Illovo Sugar South Africa

ERP Solutions Functional Lead

Sasol

In Progress Project: Capital Projects & Assets Automation: ServiceNow with SAP integration

Most recently completed project: Implementation of ServiceNow Enterprise Service Management 
SAP Project manager responsible for the full implementation of the consolidation of our Technologies SAP instance into the Chemicals SAP instance.
Modules: SAP MM, PM, ABAP, SAP ARIBA, PROJECT SYSTEMS, INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT, FICO, MDG and Pilog MDRM

 Continuous Improvement Specialist/ Project Manager

Lead and responsible for the definition, creation, and thought leadership and provisioning of IM supply chain architectural solutions design to drive business value and support operations of supply chain processes. Prioritise enhancements within the domain. Engage with Business on enhancements.

Senior Solutions Architect supply chain

SAP project manager for the divesture of the explosives business unit into a new entity.
Manage and lead all the SAP elements of  design, build,test to the ultimate post go live support.

SAP Project Manager (Secondment whilst solution architect)

Lead and responsible for the definition, creation, thought leadership and provisioning of global IM inbound supply chain application solution designs within SAP and Ariba to drive business value and support operations of Finance and Planning ERP solutions across Sasol.

Integrate relevant business requirements obtained from the Global and BU Business Relationship Teams into supply chain designs and solutions that can be implemented globally via the Regional and Global Unit Delivery Teams Focus is on excellent service delivery across the various platforms in the SAP MM, SAP ARIBA and SAP MDG space. 

Provide global system solutions for business requirements in the functional SAP domain and ensure technical alignment to the supply chain operating model. Ensures that the functional system solution adheres to Sasol group and leading practices. 

Responsible for the general health (stability and availability) of relevant application services globally and the delivery of all contracted services across the Sasol group.
 
Oversee, and ultimately accountable, for the day to day operations and service delivery of Service Providers, to enable a stable Sasol IT environment.

Act as the Single Point of Contact (SPOC) for the business in addressing escalated/serious operational delivery issues with Service Providers.

Inbound Supply chain Service owner(Product Manager)

Lead the SAP functional support team to ensure efficient service delivery to the various BU’s and Functions. Manage the SAP functional support team as well as own the call processes i.e. incidents and requests. Manage the resource capacity of the team. Ensure compliance to SLA’s, SLC’s and SOX governance requirements. Manage and oversee the incident and request process so as to ensure timeous delivery of incidents and requests within SLC to the various business units.
Liaise closely with Key Stakeholders such as Team leads, IM Business team, IM Solutions team, IM Services team to ensure successful delivery of SAP support.Manage and respond to complaints and escalations so as to ensure their successful resolution. Ensure that call processes is adhered to. liaise closely with the Project take-on and SAP Service delivery managers in terms of new functionality being rolled out via projects and ensure that SAP Support team has the necessary skills to support the functionality. Monitor and review open incidents and provide feedback to SASOL Incident manager. Monitor and review open requests and the cost estimates linked to those requests via the request spreadsheet.
Provide the necessary reporting and feedback to stakeholders. Incident reporting, monthly management report, Daily working figures ETC. Co-ordinate and manage the capacity of the total SAP Functional team. HR functions for SAP Support resources are managed e.g. leave, performance management, and talent management. Plan and manage the development and training needs of the permanent Sasol Employees. Manage the Support budget for the SAP Functional Team.  Manage Standby.
Ensure functional team adheres to Solman procedures and governance. Review firefighter and ensure governance is followed. Manage specialized Vendors with help of team leads.
Negotiate in conjunction with commercial new support contracts for specialized vendors.
Acted as test manager on the successful PS7 (OIL) upgrade (April/May 2015)

SAP Support manager (Portfolio & Platform manager)

Netcare

(Project management/BRM role)
Main Purpose:
Responsible for the co-ordination and implementation of the Enterprise Resource Platform (ERP)-SAP for region from a business process perspective and ensure successful rollout in terms of project deliverables and post go live support.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
Prepare Hospitals for SAP go live by driving and initiating SAP pre go live activities and Clean up. Manage a team of 8 people whose purpose is to provide Pre-Go live and Post go live Support. Maintain project plan for pre and post go live and monitor and report on progress. Identify key users, manage and monitor their pre and post go live project tasks. Monitor and report on post go live issues and ensure their successful resolution. 
Operate as a strategic partner to the business core functions through the identification of trends, risks and opportunities for efficiencies of SAP sites.
Engaging with the business and IT to evaluate all anomalies and assisting the hospital to implement
Corrective action. Assist with corrective operational actions to ensure successful implementation of SAP.
Ensure that the SAP maintains a high level of integrity and information and evaluate operational and financial reporting to improve accuracy and relevancy.
Evaluation of financial processes and implementation of corrective action to ensure alignment and
Standardisation. 
Finance representative in IS projects and Initiatives. 
Sometimes ensure the production of accurate and timeous management information by initiating and testing new report developments in BW for hospitals.
Perform financial investigations and reconciliations. 
Rectifying “problematic” historic and current accounting issues and systems to accurately reflect the activities of the firm and processes. Analysis and interpretation of information including the balance sheet reconciliations.

SAP Finance Manager (Business Relationship Manager)

UCS SOLOTIONS

Main Purpose: Provide SAP FICO consulting and config for UCS customers (On site or remotely). Specialising in FI (80% FI 20% CO).

Management and Analysis of customer requirements and translation thereof into functional system enhancement and/or repairs. Implementation of blueprints, and design system solutions. Management of calls in the call logging system. Configuration within the FICO modules for such repairs and enhancements. Unit testing of repairs and enhancements. Assisting user with user acceptance testing. Creation of functional specifications and provision of estimates for customers. 
Analysis of SAP notes and the application thereof. Management of transports. Creation of queries, Catts, Validations, substitutions, LSMW ETC.
Attendance of change control meetings and change control documentation. Suggest and configure improvements to template.
Modules managed ECC6: General ledger and New general Ledger, AP and AR, Fixed Assets, Cost centre Accounting, Internal orders and Investment management, COPA, Profit centre accounting and some MM config.

Senior SAP Consultant FI

Soltius NZ Ltd

Main Purpose: Provide FICO consulting services for Soltius customers on site or remotely.
Specialising in FI (70% FI 30% CO/Project systems).

Management and Analysis of customer requirements and translation thereof into functional system enhancement and/or repairs. Implementation of blueprints, and design system solutions. Translation of enhancements into revised business flows. Facilitate business process definition and modelling. Management of calls in the call logging system. Configuration within the FICO modules for such repairs and enhancements. Unit testing of repairs and enhancements. 
Assisting user with user acceptance testing. Creation of functional specifications and provision of estimates for customers. 
Analysis of SAP notes and the application thereof. Management of transports. Creation of queries, Catts, Validations, substitutions, LSMW ETC.

SAP FICO Consultant

Total

Main focus:  Lead and managed implementation of in-house SAP template solution for FICO.

FICO Domain leader

Performed support to our European Subsidiaries. Performed system maintenance/configuration within FICO modules for first year. Maintained user authorisation, profiles and roles. Created functional specs. Subsequently provided a support role between our Subsidiaries and our third party SAP support Partner (CAP Gemini) within the framework of systems fixes and system enhancements. Followed up and managed these fixes/enhancements. 

Verified that solution/changes (configuration) proposed by partner or done internally were feasible and that the quotations given were reasonable in terms of man-hours charged. Created functional specifications. Checked and verified customisation specifications. Maintained user authorisation, profiles and roles. Subsidiaries Managed within my ambit: Hungary, Germany, and Total Gas France

Systems Analyst

DUTIES WERE SPLIT BETWEEN PROJECT DUTIES AND MAINTENANCE: 
		
PROJECT DUTIES: 
Preparation and maintenance of project Documentation and preparation of project plans. Management of project team. Analysis and documentation of user needs and requirements within JDE for possible systems Improvements or enhancements. 
Acted as business analyst for finance. Creation of functional spec’s for programmers and junior analysts. Made changes to system to meet user needs.

SUPPORT ACTIVITIES:   			
Resolution of Day-to-Day support issues and Day-to-Day user requests. Resolution of integrity problems within JDE. Analysis and documentation of current systems processes within JDE. Set up and maintenance of AAI's and general systems set up. Creation of reports via World Writers. Creation of functional spec’s for programmers and junior analysts. Made systems changes to meet user needs.

Senior System Analyst

AffinityLogic

Main role was to liase between the Affinity Logic Finance division and IS division on all IS
Issues/concerns and manage all projects for the Finance division.			
DUTIES:
Dealt with and liaised with Affinity logic IS on Day-to-day IS problems/issues. Managed and lead all IS initiatives/projects for the Finance Division. Projects duties included chairing of project meetings, ensuring project tasks were completed on time, coordinated and liaised with Affinity logic IS team or outside suppliers involved with a project. Followed up and ensured successful completion of such initiatives within required time frames. Arranged end-user training. 
Acted, as business analyst for affinity Finance division performing user’s needs analysis/requirements and subsequent documentation in the form of function specs. 
PROJECTS MANAGED:
Led Union transport landed cost web portal.
Payroll – provident/pension/ medical aid - deductions project in conjunction with Alexander Forbes.
Trouble shooted payroll and the network performance problems, which led to the final installation of terminal server.
Payroll interface.
Managed Setting up of our company web site.

IS Manager/Project Manager

Position 1)Financial Systems manager: Main function was to maintain the General Ledger within Masterpiece Software package and manage the data capture Department. 

Position2) Assistant Retail Accountant.

Position 3) Area Accountant.

Various: Financial systems manager and accountant

I am a Infromation Management professional with over 20 years of experience mostly in the SAP sapce. Within this time frame I have occupied postions ranging from business analyst, system analyst, project manager to delivery manager. 

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