MONIA BALEA
PERSONAL DATA
Marital status: married
E-mail: **********@*****.***
Phone no: 004**********
OBJECTIVE
To make a career in a team oriented, competitive, deadline driven environment where I can assume responsibilities working with people who could benefit from my experience and from whom I could learn and expand my knowledge.
PROFILE
With exposure to SAP Consultancy Company, I have analyzed and developed system application requirements related to both implementation and support projects, enhancement requests for existing product lines. My expertise area consists of SAP FI/CO areas (CO-PA, Cost Center Accounting, EC-PCA, and Product Costing) and solid initial grounding in SD/MM and with some exposure to AA and cross-modules integration. Extensive knowledge of design, configuration, implementation and support skills in FI module. Being involved in full lifecycle implementation projects, from scoping and planning to post go live support and process optimization. Conducting several training sessions at the clients’ premises. Experience in Pharmaceuticals Industry, IT Services, Retail Processes, Beauty Care and Chemicals, Electronics as well as several SAP solutions: S/4HANA, SAP ERP, SAP IS Retail, SAP OIL&GAS Industry.
EXPERIENCE
SAP Consultancy Company: BEARINGPOINT Bucharest, RO
Role: Business Advisor SAP Finance and Controlling
Industry: IT Consultancy
Period: September 2014 – present
S/4HANA Project NINTENDO – April 2016 – August 2019 Frankfurt, DE (on-site)
Part of SAP FI/CO Work stream
Task description:
Involved in ongoing implementation project on S/4HANA Finance Team (setup business model following Financial and Controlling requirements on S/4HANA platform). Develop Internal Order workflow process; COPA reports integrated with BPC functionality; create functional specification on Solution Manager; Payment request Batch Monitor checking.
Design Order to cash end to end process. Defining with the business the required queries for vat reporting (SAFT, SII)
Facilitate efficient and effective accounting and finance business processed for users, including business areas as AP/AR, EDI, Asset Management.
Improve the core-model design on Controlling module and adapt the new businesses to the design model through deep understanding of current process flows.
Focus areas: Profitability Analysis, Profit Center Accounting, Planning and Budgeting, ALE Distribution Data from HCM->Finance (Idoc flow)
S/4HANA Project: MONDELEZ Kraft & Foods Industry June 2017- Dec 2018 Zürich, Switzerland
Part of SAP Treasury Work Stream
-only one week/month travel to CH; most of the work remotely due to meeting session with Australia and US Finance Team).
Following Agile Methodology, defining 5 Sprints and conduct/ analyze Finance changes
Task description:
FI-CO Configuration (aligning ECC systems to S/4HANA technology).
Workshops conduct for SAP central finance solution (moreover to Payments changes). Create Process design document for ECC changes, for Intercompany payment process, Distributed Cash Management, Bank Account Determination.
Integration and module specific testing scenarios
Key-user training
Technical and Functional Specs
Part of implementation team for S/4HANA Central Finance system (client industry – food and beverages industry). Create a functional Central Box for Distribution Data between S/4HANA system and ECC instances. ALE Distribution Data setup connection for all 3 SAP Instances.
Focus on Cash Management functionality (Liquidity reports and Cash Position)
ECC Project: KAO Company - Beauty & Care Industry Germany
Part of SAP FI/CO Work stream – combining remotely with travelling session to Darmstadt, Germany
Task description:
SAP FI/CO support project focus on design process and data harmonization.
EBS internal implementation project
SEPA Credit Transfer setup (automatic payment process; generate XML file; DME file setup for meeting bank requirements)
CO-PA design and enhance numerous reports.
Implement clear end to end AA module processes for US and Canada; new asset classes, new account determination, transfer old assets to new configuration.
SD-CO integration process strong understanding
Develop IC process.
ECC Project: ELANTAS - Electrical Insulation Industry Italy
Part of SAP FI/CO Work stream – combining remotely with travelling session to Bologna, Italy
Task description:
EHP upgrade project for Electrical Company. FI/CO module responsibility, executing period-end closing CO activities and deliver functional tests.
Involved in Italia Project as part of Application Support Project (procedure for FI, CO closing)
Part of EHp upgrade to version 7; create UAT tests and integration tests.
SEPA: payment method selection in SAP, automatic payments, SEPA-CT, SEPA-DD, Master Data, DMEE tree structure (XML file).
MM-FI Integration: customizing process integration and deploy satisfactory solutions for the business requirements.
Customer satisfaction and deepen client relationships;
Tracking problem history and issue resolution for each type of ticketing tool (depending on client request). Analyzing on time and on quality response for all Finance business issues.
Company MEGA IMAGE (Delhaize Group) Bucharest, RO
Role: SAP Financial Consultant
Industry: Retail
Period: January 2014 – September 2014
Task description:
Taking part of implementation workshop for AA/ Investment Management, SAP SRM solution specific for SAP Retail solution;
Analyzing business processes for developing and prioritize core requirements;
Resolve issues, queries and concerns raised by internal clients and to liaise with the appropriate resolution (based on DLL model, group model);
Review and challenge change requests received;
Define/document Business requirements together with the business team;
Document, promote and validate with the Business and other IT stakeholders’ solution design to meet business requirements in line with overall Finance architecture;
Carrying out implementation tasks such as Business Analysis, System Design, Gap analysis (SAP Retail rollout project);
Developing the right Supply Chain Finance process, Reverse ING Factoring applying on business request the service is performed using the electronic banking system.
Company Project METRO SYSTEMS Bucharest, Ro
Role: Team Leader HELPDESK
Industry: Retail
Period: November 2012 – March 2013
Task description:
Maintain excellent communication with upper management both within and across organizations to ensure smooth running of all work undertaken by Helpdesk team;
Manage and utilize the resources provided by Metro Systems Helpdesk team to ensure effective support delivery;
Continually seek opportunities to increase customer satisfaction and deepen client relationships;
Provide tracking and trending information for process improvement to the Helpdesk team;
Analyze and report on support activities profitability and utilization;
Being part of the release management process during assessment and testing phases.
Company: METRO SYSTEMS Bucharest, Ro
Role: SAP FI Consultant
Industry: Retail
Period: October 2008 – June 2013
Responsible for on-going production support of the group’s SAP FI and SAP CO projects; this includes gap-fit business analysis, gathering business requirements, creating functional specs, providing functional expertise to technical consultants, testing and post go-live support.
Part of maintenance team for internal projects
Providing first and second level support for SAP standard and customer applications in regular Helpdesk activity
Incident handling including analysis, solution finding and implementation (for existing processes and new developments)
SAP FI customizing according to business needs
Integration of SAP FI with other modules
Creating reporting with SAP Query
LSMW Creating master data
Exposure to NEW/GL in SAP ECC6.0
Data migration from the project perspective; Mapping; Data extraction from the legacy system;
Providing Business Support for UAT and integration tests
Creating documentation, TS, CR in onEGT application
Handling UAT, analysis documentation for incidents/ project in HPQC
Go live support
Best practices using company methodologies, tools and techniques
Part of SLS Helpdesk Team
Being involved in this team by supporting customers all over the world (where Metro Company has been running business). Analyzing all the issues day-by-day, communicating solving tips to the customers, documenting each raised problem, provide technical troubleshooting and resolution steps. Maintain and support customers account database through system tools
Task description:
Support system user (customers) resolving their Second Level issues and queries working as required with the appropriate parties through to resolution. Configuration when and where Third Level problem requires it (any change request). Also able to support manage and configure the integration points between FI/CO and SD/MM;
Maintain appropriate log of issues /queries to put forward by internal customers within helpdesk software;
Optimize issue resolution by following production support procedure – effective, efficient, documented issue resolution;
Work closely within the client support team and liaise with other functional team members and/or manager to maintain and apply common processes;
Promote and design processes within the organization;
Contribute to group goals as set out the methodology and achieve high-level results by being proactive in the approach.
Project: Metro Group Kazakhstan
Part of SAP implementation team, project planning, preparing and testing all the specification business (GL, Banking, AP/AR). Contribute to different phases of the consulting lifecycle. Involved in defining project processes, deliverables and contribute to the proposal development.
Task description:
Gather functional requirement
Prepare blueprint document
Customization activities
Maintain integration with SD/MM modules
Create TS for customer specific developments;
Develop work procedure and documenting all the change requests for users;
Data migration and go live.
Project: Metro Group Serbia
Short term internal project – setting-up Electronic Bank Statement
Tasks description:
Analyze and fit EBS requirements to all the business company needs;
Configuring global EBS settings;
Define search string;
Define program and variant selection.
SEPA Project:
Part of the team implied in this new change requested by Single European Payment Area concept;
Set-up new dedicated payment method exclusively for SEPA;
Payment advice adapted to show IBAN and BIC of the bank information;
Migration of VMD with adding the correct IBAN and BIC source system.
IAT Project – Part of SLS Team
Interaction TOOL running on SAP BPM platform;
Analyzing all the suspended, resumed processes – finding out the reason of not finished as were designed by flow structure. The processes run using SAP BPM were related to Accounts Payable, GR/IR, Accounts Receivables structure/concept;
Communicate with our customers’ day by day for any raised issue about their submitted processes;
Keep the customers up-to-date with all the changes occur during the new release/ deployment.
Company: IBM ROMANIA Bucharest RO
Role: SAP FI Consultant
Industry: IT & Consulting
Period: February 2005 – December 2006
Part of the SAP FI implementation team for currency denomination process at Electrica (Utility company).
I participated in SAP implementations and maintenance, presentations to prospective customers, preparation of offers. Interaction with the client to ascertain the final requirements, to carry out the process analysis and design as business requests.
Project: Electrica Transilvania Nord, Utility Company
Local currency changeover (Denomination project):
Part of the implementation team, project planning, I participated at this project preparing and testing all the specifications business
Monitoring conversion steps, maintenance and support for the implementation
Part of the support team as SAP FI GL/AP/AR consultant
Monitoring Electrica productive systems, troubleshooting, working on change requests
Project: Electrica CEZ Oltenia, Utility Company
Multi-cash project
Implementation of SAP multi-cash sub-module for CEZ
Lifecycle implementation
Preparation, documentation and customizing of to-be processes (GL, AP, AR, AA, BL) Unit testing, integration tests preparation and realization, data migration and go–live
Support, help desk and post implementation maintenance
Project: CEC, Savings Bank Company
SAP FI implementation project
Member of the implementation team as SAP FI consultant
Specifications for user exits development for Romania Legal requirements (negative posting in documents, penalties calculation according to the specific client requirements etc.)
Project: Electrica Transilvania Nord, Utility Company
Application Data Archiving
Project contribution: database analysis, project solution preparation, implementation, documentation and customizing of archiving objects, test-cases preparation
Company: RELAD International Bucharest RO
Role: Economist / Financial – Accounting Department
Industry: Pharmaceutical
Period: February 2003 – January 2005
Tasks Description:
Using SAP R/3 system for posting accounting documents, analyzing and reporting financial dates:
Responsible for posting suppliers’ invoices;
Reporting monthly asset management flux;
Bank journals accounting (foreign and national currency);
Current day to day liaison with the banks to verify the accounts’ balance;
Create clearing documents;
Managing and reporting the balance;
Primary accounting, monthly reports and fill in the necessary forms for a small business;
Managing leasing contracts.
Sales Team
Presentation to the perspective customers of the company products;
Day to day liaison with some of the company’s major customers;
Handle autonomously the incoming customer orders;
In charge of the follow-up of the orders in our systems (order entry, back orders, invoicing), as well as handle possible complaints.
EDUCATION
1998-2002 Economics Studies Academy Bucharest, Ro
Graduated, Management Faculty – Public Administration
2005–present SNSPA David Ogilvy Bucharest, Ro
Undergraduate, Master of Human Resources (on hold)
2007-2008 Greenwich School of Management London, UK
Graduated, Master of Science in Business Management
Treasury and Risk Management - Internal Training – Bucharest, RO
S/4HANA Simple Finance – Training – Waldorf, DE
OTHERS
English – fluent
French – intermediate level
German – basic knowledge (on going learning process)
Goal-driven oriented
Ability to work both in large project teams and as individual
Customer orientation in daily support activities
Communication skills. Ability to work in a multicultural environment
Adaptability and flexibility to work in a dynamic environment