Ioana Leca
Dubai,United Arab Emirates
Summary
Ioana Leca is an accomplished controlling consultant with extensive experience across pharmacy, manufacturing, food & chemicals, and tobacco industries. She has led SAP S/4HANA FI-CO implementations, integrating cost accounting, product costing, and profitability analysis into business operations. With a deep understanding of financial controlling, she specializes in management accounting.
As a Manager, she has successfully led global template rollouts, provided technical leadership, and collaborated with cross-functional teams to align finance, supply chain, and production processes. Ioana has a strong analytical mindset, ensuring cost efficiency, transparency, and strategic financial decision-making for multinational companies.
Overview
11
11
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work history
Manager
PwC
09.2023 - 02.2025
- Led the end-to-end implementation of SAP S/4HANA CO, ensuring that financial controlling processes were aligned with business requirements.
- Spearheaded the design and deployment of new functionalities for product accounting, cost accounting in the UPA environment, and the ICMR tool, enhancing financial transparency and operational efficiency.
- Optimized material ledger functionalities, ensuring accurate inventory valuation, cost tracking, and period-end closing procedures.
- Led the architecture of SAP CO processes, including month-end closing, product costing, and cost center management, ensuring alignment with industry best practices and regulatory requirements.
- Developed a standardized approach for cost allocation, indirect cost absorption, and variance analysis, improving financial visibility across multiple business units.
- Oversaw integration of master data structures across Finance (FI), Production Planning (PP), Materials Management (MM), and SD, ensuring consistency and eliminating data redundancies.
Manager / CO Team Lead
Deloitte
04.2019 - 09.2023
- Led the architecture of SAP CO processes, including month-end closing, product costing, and cost center management, ensuring alignment with industry best practices and regulatory requirements.
- Implemented automated cost allocations and profitability tracking mechanisms, increasing reporting accuracy and decision-making agility.
- Established governance models for financial master data, reducing errors and enhancing data-driven decision-making.
- Analyzed, tested, and implemented system enhancements in response to evolving business needs, ensuring scalability and process efficiency.
- Led user acceptance testing (UAT), managing defect resolution and continuous process improvements within SAP S/4HANA CO.
- Collaborated with IT teams to develop custom Fiori apps and automation tools, improving end-user experience and financial reporting accuracy.
- Designed and conducted key user training programs, equipping finance teams with in-depth knowledge of SAP CO functionalities, system utilization, and cost control methodologies.
- Led executive training workshops, ensuring leadership teams could effectively leverage S/4HANA CO for strategic decision-making.
Global Functional Expert Consultant
Oracle
12.2018 - 04.2019
- Managed end-to-end activities surrounding integration, maintenance, and enhancements of the revenue allocation process
- Participated in testing, collaborating with various process and system owners, ensuring consistent global business documentation for SSP and revenue allocations
Senior Controlling & SAP Specialist
British American Tobacco
06.2014 - 12.2018
- Led the stabilization of SAP Material Ledger across multiple international markets, ensuring accurate inventory valuation, cost tracking, and financial reconciliation.
- Developed error resolution frameworks to address price discrepancies, material valuation inconsistencies, and cost roll-up issues impacting financial reporting.
- Ensured compliance with IFRS, GAAP, and local statutory reporting requirements, minimizing financial risks and audit discrepancies.
- Conducted cross-system reconciliations between SAP FI, CO-PA, BPC (Business Planning & Consolidation), and BI (Business Intelligence) to identify and resolve data inconsistencies.
- Implemented automated reconciliation processes, reducing manual intervention and improving financial accuracy in intercompany transactions and profit center accounting.
- Developed budgeting and forecasting models integrated into SAP FI, ensuring real-time cost visibility and financial planning accuracy.
- Enhanced cost center budgeting methodologies, allowing businesses to track overhead costs, allocate resources effectively, and align financial planning with corporate goals.
- Designed IFRS-compliant financial reports leveraging SAP Report Painter, Report Writer, and SAP BW/BI tools, ensuring alignment with global financial reporting standards.
Education
Master’s Degree - Audit, Accounting and Management Information Systems-ACCA certified
Bucharest Academy of Economic Studies
Bachelor’s Degree - Accounting and Management Information Systems (taught in English)
Bucharest Academy of Economic Studies
Skills
- Controlling
- Finance
- S/4HANA Private Cloud
- SAP Controlling
- SAP Finance
- Integration & Rollouts
- SAP S/4HANA Public Cloud
- SAP ECC 60
- Azure DevOps
- Jira tool
- Confluence
- Signavio
- HPQC
- SOLMAN
- Power BI
- Aris IP5
- MS Office
Languages
English
Fluent
Romanian
Native
Spanish
Elementary
Certification
- 2020, SAP Certified Application Associate – SAP S/4HANA for Management Accounting Associates (1809)
- 2018, Budgeting and Variance Analysis (BPP)
- 2017, Management Accounting (BPP)
- 2016, IFRS Advanced (BPP)
- 2015, ACCA (F1–F8 Certified)
- 2014, Presentation and Public Speaking Skills
Timeline
Manager
PwC
09.2023 - 02.2025
Manager / CO Team Lead
Deloitte
04.2019 - 09.2023
Global Functional Expert Consultant
Oracle
12.2018 - 04.2019
Senior Controlling & SAP Specialist
British American Tobacco
06.2014 - 12.2018
Master’s Degree - Audit, Accounting and Management Information Systems-ACCA certified
Bucharest Academy of Economic Studies
Bachelor’s Degree - Accounting and Management Information Systems (taught in English)
Bucharest Academy of Economic Studies
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