Sap Fico Product Manager

SAKIRU IDOWU AROMIRE (FCA, ACIT)

Indianapolis, Indiana. IN 46235 • Telephone 1-317-***-****

• ***********@*****.***

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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

Over 6 years of experience as an SAP FICO functional consultant. Experienced in General Ledger Accounting FI-GL, Accounts Receivable FI-AR, Asset Accounting FI-AA and Banking submodules, EBS as well as Controlling (CO) modules including Cost Center Accounting CCA, Profit Center Accounting PCA, Internal Order, Profitability Analysis COPA, FI Integration with Sales and Distribution (SD-Order to Cash) and Material Management (MM-Procure to Pay)

(Versions ECC, S4/HANA), extensive understanding of SAP configuration, implementation (two full life cycle implementations using ASAP and ACTIVATE methodology) production support and business processes. Further areas of focus include business process analysis, blueprinting, gap analysis and creating AS-IS and TO-BE documentations.

SKILLS & COMPETENCIES

• Hands on experience in designing, configuring, and supporting SAP FICO Processes including GL, AR, AP, Asset Accounting. Also, for Controlling (CO) sub modules such as Profit Center and cost Center Accounting, Internal Orders, and Product Costing.

• 2 Full Life Cycle Implementation with extensive production support experience

• Proficiency in integration with other Third-Party Applications such as Vertex, Ariba, Concur, open text VIM and Bloomberg.

• Efficient in Testing and Cut-Over activities.

• Dependable team player analytical mind.

• Production support experience, engaging with the end user to raise tickets through different tools such as ServiceNow (Snow) and Jira.

• Analyzed FICO related trouble tickets, discussed with the Business Users, determined the root causes, and resolved them in timely manner.

• Designed extensive enhancements and ability to work in details with Development.

• Ability to manage and plan projects using SAP Agile and Activate methodology.

• Proficient in Project Management skills, leading, and delegating abilities. PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

September 2020 - Present

Dangote Industries Ltd

Role: SAP FICO Analyst

• Performing systems configuration, development, integration, and enhancement activities as well as support related to SAP FICO modules.

• Extensive experience, creation of Company Codes, Charts of Account, Fiscal Year Variant, Posting Periods Variant, Business Areas, Functional Ares, Controlling Area, Credit Control Area, Number Ranges to Accounting Document, Field Status Variant, Tolerance Groups for Customer and Vendor Accounts, Employee and User ID Groups and G/L Accounts

• Incorporated AR, the subcomponents of FI to configure and customize Customer Master Data, for customer payments, invoice processing, payment terms, posting keys, dunning, Order to Cash, Process (O2C) to set up the sales area and handling receivable.

• Implemented Account Payable (AP) to customize Vendor Master Data and Account Groups, defined sensitive field for dual control for invoice processing, Outgoing payments, and Reporting.

• Preparation of FI/CO design document, configuration, testing plans, validation of results and training materials using approved tools, templates, and methods.

• Act as Business process advisor to business users in the areas of General Ledger, Fixed Assets

(FA), and major areas of Controlling including Cost Center Accounting (CCA), CO-Internal SAKIRU IDOWU AROMIRE (FCA, ACIT)

Indianapolis, Indiana. IN 46235 • Telephone 1-317-***-****

• ***********@*****.***

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Order (IO), and EC-Profit Center Accounting (PCA), CO-PA (Profitability analysis).

• Building and maintaining relationships with business users, IT colleagues and external resources to foster teamwork and enable effective application delivery.

• Preparation of time estimates for completing projects. Direct and coordinate of IT or business partner efforts to develop, test, install and/or modify programs.

• Use of application delivery tools and methods to understand and document business requirements; analyze existing and/or new information and applications; propose potential solutions; develop effective business cases; and execute selected technology solutions.

• Devised Controlling Component (CO) to Transfers Postings, Inter-Company transactions, Integration with Asset Accounting (AA), Foreign Currency Valuation, Financial Statement Versions (FSV)

• Creation of Account Groups, T=Retained Earning Accounts, Configured G/L Automatic Clearing Accounts.

• Integrated Controlling CO-PA module configuration, involving and assigning of the Organizational objects for Material Accounting) process such as Cost Centers, Internal Orders, Profit Centers, Profitability Analysis (PA) Reporting, Primary and Secondary Cost Elements, Standard Hierarchy, and Assessment Cost Elements to accomplish the detailed reporting requirements under the managerial accounting (MA) processing for Actual Cost and Secondary Costs.

• Reconciled the Month-End Closing and year End Closing for Allocation and Distribution Cycles to their respecting cost centers based on reporting requirements.

• Developed the configuration process from the conceptual phase to completion, including Unit testing in the Development Environment.

• Defined Gap Analysis, requirements gathering, writing functional specification document, technical document, Business Blueprint documents.

• Executed and trained Business Users during User Acceptance Testing (UAT)

• Implementation of EBS for manual upload into SAP. January 2018 - August 2020

MTN Company Telecommunications

Role: SAP FICO Analyst

• Creation of Company Codes, Chart of Account, Fiscal Year Variants, Financial Statement Versions, Controlling Areas, and Cost Centers.

• Configuring Chart of Accounts, Account Groups, Assigning Chart of Accounts to Company Codes, Templates for Configuring Recurring Entries in GL Postings, Document Types, Number Ranges, Tolerance Groups, Field Status Groups, Posting Keys, Document Reversals, Invoices and Payment, Defining Account assignment models.

• Create Master Data, Payment Terms, Payment Methods, Setting Up the APP for vendor payment and Integration with General Ledger.

• Create the baseline configuration in the AR sub-module including by defining the payment methods for both manual and automatic upload of the EBS.

• Created the Sales Organization, Distribution Channels, Divisions, Sales Area, Customer and Sales SAKIRU IDOWU AROMIRE (FCA, ACIT)

Indianapolis, Indiana. IN 46235 • Telephone 1-317-***-****

• ***********@*****.***

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January 2nd,

2006 – Dec

2017

Group in the AR sub-module.

• Configured Tolerance limits for customers and managed A/R reconciliation account for sub- ledgers for customers.

• Creation of the baseline configurations for the assets which included Chart of Depreciation, Asset Class, Depreciation Methods, Asset Revaluation Methods, and Finance Lease integration with General Ledgers.

• Prepared and coached functional team members in the instruction of SAP material.

• 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.

• Created the Gathered business requirements for SAP reporting and functionality enhancements.

• Conducted UAT for different processes for validation of configurations.

• In Internal Orders, configured various internal order types, setup status profile for order type, maintained settlement rules, internal order planning, and budget profile.

• In Profit Center Accounting, maintained the basic setting, created hierarchy, dummy profit centers, Profit center master data, profit center groups and activity types.

• Configuring Primary and Secondary Cost Element in Cost Element Accounting, Creation Cost Centers in Cost Center Accounting, and Internal Orders.

• Provided ad hoc training and user support, as required. STERLING BANK PLC

Roles and Responsibilities

• Supervise, analyze, and evaluate monthly financial statement, review actual performance against budget, identify trends and highlight variances whilst providing accurate and meaningful commentary to management using InfoSys Business Application.

• Fixed Assets Management using Hardcat Business Application.

• Supervise Strategic Tax decisions of the Bank to align with overall corporate objectives.

• General Ledger Management and coordination of Year end audit activities to ensure timely publication of Audited Financial

• Supervise the preparation of quarterly interim financial statement of the Bank for publication.

• Prepare quarterly performance report for management and board of directors highlighting variance between actual and budget, income drivers, cost composition and financial ratios.

• Performs system maintenance and parameter set-up to ensure a complete, robust, and accurate general ledger and chart of account.

SAKIRU IDOWU AROMIRE (FCA, ACIT)

Indianapolis, Indiana. IN 46235 • Telephone 1-317-***-****

• ***********@*****.***

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April 2004 –

Dec 31st 2005

NBM BANK, HEAD OFFICE

Website: www.belgolaise.com

Department: Financial Control/Treasury

Responsibilities

• Prepare weekly Market intelligence report for the fixed income and money market unit.

• Trading of 3rd currency and execution of currency swaps.

• Execute and implement the Market Risk Oversight program across business functions including Treasury, Commercial Banking and Corporate Banking.

• Perform sensitivity and stress-scenario analyses on the bank’s earning asset.

• Preparation of daily and monthly financial statement.

• Preparation of Consolidated financial statement for the Group.

• Collation of Audit evidence for External Auditors.

• Preparation of monthly journals, accruals and amortization schedules.

• Maintain fixed asset schedule.

EDUCATION

MSC. ECONOMICS, (UNIVERSITY OF LAGOS)

BSC ECONOMICS, (LAGOS STATE UNIVERSITY)

HND ACCOUNTANCY, (YABA COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY)

COURSES ATTENDED/WORKSHOP

• ICAN Organised Workshops on Various Areas.

PROGRAMMING SKILLS

• Advanced Microsoft Excel

• Microsoft word

• Microsoft PowerPoint

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS & CERTIFICATION

• POPM (Certified Safe Product Owner/Product Manager)

• Fellow, Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (ICAN)

• Member, Chartered Institute of Taxation of Nigeria (CITN)

• Member, Financial Reporting Council of Nigeria (FRCN) PERSONAL DETAILS

Date of Birth: July 24th, 1973

Sex: Male

Nationality: Nigerian

Marital Status: Married

Languages: English (Fluent),

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