End User Financial Reporting

Antonio Abbate

Amsterdam, The Netherlands, +39-338******* *******.******@*****.**

Accounting and Reporting Specialist

Analytical professional with more than 15 years of experience as financial, system and internal control specialist. Adept in managing financial and controls tasks using staffing and technology efficiencies.

Accounting and financial reporting exposure: follow up of daily and period end activities

Analysis, documentation and user requirement collection for financial system enhancement

Proven record of accomplishment in analysing costs, supporting finance team, by improving finance, controlling, and Joint venture processes.

Areas of Expertise & Technical Skills

Functional Analysis and Customizing

Business Analysis

Budget & Reporting

Accounting

Financial Reporting & Reconciliation

Data Migration & Test Management

Management Process Designing & Mapping

Period End Closing

IDOC management

Change management

Gap analysis

Project

Compliance testing and governance

Professional Experience

Eni International BV - Amsterdam –The Netherlands

Accounting and Reporting Specialist sep 2021 - today

Preparing Statutory Financial Statements of Dutch subsidiaries

Liaise with personnel in the companies' foreign branches regarding the update on company activities;

Summarize company main events;

Prepare Directors Report;

Prepare financial review;

Prepare notes to Financial Statements;

Perform analytical review at consolidated accounts: Head Offices plus Branches;

Ensure timely support during the Year End’s audit process;

Preparing the monthly closing of Dutch subsidiaries:

Analyze balance sheet and P&L;

Prepare and submit management reporting (Hyperion) to the headquarters following IFRS and US GAAP and Eni’s procedures;

Prepare timely statutory reporting for the referenced companies (Consolidated accounts: Head Offices plus Branches);

G/L accounting in SAP including accrual bookings in accordance with Netherlands IFRS and GAAP;

Monthly accruals process;

Intercompany reconciliation;

Analyze and report financial position;

Preparing PL/BS/Cashflow budget and forecast:

Agree intercompany service charges with the HQ and subsidiaries;

Prepare forecasted balance sheet and P&L for all Dutch subsidiaries;

Liaise with entity finance functions and Treasury team to agree capital and dividend movements;

Prepare and report cash flow forecast;

Other activities:

Manage day to day financial position of the subsidiary and cash requirements of the branches;

SOX controls

Liaise with other departments to ensure that for each charge there is a service agreement or contract;

Monitor for each charge the budgeted costs (variance analysis);

Ensure support during the preparation of the annual Dutch fiscal return.

Financial System support and follow up of oil and gas accounting processes: Cutback, Overhead, Set of new JV and company codes

Eni International Resources Limited - London – UK

Head of Systems & Internal control dec 2010 – aug 2021

Analysis, documentation and customizing on SAP FI CO module. Performing and overseas of accounting month end closing processes and identify all impacts on AFC area. Update SAP configurations, customise SAP solutions, train users, and answer to inquiries. Business interface with SAP application maintenance team for user requirement, troubleshooting, and testing of solutions. End user support and issue solving.

SOX company focal point for head quarter. Collecting, review and sharing with HQ function all the compliance supporting documentation. Managing relationship with internal and external auditors during SOX and statutory audits.

Maintaining the Internal Controls over Financial Reporting (ICoFR) Methodology

Responsible for the evaluation and reporting of SOA sessions.

Identifying changing requirements and opportunities and developing enhancements to the Group’s current ICoFR Framework & Methodology.

Communicating and providing expert services to Business internal control teams as well as process owners and develop training curriculum for internal control methodology and provide training accordingly.

Liaising with HQ functions to implement new technologies into the framework to improve the overall Group IC landscape.

Acting as sparring partner to the process owners to provide insight and support and robustly challenging decision making to ensure the optimal framework & methodology solution is achieved.

Key Projects:

Eni Algeria Production BV

Location: Algiers, Algeria Time: sep 2018 to aug 2021 Role: Head of Systems and Internal Control Organisation Name: Eni Algeria Production BV

SAP application specialist: module FI ( AP- AR-GL-AA) CO JVA MM

Configuration of Asset Accounting module and data migration for capitalization and depreciation process

Analysis, preparation and test of solution of enhancement to improve processes in SAP FI CO MM JVA

Setting and user support of planning and budget functionality on WBS element and fund centre in SAP

Troubleshooting in EDI/IDOC transmission for transaction and master data tranmission

SOA subsidiary focal point with Headquarter function: coordinate the corporate financial compliance with audit firm and follow up with user department for compliance supporting document preparation and archiving., company responsible for financial risk, antifraud assessment and sponsorship SOX treatment

Review of PLC process level control and sharing with process owners of the impact of new control definition on the business processes and risk mitigation domain.

Review of financial procedures for accounting, cost accounting, operated and non-operated joint venture

Training and support on SAP FI CO JVA module: preparing training documentation and training delivery to the end users on Accounts payable, Accounts receivable, General Ledger, Asset Accounting and JVA area.

Eni Angola SPA

Location: Luanda, Angola Time: aug 2016 - aug 2018 Role: SAP Coordinator Organisation Name: Eni Angola SPA

Overseas and performing accounting month and year end closure steps in SAP system

Implementation electronic bank statement process and automatic payment configurations through DMEE file.

New asset classes definition and migrate all data by utilising investment management component.

Month end reconciliation of JVA billing with database: analysis of discrepancies and justification.

Design and implementation of new cost allocation from JV accounting structure cost to projects ; design, testing and user support of automatic program for intercompany debit notes recharging.

Cost controller end user support: developing and user sharing of cost accounting report to monitor actual performances vs budget, reconciliation of monthly accrual and deferral.

End user support in reconciliation of Local and IFRS Ledger vs Hyperion Reporting System through SAP automated interface

Definition, test and training to the end user of all enhancement to improve processes and financial reporting in SAP AFC and JV area.

SAP system SOA compliance controls: periodic performing of system related compliance controls, Support to Compliance unit in SAP actual, definition of best practices and operating procedures to improve the end user knowledge and monitoring of business process in AFC and Joint Venture area.

Training on SAP FI CO JVA module: preparing training documentation and training delivery to the end users on Accounts payable, Accounts receivable, General Ledger, Asset Accounting and Joint Venture Accounting areas

NAOC – Nigerian Agip Oil Company Eni Group Subsidiary

Project Scope: Roll out ECC6.0 Global template Eni Nigerian companies, NAOC, NAE, and Agip Energy Location: Abuja, Nigeria Time: august. 2012 to august. 2016 Role: Financial Systems & Procedure Co-Ordinator Organisation Name: Nigerian Agip Oil Company

Improved all accounting procedures of finance department by conducting joint venture test in SAP system.

Delivered cutover and post go-live support to end users and created effective solutions to resolve all issues.

Managed cost allocation, and planning and budgeting on fund centre and WBS elements. Analysed and

prepared reports regarding actual spending vs budgeted costs of the project.

Eni UK / Eni International Resources Ltd

Project Scope: Review and evaluate possible actions for a re-engineering of Finance business processes Location: London, UK Time: dec 2010 to jul 2012 Role: End user support SAP Business analyst Organisation Name: Eni International Resources Ltd

Developed and implemented new cost allocation structure, enabling flexible, end-user-defined allocation of costs. Delivered key insight and direction related to industry trends, best practices, and world-class solutions.

Design and reengineering of company payroll interface.

Reviewed policies and procedures for JV operations to enhance JV controls, compliance, and governance.

Sap FI CO consultant mar 2006 - dec .2010 – Milan ( Italy) and abroad:

Accenture - SAP FI/CO JVA Application Maintenances Activity for Eni ICT

Project Scope: Provided in an global and remote application team that deliver 2nd level support to end users across different Eni subsidiaries Location: Italy Time: jan 2010 - dec 2010 Role: SAP consultant

Analysed testing procedures and customised SAP FI/CO modules in accordance with company requirements.

Co-ordinated with onsite/offshore teams to ensure timely delivery of all phase of project and identified problems and provided effective solutions to users.

Delivered user functional and technical support for all SAP FI CO JVA application.

Enginnering - Project Eni Congo - Project Scope: SAP ECC 6.0 implementation and post go live end user support

AFC Area Location: Milan, Italy - Pointe Noire, Congo Brazzaville Time: jul 2008 dec 2009 Role: SAP Consultant

Analysis documentation and customizing in FI, CO, PS SAP modules ( AFC area).

Automatic Payment configuration - Customizing Integration parts between FI and MM modules

WBS element Settlement: capitalization and depreciation processes.

Data migration: concept of migration program from legacy system to SAP, LSMW for master data and transactional data transferring

Supported in testing procedure to discover issues in business processes, documentation, and user's lack of experience. Designed and mapped business processes and business solutions to swiftly complete all process.

Provided User support and training on SAP FI/CO modules, such as payable, and receivable accounts, general ledger, asset accounting, joint venture, controlling, and PS project system.

Implemented cost allocation of overhead costs from JV accounting to projects and customizing of integration part with Joint Venture and Asset modules

Additional Projects

Riello: Implementation of SAP ECC 6.0 FI- CO modules ( sep 2008 - jun 2008)

Enel : Application maintenance Activities on Automatic Payment ( mar 2008 - jun 2008)

ENI ICT – ENGINEERING.IT Eni Egypt SAP.4.7 Upgrade Project for IEOC, Agiba, Petrobel (mar. 2006 – aug 2007):

Customizing gap implementation and end user training delivery in FI modules :General Ledger Accounts Payable and Account Receivable

Education & Training

Bachelors of Management Engineering

University of Naples Federico II

SAP AC 200 General Ledger Customising I 2006

Master Administration Finance and Control Business school Sole 24 ore 2021 -on going

Technical Proficiencies

ERP System: SAP R/3, 6.0 (FI/CO/JVA Modules);Integration Points between SAP FI and other modules (MM, PS)

LSMW, SAP Queries, SAP Report Painter Operating system: Windows 95/98/NT/XP-Professional, Windows 7

Office packages: Ms Office-XP Professional.

Language Knowledge

Italian: Mother tongue – English: Reading, Writing, Written Fluent

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