SAP Costing Lead – S/4HANA
Experience
10–15 years of SAP CO experience with strong expertise in Product Costing in complex manufacturing environments.
Key Skills & Expertise
- Strong expertise in:
- SAP CO-PC (Product Costing)
- Material Ledger & Actual Costing
- Standard Costing
- Cost Component Structure
- Cost Roll-up & Variance Analysis
- Manufacturing processes
- COPA
- Group Costing
- Hands-on experience in:
- Variant Configuration (Advanced VC / AVC)
- Configurable Materials
- Material Variants
- Super BOM
- Super Routing
- Dependency Management impacting costing
- Cost determination for configurable products
- Strong understanding of:
- BOM and Routing driven costing
- Multi-level costing structures
- Activity-based costing
- Cost center and production integration
- Inventory valuation
- Intercompany costing concepts
- Experience in:
- Global template rollouts
- Manufacturing/process industry implementations
- Complex master data structures
- Integration with PP, MM, SD and FI modules
- Exposure to:
- S/4HANA 2022/2023/2025 capabilities
- Fiori apps related to costing
- MDG-driven master data governance
- Data migration and reconciliation activities
Preferred Industry Experience
- Manufacturing
- Metals
- Chemicals
- Process Industry
Key Expectations
- Lead costing solution design aligned with global template principles
- Drive workshops with business and global process owners
- Define costing approach for configurable products using AVC, Super BOM and Super Routing
- Ensure accurate standard costing and valuation across manufacturing plants
- Work closely with PP and Engineering teams for dependency-driven costing scenarios
- Support testing, defect resolution and business sign-offs
- Guide business users on costing best practices in S/4HANA
Preferred Qualifications
- CA / CMA / MBA Finance / Engineering
- SAP CO certification preferred
- Prior S/4HANA transformation experience mandatory