Below are the 5 Financial Analysts & 6 Business Analysts with SAP & other systems experience. The Thor Group® also provides accountants, staff accountants, A/P analysts, A/P clerks, bookkeepers and payroll specialists with your industry, SAP & other systems experience on a consulting, contracting or direct hire basis.

Does a financial analyst who is experienced in food production, construction and manufacturing industries, as well as knowledgeable in SAP BPC, FICO, MM, AM, WF, PP, QM and PM pique your interest? Technical knowledge involves SAP BPC, FICO, MM, AM, WF, PP, QM and PM, as well as AS/400, Hyperion, Oracle, CAS, and JDE. Educational attainment includes MBA in Marketing, as well as Bachelor of Arts in Business Administration & Accounting.

Major responsibilities of this financial analyst included performing weekly/monthly profitability reports, preparing census reports and preparing equity/investment roll forwards. Performing monthly account reconciliations and performing the detailed work for the preparation of balance sheet and income statement using SAP BPC were some of the key roles. Ad-hoc project works were carried out as required.

Other jobs involved performing cost analysis on current and new materials to be developed, along with assisting developers in diagnosing and resolving SAP implementation design issues. Duties were developing training package for new SAP and Business Warehouse (BW) applications, in addition to conducting training on new SAP and BW modules. The job also called for performing monthly variance analysis and KPI reports. In a tobacco firm, major accomplishments included developing a headcount realignment program for union personnel yielding an annual $14.5 mil savings for the department. Priority was given to overseeing all primary operation CIP projects through fiduciary review and compliance, then presenting findings to senior management.

What can a senior financial analyst with work background in insurance and aerospace industries, as well as specializations in SAP ERP bring to your organization? Technical specializations involve SAP ERP, Oracle and Hyperion. Educational background includes Master’s of Business Administration (concentration in Tax and Accounting), as well as Bachelor of Science in Accounting (minor in Business). This individual is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA).

Working with areas such as reconciling the statutory and medical healthcare general ledger systems for medical loss ratio reporting was one of the skills brought to the table by this senior financial analyst. Performing various quality controls for National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) and Health and Human Services (HHS) reporting within established deadlines was completed. Duties covered managing the process of both NAIC and HHS filings along with state filings to ensure compliance with current laws /requirements and meeting strict deadlines. The streamlining of financial reporting processes and extensive testing of new general ledger system were implemented. Responsibilities consisted of resolving discrepancies between statutory and medical healthcare general ledger systems and creating quality controls to ensure accuracy as well as efficiency. One of the functions involved coordinating with various departments (reserves, IT, claims, and premium) to ensure completeness, accuracy, and timeliness of financial data.

Another job covered providing financial oversight and control over military development programs contracts and discretionary projects to ensure compliance with government regulations and successfully executing programs. Major emphasis was on quarterly budgeting, forecasting, monthly variance analysis, and program financial controls. The timely multi-dimensional financial data reporting was provided for corporate finance for enterprise- wide forecasting.

Could your organization use a financial analyst who is experienced in pharmaceutical, manufacturing and energy industries, as well as proficient in SAP ERP and Hyperion? Technical proficiencies cover SAP ERP, Hyperion, BPC, APEX, and Visual Enterprise. Educational attainment includes Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering and MBA in Finance (Accounting).

Primary tasks of this financial analyst included accelerating close schedule involving eight business entities, including intercompany balancing, movements in internal/external borrowing and foreign exchange valuations. Work was done closely with treasury department on lending, interest and cash movements; closing entries to accounts were prepared for cash pooling activities among multiple domestic and foreign banks. Preparing payroll, pension and tax provision accounting entries, along with managing comprehensive detailed reporting of financial results including cash flow, CAPEX and profitability were also handled. Key roles covered analyzing and posting period-closing journal entries, reconciling financial statement accounts, in addition to investigating and reporting on variances. Assistance was provided in the preparation of annual operating budget and performance forecast. Tools used included SAP systems.

Contributions involved leading the month-end close of multi-plant division, consolidating financial statement preparation, journal entries, general ledger analysis, AR and AP functions, GL account reconciliations and reporting to the group controller. Auditing and perfecting fixed asset accounts for company-owned and customer-owned tooling; revising and documenting vendor payment processes; as well as collaborating with engineering on customer billing practices were managed. This individual recognized more than $2M in current and deferred gains. The job consisted of researching, analyzing and reporting on sales, profit and pricing fluctuations in supply/manufacturing based on process efficiency, commodity price levels as well as foreign currency values.

Would a financial analyst with familiarity in manufacturing, technology and logistics industries, as well as skilled in SAP, Oracle, Hyperion and QuickBooks help your organization achieve greater success? Technical specializations cover SAP, Oracle, Hyperion, QuickBooks, Cognos and Essbase. Educational attainment includes BAAS.

Making a positive difference with financial planning and analysis, as well as developing, integrating, analyzing and maintaining monthly, quarterly, and annual forecast were some of the key focuses of this financial analyst. Duties involved measuring the results to plan/forecast and researching variances. Responsibilities covered initiating detailed analysis in support of identifying risk and opportunities and making recommendations to management. Ad-hoc analysis of financial data was completed.

Notable tasks in another job included creating and maintaining ROI reports that determined the savings the company generated by its acquisition. This individual handled budget creation and exported the current YTD results from Hyperion/Brio, into Excel. Functions involved adding remaining year forecast, tweaking for anomalies and known changes in business, inserting mandatory reduction (typically 5%-15%) and presenting to directors/executive management as ‘first pass’ baseline. Responsibilities covered determining where reductions/increases were necessary based on new/discontinued business, in addition to determining ‘what breaks’ due to mandatory reductions. Findings were presented to finance and executives. Forecast creation and maintenance were also handled; YTD financials were exported from Hyperion/Brio into Excel and pivoted by cost/income type, by month. Static line items were extended for the remaining months in the year. Adjusting current quarter with known changes in business and using the current run rates for the remaining year were efficiently handled.

Could your organization use a financial analyst who is experienced in technology, government and airline industries, as well as proficient in SAP? Technical proficiencies cover SAP ERP, BI and Oracle. Educational background includes Bachelor of Science in Industrial Technology; and Master’s in Business Administration. This individual is a Certified Senior Technology Manager.

Some impact contributions of this financial analyst included providing General Funds Enterprise Business System (GFEBS) system sustainment training and subject matter expertise to various organizations, 50 states and 3 US territories. This individual was responsible for maintaining credible sustainment GFEBS training and provide technical support that transitioned the budget execution comptroller staff as well as provide support to the States. Providing GFEBS and Global Combat Support System- Army (GCSS-A) support to all interfaced systems and serving as the subject matter expert on reports, data accuracy, and system upgrades affecting funding and execution data were efficiently carried out. System funds distribution audit support was provided to the staff ensuring system audit trails matched with hard copy funding documents for over $17B of base, other contingency operations, counter drug and southwest border appropriated funding.

Skills involved working with government personnel and simplifying GFEBS financial understanding and operational process methods within staff sections. Functions covered constructing Excel data base extracts and reconfiguring the data supporting personnel balancing of funds for company appropriations as needed. Support was provided for any GFEBS data construction to support accounting and budget operations personnel. Review was done on GCCS-Army SAP changes for funding distribution process at state level and Funds Control Module transition.

Would a business analyst with familiarity in the packaging industry help your organization achieve greater success? Technical specializations cover SAP ERP. Educational attainment includes Bachelor of Business Administration; and Associates of Accounting. This individual obtained a certification in Lean Six Sigma Yellow Belt.

Making a positive difference with assisting in global transitions from legacy systems to SAP involving regulatory, material masters, supply chain, quality management, logistics, planning, production execution and costing were some of the key focuses of this business analyst. This included mapping from existing system to SAP, creating training documents and providing training. Coordinating SAP rollouts, upgrades and retrofits as site lead for Material Master Data was part of the duties. Responsibilities covered managing projects to complete manufacturing/warehouse location startups, relocations and closures, aside from mentoring colleagues and transferring knowledge to increase business continuity. Aside from maintaining the required tables as necessary to support customer facing transactions, data was analyzed to ensure global standards and procedures were maintained. Notable tasks included providing SAP master data support to locations globally on a daily basis through an incident tracking system, in addition to resolving complex problems using existing system options. Best practices and knowledge of internal/external business issues were used to assist in improving products, processes and services.

In another position, this individual served as liaison with the global master data team to ensure accurate data preparation throughout the European phase of SAP/ERP go-live. Functions involved preparing the material, BOM, route and other templates as required to complete SAP/ERP implementation, as well as providing on-site support for go-live and maintaining data for a new manufacturing facility.

Could your organization use a business analyst who is experienced in pharmaceutical, software and legal services industries, as well as proficient in SAP HANA, ECC and Oracle? Technical proficiencies cover SAP HANA, ECC and Oracle. Educational background includes M.S. Information Systems and B.S. Business with concentration in Finance.

For a pharmaceutical company, impact contributions of this business analyst included performing proper assignment of GTINs, GLNs, company prefix, and package level indicator assignments for all serialized products around the globe. This individual utilized labeling systems, regional ECCs, global regulatory standards, and other tools to ensure all products were identified properly and compatible and was accountable for supplying master data SAP to customers or vendors integrating with client for serialization purposes. Key roles involved using transaction codes in HANA and ECC systems for validation using SE16 such as MARM, MAKT, TPRF, and other relevant tables (i.e., plant material status, and looking up displayed materials) in the ECC Prod system for data analysis purposes.

Skills brought to the table involved configuring material master based on regulation requirements per country and supporting the material master data setup for testing to ensure the configuration was working properly. Functions covered setting up the master data for new brand owner divestiture (i.e., business partner, location and system), in addition to configuring the decommissioning and EPCIS mapping table for shipping events based on the brand owners. The job consisted of assisting in managing queries to GTIN Enumeration mailbox related to GS1 standards and global regulatory requirements. Presentation concepts were created based on country book serialization/regulations using MS PowerPoint.

What can a business analyst with work background in construction, manufacturing and IT services industries, as well as specializations in SAP MM, SD, PP, FICO, TM, WM, ABAP and IDD bring to your organization? Technical specializations involve SAP MM, SD, PP, FICO, TM, WM, ABAP and IDD. The specialist was trained on programming languages network and data communication; database systems applied cryptography; non-linear data structures linear data structures and algorithm analysis; and assembler programming operating systems concepts and designs. Educational attainment includes Bachelor of Science in Computer Science; and Bachelor of Science in Computer Security.

Working with areas such as developing for a large SAP customer and developing reports or programs for the SAP architecture were some of the responsibilities of this business analyst. Duties covered assisting with other various SAP related projects and applying experience in MM, SD, PP, FI/CO, and others. Experience with interfaces to 3-party applications was also utilized.

While in other jobs, functions consisted of developing reports and programs for the SAP architecture, as well as using SmartForms, SAP Scripts, ALV programming, ABAP Objects, and custom programs/reports (using ABAP). Aside from applying experience with BAPIs, BADIs, RFC, BDC, IDOCs and NWBC, help was extended with planning/execution for SAP implementations and upgrades. The NWBC content was developed. The job covered acting as a coach/mentor for less experienced developers, applying experience in SD, MM, TM, WM, FI/CO, IDM, and others, while also interfacing to 3-party applications. Tasks involved identity management, managing 3 full life-cycle projects and serving as the security lead.

Could the future success of your organization be helped by this business analyst who worked in packaged goods, business services and education industries, as well as proficient in SAP MM, ECC, BODS and S/4 HANA? Technical competencies involve SAP MM, ECC, BODS and S/4 HANA. Educational background includes BBA (Business Analytics).

Important contributions of this business analyst included working on a global template for procure-to-pay process including modeling the leading practices, requirement gathering, business process mapping, blueprint generation, preparation of global templates, building the solution and testing. The job entailed re-engineering and implementing the business processes (standardization, simplification and automation). SAP Master data harmonization was carried out, identifying common nomenclature for master data (material master, vendor master, source list, info records, pricing conditions, message conditions). Aside from enriching master data to populate missing attributes, identifying then removing duplicates, as well as mock load validation with business were efficiently completed.

This specialist handled material master configuration including material types, material master, material types, material groups, field selection groups, maintaining company codes for materials management, number ranges, system messages, data definitions, data mapping for the fields and base unit of measure. Additional unit of measures, conversions, classification data, purchasing view and purchasing value key were also managed. Vendor master data migration was handled, along with defining the fields for vendor master, field mapping, validation of conversion and testing. Functions involved developing conversional functional specification for purchase order, contracts, vendor master, material master, source list and info records. Work was done on functional specification for enhancements, reports and interfaces.

How can your organization gain an advantage with the help of a business analyst with work background in pharmaceutical, business services and retail industries, as well as skilled in SAP? Technical skills cover SAP MM, PP, SD, WM, ECC and ITS Mobile Application. Educational attainment includes Bachelor of Science in Business Management, along with various SAP training courses.

While working for a pharmaceutical company, main functions of this business analyst were composed of designing, building, testing and deploying a serialization solution per business requirements. This individual integrated SAP ECC and created system documentation including technical/functional scripts and test plans/scripts such as IQ/OQ/PQ. Duties covered providing tier 1 or 2 technical support for SAP MM, PP, SD and WM, as well as applying strong understanding of business processes associated to the supply chain activities to develop and test SAP objects. Experience creating and maintaining idocs and xml documents was also applied. SAP ITS Mobile application and processes for serialization and SAP WM were supported. Notable tasks included applying expert knowledge of GS1 standards including EPCIS and GS1 barcode standards and using proficiency in MS Office including Visio, Project and SharePoint. Relevant government regulations were understood.

Responsibilities in another job consisted of serving as IT project lead for serialization (MM, PP and WM Project) and handling suspicious order monitoring (government project). Changes were configured for break/fix and enhancements per business requirements. Tasks involved providing first and second level tier support for SAP SD/MM/LE and SAP AII/OER & PI, TraceLink and Optel, along with proactively managing incidents and calls ensuring ownership was taken until closure.

Does a business analyst who is experienced in retail, government and technology industries, as well as knowledgeable in SAP SCM, F&R, ERP EDI, BI, FICO, MM and WMS pique your interest? Technical knowledge includes SAP SCM, F&R, ERP EDI, BI, FICO, MM and WMS. Accomplishments involved reducing the time and inefficiencies in existing testing by overhauling SAP test scripts, test plans and processes, improving testing accuracy, and documentation while reducing required testing resources and business impact by more than 50%. Educational background includes Bachelor of Science in Aviation Maintenance Management.

Major responsibilities of this business analyst included working with business partners to understand business processes, review current documentation to identify gaps, design and document process improvements, as well as documenting business requests, estimate work effort, duration, and resource requirements. Key roles covered defining the scope and documenting any out-of-scope issues. Developing project plans and functional requirements, reporting the status, and ensuring IT standards and SLDC V-Model methodology were met were positive experiences brought to the business table. Assistance was provided in handling system configuration and implementation strategy. Reviewing SAP user security profiles was done to ensure accuracy and adjusting where necessary.

The job covered serving as test lead for SAP areas of SCM, EDI, ERP, F&R, FICO, MM, WMS, and SAP BI for annual upgrades/enhancements. One of the tasks consisted of researching OSS notes for applicable prerequisites that needed implementation before upgrade. Functions involved developing test cases, creating end to end test plans and scripts and then working with the business partners to execute scripts and drive issue resolution.