TAWANDA MANIKE

Organized and dependable candidate who is successful at managing multiple priorities with a positive attitude. Willingness to take on added responsibilities to meet team goals. Detail-oriented team player with strong organizational skills. Ability to handle multiple projects simultaneously with a high degree of accuracy. To seek and maintain a full-time position that offers professional challenges utilizing interpersonal skills, excellent time management skills, and problem-solving skills. Hardworking and passionate job seeker with strong organizational skills eager to secure a SAP Financials Expert (AP-AR-TRM-AA-GL) position. Ready to help the team achieve company goals.

• 12/2013, 06/2007,06/2007,06/2004
• Course Content : SAP FICO : SAP Central Finance(CFIN) : SAP S/4 HANA : SAP PROJECT Systems & Investment Management(PS/IM) : SAP MM : SAP Business Intelligence : SAP Core Banking : SAP Banking Services : Stratware Application Suite(BI) : SAP Successfactors :SAP RE-FX : Oracle EBS Purchasing and Supply : Oracle EBS Finance (AP, AR, TR) :D365 :SAP Enable Now(SEN), Global build and deployment of the CFIN&SAP ECC 6.0 Training Solution at SABIC Group
• Training material development, and standardization
• Training User groups on SAP FICO across the whole group (SABIC is the largest petrochemical company in the world)
• CFIN Material design covering the following areas
• Treasury Management
• Project Systems
• SAP Advanced Compliance Reporting (ACR) for statutory reporting
• SAP Group Reporting for Consolidation
• SAP Collections Management
• SAP Dispute Management
• SAP Cash Management
• FI-AP-AR-GL Training Design
• Contribution to Certification Methodology
• E2E scenarios for testing purposes and system integration testing
• Training the General Manager, Finance Manager and Accountants on the new system and the key functionality
• Supporting Finance User Community in SABIC on all aspects of SAP FICO and the relevant business processes
• ZA-Projects Systems Design
• Business Process Analysis Mapping and Reengineering(ARIS)
• Fixed Assets Configuration Rationale
• Financial Accounting Configuration Rationale
• 17 Company codes implemented covering FICO,PS/IM,SD,BI/BW,HANA,MM,CRM
• Financial Operations Process Design and Activity Split per role across the divisions(process streams)(PTP,OTC,3TM,RTR,TCM,T&E and HCM)
• Input into Role mapping and design
• Curriculum Development
• Training Material Development
• Training User groups on SAP BI/BW across the whole group(the only trainer in BI/BW)
• Training User groups on SAP FICO across the group
• Contribution to Certification Methodology
• Review, update and develop process mapping
• Gap analysis and preparation of Gap analysis report
• Complementary testing(HPQC)User Acceptance Testing(UAT)
• Working together with Vodafone Rollout Team to Support the business after Go-live
• Vodacom have been on Oracle system for the past 17 years so the challenge was huge in terms of change management and the implementation itself
• Exxaro SA-FI-AP-AR-GL Configuration Design
• Exxaro SA-Investment Management Configuration Design (SAP PS/IM)
• Exxaro SA -Assets Configuration Design
• Exxaro SA-Projects Systems Design
• Business Process Analysis Mapping and Reengineering(ARIS)
• Fixed Assets Configuration Rationale
• Financial Accounting Configuration Rationale
• Project Realisation for the two modules
• Data migration, cleansing and claims to ensure that data is accurate and has integrity
• Unit, Integration,User Acceptance and Regression Testing of the same
• Training users on site at the Business Units on their key transactions in the new ECC6.0 environment
• Selected to be the lead trainer in the PS/IM area and was responsible for taking the solution to all the Business Units
• My experience with PS/IM at Sasol, SAB and Rural Electrification Kenya put me in good stead to deliver on the training
• Position: FICO and PROJECT SYSTEMS Consultant
• Company: Rural Electrification Authority Kenya(REA)
• Period: 10 months in Nairobi Kenya (November 2010- September 2011)
• Scope of Work Done:
• Kenya-FI-AP-AR-GL Configuration Design (SAP FI)
• Kenya-Treasury Configuration Design (SAP TRM)
• Kenya-Investment Management Configuration Design (SAP PS/IM)
• Kenya-Assets Configuration Design (SAP PS/IM)
• Kenya-Projects Systems Design(SAP PS/IM)
• Business Process Analysis Mapping and Reengineering(ARIS)
• Fixed Assets Configuration Rationale (SAP FI)
• Financial Accounting Configuration Rationale (SAP FI)
• Data migration, cleansing and claims approach in preparation for movement of data from legacy system to SAP
• SAP FI (Financials)
• General Ledger configuration
• Special Purpose ledgers
• Accounts Receivable and Accounts payables
• Banking and cash journals
• Funds Management
• Asset Accounting Specifications, Configuration and transactions
• Foreign Currencies Management
• Training and Support
• SAP CO
• Configuration
• Controlling areas
• Cost Centres
• Product Costing, SAP PCA Configuration
• Training, document QA and Support
• Profitability analysis
• Funds Management
• Funds centre processing and configuration
• Funded Program
• Commitment Items
• Functional area processing
• Budgeting Transfers
• Training, Documentation QA and Support
• SAP CA
• Contract account master
• Incoming payments
• Interest calculations
• Cash desk processing
• Instalment plans
• Write offs
• Position: SAP Functional &Support Consultant(Contracted to Accenture South Africa)
• Company: South African Breweries Ltd
• Period: 7 months (April 2010-August 2010))
• Scope of Work Done:
• ZA-FI-AP-AR-GL Configuration Design
• ZA-TR Configuration Design
• ZA-Investment Management Configuration Design (SAP PS/IM)
• ZA-Assets Configuration Design (SAP FICO)
• ZA-Projects Systems Design(SAP PS/IM)
• Business Process Analysis Mapping and Reengineering(ARIS)
• Fixed Assets Configuration Rationale
• Financial Accounting Configuration Rationale
• Data migration, cleansing and claims approach in preparation for
• Movement of data from legacy system to SAP
• SAP CA
• CA-Configuration Design and rationale
• Contract account master
• Incoming payments
• Interest calculations
• Cash desk processing
• Instalment plans
• Write offs
• Supporting and training the users at SAB Potchefstroom in executing their key transactions
• Was the first line support at Go live stage
• UAT also done at the depot for all the users and issues cascaded to central support if not solved
• Modules supported included FICO, PS/IM, SD &HR
• Became successful to the extent that I was asked to also look after the Vereeniging Depot when a fellow team member left the Project
• Total number of users became 116
• Later had to divide attention being two days at Potch Depot and three days at Vereeniging.Very good feedback received from the Project Managers
• Training, documentation, QA and Support
• User dress rehearsal(UDR) with all users as assigned on the project
• Completing User Dress Rehearsal with users onsite, including performing with them key transactions on a simulation of the Triumph application(Training)
• Managing own support provided to onsite users, including scheduling 1 hour slots for user dress rehearsal simulation and later to provide support where required to users on site
• Maintaining a relationship including status gathering with relevant business persons onsite (Business Support Specialists, IT team leaders and Depot Managers)
• Site Confirmation of SAP and user Readiness for Go-Live, liason with relevant IT personnel and Site Coordinators
• Managing risks and issues on the site to which deployed, as well as escalating where necessary to Site Coordinator
• Supporting and providing input to the rollout team where required
• Training new SAP users in SAP HCM and the new Triumph system
• Testing and coordinating third party applications
• Responsible for SAP FICO, MM, SD and IM modules, support to two Depots (Potchefstroom and Vereeniging)
• Issue and Risk Management
• Travelling to distributors in SAB to do dress rehearsal
• Statistical gathering, designing and implementation of SAP best practice
• Position: SAP Financials Consultant(FI-AP-AR-TRM)
• Company: Sasol Oil Limited
• Period: 12 months (April 2009-April 2010)
• Scope of Work Done:
• SAP FI(Financials)
• ZA-FI-AP-AR-GL Configuration Design
• General Ledger configuration
• Special Purpose ledgers
• Accounts Receivable and Accounts payables
• Banking and cash journals
• Funds Management
• Asset Accounting Specifications, Configuration and transactions
• Foreign Currencies Management
• Training and Support
• Data migration, cleansing and claim articles
• SAP CO(Controlling)
• Controlling Config Rationale and Design
• Realisation on the following
• Controlling areas
• Cost Centres
• Product Costing
• Training, document QA and Support
• Profitability analysis
• Build, unit, integration, User Acceptance and Regression Testing of the solution
• Training, document QA and Support
• SAP FI(Financials)
• ZA-FI-AP-AR-GL Configuration Design
• General Ledger configuration
• Special Purpose ledgers
• Accounts Receivable and Accounts payables
• Banking and cash journals
• Funds Management
• Asset Accounting Specifications, Configuration and transactions
• Foreign Currencies Management
• Training and Support
• Data migration, cleansing and claim articles
• SAP CO(Controlling)
• Controlling Config Rationale and Design
• Realisation on the following
• Controlling areas
• Cost Centres
• Product Costing
• Training, document QA and Support
• Profitability analysis
• Build, unit, integration, User Acceptance and Regression Testing of the solution
• Training, document QA and Support
• Position: Group Financial Accountant & Project Sponsor(SAP)
• Company: MTV Networks Africa (A division of MTV International/Viacom)

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