Nonhlanhla Khoza

Interpret Business Needs and Develops and Maintains Finance IT Strategy

•Translate business & technical requirements into an architectural blueprint to achieve business objectives & documents all solution architecture design & analysis work

•Works closely with other solution owners and managers to ensure a robust architectural runway that can support future Finance Function requirements throughout the product lifecycle

•Understand the Finance Function’s drivers and business capabilities (future and current state) and determines corresponding enterprise solution designs and change requirements to drive the organization's targeted business outcomes

Assess Technology Solutions and Recommend to Finance Function and ITSC S4HANA IMPLEMENTATION AND UPGRADE

•Monitor current-state Finance solution portfolio to identify deficiencies through aging of the technologies used by the application, or misalignment with business requirements

•Support solution and service managers in end of life product decisions to maintain, refresh or retire services, or systems, including applications, technologies, processes, and information

•Understand emerging technology trends and disruptions and their practical application to enable new and evolving Finance Function and operating models (stretch)

•Analyze the technology industry, competitors, and market trends, and determines their potential implications for a given solution (stretch)

•Analyze the Finance Function’s-IT environment to detect critical deficiencies, legacy, and technical debt, and recommends solutions for improvement (stretch)

•Facilitate the evaluation and selection of software product standards and services, as well as the design of standard and custom software configurations

•Consult with application and infrastructure development projects and products to fit systems or infrastructure to architecture and identify when it is necessary to modify designs to accommodate the solutions architecture

Apply Technology in the Finance Function

•Lead evaluation, design and analysis of Finance requirements and development of project definitions and investment proposals.

•Guide and support the Finance Function in the adoption and implementation of Finance best practices into the business.

•Guide and support the Finance Function in the integration and standardization of Finance processes.

•Manage & develop the solution architecture for Finance solutions & projects, working closely with other architects, and recommends to Finance Function and ITSC for approval

•Develop a roadmap for the evolution of the Finance solutions/application portfolio and also the rest of the enterprise solution portfolio from current to future state, and recommend to the Finance Function and ITSC for approval.

•Act as a consultant and advisor to the Finance Function on a broad range of technologies, platforms, and vendor offerings to drive targeted business outcomes

•Create architectural designs to guide and contextualize solution development across products, services, projects, and systems, including applications, technologies, processes, and information

•Work closely with the program management office (PMO) or project management office to ensure the execution of approved implementation projects.

•Take accountability for ensuring solution implementations and changes deliver business requirements.

•Provide consulting support to application architects to ensure the project or product is aligned with the overall enterprise architecture

Finance Solution Operations and Support

•Take accountability for 3rd line Finance solution support (incident resolution and problem management)

•Plan and manage maintenance of Finance solutions, in line with service and operations management standards and processes.

•Agrees service levels impacting Finance solutions and Recommends changes for Approval to Finance Function Director of Functional Lead

•Monitors Finance solution service levels and performance and ensure Service Improvement Plans are defined and implemented to address issues.

•Ensure Finance solution changes adhere to SDLC standards, and life cycles.

•Takes ownership and accountability of Finance solution development environments

•Supports IT Operations and Services in ensuring Finance Solution providers/service providers perform operationally

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• Stabilizing the Tongaat Hulett Limited finance operations through SAP system
• Collaborating on a monthly basis with Finance operations in all countries working with each country's system analyst and ensuring super user and business process owners participation during the catch up session's
• Working with the FI and CO consultants contracted by Tongaat Hulett Limited in training all users in the business, helping them to clean up all historical issues or open items, guiding them in their day-to-day challenges
• Ensuring the data integrity and that the latest version updates are available to provide the relevant reports to Finance managers and Executives
• Managing the incidents and configuring the changes logged and ensuring the correct standards are met for user acceptance testing and integration testing, ensuring all the issues are logged and re-tested if there are any additional issues
• Running weekly Finance meetings for the SAP Finance team, catching up on all the weekly activities

• Managing the Accenture skills to succeed program training for the community
• Managing the SAP training, including the training of the community users in FICO, SD and MM modules
• Documenting all training activities, training plans and training outcome to report to all Mentecfoundation stakeholders
• Responsible for the training the trainers to train users in the different communities
• Reason for living: Permanent position in the more stable environment

• Responsible for the FI CO IM PS and Treasury technical solution for SAEC; ensuring that the solution is delivered as per the business requirements.
• Blueprints analysis and sign off.
• Configuration and technical documentation checks.
• Managing the tracker and ensuring the correct standards are met for user acceptance testing and integration testing, ensuring all the issues are logged and re-tested with business after they have been resolved by the solution consultants.
• Stress testing the delivered solution and the roles ensuring that all scenarios are covered and preventing any gaps that might have not been identified.
• Responsible for data sign off as the technical lead on the on the FI CO Treasury and PS solutions.
• Training SAEC business on the new S4 functionality.
• Reason for living: Contract position

• Managing the testing of the solution after the configuration changes and the developments have been made.
• Reporting the defect, maintaining the test scripts and reporting on progress to the team leader.
• Managing change requests and ensuring configuration changes are finalized and tested.
• Reason for living: Retrenchment

• Conducted workshops to gather requirements and documented the detailed design document.
• Configuration of the Vedanta Zinc International, this includes: Black Mountain Mining, Gamsberg, NAMZINC; Skorpion Zinc and THL Zinc Holdings.
• BCM and Payment Medium Workbench configuration.
• Testing: Worked closely with the PI specialist to test the Bank Integration.
• Worked closely with business to conduct Integration and User Acceptance testing the global rollout.
• Preparing training material and test scripts for different scenarios.
• Training the users and doing all the readiness check before each go-lives.
• Production support for all systems.
• Reason for living: Contract the firm subcontracted to came to an end

• Conducted workshops to gather requirements and documented the detailed design document.
• Configuration of the NATREF BCM Solution.
• Testing: Worked closely with the PI specialist to test the Bank Integration.
• Worked closely with business to conduct Integration and User Acceptance testing the global rollout.
• Preparing training material and test scripts for different scenarios.
• Training the users and doing all the readiness check before each go-lives.
• Production support for all systems.
• Reason for living: Contract the firm subcontracted to came to an end

• Configuration: Working closely with the Treasury consultant on the BCM and Payment Medium Workbench configuration.
• Testing: Worked closely with the PI specialist to test the Bank Integration.
• Worked closely with business to conduct Integration and User Acceptance testing the global rollout.
• Preparing training material and test scripts for different scenarios.
• Training documentation and users training; doing all the readiness check before each company go-live.
• Production support for production system.
• Reason for living: Contract the firm subcontracted to came to an end

• Mpumalanga Legislature implemented SAP solutions in 2010 and had not realized the full benefits of using the SAP ERP solutions; they were also not using the full SAP functionality of the existing modules.
• We motivated for SAP South Africa to intervene and assist with the stabilization of the SAP ERP system.
• The SAP ERP system stabilization engagement was for all areas within SAP Technical and Functional modules. The Mpumalanga Legislature has been using three SAP ERP modules; SAP FI, MM and HR. Functionality within these three modules was not fully utilized. I led a team and processes to align the SAP ERP Asset Register.
• SAP ERP Solution Manager that was no longer working, system health checks were manually executed from an external environment. We worked closely with SAP South Africa to ensure that SAP Solution Manager 7.2 is installed and configured with Focused Insight for visual SAP monitoring of OS/DB and Hardware metrics including alerting VIA e-mail.
• SAP Authorization also had to be aligned as per Audit findings with segregation of duties.
• Also worked closely Business to ensure processes are aligned.
• Introduced project governance including the SAP structure in relation to the whole Business.
• Worked Closely with SAP South Africa to finalize a Business Case that also addressed how Mpumalanga Legislature can use SAP ERP for their Core Business which is Public Participation Oversight and LAW Making.
• Reason for living: Compliance and business irregularities internally in the government environment

• Seconded for the FLEX GL Implementation working closely with the external suppliers.
• Documenting the AS IS and the TO BE processes for Intercompany rollout project.
• Working closely with the Abapers to sort out the Program that would enable workflow for different company codes to be able to approve intercompany journals.
• Configuration for Intercompany for the customer and debtor invoices posted.
• Training the users and doing all the readiness check before each country go-lives.
• Production support for all countries.
• Documenting the AS IS and the TO BE processes for one SBSA Company Code Diners Club; SBG Securities and ROA Company codes Accounts Payable Project.
• Configuring Payment runs for the Diners club project; SBG Securities, these are Companies with Standard Bank Group.
• Working closely with the Business online and Finacle team to set up Host to Host for vendor payments.
• Production support for all Diners club users and SBG Securities.
• Testing Payment files for Africa Countries during the implementation for Finacle Core Banking system.
• Managing the Kenya Rebranding Project ensuring the changes are implemented for the new look that the company was implementing for both Procurement and Finance.
• Reason for living: Relocation to another province for growth opportunity

• Process re-engineering and development.
• Test, debug and implement the changes, including executing and managing transports through the system landscape.
• Acted as a front-line adviser for the effective use of implemented SAP product functionality and execution of business processes.
• Conduct meeting to gather requirements for FI/CO change requests.
• Develop functional specifications for SAP enhancement within the finance area.
• Documenting the FI/CO documentation for the changes required.
• Configuration of the FI-GL- Payroll integration that is linking the symbolic accounts to general ledger account.
• Managing the day to day support requirements.
• Reason for living: Growth opportunity presented

• End Training Manual developments.
• Training to the PRASA super users and end users in the regions and head office.
• Preparing Status Reports on the training delivery and training material developments.
• Reason for living: Contract position needed a permanent position for growth and stability

• Doing MM Ware house support in one of their warehouses in Limpopo.
• Supported end users in performing transactions in all warehouse functions that includes creating Stock Transport Orders, deliveries, Goods issues to the Municipal offices and voting stations.
• Doing support when end users performed Physical Stock count for the warehouse.
• Supported end users when receiving goods for the Municipal offices and the issuing of the material to the voting stations.
• Assisting with the backlog that the employees were faced with for both registrations one and two weekends and also for the elections thereby performing the transactions on the system.
• Issuing of material for elections that includes the receiving of stock from the National Warehouse to the provincial warehouse and to the Municipal offices on the system.
• Training Warehouse manager and the warehouse employees.
• Sending updated progress reports to the National office.
• Reason for living: Contract position with no possibility for renewal

• Doing SD support for SAB (ABI) Sales and Distribution Implementation on Primary distribution, distribution among depots (inter-depot), MM was also part of the tasks we had to perform as some transactions were SAP MM standard transactions at the Warehouse, we use to support end users who were creating STO'S from one plant to the other, assist them in performing good receipts and the physical inventory processes.
• Supported end user in creating a work list and creating a delivery and shipment.
• Updating the statuses of the shipment to complete STO cycle.
• Secondary Distribution second phase of the project.
• Doing SD support on secondary distribution for SAB (ABI) implementation.
• Secondary distribution was about distributing to all the ABI customers.
• This includes, creation of a sales order, helping user to do shipment planning, warehouse operations, and site control where all the trucks needed to be despatch-ed.
• Training drivers on the Oasis system for distribution purposes. This is the system which was on the hand held device that the drivers used to capture their shipment and the whole stock update when delivering to the customers; they were able to print the invoice to that customer using the that device.
• I was part of the Quality Assurance team when we installed this system on the hand-held.
• I have also been part of the team which audited the performance of this system after it went live.
• Reason for living: Contract position with no possibility for renewal

• Providing support for the following modules
• Financial Accounting ( G/L, AR, AP and Cash Management)
• Material Management (Supporting end users in Material Management.)
• Sales and Distribution.
• Travel Management (Trained supervisors, managers and secretaries in this module).
• Trained End users on MM for the regions (Trained supervisors, managers and secretaries in this module).
• Reason for living: Contract position and I took another contract with Zimele Technologies

• HR, Travel Management; MM and FICO end user support.
• Integration testing.
• One to one training when doing the support to end users.
• Reason for living: SABC took over the contract as an intern to provide end user support to business