Alex Malozemov
Tel: 786-***-****
E-mail: ****************@*****.***
Largo, FL
Linkedin: linkedin.com/in/am83
Objective
I’m looking for a position as a Senior SAP functional Finance consultant or SAP Finance Analyst where more than 16 years of SAP field experience and extensive technical background would be needed.
Skills
Work skills
Knowledge and hands-on experience with specifics of SAP ECC 6.0 and SAP S/4HANA in FI (FI-GL, FI-AR, FI-AP, FI-BL, FI-AA, FS-BP, RCM, CFIN, ACR, SAP Analytics Cloud, S/4HANA closing cockpit, S/4HANA data migration Cockpit) and respective FI integration points for relevant modules like SCM, MM, SD, HCM, PP, RCM etc.
Strong understanding of electronic bank statement file formats (MT940, MT942, CAMT, Multi cash, and multiple other formats) as well as outgoing payment orders formats (MT103 etc) and integration methods for them as well (including relevant development by using relevant ABAP enhancement points). SAP Autobank solution implementation.
ABAP development, BAPI, Open FI, BADI, user-exits, other enhancements points, creating new Z-programs from scratch, SAP Script Forms, PDF Forms, HANA Calculation View, CDS Views, OpenText ECM Suite for SAP, involving in migration activities (create a program for migrating FI-related documents using standard BAPIs, enhance standard migration cockpit and LSMW projects), deep debugging.
Various project management and ticket systems like SAP solution manager and JIRA
Leading Fit-gap workshops
Participating and leading in functional unit (FUT) tests, smoke tests, regression tests, and user-acceptation (UAT) tests
Business process modeling using various business-process modeling systems including Solution Manager Focused build, ARIS etc.
Led UAT, regression, and functional
Integration with various external systems like PEGA, VMI, Concur, SCMIS, various external ERP systems etc.
Participation in project implementation as well as in support and development projects as a Senior SAP FI Consultant with ABAP skills (I’ve participated in 7 full-circle implementation projects and 7 supporting and development projects), collaboration with all related stakeholders, development of the full package project documentation and customizing of a system in accordance with customer's needs in FI area.
Creation of various migration projects through LSMW and HANA migration cockpit along with migration methodology documents for different cases.
Excellent knowledge of business methodology
Python and Java development.
Language skills
English - perfect in communication and writing, used in daily work
German - basics, sufficient for reading technical texts
Russian – native
Experience
Siemens Healthineers USA (production of medical and diagnostic equipment siemens-healthineers.com)
May 2023 – Current
Project: support and development projects based on SAP ECC 6.0
Role in the project: SAP 2nd level Support (SAP Business Analyst)
Responsibilities:
Close communication with different stakeholders, especially with business users for supporting and developing already existing SAP solutions and for new implementation projects as a 2nd level SAP Support Consultant (using Teams, email communications, an internal ticket system, SAP Solution Manager).
Participation in SAP ECC to SAP S/4HANA transition project (configuring new fixed assets, chart of account, test script preparation etc)
I am the first point of contact for the business side on all matters relating to SAP and all external systems exchanging data with SAP.
Supporting relevant all-side SAP as a SAP 2nd level support, including SCM, FI (FI-GL, FI-AP, FI-AR, FI-AA, FI-BL including outgoing and incoming payments processes, FI-AA, etc), MM, SD, PP, AIF etc, integration with various external systems like PEGA, Concur, SCMIS, various external ERP systems etc.
EDI support
As a SAP businesses system analyst I figure out business needs, perform an initial analysis of the issues/requests, and allocate different incidents to various third-party sub-teams in case some changes need to be done in the SAP system
Conducting meetings with SAP functional consultants responsible for all SAP modules to align with an approach to resolve respective issues/change requests
Creating technical specifications for developers
Electronic bank statements configuration and integration
Identifying the causes of issues by figuring out the logic of the different programs using the ABAP debugger
Mass master data updates
Running functional (FUT), regression tests, relevant integration and UAT tests with business users with reflection test results in SAP Solution Manager
Atos (huge international IT consulting company, atos.net)
June 2021 – May 2023
Project: support and development projects based on SAP
Role in the projects: Senior SAP FI consultant
Clients: Siemens Healthineers (siemens-healthineers.com), Siemens Energy (siemens-energy.com)
Responsibilities:
Communication with different stakeholders for supporting and developing already existing SAP solutions and for new implementation projects as a Senior SAP FI Consultant (using different ticket systems like Jira and Solution Manager and several others systems, depending on the project)
Customizing relevant FI functionality (FI-GL, FI-AP, FI-AR, FI-BL including outgoing and incoming payments processes, FI-AA, including new Ficed assets, etc), customizing/testing integration through PEGA, AIF and other tools
Supporting all FI-related processes, including integration of Finance part into P2P and OTC processes, payments (banking integrations), fixed assets accounting, etc.
Implementation of the SAP Autobank solution from Serrala.
Changing SAP Script print forms, debagging various custom and standard programs
Using and testing one of the open-text solutions
Master data migration and updated through the LSMW tool
Creating a business and technical specification for development
Preparation of various project documentation
Electronic bank statements configuration and integration
Running functional, regression tests, relevant integration, and UAT test scripts with business users.
Accenture (huge international IT consulting company, accenture.com)
July 2020 – June 2021
Project: SAP Central Finance implementation (CFIN) based on SAP S/4HANA (v. 1909)
Role in the project: Senior SAP FI consultant
Client: huge international oil and gas company
Responsibilities:
Create relevant Design Solution Document (FI AP/AR/BL with integration through SAP Central Finance) including integration of Finance part into P2P and OTC processes
Communication with the internal SAP team of the client and business users
Participation in writing an architecture document for the purposes of the corporate system template based on SAP S/4HANA.
Master data migration and updated through LSMW tool and S/4HANA data migration cockpit
Deloitte (Big 4 consulting company, deloitte.com)
January 2019 – July 2020
Project: different implementation projects based on SAP S/4HANA and SAP ECC6.0 (including transferring from ECC 6.0 to the S/4HANA version for Shell)
Role in projects: Senior SAP FI consultant
Clients: Shell (biggest international oil and gas company, shell.com), Mammoet (lifting and transporting heavy loads, mammoet.com).
Responsibilities:
Participation in rollout projects
Implementation of SAP systems using SAP Activate methodology
Transition from SAP ECC 6.0 to SAP S/4HANA
Run fit-gap workshops
I was responsible for customization related to the Finance part of SAP P2P and OTC processes, banking integrations, and designing of the exchange interfaces with different external systems.
Communication with the internal SAP team of the client and business users
Configuration FI-AP, FI-AR, FI-GL, FI-BL (including new custom bank incoming and outgoing formats via DMEE + slight development), FS-BP (business partners functionality), FI-AA (new fixed assets based on S/4HANA) modules.
I configured the new SAP S/4HANA closing cockpit according to the target FI period closing steps and Company closing period schedule.
Electronic bank statements uploading configuration and integration
Creating new CDS Views
Writing technical specifications
ABAP development (WRICEF)
Integration with external systems
Run relevant integration test scripts with business users and solve relevant incidents, created while running Integra scenarios tests
Run UAT with business users and solve relevant incidents, created while running user-acceptance tests
Data migration activities (Master data migration and updated through LSMW tool and S/4HANA data migration cockpit).
I’ve created migration methodology documents for different cases (different docs related refer to different migration approaches, for example, different ranges of GL accounts from the Chart of Account have different purposes and associated objects in the system and thus they have different approaches to migrate and there have been different migration methods documents created in this regard).
I’ve created a new Z-program for migrating FI-related documents by using standard BAPIs, enhanced standard migration cockpit projects, and LSMW projects.
Recording user instructions via SAP Enable Now
Go-live support and post-go-live support.
SAP (SAP Consulting, sap.com)
June 2018 – January 2019
Project: implementation project based on SAP S/4HANA (v. 17.09)
Role in the project: Senior SAP FI consultant
Client: ASG (huge manufacturing company producing alcoholic beverages)
Responsibilities:
Running the relevant fit-gap analysis with the clients to clarify the requirements, maintaining the status of the relevant tasks in JIRA and documentation of settings \ developments in SAP JAM tool
Creating TO BE business-process diagrams using SAP Solution Manager (for relevant FI business processes including c closing period diagrams in FI module) and integration Finance part into P2P and OTC processes, interfaces to exchange with different external systems.
Customization \ testing, then participating in the demonstration of following functionality to the business side Business partner (FS-BP) with the creation of roles, Transport \ property tax, custom reports and printing forms for Fixed assets and Intangible assets, Outgoing payments with uploading to Bank-client program (customization the DMEE tree for various formats + required ABAP improvements in the standard enhancement point for the output payment file), Incoming payments customization conversion various format to multicash format using DMEE-tree for incoming formats with subsequent automatic uploading and interpretation (including necessary development for correct data in standard BADI), VIM/Open Text
Participation in the development of master-data migration algorithm, and creation of data migration/update projects by using SAP data migration Cockpit.
I’ve created a universal program to download the FI transactions and for FI data migration purposes.
Creating technical specifications for development
Creation of necessary FI-substitutions
Electronic bank statements uploading and automatic payment program configuration and integration
ABAP Development (WRICEF)
Participation in the development of various integration scenarios in collaboration with related modules like MM, SD, PP, PS etc, and running integration test scripts for related business processes
Go-live and post go-live support.
Ramax Group (huge international IT consulting company)
October 2010 – January 2019
Project: various implementation projects based on SAP ECC 6.0 and S/4HANA
Role in the projects: Senior SAP FI consultant
Clients: Huge international air transportation company and in-flight catering company.
Responsibilities:
Implementation of SAP systems using the waterfall and agile methodology
Analysis of business processes
Creating business process models TO-BE using the SAP Solution Manager system
Run fit-gap workshops
Create a Design Solution Document including the integration Finance part into P2P and OTC processes, banking integrations, and design interfaces to exchange with different external systems.
Communication with the internal SAP team of the client and business users
Customizing relevant FI modules FI-GL, FI-AP, FI-AR, FI-BL (including new bank incoming and outgoing format via DMEE + slight development), VAT, FI-AA, FI-FM and related modules such as MM, SD, CO, FS-BP, RCM
Creating technical specifications for development
ABAP development (WRICEF)
Using and testing one of the open text solution
Integration with external systems
Different Data Migration Activities
Run relevant Integrations test scripts with business users and solve relevant incidents, created during Integra scenarios running
Recording user instructions via RWD
Master data migration and updated through LSMW tool and S/4HANA migration cockpit
Go-live support
Post-implementation support and development of SAP systems.
New Impulse 50 (huge online retail company, utkonos.com)
July 2010 – October 2010
Project support and development system based on SAP ERP 4.7
Role in the project: Senior SAP FI consultant
Client: New Impulse 50 (a huge online-retail company)
Responsibilities:
Support and development of SAP ERP 4.7 system in SAP FI field including participating in period closing FI, FI-AA, FI-SL.
Praud Group (huge IT consulting company)
September 2009 – July 2010
Project: implementation project based on SAP ECC 6.0
Role in the project: SAP FI consultant
Client: huge space industry-oriented manufacturing company
Responsibilities:
Analysis of business processes of the client company
Creating business process models AS-IS and TO-BE via ARIS modeling system
Create Design Solution Documents including integration Finance part into P2P and OTC processes
Communication with internal SAP team of the client and key business users
Customizing relevant FI modules FI-GL, FI-AP, FI-AR, FI-BL, VAT
Creating technical specifications for development
Integration with various external systems.
Performing functional tests and participating/leading regression and integration tests
ND Group (IT consulting company)
September 2008 – September 2009
Project: implementation project based on SAP ECC 6.0
Role in the project: SAP FI-AA consultant
Client: Carcade Leasing (international leasing company, carcade.com)
Responsibilities:
Creating Design Solution Document including integration Finance part into P2P and OTC processes
Configuration of the whole FI-AA module including modifications for leasing specifics.
Creating technical specifications for development
Performing functional tests and participating/leading regression an integration tests
Writing user instructions
Go-live and post-go-live support
Optima exchange services (IT consulting company)
March 2008 – September 2008
Project: implementation project based on SAP ECC 6.0
Role in the project: Junior Consultant/Intern SAP FI-SL
Client: OXS (internal project)
Responsibilities:
Participation in the internal project of writing a typical Design Solution Document for the implementation of profit tax based on SAP FI-SL module with creating process models via MS Visio tools.
Awards
SAP certificates
December 2013
Certificates SAP Certified Application Associate - Financial Accounting with SAP ERP
6.0 EHP4.
Education
Baikal State University
Bachelor’s degree / Computer Science
September 2004 – November 2007
Irkutsk Aviation College
Bachelor’s degree / Computer Engineering
September 1999 – June 2003
Personal qualities
Articulate
Problem solver
Dependable
Determined
Result-oriented
Additional information (qualifications summary, abilities, other)
Excellent knowledge of SAP FI modules and integration with dependent modules
Integration with external systems
Lead a fit-gap analysis
Development of a full package of project documentation
Implementation of new functionality and adaptation of existing functionality using ABAP 4 programming language
The construction of business process diagrams using different business-process modeling systems
Python and Java development.
I’m a US green card holder
References
Holger Renner - IT Service/Product Owner at Siemens-Healthineers USA (former SAP FI stream lead in the US), tel 610-***-****, e-mail ******.******@*******-************.***
Nageshwar Kondapi, SAP IT Business partner at Siemens Healthineers USA – tel 908-***-****, email *********.*******@*******-************.***
Silke Lang, System Analyst at Siemens Healtnineers USA – tel 650-***-****, email *****.****@*******-************.***
Timur Sitdikov, manager at Deloitte Germany– tel +491**********, e-mail ***********@********.**
Timur Redzhepov, manager at Atos Turkey – tel +905*********, email *****.*********@****.***
Aleksei Artemov – Senior FI Consultant at Delivery Hero (former Senior SAP FI Consultant at Deloitte), tel +49-176-********, email *******.*******@************.***
Sergey Lukin, SAP FI Architect / Development Architect at SAP AG, Germany - https://www.linkedin.com/in/onixpro/