SAP CO Lead - Manufacturing

Role: SAP CO LEAD

Exp: 15+ Years

Work Location: Onsite, Shah Alam, Malaysia

NP: Immediate

Nationality: Indian from locals or any nationality from Malaysia

Key Responsibilities:

- Lead the SAP CO workstream for a large-scale S/4HANA transformation project for a manufacturing client.

- Drive end-to-end SAP CO solution design, configuration, integration, testing, cutover and go-live activities.

- Provide strong functional expertise across Cost Center Accounting, Profit Center Accounting, Internal Orders, Product Costing, Cost Object Controlling, CO-PA, Overhead Accounting and Period-End Closing.

- Own complex Product Costing processes including costing variants, BOM/routing integration, costing sheets, overhead calculation, standard cost estimates, production order costing, WIP, variance calculation and settlement.

- Lead Material Ledger and Actual Costing processes, including inventory valuation and actual cost component analysis.

- Design and implement Account-Based CO-PA / Margin Analysis solutions, including profitability reporting, allocations, derivations and settlement.

- Lead CO activities across S/4HANA Greenfield, Brownfield and Bluefield / Selective Data Transition implementations.

- Conduct Fit-to-Standard / Fit-to-Gap workshops, requirement gathering and business process analysis with finance and manufacturing stakeholders.

- Design scalable CO solutions aligned with complex manufacturing costing, production and management accounting requirements.

- Ensure seamless integration of CO with FI, MM, PP, SD, PS and PM.

- Provide strong expertise in FI-CO integration and Universal Journal (ACDOCA) in S/4HANA.

- Lead SIT, UAT, regression testing, defect resolution, data validation and reconciliation activities.

- Support and lead data migration, mock cutover, final cutover and production deployment activities for the CO workstream.

- Drive period-end and year-end closing processes, including allocations, assessments, settlements, WIP and variance calculations.

- Review functional specifications, integration designs and technical developments related to CO.

- Identify business process gaps and recommend SAP standard / best-practice solutions wherever applicable.

- Lead and mentor SAP CO consultants and coordinate with cross-functional teams.

- Act as the primary SAP CO SME for business stakeholders, project leadership and implementation teams.

- Manage critical CO issues, provide root-cause analysis and drive resolution within project timelines.

- Ensure solution quality, documentation, compliance and adherence to S/4HANA best practices.

- Support hyper care and post-go-live stabilization, ensuring smooth transition to business operations.

- Work closely with business users, finance leadership and manufacturing process owners to ensure successful adoption of the S/4HANA solution.