Andreas N.
CO greenfield S/4 (Margin Analysis. Contribution Margin Accounting under two parallel regulations)
Experience
Feb 2025 - Present
8 monthsMünster, Germany
CO greenfield S/4 (Margin Analysis. Contribution Margin Accounting under two parallel regulations)
WestLotto
- Data migration concept for integrating a company code
- Parallel contribution margin accounting via extension ledger with alternative valuations
- Derivation strategies
- User training
Jan 2024 - May 2025
1 year 5 monthsDitzingen, Germany
CO expert
Euronics
- Consulting and support for optimizing CO-PA, Fiori apps, and UKV reporting with functional areas
Jan 2024 - Mar 2025
1 year 3 monthsKrefeld, Germany
FI/CO migration
Saurer GmbH
- LSMW design and implementation
- Data migration concept for integrating a company code
- Migration of open items, inventories, profit and loss statements, and balance sheet accounts
Oct 2023 - Present
2 yearsHeidelberg, Germany
CO expert for Global Costing solution (SAP add-on - GVC) – implementation of the Global Costing solution for BASF EC (Coatings)
EXA AG
- Consulting and support in designing custom customer solutions in GVC (Global Value Chain) product costing, presenting extensive CO-PA structures in external reporting
- Material Ledger, valuation at actual costs
Oct 2022 - May 2024
1 year 8 monthsBöblingen, Germany
CO expert
Wöhrwagpharma
- Consulting and support for optimizing CO-PA and PCA reports and structures after the go-live
- Various customer-specific reports (queries, Report Painter)
Feb 2022 - Dec 2023
1 year 11 monthsMannheim, Germany
CO Expert for CO Migration
Roche
- Consultation and support for migrating CO interfaces from ECC to S/4 HANA
- Design and implementation of a solution for automated data flow between R/3 and S/4 HANA
- Overhead cost calculation
Sep 2021 - Dec 2022
1 year 4 monthsRemscheid, Germany
CO Expert for Product Costing
Vaillant
- Consultation and support in designing individual customer solutions in a global, group-wide integrated costing solution
- Design and implementation of a solution for automated data flow between R/3 and S/4 HANA systems to achieve an integrated group-wide costing
- Product costing
- Material Ledger
Sep 2021 - Dec 2021
4 monthsKrefeld, Germany
FI CO Migration Specialist for Carve-out
Saurer GmbH
- LSMW design and implementation
- Data migration concept for carving out parts of the company code
- Archiving concept for CO data
- Migration of open items, balances, profit and loss statements, balance sheet accounts
- Reconciliation of results between the two companies
Apr 2020 - Jun 2022
2 years 3 monthsEinbeck, Germany
CO Senior Consultant - (ML Consultant)
KWS GmbH
- 3rd level support in CO (CO-PA, ML, product costing)
- Implementation support in the UK and Brazil
- Support in the S/4 HANA Cloud solution
- On-site consulting for S/4 HANA implementation
Jan 2020 - Dec 2020
1 yearHeidelberg, Germany
CO Expert for ML on specific queries
EXA AG
- Consultation and support in designing individual customer solutions in the GVC (Global Value Chain)
- Product costing, Material Ledger
Sep 2018 - Jun 2021
2 years 10 monthsBerlin, Germany
CO Team Lead - Implementation in the UK (CO-OM, PCA)
Deutsche Bahn, DB CARGO UK
- Coordinating the team of several international consultants (FI-CO, MM, SD)
- Implementing for a range of freight operators in the UK, setting up a controlling concept that enables contribution margin reporting by customer, business area, and each served destination (based on COS settlement)
- Profit center accounting
- Master data: customers, internal orders, cost centers, profit centers, alternate hierarchies, vendor groups
- Master data maintenance via LSMW
- Custom reporting
Jan 2018 - Aug 2018
8 monthsBerlin, Germany
FI Senior Consultant - Team Lead FI-CO Implementation in the UK
Deutsche Bahn - ARRIVA
- Coordinating a team of 5-7 consultants (FI-CO, MM, SD)
- Implementing for a range of bus operators in the UK, Spain, France, and Romania (over 100 company codes)
- All finance-related topics, including setting up the chart of accounts, AP, AR, bank configuration, meeting local legal requirements, harmonizing financial processes
- VAT reporting for Romania, Bulgaria, correspondence: customer statements, dunning notices, payment advices, etc.
- Master data: customers, vendors
Jan 2018 - Aug 2018
8 monthsRehau, Germany
CO Senior Consultant - New SAP S/4HANA rollout for an automotive industry pilot company project
REHAU
- Controlling (CO-ML, CO-PA account-based and costing-based) under S/4HANA
- PS and CO-OM costing on WBS elements vs internal orders
- New data concept with customer fields in ACDOCA
- Migration concept for the existing structure
- Reporting
Mar 2016 - Jul 2016
5 monthsBornheim, Germany
FI Consultant - VAT (interim assignment)
REWE
- Supporting the implementation of the VAT solution for Romania, Bulgaria, and Hungary (deferred taxes)
- VAT reporting
Jan 2016 - Nov 2016
11 monthsMannheim, Germany
Senior Consultant CO
Roche Diagnostics GmbH
- Wave II of the project rollout of the 2014/2015 solution to additional locations: USA, Switzerland
Jan 2015 - Dec 2015
1 yearBobingen, Germany
Senior FI/CO Consultant
Nextrusion GmbH (formerly Teijin)
- Integration of the Perlon Dormagen plant into the system, data transfer (FI, FI-AA, CO)
Jan 2015 - Dec 2015
1 yearRheinbach, Germany
Senior CO Consultant
Vollmar GmbH
- Carving out the Vollmar Production site into a new company code, internal group process
Feb 2014 - Dec 2015
1 year 11 monthsMannheim, Germany
Lead CO Consultant
Roche Diagnostics GmbH
- Drafting and implementation of a template installation for a manufacturing company
- CO-PA (calculation, cost layering, KEDR derivation concept, P&L report, reconciliation report)
- Interface to Roche SE (CH) for cost takeover
- Design of various programs in CO (allocation, data upload)
- Creation of custom plan layouts (Excel integration)
- Interface concept (IDOC for transferring CO master data and actual costs)
- Complete project work from the blueprint phase through setting up the reference organization, testing, implementation, and roll-out in organizations in Mannheim and Indianapolis
Jan 2014 - Dec 2014
1 yearRheinbach, Germany
Senior FI/CO Consultant
Vollmar GmbH
- Carving out Henschke GmbH
Dec 2013 - Dec 2013
1 monthRuda Śląska, Poland
Senior FI Consultant (spotconsulting)
Leiber Gmbh
- Training as part of an implementation project in Poland
- Training of FI standard processes in Polish
- VAT reporting for Poland
Jun 2013 - Nov 2013
6 monthsWiesbaden, Germany
Senior Consultant
SE Tylose GmbH
- US-specific settings in FI in an implementation project
- Setup of check management
- Lock ledger
- Payment process
- Check form (SAPscript)
- Bank EDI interface
May 2013 - Feb 2015
1 year 10 monthsWiesbaden, Germany
Senior FI/CO Consultant
Zertus GmbH
- Implementation and consulting on setting up cost of sales in New GL
- Implementation of cost of sales
- Updating product costing, reorganizing CO-PA (new costing, additional characteristics, report redesign)
- Implementation of COS in New GL
- Research on reporting
- Flexible reporting for CO and FI
May 2013 - Oct 2013
6 monthsWinnenden, Germany
Senior FI/CO Consultant
Kaercher GmbH
- Consulting for rollout concept
- Rollout concept for product costing
- 3rd level support
- Review of MM account determination
- Coaching in Material Ledger
Dec 2012 - Jan 2013
2 monthsSchramberg, Germany
Senior Consultant - implementation of CO-PA
Karl Lieber GmbH
- Review of requirements, concept and implementation, test scenario.
Sep 2012 - Mar 2013
7 monthsSpeyer, Germany
Senior Consultant - minor restructurings
PFW
- Support, corrections to MM account determination, setup of IFRS cost of sales reporting in the Special Ledger
Aug 2012 - Mar 2013
8 monthsBad Vilbel, Germany
Senior Consultant in Implementation Project and Roll-out
STADA AG
- Implementation of a CO-PC template, reengineering of product costing, change of cost element structure in an active Material Ledger installation. New GL installation.
Oct 2009 - Present
16 yearsSAP Consultant for Finance and Controlling
selbständig
May 2006 - Jan 2013
6 years 9 monthsLudwigshafen, Germany
IT Governance, Senior Consultant in Various Implementation Projects and Roll-outs
BASF SE
Governance role within IT for FI/CO and Material Ledger, third-level support for financial services (since 2006)
Custom solutions for BASF: hard currency solution for transfer pricing (use of currency types 40 and 42), alternative valuation run for Brazil, Russia and Turkey (legal requirements differing from group requirements)
Statistical cost elements in the cost element structure
Design of CO-PA reporting
Consulting and 3rd level support for BASF shared service centers in Berlin, Kuala Lumpur, Freeport and Sao Paulo
Fit-gap analysis, local requirements analysis, design, development and implementation of a standardized and harmonized product costing and transfer pricing approach in the global system, parallel valuation in the Material Ledger
Integration of over 100 companies worldwide into a central system, parallel valuations of inventory (tax, IFRS, local, other)
Training on all CO-related topics, especially product costing (standard and actual costing) and transfer pricing
Integration of logistics and accounting into a single R/3 system for BASF SE
Review of all processes in inventory valuation, product costing and transfer pricing, redesign and adjustment of selected logistics processes to meet the requirements of product costing and inventory valuation in Material Ledger, transfer pricing and CO-PA
Introduction of a common controlling model for a number of European countries (based on Material Ledger)
Mar 2006 - Dec 2006
10 monthsAlbstadt, Germany
Subproject Lead for Finance and Controlling - Greenfield Implementation, Pilot for Roll-out
Guehring GmbH
- Finance (incl. VAT with US jurisdiction codes), check payments, bank accounting (electronic and manual bank accounts)
- Product costing, profit center with transfers, CO-PA, legacy data migration for FI-AA, extended revenue reporting in CO-PA and via LIS)
Feb 2006 - May 2006
4 monthsTolyatti, Russian Federation
Senior Consultant
GM-Avtovaz
- Execution of investment management
- Full implementation including analysis, blueprint, configuration, go-live and user training.
Jan 2005 - Jan 2006
1 year 1 monthLudwigshafen, Germany
Senior Consultant, CO Project Management, Reengineering
BASF IT Services GmbH
- CO-PA and PS, CO-OM project calculation, concepts and creation of extensive reports, training of key users
May 2004 - Dec 2005
1 year 8 monthsSaint Petersburg, Russian Federation
Senior Consultant - full CO implementation
Ultrastar
- Cost center accounting and internal orders, profit center accounting
- Revenue and profitability analysis, cost of sales, Russian legal requirements for reporting and inventory valuation
Dec 2003 - May 2004
6 monthsStuttgart, Germany
Consultant - redesign of authorization system
Allianz AG
- Redesign of authorizations and roles according to audit requirements. Areas: FI-AA and cost center accounting and purchasing in MM
May 2003 - Dec 2004
1 year 8 monthsTolyatti, Russian Federation
Consultant - implementation
GM Avtovaz
- Redesign of product costing
- New CO-PA implementation
Apr 2003 - Aug 2003
5 monthsWashington, United States
Consultant - implementation
DPGM (Deutsche Post/Global Mail)
- Concept and realization for a new implementation
- CO-OM - detailed internal order reporting
- Result analysis with numerous user-specific variants
- Design and implementation of the profit center concept with transfer prices
- Transfer of external data
- Extensive planning layouts with Excel uploads
- Use of Batchman for mass data uploads in CO
- Integration into BW
Mar 2003 - May 2004
1 year 3 monthsRathenow, Germany
Consultant - full implementation
Fielmann AG
- Cost center accounting
- Product costing including extensive calculation of production orders, profit analysis
- Profit center accounting, design of interfaces to sub-systems
Jan 2003 - Sep 2009
6 years 9 monthsHeidelberg, Germany
SAP Consultant for Finance and Controlling
CIBER
Jan 2002 - Dec 2002
1 yearHanover, Germany
CO Consultant, sub-project manager for CO
Bosch Rexroth AG
- Rel. 4.6A R/2 - R/3 migration
- Product costing, internal orders, cost centers, profitability analysis, profit center accounting
Jul 2001 - Jan 2002
7 monthsFrankfurt, Germany
Consultant - comprehensive implementation
KoSa GmbH
- CO-PCA and transfer pricing, profit center balance sheet
- Special ledger for the cost of sales method
- CO-PA, conceptual review of CO-PA, design and reports to improve reconciliation of FI, PCA and CO-PA, design of regression tests, redesign and configuration of reporting (Report Painter and Writer),
Jan 2001 - Jun 2001
6 monthsBobingen, Germany
Consultant - implementation
Teijin Ltd
- Merger of three separate business units into one
- Review and analysis of processes
- Concept for the new organizational model and data migration
- Legacy data transfer
- Reengineering of controlling and asset accounting with parallel HGB and US GAAP valuation
- Redesign of reporting in CO and FI-AA
- Training of end users in operations and IT key users
Jul 2000 - Dec 2000
6 monthsWertheim am Main, Germany
Consultant - Implementation
Johns Manville Corporation (formerly Schuller GmbH)
- Adjusting the organizational units and processes in CO and FI/AA
- Coordinating the processes with the IT department
- Maintaining the data
- Training users in the operations department
Sep 1999 - Dec 2002
3 years 4 monthsMannheim, Germany
SAP Consultant for Finance and Controlling
OSCo Consulting GmbH
Sep 1999 - Jun 2000
10 monthsFrankfurt, Germany
Consultant - Implementation
KoSa GmbH (formerly Hoechst), Teijin Ltd
- Setting up profit center accounting (EC-PCA)
- Designing the organizational structure
- Performing mass data changes with CATT
- Integrating processes in SD, PP, FI, and CO
- Concept and implementation of US GAAP reporting
- Posting internal profit center revenues at transfer prices
Apr 1999 - Sep 1999
6 monthsSchweinfurt, Germany
In-house Consultant for Finance and Controlling
Mannesmann-Sachs AG
- Support for CO and FI-AA
- Transferring legacy data
- Pilot implementation of FI-AA
- Parallel valuation of assets under HGB and US GAAP
Apr 1998 - Apr 1999
1 year 1 monthSchweinfurt, Germany
Training as SAP Consultant for FI/CO
IBB mbH
Summary
- MA in linguistics, economics, and political science
- ERP consultant for SAP R/3 since 1998
- Senior expert in FI/CO with a special focus on: product costing (CO-PC), group costing, intercompany settlements, profit center inventory valuation (ML) including the alternative valuation run (AVR), periodic/cumulative valuation, revenue and profitability reporting (CO-PA)
- Extensive CO-PA reports, reconciliation with FI, valuation using different costing methods, valuation with additional costs (cost center allocations, TOP-DOWN), profit center accounting (PCA) including transfer prices, interfaces to materials management (MM account determination, inventory valuation), all areas of FI (AP, AR, GL, AA), parallel valuation under local GAAP and US GAAP or IFRS
- Experience in numerous international SAP R/3 implementation projects for leading international companies in the chemical, automotive, manufacturing, and transportation sectors
- Played various roles in projects: implementation consultant, reengineering, rollout, creation of a global template, 2nd and 3rd level support and IT governance for FI/CO, coaching and training of key users, definition and creation of training materials. Expert in specific R/3 tools: LSMW; reporting tools: Report Painter, Report Writer, SAP queries
- Languages: fluent in English, German, and Polish
- Strong interpersonal and intercultural communication skills
- Proven ability to work analytically and communicate with decision makers in companies
- ECC and S/4 since 2020
Languages
German
NativeEnglish
AdvancedPolish
AdvancedEducation
Nov 1989 - Nov 1997
University of Bamberg; Roehampton Institute of Higher Education; University of Wroclaw
M.A. · English linguistics, economics, and political science · Wrocław, Poland
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