SAP Cost Center Planning Consultant

Key Responsibilities

• Partner with Plant Controllers to review and validate actual postings and identify misallocations or incorrect postings.
• Analyze transaction-level data, identify posting issues, and discuss appropriate correction methodologies with the business.
• Validate cost center structures, ownership, grouping, and expense categorization.
• Support complete cost center planning activities, including relevant SAP transactions such as KP06, KP26, KSU7, KSS4, KSPI, and related processes.
• Guide Plant Controllers through planning templates, activity rate calculations, allocation methodologies, and reconciliation activities.
• Support the definition and validation of assessment and distribution cycles and allocation logic.
• Analyze production order under- and over-absorption and support the business in understanding the underlying drivers.
• Ensure alignment with cost center planning governance, ownership assignments, and planning calendar requirements.
• Assess absorption logic, including the treatment of non-absorbing cost centers.
• Support COPA integration readiness and assess the impact of cost center planning on product costing and COPA.
• Provide product costing awareness and support the understanding of Material Ledger impacts related to cost center planning.
• Develop user manuals, step-by-step guides, and other documentation according to plant requirements.
• Conduct plant awareness and training sessions for Controllers and relevant business users.
• Document allocation logic, cost center grouping rules, and actual posting cleanup procedures.
• Support reconciliations and ensure data and planning consistency across the relevant processes.

Required Qualifications & Experience

• 8-10 years of relevant SAP experience, with deep expertise in SAP Controlling and Cost Center Planning.
• Strong hands-on experience with SAP Cost Center Planning processes.
• Proven experience analyzing SAP transactions and actual postings, identifying mispostings, and recommending appropriate adjustments or corrective actions.
• Strong knowledge of:
• Cost Center Accounting.
• Cost center planning.
• Activity type and activity rate planning.
• Assessment and distribution cycles.
• Allocation methodologies.
• Product Costing.
• COPA integration and readiness.
• Absorption logic and production order under/over absorption.
• Material Ledger impacts.
• Strong understanding of shop-floor operations and the relationship between operational activities, cost centers, activity rates, and product costing.
• Experience working directly with Plant Controllers and business stakeholders.
• Strong data analysis and reconciliation skills.
• Ability to translate complex SAP Controlling processes into practical guidance for business users.
• Experience developing training materials, user manuals, and process documentation.
• Advanced English proficiency.
• Preferably based in Reynosa and Monterrey.

Key Competencies

• SAP CO / Cost Center Planning expertise.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Hands-on approach to data and transaction analysis.
• Business and shop-floor understanding.
• Stakeholder management and communication skills.
• Ability to work independently with Plant Controllers and finance teams.
• Strong documentation and training capabilities.
• Understanding of process governance and planning controls.