DELPHINE GANYONGA
Saint Paul,MN
Summary
Knowledgeable SAP Consultant with 8 years` experience taking ownership of SAP solutions and related software and services. Talented at managing legacy installations as well as spearheading new deployments. Keen to drive positive movements in revenue and business performance through direct oversight of all branded and related products.
Overview
13
13
years of professional experience
Work History
SAP FICO Consultant
Deloitte
01.2020 - Current
- Responsible for integrating Finance with Ariba, Concur, and VIM by Open Text (SAP now) and opportunity of S4 adaptation
- Directly Responsible for functional design and Setup for FI-GL, AP, AR, SD CO-CCA, Costing, COPA IO and PS.
- Configured and customized Chart of accounts, Company code Global Parameters, Fiscal year Variants, Posting Period Variants, Account Groups, Field Status Groups, and Tolerance Groups in S4HANA.
- Implemented New GL, activated new Ledger, performed document splitting and Parallel Accounting in S4HANA.
- Migrated various master data and transaction using LSMW and other upload programs
- Leading offshore, onsite teams and ensuring design following best practices
- Designed and configured Substitution and Validation
- Designed (RICEFW)enhancements to fit design gap leveraging User-Exits, Functional Modules, Enhancement Spots
- Designed Dropship (3rd Party Selling) process and Intercompany Billing Process
- Built various interfaces and workaround with Ariba to ensure integration with SAP
- Designed Ariba integration for Purchase Requisition and PO in Ariba while approval in SAP with custom reporting to ensure master data replication into Ariba
- Implemented COPA Cost base and created custom reports
- Migrated GL, AR, AP, AA, Material Inventory in to ECC from Sage, JD Edward and other homegrown legacy systems
- Configured Controlling Area Settings, Number ranges and Maintained Versions.
- Configured and Customized CO – General Controlling, Cost and Revenue Element Accounting, Overhead Cost Controlling, Cost Center Accounting; and Internal Orders.
- Accounts Receivable: Building AR Business module, Configuring and Customizing Customer master data, Debtor management, Customer payments, Customer invoice processing, Order to cash process, Finance documents Global settings (Posting Keys, payment terms), Dunning, Lockbox.
- Gathered Business Requirements, led focused groups, created prototypes design
- Designed SAP Costing and COPA (Cost Based), EBS, Lockbox, EDI, AR, AP, Set up Automatic Payment Program
- Integrated new legal entities (company code) from scratch with merging chart of accounts and all enterprise structure setup, cost center hierarchy, profit centers, Project System, Capital Investments, and Foreign Currency design and valuation
- Lead all SAP Integration efforts for the M&A project to include 3 new companies into the Continental Portfolio
- Led corporate interfaces like RFC, Vertex, Mobile Applications, Bank Interfaces, Foreign Currency rate update, Price Update, and others
- Designed integration with Ariba and handled all Ariba exceptions and approval workflow
- Re-Implemented VIM open-Text to fully automate supplier invoices
- Designed Inter-company process and drop-shipping integration in SAP Finance
- Designed SAP FICO Integration with Concur and designed all enhancements needed
- Asset Accounting: Configuring Asset Accounting, Structuring Fixed asset design, integration with GL, defining asset classes, depreciation areas, Configure (Base, Balance and Multilevel) depreciation methods.
SAP FICO Consultant –
Aero Components Llc
08.2016 - 11.2020
- Responsible for FI-GL, AP, AR, SD CO-CCA, IO and PS.
- Configured and customized Chart of accounts, Company code Global Parameters, Fiscal year Variants, Posting Period Variants, Account Groups, Field Status Groups, and Tolerance Groups.
- Implemented New GL, activated new Ledger, performed document splitting, Parallel Accounting and periodic processing.
- Migrated various master data and transaction using LSMW, BDC, Batch Input Session and custom programs
- Designed enhancements to fit design gap leveraging User-Exits, Functional Modules, Enhancement Spots, BADI, BAPI
- Re-engineered Drop-ship process and Intercompany Billing Process
- Implemented COPA Cost base and created custom reports
- Migrated GL, AR, AP, AA, Material Inventory in to ECC from JD Edward Configured Controlling Area Settings, Number ranges, and Maintained Versions.
- Configured and Customized CO – General Controlling, Cost and Revenue Element Accounting, Overhead Cost Controlling, Cost Center Accounting; and Internal Orders.
- Accounts Receivable: Building AR Business module, Configuring and Customizing Customer master data, Debtor management, Customer payments, Customer invoice processing, Order to cash process, Finance documents Global settings (Posting Keys, payment terms), Dunning.
- Led Offshore Team
- Accounts Payable: Building AP Business module, Configuring and Customizing vendor master data, vendor account groups, define sensitive fields for dual control, House banks, Invoice processing, Document parking, Outgoing payment, Reporting, Check printing, Voiding checks, matching invoice with purchase.
- Asset Accounting: Configuring Asset Accounting, Structuring Fixed asset design, integration with GL, defining asset classes, depreciation areas, Configure (Base, Balance and Multilevel) depreciation methods.
- Worked on period-end-closing, fiscal-yearend-closing, material ledger, actual costing, profitability analysis, profit center accounting, and reconciliation issues.
- Mapped current data, tables, and other reports to SAP.
- Reviewed and delivered functional specifications to developers to meet business requirements
Consultant SAP FICO
Shoprite
02.2014 - 07.2016
- Designed various Functional Specs and led complex enhancements with ABAP team using IDoc, EDI, Middleware Services
- Designed Profit Center & Cost Center Hierarchy
- Designed Automatic Payment Program for various Payment Methods
- Managed Bank file Process with local and international Bank
- Designed Electronic Bank Statements (EBS) with Search String
- Designed enhancement with D&B for Credit Check interface
- Created Enhancement Reporting and AR Factoring Process
- Designed and configured Lockbox BAI2 file and application server
- Customized Aging Report based on dynamic bucket – Customer and Business Unit Contribution Margin
- Configured Cost object as Cost Center, Internal Order, and WBS and designed allocation, assessment, distribution, settlement, and indirect allocation in between cost object
- Designed costing for various scenarios as per business requirement.
- Designed Costing Sheet and configured Cost Component Structure and Costing Variant
- Re-engineered overhead solution based on Practical Capacity, Factory Overhead Work Cells including Direct Labor
- Assist in Master Data Design such as BOM, Routing, Work Center, Producing Cost Center Activity Rates and Material Master
- Integrated Costing with Production Planning for actual cost and WIP calculation and variance calculation and settlement
- Configured COPA Profitability Analysis (Cost Based), Characteristics, Value Fields, Characteristics derivation, and value fields flow and Top-Down Distribution
- Automated GR Process across corporate locations and warehouses
- Organized Cut Over Operation with BASIS team, and prepared for Go Live and provided extended support and production support
- Designed and lead testing and created test cases, user acceptance testing (UAT), and integration testing
- Led Business user training and user manual documentation
Business Analyst
Dangote Sugar
05.2011 - 12.2014
- Experienced in performing Business Process Re-engineering/GAP/Ad-Hoc Analysis to test compatibility of present system infrastructure with new business requirements.
- · Understanding of technical architecture - design patterns, and comfortable working with technical architects
- · Defining test cases, creating test scripts, analyzing bugs, interacting with QA/dev teams in fixing errors, and User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
- · Responsible for introducing Collaboration tool and modifying branch management processes and overseeing work of other employees.
- Responsible for all aspects of accounting data validation, including accounts payable, accounts receivable, banks, general ledger, credit card processing and adjustment, forecasts/budgets, financial statements, and reports.
- Manage and monitor monthly closing processes: Include monthly, quarterly, and consolidated financial statements by adjusting and analyzing general ledger across inter-company accounts and 60 different companies (profit, non-profit, partnership accounts) create management reports in a timely and accurate manner.
- Worked on version control documentation to keep document changes up to date.
- Prepare and submit federal and state taxes for individuals, businesses, partnerships, and sole proprietorships (Refunds Today software).
- Preparing and filing payroll taxes, state sales and use taxes, unemployment taxes etc. of different states.
- Perform tax audits of clients by effectively communicating with the IRS and applying analytical/problem - solving skills.
- Excellent team player with the power to think analytically and troubleshoot issues.
- A good team player with the ability to think analytically and solve problems.
- Developed business plans, determined key Performance Indicators (KPI) and coordinate the measurement result.
- Analyzed qualitative and quantitative data to uncover competition and industry to drive the business revenue.
- Gathered information, analysed new products and services, and allocate relevant data to different departments.
Education
Master of Science - Statistics
Sam Houston State University
Huntsville, TXBachelor of Science - Statistics
University of Lagos
LagosSkills
- Full life cycle implementations using Agile / Activate methodology
- Understanding of “As Is “Business processes, Blueprint, Realization, Configuration, Final Preparation-Unit Integration Testing, User Acceptance Testing, Preparation of Test Scripts,
- End-user Training and Post Go Live Support (Hypercare)
- Hands on experience in designing and implementing FI (GL/AP/AR/AA), CO (CCA/IO/PA)
- Experience with SAP FICO Integration of SD and MM,
- Good understanding of integration points between SAP and non-SAP Systems including VIM, Ariba, Concur, Blackline
- Knowledgeable about BW (Pyramid)
- Excellent understanding of business analysis, financial management and business operations in multiple industries
- Experienced working with SOX and SOD compliance
- Used BDC, LSMW & BAPI in various projects for data upload
- Functional Specification Documents FDD and FSD for Gaps in SAP Implementation projects for various RICEFW
- Worked extensively with Solution Manager (SOLMAN), JIRA, Rev-track, Servicenow (SNOW)
- Willingness to learn new technologies and software
Timeline
SAP FICO Consultant
Deloitte
01.2020 - Current
SAP FICO Consultant –
Aero Components Llc
08.2016 - 11.2020
Consultant SAP FICO
Shoprite
02.2014 - 07.2016
Business Analyst
Dangote Sugar
05.2011 - 12.2014
Master of Science - Statistics
Sam Houston State University
Bachelor of Science - Statistics
University of Lagos