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SAP consultant with ABAP

Location:
Ukraine
Posted:
January 08, 2024

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Andrii Senko

Kyiv, Ukraine

Mobile: +38-067-***-**-**

Email: ad2jq7@r.postjobfree.com

EXPERIENCE:

Finance and Digitalisation Consultant - Private Practice · Self-employed Oct 2020 - Present

● Main expertise grounded on a deep understanding of enterprise financial function and related to SAP FICO functional consulting services, the following SAP-related services: a) FICO cross-functional projects with SAP Supply Chain (MM) functionality b) FICO cross-functional projects with Customer Experience (SD) functionality c) minor ABAP development (implicit/explicit extensions, BADI, user-exits, BTE, module programming, Smart forms, Adobe forms, Sapscript, OOP) c) Users/consultants development training

● Corporate finance (developing processes and models for finance function)

● Business application-related services (Power BI, Google Docs, ZOHO CRM, RPA: Automation Anywhere, MS Power automate) often are in the scope of all the above activities SAP Team lead - Veo Worldwide Services, LLC [10 months] Dec 2021 - Oct 2022

● Manage functional and technical SAP team including preparation and execution of S4/HANA grinfield.

● Orchestration of solution development and delivering technical expertise

● Developing project delivery practices that allow validating solutions to comply with company strategy and take into account risk mitigation, prevention, and control techniques

● Team development practices (e.g. combination of training and appropriate project assignment)

● Collaboration and resource management with other internal teams in TN, RO, FR, and external partners in the scope of one virtual team

● Environment: 326+ Stores in France, 950+ legal entities,80% of custom functionality.

● Provide technical and functional expertise (e.g. SAP Queries, FI-TAX, DMEE, ABAP Debugging, and basic OOP for consultants, GOS and Archivelink, SD-FI integration)

● Acting as a subject matter expert in the SAP Functional team (FI, CO, FX-RE, VIM, OpenText, and high-level supervision in SD, MM, Retail) and Technical team (ABAP and Basis).

● Provide uses and license management analysis (UAM) in the scope of S4/HANA project preparation

● feasibility study of roles and authorization in ECC6 for the purpose of migration into S4/HANA (including users, RFC, and custom authorization objects)

Emergy Group (Oct 2020 - Nov 2021) [1 year 1 month] Project Finance Controller (with Treasury function) - NBT Ukraine, LLC Aug 2021 - Nov 2021 (project interruption)

● Maintains, control, and reporting of the project budgets of about 500 MEUR for 5 onshore entities, Commitments, actual Expenditures, and Forecasts

● Establish, communicate, and support the project budget execution process across the company functions

● Treasury management includes cash and liquidity management and forecasting, FX, Hedging, Loans, and Facility

management across multiple legal entities of the project. 1/4

● Perform efficient control under procurements and contract execution

● Oversee daily cash process including bank transaction approval

● Maintaining bank and financial institution relationships

● Collaborate with company advisors in respect of verification of decisions in respect of the area of responsibilities

Project Finance Controller (with Treasury function) - Syvashenerhoprom, LLC Oct 2020 – Aug 2021

● Establishing and improving financial processes and reports for efficient budgeting, forecasting, and cash management for the wind farm EPC project and operational site of about 400 MEUR

● Improvement of the CF and PL structure for better budgeting and including capital expenditure of project and operation team activities

● Developing and implementing a revenue and imbalance forecasting model for better cash management

● Weakly/monthly PL/CF analysis, Monthly/weekly forecast preparation, supporting the new operations team in financial matters, collaborating with the local accounting team

● Cash position preparation, analysis, forecasting, and bank accounts reconciliation ● Interaction with the bank(s) and lenders regarding project fund facilities and cash management topics

● Support and execute FX and money-market transactions with banks and intragroup counterpanes

● Implements various process improvements and digitalization for better performance and mitigations and prevention of financial and operational risks

ABB Group (Jul 2008 - Sep 2020) [12 years 2 months] Finance and Treasury Service consultant - HITACHI ABB PROWER GRIDS

(Hitachi Energy)

Jul 2020 - Sep 2020 (short-term project)

Establishing finance and treasury functions for the newly established company including:

● Cash and liquidity management

● Fund facility management (WC, trade finance)

● FX exposure management (contract structuring, FX spot, FX forward, FX swap, etc.)

● Counterparty contract structuring support

● Counterparty credit risk review support (BS, PL, CF)

● Bank relationship management

● Statutory reporting support (UA GAAP ->IFRS)

● Insurance management

● Finance modeling (CF at Risk, Earnings at Risk, Project PL/CF, etc.)

● Dividend management

● Process improvement/operation management support

● SAP incident/change management. Interaction with service providers and system integrators Country Treasurer - ABB Ukraine

Feb 2016 - Aug 2020 (business interruption)

● SAP incident/change management. Establishing and supporting ACM and UAM processes for SAP and integrated systems, including SAP project management, and SAP subject matter expertise in FI, CO, SD, and MM. External resources management (regional SAP team for release management, Wipro for incidents, TCS for global changes, NTT Data for localisations). Backlog: about 28 projects and 800 incidents per year.

● Manage liquidity and financial planning, including both short-term (2 weeks) and long-term (12 weeks) forecasting, to ensure adequate cash flow to support business operations.

● Plan, implement, and execute trade finance operations, including letters of credit, standby letters of credit, and bank guarantees, to facilitate international trade.

● Manage finance facilities such as loans and cash lines to ensure adequate funding is available to support business operations.

● Manage treasury risks, including operational, regulatory, liquidity, and credit risks, to minimize potential losses and ensure compliance with relevant regulations.

● Develop, implement, execute, and support foreign exchange hedging strategies for four foreign currencies to mitigate currency risk and maximize profits.

● Apply, implement, and develop IT tools such as liquidity planning tools and SAP components to support efficient treasury operations.

● Develop and maintain relationships with nine domestic banks and five banks in other jurisdictions (UK, NL, PL, CH) to ensure access to the best possible financing and banking services. 2/4

● Structure payment terms and trade finance arrangements in contracts with counterparties to mitigate risks and optimize profitability.

● Collaborate with business and controlling functions to identify and mitigate contract risks and ensure expected profitability.

● Drive process improvement initiatives to optimize treasury operations and increase efficiency.

● Ensure compliance with Treasury reporting requirements policies and procedures and with internal audit and control requirements.

● Support bank accounting process and closing, including US GAAP, disclosure preparation, and reporting package reconciliation.

● Support leasing and insurance contracts to ensure the company's assets are appropriately insured and financed.

● Collaborate with the group/regional treasury function to present results and forecasts and coordinate interactions to achieve strategic targets.

Internal Controls Manager - ABB Ukraine

Feb 2014 - Feb 2016

● SAP incident/change management. Establishing and supporting ACM and UAM processes for SAP and integrated systems, including SAP project management, and SAP subject matter expertise in FI, CO, SD, and MM. External resources management (regional SAP team for release management, Wipro for incidents, TCS for global changes, NTT Data for localisations). Backlog: about 50 projects and 1500 incidents per year.

● Identification of risks on the process and Entity level, especially in the ERP domain service line and initiative in designing controls.

● Review of controls evidence documentation (P2P, O2C, R2R, H2R, TAX, General IT)

● Provide internal control expertise, training, and process improvements to process owners, control owners

& performers.

● IC: Collaborate broadly across the business and operational areas of all business processes and risk controls.

● IC: Development and execution of annual SOX compliance program including SAP roles

● IC: Coordinate SOX compliance activities with company departments and external auditors

● IC: Collaborate with process and control owners and control performers on the ongoing design, documentation, and testing of internal controls as well as any remediation including SAP roles redesign

● Conduct training to advise business process owners, control owners, and control performers

● O2C: Commercial policy review and redesign, development solution in SAP (confirmed by audit report)

● O2C: Re-design of the order handling process, and development solution in SAP (confirmed by audit report)

● P2P: Re-design of Physical inventory process, development solution in SAP (confirmed by audit report)

● P2P: Payment security and Cyber Crime program implementation (Fraud prevention project)

● P2P: Re-design of the company assets movement process and internal controls implementation

(confirmed by audit report)

● P2P: Re-design of Supplier assessment and tender process (confirmed by audit report)

● R2R: Re-design accounting process (AP, AR, TAX, BANK, MJE, TE) in line with SOX requirement in the scope of finance function transformation program, development solution in ERP

● IC: Review of the Company Table of Authority (ToA)

● IC: Provide an implementation of integration of authorization change request management with SAP Workflows

SAP Project Manager - ABB Ukraine

Jul 2008 - Feb 2014

● Developing and managing the country's ERP organization (20 team members)

● SAP implementation (roll-out of FI/CO/SD/MM) and establishment of continuous improvement process including change management

● Authorization Concept Implementation (50+ users)

● Support internal audit with SOD analysis and developing solutions for conflicts resolving Senior SAP consultant - EPAM [1 month]

Jun 2008- Jul 2008

Participate in 3 projects as FICO Expert:

● ABB Ukraine – SAP Fixed assets (FI-AA) retirement process verification and setup

● The Coca-Cola Company – FI localization project blueprint expertise development (FI-SL)

● GazProm – SAP FI-AP invoice verification process post-go-live processing, Extending functionality for fixed assets movements transaction (FI-AP, FI-AA)

3/4

Imperial Brands (Jul 2006- Jun 2008) [1 year 11 months] SAP consultant - ImperialTobacco

Jul 2006- Jun 2008

● L1 - L3 user support and change management Primary: FI, CO, incident resolving for SD, MM, PP

● ABAP development (Implicit/explicit extensions, BADI, user-exits, Sapscript, SAPquery, ALV, BTE)

● Incident management related to authorization (FI, CO, SD, MM, PP) HeidelbergCement Group (Aug 2003 -Jun 2006) [2 years 10 months] SAP consultant - HeidelbergCement

Jan 2004 - Jun 2006

● L1 - L3 user support and change management (FI, CO)

● ABAP development (Reports, Queries, SAPScript)

● Incident management related to authorization (FI, CO)

● Authorization Concept Implementation in the scope of the roll-out project (SD, MM, FI, CO; about 100 users; new cement plant)

Plant Controller - HeidelbergCement

Aug 2003 - Jan 2004

● Supporting period-end closing and statutory reporting process (BS, PL, CF)

● Margin and Profitability analysis

● Monthly physical inventory count (raw materials and finished goods)

● Budgeting (4 production stages, COGS, overhead, transfer price calculation) EDUCATION:

Master of Accounting and Audit, KEI KNEU

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