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Paul (Njoroge) Kiarie

SAP BI/BW/SAC – SAP S/4HANA Finance Functional Support Lead Consultant

Paul Kiarie
United Kingdom

Experience

May 2025 - Present
9 months
United Kingdom

SAP BI/BW/SAC – SAP S/4HANA Finance Functional Support Lead Consultant

Namo Technologies

  • Lead Finance Reporting checkpoint calls
  • Initial high-level assessment and gathering of reporting business requirements
  • Liaise with BPLs on report development prioritization
  • Provide BPLs with necessary inputs to make decisions on reporting requirements
  • Document and validate reporting requirements
  • Create and share report functional specifications to the BI/SAC report developers
  • Engage with developers and provide clarifications on business requirements when required
  • Undertake functional tests for developed reports
  • Document test results
  • Facilitate the sign-off of reports by business users
  • Organise and facilitate report training sessions
  • Track delivered report usage
Jul 2022 - Apr 2025
2 years 10 months
United Kingdom

SAP BI/BW/SAC – SAP S/4HANA Finance Functional Support Lead Consultant

The Birchman Group

  • Lead Finance Reporting checkpoint calls
  • Initial high-level assessment and gathering of reporting business requirements
  • Liaise with BPLs on report development prioritization
  • Provide BPLs with necessary inputs to make decisions on reporting requirements
  • Document and validate reporting requirements
  • Create and share report functional specifications to the BI/SAC report developers
  • Engage with developers and provide clarifications on business requirements when required
  • Undertake functional tests for developed reports
  • Document test results
  • Facilitate the sign-off of reports by business users
  • Organise and facilitate report training sessions
  • Track delivered report usage
Jun 2022 - Present
3 years 8 months
United Kingdom

SAP S/4HANA FICO Functional Support Consultant

The Birchman Group

  • Backfill for daily on-call/ticket support for SAP S/4HANA FICO functional related areas for various clients based on the SLA
  • SAP configuration, implementation and support in an ECC/SAP S/4HANA environment
  • Assist with testing and documentation of results for fixes or changes for clients across vertical industries
  • Provide generalized knowledge across many functions of finance and controlling
  • Act as liaison with client for troubleshooting: investigate, analyse, and solve SAP S/4HANA FICO problems
  • Perform detailed analysis of complex business process requirements and provide appropriate system solutions; identify, interpret, validate and document customer requirements
  • Liaise with SAP technical consultants to support custom developments and troubleshoot system bugs in SAP S/4HANA FICO
Apr 2021 - Jun 2022
1 year 3 months
United Kingdom

SAP S/4HANA FICO/FM/PS/IM Consultant

The Birchman Group

  • Provide expert advice on SAP S/4HANA Finance functionality
  • Design and configure SAP S/4HANA FICO/PS/PSM-FM to meet client business requirements
  • Carry out business process re-engineering to cater for the agile nature of business processes
  • Collect, analyse and document customer requirements on existing business processes, assist in data transfer mapping on migration templates, and determining reporting requirements
  • Carry out information system process design
  • Carry out S/4HANA finance migration and conversion activities
  • System conversion from SAP ERP to SAP S/4HANA
  • Carry out data migration from client’s legacy systems using LTMC, the S/4HANA Migration Tool
  • Determine printed forms requirements
  • Conduct implementation and training workshops using SAP Enable Now
  • Provide guidance on end-user documentation and test plans
  • Conduct and document unit tests and UATs based on customer defined and re-engineered business scenarios
  • Coordinate with other module SAP consultants for integration requirements
  • Design system integration and interface specification
  • Configure for system integration within SAP and between SAP and other non-SAP systems
  • Provide functional specifications to the technical team for any customized developments
  • Design and map out customer workflow requirements
  • Conduct and document super user and end user training using SAP Enable Now
  • Maintain a healthy stakeholder and client relationship
  • Post-implementation system support after go-live
  • System audit
Dec 2019 - Apr 2021
1 year 5 months
Kenya

SAP Project Manager | Change Management Lead | SAP S/4HANA Finance Lead

Simlogic Solutions (K) Limited

  • Lead SAP projects, prioritizing work and overseeing multiple projects in parallel
  • Manage all aspects of project life cycle to facilitate successful delivery to executive team
  • Oversee SAP projects to provide metrics for reporting to executive team on business case ROI
  • Ensure that all SAP project goals are accomplished according to specifications and business objectives
  • Provide cost benefit analysis on selected business processes to assemble input into business case
  • Develop and oversee detailed project plans
  • Identify, analyse and recommend business systems solutions to management having broad business impact
  • Establish detailed project plans and metrics, work plans, schedules, resource plans and status reports
  • Identify project risks and develop risk mitigation plans
  • Provide project leadership, work direction and feedback
  • Motivate work of others outside of direct authority to ensure project milestones and deliverables are met
  • Convey and report status to executives and key stakeholders
  • Present formal presentations and executive summaries to senior management to provide recommendations and status updates
  • Apply a structured methodology and lead change management activities including support communication efforts, assess change impact, support training efforts, integrate change management activities into project plan, identify and manage anticipated resistance, consult and coach project teams
Jul 2015 - Jul 2019
4 years 1 month

SAP S/4HANA FICO/FM/TV Consultant

Twenty Third Century Systems (K) Ltd.

May 2015 - Jun 2015
2 months

Project Data Consultant - Advisory

PriceWaterhouseCoopers (K) Ltd.

Oct 2014 - Dec 2014
3 months

SAP FICO Trainee

SAP (K) Ltd.

Jan 2013 - Jun 2014
1 year 6 months

Operations & Logistics Officer

Basco Products (K) Ltd.

Jan 2011 - Nov 2012
1 year 11 months

Head of Department Business Studies, History and Computer Studies

Finken Education Centre

Summary

A seasoned SAP S/4HANA Finance Consultant with vast system design, implementation, support, integration, training data migration & audit experience relating to SAP New General Ledger, Accounts Payables, Accounts Receivables, Cash Management, New Asset Accounting, Funds Management, Controlling, Travel Management, Loans Management, Project Systems, Investment Management, Change Management. Upbeat and utilizes current technologies with SAP S/4HANA Finance such as Fiori, LTMC, NWBC, SAP Enable Now, SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC), SAP Cloud among others.

Skills

  • Sap S/4hana Finance Configuration

  • Sap New General Ledger

  • Sap Accounts Payables

  • Sap Accounts Receivables

  • Sap New Asset Accounting

  • Sap Cash Management

  • Sap Funds Management

  • Sap Controlling

  • Sap Project Systems

  • Sap Investment Management

  • Sap Travel Management

  • Sap Loans Management

  • Sap System Integration

  • Sap System Quality Assurance And Audit

  • Data Migration

  • Business Process Re-engineering

  • System Support

  • Training

  • Creating And Updating Technical Specifications And Documentation

  • Technical Skills: Advanced Knowledge In Using Sap S/4hana Finance, Sap Erp Financial Accounting Module, And Microsoft Office Applications.

  • Communication Skills: Polite, Persuasive And Endowed With Excellent Business Communication And Presentation Skills.

  • Organizational Skills: Plans Well And Prioritizes To Ensure Set Deadlines Are Met.

  • Initiative: Sets And Achieves Challenging Goals While Demonstrating Persistence, Commitment, And Dedication.

  • Adaptability: Follows Company Guidelines And Instructions And Adapts Rapidly To The Management’s Directional Changes.

  • Leadership: Monitors, Evaluates, And Enhances Individual And Team Performance.

  • Diversity: Appreciates And Blends Well With People Of Varied Backgrounds.

Languages

English
Native
Swahili
Native

Education

May 2007 - May 2010

Egerton University

Bachelor of Commerce, Banking and Finance · Commerce · Njoro, Kenya

Jan 2002 - Nov 2005

Nyahururu Highway Senior Academy

Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education · Nyahururu, Kenya

Jan 1993 - Nov 2001

Archbishop Ndingi Academy

Kenya Certificate of Primary Education · Kenya

Certifications & licenses

SAP Certified Associate - Implementation Consultant - End-to-End Business Processes for the Intelligent Enterprise

SAP Certified Associate - SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition, Management Accounting

SAP Certified Associate - SAP S/4HANA Project Systems

SAP Certified Associate - Implementation Consultant - SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition - Financial Accounting

SAP Certified Associate - SAP Activate Project Manager

SAP Certified Application Associate - SAP S/4HANA for Financial Accounting Associates (SAP S/4HANA 1909)

SAP Certified Associate - SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition, Financial Accounting

SAP Certified Application Associate - SAP Business One Release 10.0

Scrum Fundamentals Certified (SFC)

SAP Support Knowledge 2020 – Support & Success Essentials for SAP Cloud

SAP Certified Application Associate, Financial Accounting ERP 6.0 EhP6

Certified Public Accountants (CPA) Part 1 Section 1, Section 2.

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