SUMMARY

• With over 17 years implementation, development, upgrade and support experience in BPC OPTIMIZED S/4HANA, BW - IP/PAK (BPC EMBEDDED HANA), BPC NW 10.1, BPC MS 10, SSM, SEM-BSC, SEM-BPS and ECC; in-depth functional and technical knowledge of FI, CO, MM, SD, PP; tertiary education and practical experience in finance and programming; combined with rich business knowledge across industries; provides the necessary skillset to intelligently create flexible, future state planning solutions.
• All round consultant with a strong understanding of project management methodologies and SDLC processes; facilitate and lead workshops; analyze business processes; create blueprints; define planning architectures; configure solutions; conduct testing; deliver training and provide support.
• Business facing, confident subject matter expert committed to growth, working effectively unsupervised and under pressure.
• Adheres to strict modelling and design principles to create end to end planning solutions, develop prototypes, conceptualize design alternatives and identify solution gaps.
• Flexibility to take up different roles / tasks on a project either leading and mentoring teams, contributing as a team member, working solely on assignments or independently implementing solutions.
• Extensive experience integrating BPC and BI and understanding the underlying ECC & S/4HANA data structures and data flows.
• Analytical critical thinker able to fully comprehend business requirements and delivering to customer's satisfaction.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills throughout all levels of the organization with exceptional training skills due to presenting SAP academies.
• Strong technical capabilities include coding FOX, SQL, Script Logic, ABAP and VBA; and designing complex, user friendly templates with Design Studio, AO, EPM, EVDRE, BEx and WAD.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Environment: Prototype - BPC OPTIMIZED S/4HANA

Responsibilities:

• Designed solution that calculated gross profit at customer / material level; replicated S/4 HANA pricing procedures and access sequences; integrated costing results in accordance with S/4HANA component account structure.
• Imparted knowledge, provided direction and shared best practices around planning concepts.
• Interacted with business users to collect requirements; served as escalation point for all BPC issues.
• Mapped account based and key figure based ADSO's into various Eclipse joins that simplified planning architecture and optimized performance.
• Designed planning sequences automating the initialization and submission of data; engaged with functional consultants creating CDS views.
• Configured characteristic relationships, data slices and the lock server.
• Developed planning functions and coded FOX formulae to calculate costing results and the associated gross profit.
• Created analysis for office (AO) templates with embedded BEx queries.
• Replicated AO templates in design studio to enable web-based planning.
• Introduced Origin Group planning to generically change raw material prices and enable what-if scenario planning.
• Designed a dynamic template that modified based on master data attributes to cater for access sequence localization.

Confidential BPC Technical Team Lead

Environment: Implementation - BW-IP/PAK (BPC EMBEDDED HANA)

Responsibilities:

• Participated and led workshops to analyze business process and obtain planning requirements.
• Played back proposed solutions; composed position papers; participated in design forums to resolve scope conflicts.
• Conceptually designed solutions for operational planning, travel planning and head count planning.
• Served as technical team lead; identified RICEF objects; assisted allocating tasks; peer-reviewed developments.
• Ensured compliance of development standards, naming conventions and change control procedures.
• Collected, managed and fixed transports to the QA and Production environments.
• Designed planning architecture for flexibility using Eclipse to introduce reporting composites, integration composites and input composites; modelled ADSO's in accordance with S/4HANA future proof requirement.
• Monitored, communicated and troubleshooted issues with data integrity, data design, functional and technical software issues.
• Raised and applied OSS notes to resolve software defects; implemented workarounds as required.
• Partnered with basis to measure and diagnose network performance issues.
• Configured characteristic relationships, data slices and the lock server.
• Oversaw overall integration; designed, coded and optimized planning functions (FOX, AMPD and ABAP).
• Created planning sequences; deployed process chains to automate initialization and submission of data.
• Controlled data redundancy by introducing planning rounds, data sources and multi-year versioning.
• Aligned the planning process with the create demand/meet demand business model with mixed cost estimates to average across plants and filtering capabilities by ABCN classification and revenue stream matrix.
• Spearheaded customizable changed record functionality - configurable per planning component via web dynpro interface - to efficiently process huge data volumes (> 1.4 billion per cycle).
• Engineered multi-currency capabilities - integrated with TCURR - that allowed flexibility to eliminate the effect of exchange rate fluctuations while reporting in group currency, constant currency or historical budgeted currency.
• Enhanced Product Cost Forecast and Simulation (PCFS) business content to cater for cost estimate explosion, vintages, foreign currency and alternate units of measure.
• Integrated with Material Ledger (ML) and posted costing results in accordance with S/4HANA component account structure.
• Distributed APO data; replicated realignment rules; specified requirements for various volume allocations.
• Replication ECC pricing procedures to cater for price list and country specific pricing with the associated excise, settlement and installment terms.
• Replicated ECC access sequences to assign variable rates; allocated fixed values with distribution functions.
• Developed FOX formula to replace PA user exits; aligned adverting and promotion planning with the CRM process.
• Participated in analysis for office (A0) beta testing with SAP AG highlighting issues and recommending new functionality; deployed AO functionality including customized ribbons, distribution and collection wizard, in-cell calculations and executing planning functions on selected data.

Confidential

BPC Senior Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Established excel model that determined project feasibility by means of financial calculations (ROIC, NPC, IRR, DPP) and the associated incremental cash flows.
• Designed planning architecture; configured environment, models, dimensions, properties; customized work status's.
• Provided technical expertise for database design, enhancements and performance improvements.
• Introduced centrally maintained sensitivity factors to enable driver-based planning.
• Developed script logic, BADI's and data manager packages to track and control project evaluations.
• Combined custom VBA and HTML functionality to execute data manager packages directly from EPM interface.
• Used dynamic hierarchies and member properties to accommodate parent member data inputs (hierarchical planning).
• Cleansed and automated transactional and master data from various 3rd party databases to calculate evaluations at any level of the geographical location hierarchy.
• Applied support packs and raised OSS notes to resolve software issues.
• Implemented BPC security and assisted with BW authorizations.

Confidential

BPC Management Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Virtualized BPC NW 10 & BPC MS 10 installations for developing, testing and training.
• Evaluated and outlined functionality differences between BPC 7.5 MS & BPC 10 MS in upgrade presentations.
• Pre-Sales - Denel and SA Mint - Completed RFP'; prepared and presented presentations; estimated effort.
• Built a prototype to plan and analyze consultant's profitability while training inhouse consultants (BPC NW 10).
• Proof of Concept - Harmony Gold - Developed and presented a Headcount and Costing solution demonstrating integrated calculations (BPC NW 10).
• Proof of Concept - Salvino Del Bene - Developed and presented an Order Status & Tracking solution demonstrating concurrent work status's and comment management (BPC NW 10).

Confidential

BPC Senior Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed blueprint and assessed system design to understand the business process, data model and integration requirements.
• Provided guidance and advice on all technical aspects of the implementation.
• Advised on solution options and automation procedures which simplified the planning process, improved performance and eliminated data duplication.
• Customized data manager packages, conversion and transformation files automating master data and transactional loads.
• Reduced the reporting requirements of financial, exception and data discrepancy reports by applying dynamic formatting, dynamic filters and property-based EPM functions.
• Developed reporting packs with EPM frontend.
• Hosted sessions and engaged with key stakeholders to identify required functionality and perform a gap-analysis.
• Designed solution with detailed functional designs, technical specifications and configuration rationale documents.
• Modelled cubes and multi-providers; migrated data; configured characteristic relationships and the lock server.
• Catered for audit and business controls by implementing control checks; threshold constraints; stage of capture auditability; username and timestamping; status and tracking; multiple periodicity inputs (YTD, MTD).
• Deployed dynamic data-slices to replace work status functionality
• Used hierarchies to aggregate and disaggregate data with manual capture at various levels of granularity.
• Simulated EPM functionality and commentary with ABAP custom classes, planning functions, FOX and VBA.
• Replicated EPM layouts in BEx Analyzer using inverse formulae BEx queries, compounded info-objects and manipulating navigational attributes.
• Achieving consistency in format and style of templates across BUs and at group level which simplified the planning and reporting process by eliminating duplication of effort.
• Tested extensively with test plans and test cases with the results captured in Quality Centre.