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Ricardo Díaz García-SAP CO-PS Consultant

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Alcobendas, Spain

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Experience

May 2026 - May 2026
Remote

SAP CO Consultant

Bacardi

Position Summary
SAP CO Consultant at Bacardi
Industries
Food and Beverage
Business Areas
Information Technology
Quality Assurance
  • ECC Upgrade

  • Support to CO-PS testing: Executed CO/PS regression tests during an SAP ECC upgrade, validating key business scenarios and ensuring no disruption to Controlling (Product Costing with Actual Costing) processes.

Oct 2025 - Present

SAP CO-PS Consultant

Siemens Gamesa-ABB

Position Summary
SAP CO-PS Consultant at Siemens Gamesa-ABB
Industries
Energy
Business Areas
Finance
Project Management
  • Carve-out/M&A

  • Responsible for CO and PS in the acquired company: Integration of Gamesa Electric into ABB’s SAP ecosystem.

Oct 2025 - Jan 2026
Hybrid

SAP CO Consultant

Gransolar

Position Summary
SAP CO Consultant at Gransolar
Industries
Energy
Business Areas
Accounting
Finance
  • Provided expert consulting to resolve issues related to Material Ledger, Actual Costing, activity allocation, cost estimates, and inventory valuation.
Sep 2024 - May 2025

SAP CO Consultant

Sonae Arauco / Accenture

Position Summary
SAP CO Consultant at Sonae Arauco / Accenture
Industries
Manufacturing
Business Areas
Finance
Information Technology
  • Greenfield project (Clean Core Approach) – Private Cloud (Rise)

  • Co-Responsible for CO-PS: The most important module is Margin Analysis and CO-PC without Actual Costing.

  • Make to stock and Make to order with variant configuration.

  • Fiori apps.

Nov 2023 - Aug 2024

SAP CO Consultant

COTY

Position Summary
SAP CO Consultant at COTY
Industries
Cosmetics
Business Areas
Accounting
Finance
Information Technology
  • Migration-Smart Brownfield project/DLS (Selective Data Transition)

  • Responsible for CO-PC (SCF): Migration/system validation and business processes. Solution design to solve migration issues related to Material Ledger/Actual costing tables.

  • Merging of 2 Controlling Areas, removal of CO-PA.

Jun 2023 - Jun 2023

SAP CO Speaker

Espresso Tutorials

Position Summary
SAP CO Speaker at Espresso Tutorials
Industries
Education
Business Areas
Accounting
Finance
  • The journey to SAP S/4HANA: Welcome to Material Ledger with Actual Costing.
Mar 2023 - Sep 2025
Remote

SAP CO-PS Consultant

Siemens Gamesa / Siemens Energy

Position Summary
SAP CO-PS Consultant at Siemens Gamesa / Siemens Energy
Industries
Energy
Business Areas
Finance
Project Management
  • Responsible for FI-CO-PS: Service Manager for FI, CO and PS modules in Electric, Generators and GearBoxes Business Units (Spain, India, China and USA). The most important module is CO-PC with Actual Costing.

  • Company code splitting, support in month end closing, resolution of incidents, evolutives and internal improvements.

  • Management of consultants located in India.

Jun 2022 - Jan 2023

SAP CO-PS-IM Consultant

Seidor

Position Summary
SAP CO-PS-IM Consultant at Seidor
Industries
Information Technology
Professional Services
Business Areas
Information Technology
  • Responsible for CO-PS-IM: Workshops to obtain information on possible localisms.

  • Configured the system, performed UATs and go-live with success.

  • Focused on Product Costing with Actual Costing.

Jun 2022 - Sep 2022

SAP CO-PC Consultant

Seidor

Position Summary
SAP CO-PC Consultant at Seidor
Industries
Information Technology
Business Areas
Accounting
Business Intelligence
Finance
  • Responsible for CO (SAP ECC): Performed technical pre-sales to propose a new analytical model.

  • Improved product costing to include cost of other companies, more complete real cost and higher relevance of cost centers over profit centers.

Mar 2022 - Mar 2023

SAP CO-PS Consultant

Seidor

Position Summary
SAP CO-PS Consultant at Seidor
Industries
Professional Services
Business Areas
Finance
Information Technology
Project Management
  • Responsible for CO and PS: Greenfield project. In charge of both modules.

  • Last phase: Post-Go-Live (first phase).

Feb 2022 - Mar 2023

SAP CO Consultant

Seidor

Position Summary
SAP CO Consultant at Seidor
Industries
Information Technology
Professional Services
Business Areas
Accounting
Finance
  • Responsible for CO: Greenfield project. In charge of the Controlling module, with Product Costing and PA.

  • Make to stock.

  • Last phase: Post-Go-Live (first phase).

Feb 2022 - May 2022

SAP PS-IM Consultant

Seidor

Position Summary
SAP PS-IM Consultant at Seidor
Industries
Information Technology
Professional Services
Business Areas
Investments and M&A
Information Technology
Project Management
  • Responsible for PS-IM: Analyzed impact of plant split. Configured system for correct go-live.

  • Special features: Transfer of value between assets of different company codes via investment projects.

Nov 2021 - Nov 2022

SAP CO Author

Espresso Tutorials

Position Summary
SAP CO Author at Espresso Tutorials
Industries
Education
Information Technology
Business Areas
Information Technology
Research and Development
  • Spanish version of the book ‘Material Valuation and the Material Ledger in SAP S/4HANA’ by Tom King and Ricardo Díaz. Published December 2022.
Sep 2021 - Feb 2022

SAP CO-PS Consultant

Inetum

Position Summary
SAP CO-PS Consultant at Inetum
Industries
Information Technology
Professional Services
Business Areas
Finance
Information Technology
Project Management
  • Responsible for CO-PS: Greenfield S/4HANA Private Cloud project for a public sector client with SAP Activate methodology.

  • Performed the analytical model whose ultimate cost receiving object are the projects.

  • No CO-PA.

Dec 2018 - Sep 2021

SAP CO Consultant

Unisys

Position Summary
SAP CO Consultant at Unisys
Industries
Chemical
Business Areas
Business Intelligence
Information Technology
Project Management
  • Repsol Química Business IT Support Responsible (CO-PS):

  • Chemical: Modules CO (PC-ML/AC), PS, BW, AFOs, PowerBI.

  • Lubricants: Module CO (PC-ML/AC).

  • Engineering: Modules PS, BW, AFOs, PowerBI.

  • Creation and leadership of a cross-team of CO-PC consultants.

  • Resolution of incidents, evolutives and internal improvements.

  • ServiceNow management, end user support, internal trainings, estimations and documentation.

  • Projects:

  • Reimplementation (Dec 2019–Sep 2021): Change from repetitive to process manufacturing (PP-PI); CO accompaniment; SCRUM methodology; business analysis; unit, regression, integrated and UAT support tests.

  • Rollout Lubricants Italy (Feb 2021–Apr 2021): Business analysis; functional design; initial team support.

  • S/4HANA test machine and migration pilot (Oct 2020–Sep 2021 intermittent): Configured FI, CO, SD, PP, MM; process testing.

  • S/4HANA training and workshops (Feb 2019–Sep 2019): CO and PC-ML/AC; analysis of release 1809; testing in Quality Center.

  • Engineering dashboards (Sep 2018–Sep 2019): Requirements gathering; Design Studio and PowerBI scorecards; AFO creation; tests; business presentations; user trainings.

Oct 2017 - Mar 2018

Legal Department Intern

AYS, S.L.

Position Summary
Legal Department Intern at AYS, S.L.
Industries
Professional Services
Business Areas
Customer Service
Legal
  • Customer service.

  • Procedural writings.

  • Negotiation and mediation.

  • Case study, legal opinions and economic information analysis.

May 2016 - Jul 2016

Consulting Department Intern

Tormo Franquicias

Position Summary
Consulting Department Intern at Tormo Franquicias
Industries
Professional Services
Business Areas
Business Intelligence
Marketing
Strategy
  • Creation of commercial and informational franchise dossiers.

  • Creation of franchise operational manuals.

  • Analysis and identification of competence.

Oct 2014 - Dec 2015

Junior Researcher

OTAN-URJC

Position Summary
Junior Researcher at OTAN-URJC
Industries
Aerospace and Defense
Business Areas
Research and Development
  • Analysis and evaluation of women's data in the armed forces of NATO member countries.

  • Creation of NATO's standard form to collect data.

Industry Experience

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Experienced in Energy, Chemical, Professional Services, Information Technology, Cosmetics, and Education.

Energy
Chemical
Professional Services
Information Technology
Cosmetics
Education
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Business Area Experience

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Experienced in Project Management, Information Technology, Finance, Business Intelligence, Accounting, and Research and Development.

Project Management
Information Technology
Finance
Business Intelligence
Accounting
Research and Development
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Summary

Proactivity, knowledge and leadership are the three concepts that best define me.

Throughout my professional journey, I have consistently excelled in building strong client relationships and delivering exceptional results. Over time, I have acquired autonomy and responsibility that have led me to achieve a complete and versatile profile, where real experience exceeds theoretical experience (> 8 years).

I conceive consulting as an ideal integration of consulting company, consultants, and client, where knowledge flows for the correct achievement of projects, with transparency, teamwork and empathy.

I am SAP CO Consultant, specialized in Product Costing with Material Ledger and Actual Costing. The following is only a part of my professional profile, the most relevant experiences. As a CO-PC expert I have collaborated in other projects as expert consultant and in urgent situations.

Skills

  • Teamwork

  • Freelance

  • Analytical

  • Creative

  • Sap Co-Ps

  • Sap Co-Pa

  • Sap Co-Pc

  • Ml-Ac

  • Sap S/4hana

  • Microsoft Office

  • Excel

  • Servicenow

  • Jira

  • Hp Alm

Languages

Spanish
Native
English
Advanced

Education

Oct 2016 - Jun 2018

ICAM-URJC

Master´s Degree in Access to Law · Access to Law · Madrid, Spain

Oct 2011 - Jun 2016

URJC

Double Degree in Law and Business Administration · Law and Business Administration · Madrid, Spain

Certifications & licenses

SAP Certified Application Associate - SAP S/4HANA Production Planning and Manufacturing (2020)

SAP Certified Application Associate - SAP S/4HANA for Financial Accounting Associates (SAP S/4HANA 2020)

SAP Certified Application Associate - SAP S/4HANA for Management Accounting Associates (SAP S/4HANA 2020)

Statistics

Experience

Total positions 18
Experience in Energy 3 y
Avg length 9 m
Longest experience 2 y 9 m

Expertise

Recent roles SAP CO Consultant, SAP CO-PS Consultant, SAP CO Speaker
Main industries Energy, Chemical, Professional Services
Main business areas Project Management, Information Technology, Finance

Qualifications

Highest degree Master
Certifications earned 3

Profile

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Ricardo is based in Alcobendas, Spain.
Ricardo speaks the following languages: Spanish (Native), English (Advanced).
Ricardo has at least 9 years of experience. During this time, Ricardo has worked in at least 10 different roles and for 13 different companies. The average length of individual experience is 1 year and 6 months. Note that Ricardo may not have shared all experience and actually has more experience.
Based on recent experience, Ricardo would be well-suited for roles such as: SAP CO Consultant, SAP CO-PS Consultant, SAP CO Speaker.
Ricardo's most recent position is SAP CO Consultant at Bacardi.
In recent years, Ricardo has worked for Bacardi, Siemens Gamesa-ABB, Gransolar, Sonae Arauco / Accenture, and COTY.
Ricardo is most experienced in industries like Energy, Chemical, and Professional Services. Ricardo also has some experience in Information Technology, Aerospace and Defense, and Education.
Ricardo is most experienced in business areas like Project Management, Information Technology, and Finance. Ricardo also has some experience in Business Intelligence, Research and Development, and Accounting.
Ricardo has recently worked in industries like Energy, Chemical, and Information Technology.
Ricardo has recently worked in business areas like Project Management, Information Technology, and Finance.
Ricardo holds a Master in Access to Law from ICAM-URJC and a Bachelor in Law and Business Administration from URJC.
Ricardo has 3 certificates. These include: SAP Certified Application Associate - SAP S/4HANA Production Planning and Manufacturing (2020), SAP Certified Application Associate - SAP S/4HANA for Financial Accounting Associates (SAP S/4HANA 2020), and SAP Certified Application Associate - SAP S/4HANA for Management Accounting Associates (SAP S/4HANA 2020).
Ricardo will be available full-time from July 2026.
Ricardo's rate depends on the specific project requirements. Please use the Meet button on the profile to schedule a meeting and discuss the details.
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