existing PS to analyze the impact of a plant split. This involves development (expenditure) and investment (AuC) projects with several plants in different company codes.
• Special features: transfer of value between assets of different company codes via investment projects.

SAP CO CONSULTANT - AMS and Projects

REPSOL

Energy, Water & Environment

AUGUST 2018 – SEPTEMBER 2021
Maintenance (Opex and Capex 1):
• CHEMICAL. Modules: CO (PC-ML/AC), PS, BW, AFOs, PowerBI.
• LUBRICANTS. Modules: CO (PC-ML/AC).
• ENGINEERING. Modules: PS, BW, AFOs, PowerBI.
o Creation and leadership of cross team of CO-PC consultants from different businesses.
o Resolution of Incidents, Evolutives and Internal Improvements.
o ServiceNow management.


DECEMBER 2019 - SEPTEMBER 2021
Projects (Capex 2 y 3):
• Reimplementation: Change from Repetitive Manufacturing to Process Manufacturing PP-PI.
o CO accompaniment (complete) to adapt the Z developments.
o Business Analysis for the temporary coexistence of the two types of manufacturing.
o Unit, Regression, Integrated and UATs Support Tests.

FEBRUARY 2021 – APRIL 2021
• Rollout - Lubricants (Italy). Integration of Italian Company in Spanish Company. Material Ledger.


OCTOBER 2020 – SEPTEMBER 2021 (INTERMITTENT)
• S4/HANA test machine configuration of FI, CO (Product Costing with Material Ledger and
Actual Costing), SD, PP and MM modules.

FEBRUARY 2019 – SEPTEMBER 2019
• S/4HANA migration pilot. Process testing.
o S4HANA Training and Workshops, mainly for CO and PC-ML/AC. SAP S/4HANA On-Premise Release 1809.

SEPTEMBER 2018 – SEPTEMBER 2019
• Engineering Department. Dashboards in Design Studio and PowerBI with origin in SAP R3
through BW queries, and creation of AFOs.
Modules/Technologies: PS, BW, Design Studio, PowerBI, AFOs

Certificates

SAP S/4HANA for Management Accounting (2020)

SAP

2021

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