Christel R. - SAP Senior / Lead Consultant / Team Lead

Go to Website

Schipkau, Germany

Experience

Dec 2024 - Present

9 months

SAP Senior / Lead Consultant / Team Lead

Sun & Rise Consulting and Coaching

Various projects:

06.25 - ongoing - Public Cloud implementation - SFC Energy AG
06.25 - ongoing - Trainer at SAP Training Center Walldorf
02.25 - ongoing - AI coaching and SAP coaching
12.24 - 04.25 - Interim inhouse SAP consulting at NTT Global Data Center (not consulting firms)

Functions:

Consulting and support in FI, CO, FI-AA, FI-CA, BP processes and functions
Requirements analysis, solution presentations and specifications
Management of technical implementation and customizing
Testing, documentation and training
Special topics like QR-code IBAN, merging multiple entities, R2R, TRM, CFIN, automatic invoicing and billing
Building international S/4HANA templates (Greenfield, Brownfield)
SAP Cloud consulting, AI products and project tools
Supporting migrations and upgrades, hypercare, support
Interim training for key users and consultants
Internal freelancer topics like finding projects, client management, marketing, sales, accounting

May 2024 - Oct 2024

6 months

SAP Senior Consultant

Axxiome Deutschland GmbH

Customizing and implementation of private S/4 Cloud
Building a template
Testing all standard processes

Aug 2023 - Apr 2024

9 months

Team Lead / Senior Consultant SAP Finance and Controlling

Dehner Holding GmbH & Co. KG

Leading the in-house ITPMs and managing external staff
Functional consulting and technical implementation in SAP FICO and BP
Requirements and process analysis, recommendations and definition of target processes
Topics like R2R, O2C, P2P, tax ledger, group reporting
Planning and management as well as migration of master and transactional data
Introduction of VAT ID validation
2nd level support, customizing and training for in-house consultants and key users

Jan 2023 - Jul 2023

7 months

Team Lead / Senior Consultant FICO

KPS Consulting GmbH

Leading the consulting team for SAP FICO
Consulting in FICO, FI-AA, BP processes and functions
Requirements analysis, solution proposals and specifications
Management of technical implementations, customizing
Testing, documentation and training
Special topics like tax ledger, group reporting, R2R, O2C, P2P
Building S/4HANA templates (Greenfield)
Supporting migrations and upgrades
Training for key users and consultants

Jul 2022 - Dec 2022

6 months

Senior Consultant SAP BP

Helaba

Design and technical implementation (customizing, tables, interfaces) for SAP Business Partner
Creation of specifications and documentation

Jan 2022 - Jun 2022

6 months

Senior SAP Consultant FICO + BP

AOK Systems GmbH

2nd level support for FICO and BP processes
Redesign of customer functions
Support during system upgrade and rollouts to SAP S/4HANA (2020)

Sep 2021 - Dec 2021

4 months

SAP Senior Consultant BP

AOK Systems GmbH

Designing processes between FICO and BP
As-is and target analysis
Detailed mapping of relationships, roles and authorizations

Jan 2021 - Jun 2021

6 months

SAP Senior Consultant Finance & Controlling

AOK Systems GmbH

Designing and technical implementation of new processes in SAP S/4HANA
Coordination with existing processes like R2R, P2P and reporting
Interface description (OData, JSON, Fiori)
Milestone planning, team meetings and test planning
Cross-module customizing in SAP BP, MM, FI, CO, FICA, FI-AA

Sep 2019 - Dec 2021

2 years 4 months

SAP Senior Consultant FICO + BP + FICA

AOK Systems GmbH

Designing and implementation for Brownfield conversion
Integration topics like CVI and synchronization with other SAP systems
Supporting tests and roll-outs
Functional support for Finance
Documentation, workshops and decision papers

Jun 2019 - Aug 2019

3 months

SAP Consultant FICO / FICA

Union Investment

Business and process analysis for reporting according to FINREP 2.9
Concept development including interfaces
Planning and conducting workshops with business departments

Mar 2019 - Jun 2019

4 months

SAP Consultant FICO / FICA

Axxiome Deutschland GmbH

Brownfield conversion from SAP R/3 to S/4HANA and S/4 Finance
Coordination, concept development and implementation
Testing and documentation

Feb 2019 - Mar 2019

2 months

SAP Consultant FICO

RBBG Raiffeisenbank

Customizing of the banking frontend Axxiome Digital with PCP module
Detailed design, customizing and testing
2nd level support and creation of documentation

Jan 2019 - Oct 2024

5 years 10 months

SAP Senior Consultant

Axxiome Deutschland GmbH

Consulting on FICO, FI-AA, FI-CA, BP processes and functions
Requirements analysis and solution proposals
Management of technical implementations, customizing
Testing, documentation and training
Special topics like tax ledger, group reporting, R2R, P2P, automatic invoicing and billing
Internal topics like finding projects, client support
Building S/4HANA templates (Greenfield and Brownfield)
Supporting migrations, upgrades and hypercare
Training for key users and consultants

Jun 2016 - Dec 2018

2 years 7 months

Inhouse SAP Consultant FICO

IWIS – Joh. Winklhofer GmbH & Co. KG

Implementation of global in-house SAP FI/CO projects
Process consulting and solution implementation
Leading international rollouts and go-lives
Upgrade from SAP R/3 EHP 6 to EHP 8
Support for finance processes

Nov 2015 - May 2016

7 months

SAP Consultant FICO

Molkerei Meggle GmbH & Co. KG

Greenfield implementation of SAP R/3 + newGL
Leading workshops and creating documentation
Customizing and integration of central finance and controlling

Jan 2014 - Oct 2015

1 year 10 months

SAP / NON-SAP Consultant / FICO + FS + FICA

Msg Systems AG

Implementation of SAP FS-PM, FS-PM Auto and other modules
Business process modeling with ARIS
Test script development and test execution

Jun 2012 - Jul 2013

1 year 2 months

Freelancer in Business Administration

Sabbatical Unternehmungen

Oct 2009 - May 2012

2 years 8 months

Inhouse Business Consultant

Netage Solutions GmbH

Summary

Experienced SAP consultant, freelancer under the brand "Sun & Rise Consulting and Coaching", with over 10 years of expertise in SAP Finance and Controlling (R/3, S/4HANA, S/4 Cloud) as well as in process management and Business Partner. I have participated in several international SAP transformations and rollouts (6 full lifecycles) and hold certifications in relevant SAP technologies. Currently I support clients in SAP Finance, Controlling and Business Partner through complete transformations, including Process Mining, redesign and ABAP debugging, customizing, specification, training and support.

Besides project work, I offer coaching for team building and end users. SAP skills including S/4HANA and Public/Private Cloud and full customizing

SAP: SAP R/3 ECC, S/4HANA Finance, S/4Cloud
Focus on Record to Report processes in SAP Finance (newGL, GL, S/4HANA, AR, AP, AA, CA, R2R) and integration with adjacent SAP modules, Advanced Cash Management
Focus on Controlling: SAP CO (cost centers, cost elements, profit centers, margin analysis, CO-OM, CO-PC, CO-PA, EC-PCA)
Focus on SAP Business Partner – all in BP customizing
SAP SD (basics), SAP MM (basics), SAP ABAP (only debugging for analysis), SAP TRM (basics)
SAP Rise, SAP Build, Solution Manager, Signavio, SAP Migration Cockpit
Operations: Microsoft Office 365, Build Me for Apps, JIRA, ARIS, HP ALM/QC, Confluence, Python (basics), EBS Workbench, various AI products, project tools
Methods: Lean, Agile, Waterfall, Hybrid, Scrum
Intercompany invoice exchange, e-invoicing, QR-code IBAN, international accounting in SAP (ledger approach), cash pooling, tax solutions
Design of complex programs, functions and interfaces

Consulting focus

Execution of all phases of an SAP project! Scoping, project planning and control, delta assessment, implementation, training, testing, cutover, migration, go-live, hypercare
2nd and 3rd level support during UAT/hypercare and operations, interim positions
Many years of experience as SAP Finance + Controlling + BusinessPartner consultant
Consulting, customizing, specification, documentation, testing, implementation and training
SAP deployment, reorganization and rollout projects both nationally and internationally, SAP migrations Greenfield and Brownfield
Subproject leadership, team lead, senior consulting
Coaching: SAP topics, teamwork, individual performance improvement, stress handling in projects, AI tools, project tools