Senior SAP Controlling (CO) Consultant

Job ID: 527323

CRH's Americas Materials division is the leading integrated supplier of aggregates, asphalt, ready mixed concrete and paving and construction services in North America.

Our operations span North America with over 29,000 employees at close to 1,660 locations in 45 US States and 2 Canadian provinces.

Position Overview

We are seeking a Senior SAP Controlling (CO) resource with deep, hands-on experience designing, configuring, and implementing SAP CO solutions.

This role owns the SAP Controlling landscape end-to-end - including Cost Center Accounting, Profit Center Accounting, Internal Orders, Product Costing, and Profitability Analysis - while working closely with O2C, P2P, P2D and CA teams to ensure accurate, integrated financial data across the organization.

The ideal candidate combines strong hands-on technical/functional expertise, proven experience integrating SAP CO with FI, MM, SD, and external systems, and the communication skills to present solutions clearly to business stakeholders and manage consultants.

Key Responsibilities (Essential Duties and Functions)

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily.

Business Process Design & Improvement


* Act as the primary business-facing process owner for SAP CO - spending regular, recurring time with business leads in Finance, Controllership, and cross-functional module teams.


* Partner directly with business stakeholders to understand gaps and pain points, translate business needs into functional requirements, and design scalable, efficient SAP CO processes.


* Define and track KPIs and process performance metrics jointly with business owners, and report progress back to them on a regular cadence.


* Establish and run a standing business process governance forum (e.g., monthly SAP CO process review) to surface emerging issues, prioritize backlog items, and keep process design decisions transparent and business-led.

Driving Design Workshops & Business Engagement


* Own end-to-end workshop planning and delivery: define objectives, identify the right stakeholders, build the agenda, and drive the session to concrete, documented decisions and next steps.


* Plan and facilitate requirements-gathering and process design workshops with cross-functional stakeholders across Finance, Controllership, and cross-functional module teams - driving discussions toward decisions rather than open-ended brainstorming.


* Run fit-gap and solution design sessions with business and technical teams, presenting options, trade-offs, and recommendations, and driving alignment on process decisions and configuration approaches.


* Use visual facilitation techniques (process maps, whiteboarding, journey maps) in live sessions to help business stakeholders see and agree on the proposed design in real time.


* Manage constructive conflict in workshops - surfacing and resolving competing priorities between fu...