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SAP CO Lead - Regional Manufacturing Leader

Bangkok Permanent THB1,200,000 - THB1,800,000 per year Work from Home or Hybrid View Job Description
The role is to enhance and support our Controlling processes across Finance, Plant Costing, and Operations. This role is ideal for a seasoned SAP professional who can translate manufacturing and business operations into accurate costs, margins, and profitability insights that drive decision‑making.
  • High visibility role with direct impact on business decisions.
  • Work with a company that has a strong global footprint.

About Our Client

The hiring company is a global manufacturing leader with several decades of industry presence. It operates multiple manufacturing sites across Thailand and other countries, partnering with reputable international organizations to drive innovation, efficiency, and sustainable growth.

Job Description

  • Configure, optimize, and support all SAP CO processes, including Cost Center Accounting, Profit Center Accounting, Internal Orders, Product Costing, WIP, Variance Analysis, Allocations, and CO‑PA, ensuring accurate and efficient cost management across the business.
  • Drive a smooth and timely month-end close by managing cost estimate runs, WIP and variance calculations, settlements, reconciliations, and profitability reporting.
  • Support FI-CO integration, ensuring correct GL mappings, automatic postings, and financial reconciliation of CO activities.
  • Collaborate closely with Finance, Plant Controlling, and Operations to ensure accurate end-to-end cost flows across MM, PP, SD, and PM into CO, enabling reliable financial insights.
  • Lead CO-related change requests and system enhancements, including requirement gathering, solution design, testing, and continuous improvement initiatives that increase efficiency and data accuracy.
  • Own and govern CO master data, including cost centers, profit centers, activity types, internal order types, and CO‑PA characteristics, ensuring data quality and structural consistency.
  • Provide expert-level training, documentation, and support to Key Users across Finance and Operations, strengthening organizational capability in CO processes.
  • Work cross-functionally with IT BPs and key business stakeholders to deliver end-to-end cost visibility, profitability insights, and actionable reporting for management decision-making.



The Successful Applicant

  • Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Business, or Information Technology.
  • 10+ years of hands-on experience in SAP CO (FICO), ideally within manufacturing environments.
  • Strong expertise in: Product Costing (standard cost roll, cost estimates), CO‑PA (profitability analysis), CCA/PCA and, Internal Orders, WIP, variance calculation, allocations, and settlements
  • Solid understanding of FI-CO integration and its impact on financial postings.
  • Strong analytical mindset with the ability to interpret cost flows and margin data.
  • Prior experience supporting month-end close and improving costing/profitability processes.
  • Experience with reporting tools such as BW, SAC, or Power BI is a plus.

What's on Offer

  • Competitive salary above market rates.
  • Attractive benefits package to support your well-being.
  • Opportunity to work within a leading organisation in the industry.
  • Permanent position offering stability and growth potential.
  • Working flexibility (hybrid working)
  • Etc.
Contact
Gift Petto
Quote job ref
JN-012026-6929276
Phone number
+66 2 012 5067

Job summary

Sector
IT
Specialisation
ERP
What is your area of specialisation?
FMCG (Fast Moving Consumer Goods)
Location
Bangkok
Contract Type
Permanent
Consultant name
Gift Petto
Consultant phone
+66 2 012 5067
Job Reference
JN-012026-6929276
Work from Home
Work from Home or Hybrid

Diversity & Inclusion at Michael Page

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