Sonja Ladinska

(Lead) Business Analyst & FICO Consultant

Skopje, North Macedonia
Experience
Nov 2016 - Dec 2019
3 years 2 months
Netherlands

(Lead) Business Analyst & FICO Consultant

Philips

  • Created SAP S/4 HANA global template solution.
  • Managed rollouts to various countries: North, West and East Europe, North America, South America, and Asian countries.
  • Focused on setting up global template and global and local finance processes, especially R2R.
  • Gathered business requirements.
  • Modelled and set up SAP processes including Finance and Finance reporting, Project System, new Asset Accounting, Investment Management, Treasury, in all project phases.
  • Mapped processes, functionalities, and data from SAP R/3 and ECC to S/4 HANA.
  • Provided data migration support.
Jan 2015 - Dec 2016
2 years
Paris, France

IS FICO Consultant (also acting as Project Manager)

General Electric Grid

Provided SAP consulting services for SAP currency change in all legal entities belonging to the company group. This included:

  • Acting as Project Manager & FICO Consultant for an SAP Multi-currency Account Project (October 2015 – March 2016).
  • Preparing the project plan, Impact Analysis, functional design, and implementation of Multi Currency Accounting and currency changeover in the SAP system for all company subsidiaries (around 106 companies worldwide).
Jan 2012 - Dec 2015
4 years
Netherlands

SAP FICO Consultant

Nidera BV

Provided consulting services for SAP Financial Accounting and Controlling, participated in creating the template for global roll-out, assisted company to find right solutions, and provided SAP support services. Key projects included:

  • Creating SAP global template solution and SAP end to end implementation for Netherlands headquarter (June 2012 – March 2015).
  • Responsible for Controlling, Asset Accounting and FI in all project phases.
  • Implemented SAP for VAT & Withholding tax changes including relevant interfaces (analysed business requirements, doing configuration, and testing).
  • Post go-live support for Nidera Agrocomercial S.A – Spain (February 2012 – May 2012).
  • Assessed and reviewed the final working solution.
  • Performed “fine tuning” (various configuration adjustments) of the existing SAP FI solution, Treasury and in/out SAP interfaces.
  • Implemented legal Spain VAT and WH tax yearly reports.
Jan 2010 - Present
15 years 7 months
Skopje, North Macedonia

SAP FICO & ICT Consultant

SanCom Tech Information Technology and Consulting

Provided consulting services for SAP Financial and Controlling, ICT and e-government consulting services, assisted companies to find right solutions, and prepared/performed users’ trainings. Key client engagements included:

  • Client: Cargill Food & Bio – US (November 2022 – November 2024). Project: SAP global S/4 HANA Transformation.
  • Served as Sr. Solution Integration Analyst and Solution Lead for SAP S/4 HANA transformation project (SAP ECC to S/4 Hana).
  • Conducted investigation, preparation, planning, and workshops.
  • Handled Customer/vendor integration into business partner.
  • Supported current SAP of Cargill Food & Bio for Finance in areas such as Treasury, Tax, Asset Accounting, General ledger, and integration.
  • Client: Janssen Pharmaceutical – Belgium (August 2020 – November 2022). Project: SAP global S/4 HANA Central finance.
  • Acted as SAP Business Analyst (financials) for Pharma EMEA sourcing and manufacturing companies in a global S/4 HANA Central Finance project.
  • Focused on Finance and integration with AR/AR, Project System, and Asset Accounting.
  • Client: UNDP – Macedonia (September 2011 – February 2012). Project: Enhancing effectiveness of the integrity system.
  • Analysed existing SW solutions for enhancing effectiveness of the integrity system in the Macedonian public administration.
  • Client: ZELS, Macedonia (February 2010 – June 2010). Project: Design of ITC solution for E-services.
  • Analysed business requirements and prepared a business case for e-services based on web hosting private cloud for all municipalities of Republic of Macedonia with CAPEX and OPEX projection.
  • Prepared high-level design of ICT solution and delivered presentations for main key stakeholders.
Jan 2008 - Dec 2009
2 years
North Macedonia

SAP FICO Consultant

Sapphir IT & Management Consulting

Provided consulting services for SAP Financial Accounting and Controlling, assisting companies to find right solutions, providing SAP support services, and preparing/performing users’ trainings. Key projects (August 2008 – November 2009) included:

  • SAP roll-out implementation for Johnson Matthey Catalysts, Macedonia.
  • Responsible for FI (newGL, AP, AR, Asset Accounting and Treasury) and various parts of CO in all project phases.
  • Mapped business processes to global template, adding local processes, configuring, testing, training, data migration and post go-live support.
  • SAP greenfield implementation for Inet DOO, Macedonia.
  • Responsible for FI (newGL, AP, AR, Asset Accounting and Treasury) and various parts of CO in all project phases.
  • Mapped business processes to global template, adding local processes, configuring, testing, training, data migration and post go-live support.
Jan 2005 - Dec 2008
4 years
North Macedonia

Head of Billing and Revenue Assurance Department (Finance area)

T-Home Macedonia - Deutsche Telekom Group

Planned and regulated the billing process, bill production, and collection. Acted as Finance manager for implementations of new product developments. Specific project (August 2005 – May 2008):

  • Managed Revenue Assurance project (I, II and III phase) as Project Manager & expert.
  • Focused on data quality and process upgrading to improve profits, revenues, and cash flows in SAP, Network systems, and Geneva billing system.
Jan 2005 - Dec 2005
1 year
North Macedonia

Manager for sales channels (Marketing area)

T-Home Macedonia - Deutsche Telekom Group

  • Planned and controlled the volume and revenue of company’s main segments and sales channels.
  • Performed activities in case of deviations from the business plan.
Jan 2002 - Dec 2005
4 years
North Macedonia

SAP Project Manager & Team Lead (IT directorate)

T-Home Macedonia - Deutsche Telekom Group

Planned and organized team activities, provided SAP FICO support, managed SAP change management, and planned/controlled all IT operational costs for the company. Specific project responsibilities (February 2002 – January 2005) included:

  • SAP greenfield implementation: Finance Accounting, Controlling, Material Management and Asset Accounting.
  • Acted as Master Data Manager.
  • Implemented ITIL processes for SAP (release, incident, problem and change management, service delivering, SLA, KPIs, etc.).
  • SAP SD and WM implementation: Sales & Distribution and Warehouse Management modules.
  • Performed necessary configuration/adjustments of live SAP modules – Finance Accounting, Controlling, Material Management and Asset Accounting.
  • SAP PS and IM implementation: Project System and Investment Management modules.
  • Performed necessary configuration/adjustments of live SAP modules – Finance Accounting, Controlling, Material Management and Asset Accounting.
Jan 1998 - Dec 2002
5 years
North Macedonia

Senior IT Specialist (IT directorate)

T-Home Macedonia - Deutsche Telekom Group

  • SAP FI specialist.
  • Planned and programmed SW implementation.
  • Managed projects.
  • Analyzed, programmed, maintained, and coordinated IT systems & tools.
Jan 1993 - Dec 1998
6 years
North Macedonia

IT Specialist (IT directorate)

Post, Telephone and Telegraph Company “Makedonija”

  • Analyzed, programmed, and maintained IT systems & tools.
Summary

Senior SAP FICO Consultant/ Business Analyst. Multiple S/4 Hana, ECC and CFIN full life-cycle implementations in various industries such as pharmaceutical, manufacturing, automotive, trading, telecommunications and IT. Creation of the global template, greenfield and rollout projects. Successful cooperation and understanding of both business and technical side of a project. Experience with business process modelling and re-engineering, translate business requirements into IT solutions. Excellent communication and presentation skills.

Languages
Macedonian
Native
English
Advanced
Education

Electrotechnical Faculty at St. Cyril and Methodius University of Skopje

Computer Science Engineer · Informatics and Automatics · Skopje, North Macedonia

The University Institute Kurt Bosch

MBA, general route · Switzerland

Certifications & licenses

Agile Project Methodology

Intercultural Communication Training

SAP Agricultural Contract Management

SAP Treasury and Risk Management

Business Process Modeling

Sales Techniques and Skill for Consultants

SAP Consultant Controlling Training

Revenue Assurance

Performance Management

Management Training

HP ITIL Foundation for IT Service Management

SAP General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable Basic Configuration

SAP Periodic Processing in Accounts Receivable and Accounts Payable

SAP Special Purpose General Ledger

SAP WorkFlow for CAPEX and OPEX

MS Project

PRINCE 2- Project Management Method

SAP ABAP Programming Language

SAP Controlling Module

SAP Financial Accounting

SAP Financial Closing

SAP Investment Management Module

SAP Project System Module

ORACLE Advanced Developer

ORACLE Designer

ORACLE Developer

ORACLE PL SQL

ORACLE SQL

ORACLE System Modeling and Server Design

C++

Visual Basic

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