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Accounting Consultant Sap

Location:
Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
Salary:
92000
Posted:
October 17, 2021

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Curriculum Vitae

Nomakhaya Khayakazi Dweba ID:870**********

Email: ado2io@r.postjobfree.com Contact: +276*-****-***

Status: Single

Executive Summary

Certified SAP Financial Accounting Consultant (Consultant ID: 001*******).

Certified in ITIL Foundation in IT Service Management (Cert No: GR750508001KD)

SAP S/4 HANA Financial Associates (SAP S/4 HANA 1809) In Progress

B Com Information Honors: UCT ( In Progress)

I have more than 8 years working experience in SAP Financial Accounting (FI), Funds Management (Budgeting) Cash/Bank Management, Credit Management, and Investment management

3 end to end SAP implementations in the Public Sector

Support experience in the Private Sector, Manufacturing Industry, Health Industry, Mining Sector and FMCG.

Expertise in configuration and customization of FI (GL, AR, AP, Bank accounting), Budgeting (Budget Control System) Cost Accounting (Cost Center Accounting, Profit Center Accounting, Cost Element Accounting, Internal Orders),

Business Process and system analysis and design

SAP Business One, Oracle Primavera and P-LAN 1st line support

SalesForce Testing, Coupa Integration Testing

Stakeholders, business users and customer requirements management

Basic knowledge of programming C# and Java

Role creation and assignment (Authorisation)

Knowledge and experience in Unit Testing, Regression Testing, UAT and Integration Testing,

Knowledge and experience in end-user training

Good communication and interpersonal skills. Proven ability to work independently and team environments.

FUNCTIONAL COMPETENCE

1)Business acumen

2)IT Application Management

3)IT Business Alignment

4)IT End User Support

5)IT Governance

6)IT Risk Management

Organisational Experience

Distell

Business Systems Analyst (Finance ) ( 01 Feb 2020 – 30 June 2021)

Responsibilities:

-Ensure solution enhancement and continuous improvement in areas of expertise

-Investigation and implementation of appropriate Finance solutions and configuring according to business requirements

- Analysis and understanding of existing customized application configuration and development

- Integration investigation, configuration and specification to SAP and non-SAP systems

- Perform 3rd and 4th Line User Support where applicable

- Complete regular internal system audits and prepare for upgrades

- Manage data feeds and other integrations

- Coordinate the valuation, scope and completion of development requests

- Knowledge of business operations are maintained in order to ensure solution development is in alignment with business objectives and processes

- Assist business analysts to identify business process improvement opportunities through the use of existing or future Technologies

- Work closely with ABAP developers to develop appropriate SAP enhancements where applicable

- Research new technology and functionality of implemented applications

- Analysis and understanding of existing customized application configuration and development

- Perform functional application design to support the relevant business processes

- Perform detail application configuration and documentation

- Prepare functional specifications for application development

- Quality assures application configuration and development

- Play key role in multiple project environments

- Testing configured solution and design

- Handover to support and training team

- Training of application area

Babcock International Group - Africa

Applications Business Analyst ( May 2018 – Jan 2020)

Responsibilities

Provide Clients with full life – cycle project implementation consulting expertise including assessments, blueprinting, system build, testing and go-live stabilisation

Prepare and facilitate assessment/blueprint workshops to analyse Clients business requirements

Compile detailed functional mapping to the adopted ERP applications, functional gap analysis, detailed blueprint design and process documentation and detailed functional specifications for any custom development

Prepare summary level presentations and facilitate future state system design and process workshops to obtain Client acceptance

Perform and oversee and configuration of SAP application and other finance systems

Create positive /negative unit test scripts and execute unit test

Create and support creation integration/ user acceptance test scenario and scripts as well as facilitate and provide direct support for user testing

Create and support creation for cutover plan and scripts as well as facilitate

Provide direct support for production migration and go -live stabilisation

Provide status updates on assigned work to management and when required,

Act as Project Manager on small to medium sized projects

Mentor and oversee other consultants assigned to the project

Perform in cross function team environments where strong interpersonal communication skills are essential

Technolibra (PTY) LTD

SAP FICO Functional/Support Consultant (1 Nov 2017 – Apr 2018)

Responsibilities

SAP Support: Britehouse - Tenke Fungumere Mining Project

-Support all the problems in Clients SAP FI-AP Systems.

-Assist in writing of FI-AP FDS

-Assist with regression testing and integration testing

-Analyse if any error is coming in any of the report.

-Ensures business compliance to processes and procedures

-Ensure consistency, completeness and clarity of own deliverables, and their acceptance

-Ensure alignment across SAP modules and non-SAP systems

-Communicate and follow-up with the customer as to the outcome of their request

Alliance Enterprise Consulting (PTY) LTD

SAP FI/CO Functional Consultant (1 September 2016 – 1 September 2017)

Responsibilities

SAP Support: Inkosi Albert Luthuli Central Hospital

-Providing SAP support services for FI,CO, MM and FM (Budgeting) at INkosi Albert Luthuli Central Hospital

-Provided functional and information system support for business process

-Identified and solved business issues by making changes in systems and operations

Project: RCL Foods

-Analysed systems requirements and designed and implemented SAP programs

-Developed and implemented unit testing for entire SAP programs

-Worked closely with the technical teams and delivered technical solutions

-Worked and improved manual and automated processes

-Managing the Implementation & functioning of SAP system (FICO Module) entailing:

Project set-up and kick off

Project environment definition

-Mapping business requirements control quick understanding gap analysis.

-Developing business cases and process flows.

-Develop functional specifications.

-Sit with the client to gather and understand the client’s current business processes and what they would like to see on the system.

-Conduct GAP analysis.

-Define business rules.

-Update and maintain system configuration and documentation

-Understanding business process, study and analysis workflow to design solutions (As-Is, To-Be and Why analysis).

-Preparation of Detailed Process flow for functional requirements.

-Conducting Gap Analysis, Assess Scope of Studies and Suggest solutions.

-Coordinating with the Development, Team for development / customization of software.

-Experience in Customizing and configuration of Finance module in Specialized in FI-GL, AR, AP, AA In New General ledger.

-Experience in Customizing Travel Management, Investment Management and Internal Orders

-Good experience on Product Costing and Material ledger · FI-GL creation of company code, chart of accounts, posting period variant, account groups, field status groups and GL accounts creation, closing procedures.

-FI-AR Customer account groups, number ranges, customer master company code data creation, recon accounts for customers, down payments.

-FI-AP Vendor groups, number ranges, Vendor master company code data upload Down payment requests and down payments, House bank creation, Automatic payment program, Payment terms creation and FI-MM integration.

Company: EOH Mthombo (PTY) LTD

Project: mSCOA Amathole District Municipality Project (Dec 2015- August 2016)

SAP FI/CO and Budgeting Team Lead (Perm)

Responsibilities:

-Implementing the mSCOA National Treasury requirements projects in the SAP ECC6

-Responsible for configuration of availability control, derivation rules, and budget control system (BCS)

-Responsible for managing and monitoring of how funds are utilized

-Organized and lead requirements gathering workshop series, tracked and resolve issues related to Budgeting

-Responsible for implementing a system for budgeting that will ensure effective and efficient budget consumption, eliminating over budgeting

-Identified and documented the strategic orientations and project scope

-Identified the needs of stakeholders and the impact on the company

-Analyzed user requirements

-Experience and proficiency in preparing and planning documents and written reports

-Ability to produce high quality requirement specification to support ERP functional design development

-Responsible for IMG configuration according to client’s requirements and needs, unit testing ensuring that the client’s needs are met, UAT to show and tell how the system works according and/or meet their needs

-Responsible for testing: Unit testing, UAT and Integration testing

-Knowledge transfer

-Developed reports to compare budget and actual results for use by business managers in the field

-Built system and process road maps to ensure realization and standardization of business requirements

Company: EOH Mthombo (PTY) LTD

Project: mSCOA City of Tshwane Project (Jan 2015- Dec 2015)

SAP R/3 and ECC Budgeting Consultant (Perm):

Responsibilities:

-Implemented mSCOA National Treasury requirements project in the SAP R/3

-Identified the needs of stakeholders and the impact on the company

-Analyzed user requirements

-Identified and translated business constraints, in collaboration with the technical team

-Analysed and managed business requirements processes

-Translated business user concepts and ideas into comprehensive business requirements and design documents

-Integrated between business needs and technology – Designed system strategy.

-Evaluated customer’s needs, defined and established new standards, implemented changes, planned different transitions and tested functionality in order to fulfill organizations’ needs.

-Documented test cases, managed changes and addressed cost concerns to organizations

-Configured and Customized Primary and Secondary Cost Element in Cost Element Accounting,

-Creation of Cost Centres in Cost Centre Accounting, Internal Orders, Profitability Analysis and Profit Centre Accounting sub-modules. Maintained Controlling area settings and made hierarchy and other assignments.

-In Cost Element Accounting – created Primary and secondary Cost elements, Cost Element Groups and configured the reconciliation ledgers. In Cost Centre Accounting (CO-CCA) – created cost centres and maintained the Standard hierarchy, assigned cost centres to cost elements. In Internal Orders – configuration of various internal order types, setup status profile for order type, defined and maintained settlement rules, internal order planning, and budget profile and also set up tolerances for budget cost.

-In Profit Centre Accounting - maintained the basic setting, created hierarchy, dummy profit centres, Profit centre master data, profit centre groups and activity types,

-Coordinate the budget performance of the Department and its entities.

- Monitor and report on value for money and impact assessment of allocated budgets.

-Report on all expenditure, forecasting and trends.

- Develop and maintain the financial and performance management systems to support the day to day operations of the Department and its entities.

-Produce accurate and reliable financial information on programme costs and performance reports.

Monitor the implementation of the Department’s spending plans in order to ensure full realisation of its objectives and goals.

Company: EOH Mthombo (PTY) LTD

Project: National Department of Water & Sanitation (Moratho) Project (Sept 2012- Dec 2014)

SAP ECC6.0 FI, CO and Budgeting Consultant (Perm):

Responsibilities:

General Ledger

-Configured General Ledger – Created Master records, accounts groups, number ranges and G/L accounts for each company code, accounts maintenance and preparation to master files.

-Customized screen layouts for document entry at account/document levels.

-Defined fiscal year variant, posting period variant, customized field status variant, customized line layout, sort variant, and total variant.

-Configured and customized validations and substitution rules for documents, recurring entries, correspondence, taxes, and currencies.

-Configured interest calculation on account balances and line items

-Customized bank related accounting, bank master data, house banks and G/L accounts in different currencies for each bank account and Electronic Bank Statement(EBS)

-Configured and Customized Cash Management including Bank statements, Payment Programming, Payment Advises, Bills of Exchanges

-Used LSMW for master data transfers and data migration.

-Optimized integration of business process within FI, CO, MM, SD, and PS modules.

Accounts Payable / Receivable:

-Configured for vendor’s subject to withholding tax, interest calculations on item \ balance interest calculation, number ranges for forms, interest on arrears, account balance calculation on account balances / line items.

-Defined expense accounts, revenue accounts for realized exchange rate difference, differentiated the accounts by currency, exchange rate gains, and exchange rate losses.

-Created and defined credit control areas to company code including pre-defined credit limits for customers.

-Configured dunning program, dunning levels, dunning areas and dunning forms for each company at company code level. Configured payment terms for dunning, for over-due interest calculations, for down payments and automatic clearing of line items.

-Transaction Data Configuration & Processing Invoice Verification (MIRO – LIV): Maintained Invoice Receipt Tolerance Limits, Reductions in invoice, credit memos and Evaluated receipt settlements (ERS).

-Configured and customized integration links between FI/CO/SD/MM/PP to optimize transaction processing.

-Developed a training plan and communicated with the client team on a regular basis to ensure successful execution of the plan.

Controlling:

-Configured and Customized Primary and Secondary Cost Element in Cost Element Accounting, Creation of Cost Centres in Cost Centre Accounting, Internal Orders, Profitability Analysis and Profit Centre Accounting sub-modules. Maintained Controlling area settings and made hierarchy and other assignments.

-In Cost Element Accounting – created Primary and secondary Cost elements, Cost Element Groups and configured the reconciliation ledgers.

-In Cost Centre Accounting (CO-CCA) – created cost centres and maintained the Standard hierarchy, assigned cost centres to cost elements.

-In Internal Orders – configuration of various internal order types, setup status profile for order type, defined and maintained settlement rules, internal order planning, and budget profile and also set up tolerances for budget cost.

-In Profit Centre Accounting - maintained the basic setting, created hierarchy, dummy profit centres, Profit centre master data, profit centre groups and activity types,

Funds Management:

-Configured and set up the system to budget all revenues and expenditure (CAPEX and OPEX) for individual responsibility areas

-Monitor future funds movements

-Configured the system to automatically check budget availability to prevent budget overruns

-Configured automatic budget release, budget supplements, budget returns and budget transfers

-Creating financial management areas

-Creating budget versions

-Configured the system to integrate with FI, HR, CO, PS and MM

-Created Master records, master data assignments, number ranges, assignment of funds centers to CO account assignments (Cost Centers, WBS Elements, Order, Profit Centers)

-Configured budget planning, budget profiles, budget accounts maintenance and preparation to master files

-Activating budgeting and availability control

-Configured earmarked funds block, reservations, pre-commitments, and funds commitment

-Coordinate the budget performance of the Department and its entities.

- Monitor and report on value for money and impact assessment of allocated budgets.

-Report on all expenditure, forecasting and trends.

- Render management advisory services in terms of spending in the Department.

- Develop and maintain the financial and performance management systems to support the day to day operations of the Department and its entities.

-Produce accurate and reliable financial information on programme costs and performance.

-Co-ordinate the management of non-financial data in the Branch: Financial Services.

-Manage the financial performance of the project (e.g. monitoring hours and expenditure, variation orders, contribution versus amount billed, account payable, contractual obligations, appropriate sign-off and value for money, according to donor requirement Treasury Regulations.

-Monitor the implementation of the Department’s spending plans in order to ensure full realisation of its objectives and goals.

- Provide financial support and guidance in the in the implementation of Departmental projects.

Department of Correctional Services: KWT Centre (Dec 2010- Aug 2011)

Asset Management Intern (Contr)

Responsibilities:

-Bar-code assets

-Capture assets in LOGIS

-Produce asset register

-Conduct spot checks

Academic Qualifications

2007-2011 BCom: Information Systems Fort Hare University

2012- 2012 BCom: Marketing Management Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University (3rd year not complete)

BCom Information Systems Honors University of Cape Town ( In Progress)

Professional Qualifications

SAP Certification: SAP Certified Application Associate – Financial Accounting with ERP 6.0 EhP6 (C_TFIN52_66) (SAP South Africa, July 2016)

ITIL Certification: ITIL Foundation Certificate in IT Service Management (GR750508001KD)

TOGAF 9.1 Level 1& 2 Certification (In Progress)

Professional Courses Attended

OpenSAP Certificate: Rapid Deployment of SAP Solution (Open SAP online March 2015)

OpenSAP Certificate: Implementation of SAP Business Objects Cloud (Open SAP online July 2016)

OpenSAP Certificate: Get to Know SAP’s Innovative Ep Solution (Open SAP online Oct 2014)

OpenSAP Certificate: Extending SAP Products with SAP HANA (Open SAP online Dec 2014)

OpenSAP Certificate: Application Integration Made Simple with SAP HANA Cloud Integration (Open SAP online Aug 2016)

OpenSAP Certificate: Extending SAP S/4 HANA with SAP HANA Cloud Platform (Open SAP online March 2017)

OpenSAP Certificate: SAP Business ByDesign Financials (Open SAP online April 2017

Interest

Road running (15 km,21 km and 42 km) and Reading



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