SAP FICO Functional Consultant
Thungela Resources
Total years of experience :23 years, 10 Months
• Experience in design, charm and Support for all SAP financial users with in depth experience of testing i.e. regression, Unit, integration and UAT
• Create Business requirements developments and manage a list of business request status
• Liaising with Anglo Management Systems technical support in India in terms of updating configurations per business requests
• Ad-hoc system project improvement e.g. setting-up new entities
• Overseeing request developments and testing including User Acceptable Testing
• Develop and maintain financial end-user training courses, materials and present workshops as required
• Ensuring consistent mapping of new accounts, new cost centre, hierarchies across all finance systems
• Periodically reconciliation of finance systems
• Periodical review of job role profiles
• Periodical review and development of system controls
• Relationship management with key stakeholders from Operations, Corporate office, Supply Chain and Engineering departments
IMPERIAL LOGISTICS - 1 Oct 2020 - 28 Feb 2022 - SAP Consultant (Contract)
SAP Support
• Support in FI - General Ledger accounts, Accounts payables, Accounts receivables.
• Performing configurations, Enhancements, Customising and creating RFCs in Solman for Charm in FI, CO, MM, SD and doing Unit testing, User Acceptance testing as well as creating Product hierarchies.
• Managing calls logged in MSP and action with a three day turnaround time
• Change Management - Managing changes and presenting to relevant CAB approvers.
• Gap analysis with relevant business partners with functional team for template implementation.
• Writing up the Functional specification detailing tables and field names, table joints, logic for development, I would show how to fetch data and form which table or field and display as per requirements by end user or client.
• Closely working with ABAP developers on debug code and Z- reports, as well as analyse and solve other SAP Module issues
• Experienced in SAP Testing - Planning for User Acceptance and System Integration Test, creation of test data, performing test execution, supporting testing for production issues, leverage the client’s knowledge of business processes, support business users during user acceptance testing, consistently provide high quality analysis of assigned work items, ensure deliverables are of the highest quality and completed on time, motivate team by helping to create positive work environment, performing peer reviews on other team member’s deliverables.
• Worked on SAP Material Master in the Logistics system supporting functions of Purchasing for ordering, Inventory Management for goods movement postings and physical inventory, Invoice Verification for posting invoices, Sales and Distribution for sales order processing, Production Planning and Control for material requirements planning, scheduling, and work scheduling
• Supported in Excise master structure, defining IDs, Material and Chapter ID Combination, Material Assessable Value Excise Tax Rate, Exceptional Material Excise Rate, Sales Tax Setoff Percentages
• Experience in standard SAP tax configuration and its integration to Sales and Distribution and Materials Management and invoice registration with eDocument cockpit.
• Support in Financial contract accounts - created customer master record
• Created Business Process and follow it up with Contract account
• Supported mass and parallel processing where it dealt with large number of data.
• SAP Archiving Project
• Working with archiving object defined by archiving objects details and setting parameters for each archiving object, performing table analysis transaction for table size in the system.
• Performing the Data Volume management analysis and the table analysis to identify distribution of data and volume in tables.
• Analysis of performance for possible archiving objects and assisted in configuration of archiving objects for creation of custom archive objects as well as customizing settings as per business requirements.
• Assisted in setting up connectors between SAP ERP and the external storage system
• Analysis and verification of General Ledger, Vendor and Customer accounts for clearing.
• Analysing MM and SD reports for - Open Quotation, Sales orders, Contracts, Deliveries, Blocked invoices, and Deliveries due for billing
• Clearing of General Ledger accounts, Vendor and Customer accounts approved for archiving
• Working in GRC and ITSM performing Fire fighting role on certain transactions to be archived.
• Supported in data migration/Upgrade of Master data, Transactional data by transferring data using template files and staging tables
Seconded to Denel Dynamics for External Audit Support
• Establishing, and assessing the accounting principles used and estimates made by management to ensure compliance and implementation of audit preparation and remediation plans to obtain clean opinion.
• Examining the evidence supporting the amounts and disclosures in the Financial Statements as well as preparation for annual audit to comply with reporting standards requirements for financial reporting, Completion of internal controls and standardising reconciliation support, reviewing and verifying submission of information request for sufficiency, correctness and completeness for Auditor General as well as management audit fix plans and evaluating the overall Financial Statements preparation.
Information Technology Support
• Working with the Auditor General in retrieving, compiling, reviewing, consolidating and quality control information for submission using SAP Query and Computer Assisted Audit Techniques in analysing and verifying the key functional areas of the SAP ERP, Checking the key capabilities of the SAP ERP Financials solution using selected business processes, testing the defined integration aspects, verifying and reviewing positioning of SAP ERP financials business processes and their integration in the SAP ERP financials solution, Checking the end-to-end process of receivables management
Finance Support
Human Capital Management Support
Supply Chain Management Support
• Conducting compliance audit, reviewing the compliance Co-operatives banks Development Agency with Co-operatives Banks Act (CBDA).
• Ensuring adherence to stipulated requirements of compliance and to evaluate risks exposures relating to governance, operations, and information systems regarding compliance with laws, regulations, policies, procedures.
• Reviewing and assessing monitoring mechanisms implemented by the Inter-governmental Relations Division to ensure that equitable shares and conditional grants transfers are made in terms of the Division of Revenue Act (DORA).
• Preparation of test procedures as per audit program, preparation of progress reporting
• Generating reports from the findings register to determine the status of findings
• Processing and reconciling of all supplier invoices and orders, prepared payments for authorization and submission weekly, captured all payments on SASP Financial Database SAP, reconciled all creditors accounts as per the age analysis on a monthly basis, obtained payment requests from the groups and portfolios and advise the Accounting Officer of the amounts needed for weekly cash flow purposes.
• Responsible for the submission of foreign exchange documentation to bank and follow up, raised all debit order payment invoices on Pastel Evolution. Captured Credit card invoices and purchase orders weekly, compiled and reconciled retainers paid to creditors monthly, Audited the monthly reconciliation of the provincial office’s Petty Cash, Facilitated payments, bursaries and Research Foundations grants, Ensured that financial policies are enforced and adhered to.
• Processing and reconciling of all advertising and CPD invoices and orders Capture cashbooks on, SASP Financial Database Pastel Evolution Reconcile all debtors accounts as per the age analysis on a monthly basis, Raising of all membership debit order collections on the cashbook, Prepared monthly list of Unallocated and Unknown deposits and Other Debtors, Reconciled and captured the Credit Card bank statements weekly.
Reason for leaving - Contract ended.
• Worked on HCM, Payroll in evaluating employee record keeping process for compliance with the state regulations what constitutes a personnel file. Research state regulations on employee access to personnel files and ensuring that workplace policies are congruent with the law.
• Reviewing in their System selection and recruitment process to ensure that there are nondiscriminatory and that they comply with equal employment opportunity policies. Checking that employment advertisements, structured interview questions and pre-employment tests are unbiased.
• Evaluating risk management practices, training, and employee development opportunities to reveal any disparities in the processes.
• Reviewing employee relations process to determine if investigations are conducted in a manner that ensures employee that their concerns are handled by a human resource staff member who is specifically trained to handle sensitive matters.
Reason for leaving - contract ended
SAP FICO
• Preparation of Business processes, Design, Using SAP Methodology, Analysis of business problems and develop solutions within SAP, Testing processes, Full life cycle implementation
• Guiding business in utilizing SAP functionalities, Performing SAP master data configurations
• Working as part of the SAP maintenance team,
• FI modules worked on - General Ledger, Accounts payables, Receivables, Banking, Treasury, Asset Accounting
• CO modules worked on - Profit Centre, Cost Centre accounting, Internal orders, Profitability analysis, Product costing,
SAP PS- Project Management
• Assisted in design processes, Reporting, Analyzing, Configurations, End user documents, developing testing scenarios; Supporting business processes owners and end users in all related queries, interfacing with 3rd party systems.
• Support and Administration in Project planning, structuring, scheduling, costs, and budgeting.
SAP MM
• Supported and administered purchasing and inventory management, defined organizational structure and Master data, configured the procurement process and invoice verifications.
• Configured Procure-to-Pay process in SAP MM integrated with SAP FI to encompass activities such as: Material Requirement Planning, Vendor Selection, Request for Quotation, Purchase Requisitions, Purchase Order Material Requirement Planning, Goods Receipt, Invoice Payment
SAP SD
• Supported and administered on Proposals, Project Administration, Credit Management, Billing, Sales Processes, Pricing.
SAP HR
• Configured user parameters and number range intervals for personnel numbers, customized personnel actions and reason for change, Defined enterprise structure, end user training and documentation, worked on ESS and MSS
for six months during that time, initiated and prepared management monthly reports which initially were done quarterly, Managed a R Million budget, Produced General Ledger recons, Operational budgeting, Assisting in Financial Statements preparations, prepared monthly cash forecast and Cash Flow management, Deferred Income Recons, Produced cost saving reports and assets management, Cash books, Bank Recons, Trial balance analysis, Inter-Company General Ledger accounts Analysis, Vat returns reconciliation.
* Business analysis finance - I would examine the data of internal processes and identify business needs i.e. social, financial and taking into consideration the organization policies that govern the operations then recommend and implement methods for increasing company's efficiency and profitability.
* Analysis of Irregular, Fruitless and Wasteful Expenditure - dealing with non-compliance, weak controls gaps in procedural policies. Reporting in writing and recording alleged irregular, fruitless and wasteful expenditure. Raising a debtor account for recovery of debt or write off if irrecoverable. Outlining remedial steps to avoid reoccurrence of such type of debt.
* Payroll - The audit and employee information produced by a previous employee needed a lot of input for reporting to the financial manager hence I produced a comprehensive consolidated report. Compiled and administered salaries.
* Credit Control- The system had gaps, having knowledge of configurations, and customizing, I assisted in credit control systems set up, maintained accurate records on outstanding payments, identified changes in payment patterns, handled and negotiated disputed bills by getting to understand the cause and solving them, I raised invoices from the system as per billings.
* Accounts Payable - Processed invoices, prepared creditors reconciliations and handled queries, effected payments, prepared control account reconciliation.
* Projects budgets - Open a project in the system and set up the structure based on the budget and monitored and tracked performance, set up payments to be approved per milestone,
Creditors/SAP Super User
* Performed procurement Process from purchase requisitions, creation of purchase orders and goods receiving in the system. Due to segregation of duties, I took up trade creditors only in processing Invoices SAP; reconcile supplier accounts and monthly statements, Reconcile GRIR account, Age analysis recons, Process payments on CATS system.
* Processing bank transactions and reconciling the cash book.
* Trainee SAP Financials and worked as SAP Super User.
Promoted
Processing bank transactions for 4 local banks and 1 foreign bank in SAP, Bank reconciliations, Receipts in Progress recons, Payments in Progress recons, Credit cards payments, First AUTO recons and payments, Sundry creditors. Processing intercompany transactions and reconciliations of other subsidiary entities.
Resigned for better
Processing bank transactions for 4 countries, Bank reconciliations, Receipts in Progress recons, Payments in Progress recons.
Reason for leaving
Process Invoices on SAP, reconcile supplier accounts and monthly statements, Reconcile GRIR account, Process payments on CATS system.
* Procurement - Purchasing, Purchase requisitions, Purchase Orders, Goods Receipting.
Reason for leaving - Temporary
Creating Purchase requisition, Purchase orders on ACCPAC, Employee reimbursement, Travel account reconciliations, Credit cards recons, Inter-company recons
Checking and approving Creditors, Age analysis, Preparing Payment proposals reconciliation, Control account reconciliation on JDE and Pastel, Effecting payments, General Ledger recons.
Reason for leaving -Company closed
Financial Management, Auditing, IS Audit Control and Assurance
Majoring in Financial Accounting, Management, Internal Auditing, Human Resouces
subjects - Accounting, Commerce, English, Geography, Science,Maths