Key Responsibilities

- Partner with Plant Controllers to review and validate presente 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.

📌 SAP Cost Center Planning Consultant (México)
🏢 Pyramid Consulting
📍 México