Kamal V Chhana
SAP FI Consultant at BMW (Contracting through Lesedi PFS) at BMW IT Hub South Africa- Claim this Profile
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Glazelle Pohl
Kamal was very successful in his role on the SAP project as Standardbank. He took ownership of the AP/AR functionality and ensured that the quality and details of the process fully met business requirements. He managed a new functional process very successfully throughout the project lifecycle. I would recommend him for any further projects.
Glazelle Pohl
Kamal was very successful in his role on the SAP project as Standardbank. He took ownership of the AP/AR functionality and ensured that the quality and details of the process fully met business requirements. He managed a new functional process very successfully throughout the project lifecycle. I would recommend him for any further projects.
Glazelle Pohl
Kamal was very successful in his role on the SAP project as Standardbank. He took ownership of the AP/AR functionality and ensured that the quality and details of the process fully met business requirements. He managed a new functional process very successfully throughout the project lifecycle. I would recommend him for any further projects.
Glazelle Pohl
Kamal was very successful in his role on the SAP project as Standardbank. He took ownership of the AP/AR functionality and ensured that the quality and details of the process fully met business requirements. He managed a new functional process very successfully throughout the project lifecycle. I would recommend him for any further projects.
Credentials
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C_TS4FI_2021
SAPDec, 2022- Nov, 2024 -
C_TFIN52_66 SAP FI Certified
SAP
Experience
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BMW IT Hub South Africa
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South Africa
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IT Services and IT Consulting
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400 - 500 Employee
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SAP FI Consultant at BMW (Contracting through Lesedi PFS)
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Mar 2019 - Present
Projects & Support for BMW AG Global Payment Platform which consists of SAP FI CO, IHC (In House Cash), CM (Cash Management), Serrala Hansa Orga payment suite and SAP APM. Carve out of non-payment solution from classic SAP into SAP Hana platform. End to end configuration of SAP FI and CO in HANA, including customized solution to cater for daily business operations. Adjust and customize Hansa Orga solution to cater for payments changes required by external bank. Configured, Tested, Documented and Implementation of Master Bank Change on the Hansa Orga payment Suite. Collaborate with project sponsors to determine project scope and vision. Gather user requirements via workshops, questionnaires, surveys, site visits, workflow storyboards, use cases, scenarios, and other interview methods. Configure functionality and attributes based on user requirements. Communicate changes, enhancements, and modifications of business requirements to project managers, sponsors, and other stakeholders so that issues and solutions are understood. Migration of master data and transactional data from old to new system. Show less
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Barclays
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United Kingdom
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Financial Services
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700 & Above Employee
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Senior Consultant SAP FI CO Specialist K4
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Dec 2016 - Mar 2019
Proactively monitors SAP Early Watch Alert reports from the SAP Technical Support team and take all precautions to enable system stability and availability in core SAP Financial modules (FI, AP, AR, XI/PI, MDM and Concur) Monitors the SAP production system (IDOCs, queues, workflows, etc.) as agreed with the SAP Systems manager. Implementation, configuration and testing of SAP MDM. Works on more than one engagement at a time. Manages small engagements or a portion of a large engagement. Assists in the development and implementation of the project plan for a project. This includes drafting the project plan (scope, deliverables, timelines and resources), identifying and recruiting team members, and preparing and assisting in the preparation of individual work plans. Maintains and expands business contact at high levels and builds credible relationships with key personnel. Meet regularly with relevant business units to ensure optimum delivery, maintenance, support of the SAP solution and customer satisfaction. Conduct research using available SAP resources such as OSS (Online Service System), SDN (SAP Developer Network) and SAP Expert Journal, with respect to the relevant SAP modules and Solutions. Show less
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Nedbank
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South Africa
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Financial Services
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700 & Above Employee
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Manager GBS SAP ECC Strategy
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May 2015 - Nov 2016
Duties; (System Support) Assist in formulating strategy of Nedbank SAP ECC and legacy systems, perform reviews of the key modules, provide direction to cross-functional teams for development, maintenance and support of SAP ECC and Ab Initio, and collaborate with cross-functional teams on the creation and maintenance of processes. Perform reviews of the SAP ERP/ECC key modules FI – General Ledger FI – Accounts Payable FI – Accounts Receivable FI – Assets FI – Banking Provide direction to cross-functional teams for development, maintenance and support of SAP ECC Collaborate with cross functional teams on the creation and maintenance of processes, specifically: Financial Closing – month-end and year-end closing Parallel Accounting Ledgers using the flexible ledger approach. Chart of accounts, Primary and secondary general ledger accounts. Exchange rates and Currency translations. Bank Accounting Cost centre, Profit centre and Segmentation. Clearing accounts, Tolerances, Journal workflows and document splitting. Indirect and direct tax codes. Asset Accounting Accounts Receivable and Accounts Payable Ab Initio Rules maintenance and integration Revaluation Retail product systems feeder file support and enhancements (escalation manager) Provide escalation support of SAP HCM workflow related queries Provide escalation support of ARIBA / Procurement related queries Show less
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Standard Bank Group
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South Africa
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Financial Services
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700 & Above Employee
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SAP Functional Team Lead / SAP FICO CONSULTANT
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Dec 2013 - Apr 2015
Managing a team of 6 in the FI Sub-ledger space which consists of the following modules.FI – Accounts PayableFI – Accounts ReceivableFI – AssetsFI – Materials ManagementCO – Projects SystemsSetting up of the teams KRA's and managing of career development.Plan, assign, and supervision of tasks / queriesProvide technical assistance to users and staffMentoring of junior consultants.Driving business process discussions during team meetings. Monitoring the SAP Early watch alert report from the technical teamFirst Line end user support - FI-General Ledger, FI-Accounts Payable, FI-Accounts Receivable Identifies and analyzing business user requirements, develops action plans and identifies deliverablesObtains buy-in from business process owners and end-users on proposed new business processes or changes to existing ones Creation of business requirements document and Functional development specs for new enhancements or changes.Analyzing a client’s business processes and procedures. Developing technical specifications for SAP custom modules and interface programs. Enhancements configuration for sub-ledgers FI-General Ledger, FI-Accounts Payable, FI-Accounts ReceivableCreation & maintenance of master data via LSMW (Vendors, Customers, GL Accounts , Profit and Cost Centers)Networking & Liaising with other SAP teams, e.g. SAP Basis support, ABAP, BW and Authorizations teams.Liaise with the application developers, subject matter experts for business users needs and requirementsApproval of SAP Changes and Enhancements from development systems and user access approvals to the system.Designing, developing, and testing SAP functions. Writing detailed functional specifications. Performing end-to-end testing. Design, configure and test core FI modules. Developing process flows. Delivering SAP training to end-users. (South African, Namibian, Kenyan, Ugandan, Malawian Users)Basic user support of CO Project System queries Show less
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SAP FI CONSULTANT
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May 2012 - Nov 2013
Duties; (Production Support Environment)First Line end user support - FI-GL, FI-AP, FI-AR.Identifies & analyzing business user requirements, develops action plans & identifies deliverables.Obtains buy-in from business process owners & end-users on proposed new business processes or changes to existing ones.Creation of business requirements document & Functional development specs for new enhancements or changes.Analyzing a client’s business processes & procedures. Developing technical specifications for SAP custom modules & interface programs. Enhancements configuration for sub-ledgers FI-GL, FI-AP, FI-AR.Creation & maintenance of master data via LSMW (Vend, Cust, GL Account , Profit and Cost Centres)Networking & Liaising with other SAP teams, e.g. SAP Basis support, ABAP, BW & Authorizations teams.Liaise with the application developers, subject matter experts for business users needs & requirements.Approval of SAP Changes & Enhancements from development systems & user access approvals to the system.Designing, developing & testing SAP functions. Writing detailed functional specifications. Performing end-to-end testing. Design, configure & test core FI/CO modules. Developing process flows.Continued support & duties of the SAP Application Specialist Periodic Processing. Show less
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SAP FI Consultant AP/AR upgrade/reimplementation from 4.7 to ECC 6.0, Production Periodic Processing
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Feb 2011 - Apr 2012
Duties; (Project Technical upgrade and re-implementation of SAP FI from 4.7 to ECC 6.0) Understanding Business requirements.Liaise with the application developers, subject matter experts and users on the interpretation of functional specifications.Creation of Business Review and Detail Design Documents for Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable.Baseline configuration, implementation and testing of Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable.Creation of Functional development specs for business enhancements which can be incorporated within the scope of the project.Identify opportunities and implement enhancements and configuration changes.Master Data clean-up for existing scenario.Assist the Testing team to execute test cases and log results and defects in HP Mercury Quality Test Centre.Workshops with various Business Units Domestic, Africa and International.Engaging with Business Units and discussing new Solutions.Conducting workshops and JAD sessions with the various business units. Show less
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SAP Bank Analyzer Implementation / SAP Application Specialist Production Periodic Processing
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Nov 2009 - Jan 2011
Build Design new solution for receiving Business Partners from Source system to Bank Analyzer via SAP XI/PI.Build /Design the take on of Low Income Lending Product.Manage Lending Product feed in to the Bank Analyzer System prepare the GL Doc’s and send the results to R3 via PI.Configuration of the PI system for receiving and sending of Data (Business Partner and G/L Connector for Financial Documents)Setup on the R3 side to receive the GL documents from Bank Analyzer via PI.Engaging and discussion with Business.Overnight Support and stabilization of the 3 Prodcutive SAP systems (Bank Analyzer, PI, ERP system) after go-live.Continued support and duties of the SAP Application Specialist Periodic Processing while on the Bank Analyzer Project. Show less
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SAP Application Specialist / SAP Production Period Processing Team Lead
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Sep 2007 - Nov 2009
R3 Production Periodic Processing team lead.Manage the Periodic Processing team.Setting up of KRA's and managing of career development.Support for the following systems R3, HR and BW.Daily and nightly monitoring of all SAP batch interfaces, for various Business Units ,which include Domestic and International BU's.Escalating data issues with source and ensuring corrected data is received timeously and uploaded successfully.Ensuring daily checklists are complete and escalating where necessary.Ensure month end closures and procedures are executed on time and precision.Allocate GL account and centre master data to relevant hierarchies and ensure all hierarchies are synchronized.Creation & maintenance of master data (Vendors, Customers, GL Accounts , Profit and Cost Centers)Daily system scrutinizing via daily reports and correcting any issues.Creating and testing of new interfaces and implementing them to Production.Ensuring year end procedures are executed on time and with precision.Archiving of data on a monthly basis.Investigating and finding different methods of better streamlining the current process.Support of the different sub ledger modules and general ledger queries. Show less
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SAP Application Specialist Production Periodic Processing
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Sep 2004 - Oct 2007
Support for the following systems R3 , HR and BW.Daily and nightly monitoring of all SAP batch interfaces, for various Business Units ,which include Domestic and International BU's.Escalating data issues with source and ensuring corrected data is received timorously and uploaded successfully.Ensuring daily checklists are complete and escalating where necessary.Ensure month end closures and procedures are executed on time and precision.Allocate GL account and centre master data to relevant hierarchies and ensure all hierarchies are synchronized.Creation & maintenance of master data (Vendors, Customers, GL Accounts , Profit and Cost Centers)Daily system scrutinizing via daily reports and correcting any issues.Creating and testing of new interfaces and implementing them to Production.Ensuring year end procedures are executed on time and with precision.Archiving of data on a monthly basis. Show less
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SAP Application Specialist BW Support
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Apr 2004 - Aug 2004
Daily and Over Nightly support of Batch updates.Received from the R/3 system.Master Data updates to ensure the BW and R3 system are in sync.Month end extracts received from R3 are updated and loaded successfully into the BW system.Daily system scrutinizing to ensure all updates are received and successfully loaded into the BW system.
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Desktop Management Support (Destktop Build Team Lead)
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Jun 2003 - Mar 2004
Assign and allocate tasks to team membersBuild and Configure new PC & LaptopsRespond to and investigate incidents within SLAManage and deliver , tasks and on projects within infrastructure environments.
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LAN Administrator (Support)
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Dec 2001 - May 2003
Provide Microsoft product support for the organization and the ability to troubleshoot Physical/virtual Machine problems.Respond to and investigate incidents within SLA.Perform change management duties.Research, investigate and evaluate new technologies to enhance services.Manage and deliver on tasks and projects within infrastructure environments.
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Pinnacle Group, Inc.
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United States
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IT Services and IT Consulting
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700 & Above Employee
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LAN administrator (Support)
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May 2001 - Nov 2001
Provide Microsoft product support for the organization and the ability to troubleshoot. Physical/virtual Machine problems. Respond to and investigate incidents within SLA. Perform change management duties. Research, investigate and evaluate new technologies to enhance services. Manage and deliver on tasks and projects within infrastructure environments. Provide Microsoft product support for the organization and the ability to troubleshoot. Physical/virtual Machine problems. Respond to and investigate incidents within SLA. Perform change management duties. Research, investigate and evaluate new technologies to enhance services. Manage and deliver on tasks and projects within infrastructure environments.
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NWS
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Environmental Services
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700 & Above Employee
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PC Support
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Oct 2000 - Mar 2001
Installation of Microsoft products for the various clients e.g Telkom and Correctional services Installtion of Hardware at the various clients. Troubleshooting and Fault finding of PC related issues. Onsite and over the phone assistance to clients. Installation of Microsoft products for the various clients e.g Telkom and Correctional services Installtion of Hardware at the various clients. Troubleshooting and Fault finding of PC related issues. Onsite and over the phone assistance to clients.
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Education
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2016 - 2016
SAP Global Certification
C_TFIN52_66, Financial Accounting with SAP ERP -
UNISA
Bachelor of Commerce (BCom), Business, Financial and Marketing Management -
1992 - 1997
Sir John Adamson
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