JANICE RALUTA NACARIO
Auckland,New Zealand
Summary
With over 20 years of experience, I bring a success-driven and passionate approach to my role as a FICO Consultant/Project Manager/BA. Throughout my career, I have consistently delivered cost-effective and high-performance SAP FICO solutions for multinational corporations in various industries, such as apparel and footwear manufacturing, consulting, public sector, airport, FMCG, high-tech manufacturing, travel luxury retail, and healthcare. My expertise lies in providing tailored solutions that meet the unique needs of organizations, ensuring optimal efficiency and profitability.
Overview
22
22
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
SAP S/4 HANA Finance Consultant
Fonterra Co-operative Group
07.2024 - Current
- Company Overview: Fonterra Co-operative Group Limited is a New Zealand multinational publicly traded dairy co-operative owned by New Zealand farmers. The company is responsible for approximately 30% of the world's dairy exports and with revenue exceeding NZ $22 billion, making it New Zealand's largest company.
- Design and create functional specifications for WRICEFF items
- Engage with Global Delivery Product Owners, IT SME and Functional Consultants to align requirements and functional solution
- Work with developers to validate and test technical specifications to ensure compliance with requirements.
- Create and design test cases and lead execution of end to end functional testing of the solution
- Document test results in ALM and ensure adherence to approved acceptance criteria
- Implemented best practices in SAP FICO module usage, leading to improved system reliability and user experience.
- Solved functional and technical obstacles and worked closely with project team from different streams.
- Documented and maintained technical specifications for SAP applications.
- Tailored solutions to adhere with SAP S/4 HANA Clean Core principles for Greenfield Implementation
SAP Functional Consultant – FICO (Contract)
Department of Conservation
12.2021 - 06.2024
- Company Overview: The Department of Conservation is the public service department of New Zealand charged with the conservation of New Zealand's natural and historical heritage
- ARIS Modelling for Core Finance based on AOG CPM Processes
- Testing/Training Support
- Lead Core Finance Data Migration
- Key Contact for Finance Early Life Support
- Triage requirements for new process improvements, write functional specifications for reports, propose solutions based on standard SAP and work with SI Partner to implement configuration changes
- The Department of Conservation is the public service department of New Zealand charged with the conservation of New Zealand's natural and historical heritage
- Completed ARIS Modeler Certification
- Completed and delivered ARIS models for Core Finance Processes (GL, AR, AP, Revenue Management, Fixed Assets, Real Estate) on time
- Primary support for Finance QA Testing/Training
- Created LTMC Functional Specifications, LSMW Scripts for migration
- Completed migration and reconciliation of key Finance data (69K Asset Records/Valuation, COA, GL/AR/AP Open items, and transactions)
- Closed and resolved over 50 Early Life Support Questions/Incidents on time
- Worked with Accenture on Finance customisation requirements and solutions in S/4 HANA (i.e
- Dunning, Asset Revaluation, Document type setting, Banking integration)
- FICO Configuration Checks Validation
- Provided ad hoc training/system walkthroughs to Finance Users/Trainers
- Level 2 Support for SAP Finance
- Key Finance Business partner for Embedding SAP Project
Senior Agile Business Analyst
Frucor Suntory NZ Ltd
09.2021 - 11.2021
- Company Overview: Japanese-owned beverage company operating in Australasia, and headquartered in Auckland, New Zealand
- To lead Frucor's Finance transformation project to S/4 HANA
- Working with the Solution Architects be the key conduit for Core Finance processes and solutions and ensure that these are configured according the S4 HANA Brownfield conversion best practices
- Japanese-owned beverage company operating in Australasia, and headquartered in Auckland, New Zealand
- Completed and finalized the Finance Business Process Master List
- Conversion Pre-Checks and System configuration validation based on Simplification Items
SAP FICO Specialist
EBOS Group Pty Ltd
01.2019 - 08.2021
- Company Overview: Australasian marketer, wholesaler and distributor of healthcare, medical and pharmaceutical products
- Ensure the integrity of the SAP Finance configuration across divisions
- Provide specialist functional and configuration design for ECC FICO modules as well as second level support for helpdesk
- Produce, deliver and maintain appropriate detailed functional documentation for FICO systems solutions
- Assist in the deployment of new FICO applications/enhancements/SAP project implementations
- Australasian marketer, wholesaler and distributor of healthcare, medical and pharmaceutical products
- Successful end-to-end SAP implementation for HCL Australia division and configuration of FICO modules
- Delivered 30+ Finance process improvements (i.e
- AR Dunning, Banking Host-to-host file integration, AR/AP Payment Requests, Foreign Currency payments)
- Design Segregation of Duties for Finance Roles in accordance with IFRS
- Manage and approve customising transports
Business Analyst
Qual IT Solutions
07.2017 - 12.2018
- Company Overview: Independent Testing and Assurance Services
- Requirements Analysis and Elicitation
- Create User Stories, Use cases for both functional and non-functional requirements for the projects
- Data mapping from SAP CRM to SAP Hybris
- Create BPMN Process Flowcharts for Building Consents, Resource Consents, Animal Consents, Business Licenses
- Own Product Backlog and facilitate Sprint iterations
- Independent Testing and Assurance Services
Senior Business Analyst IT PMO
DFS VENTURE SINGAPORE(PTE) LTD
06.2016 - 05.2017
- Company Overview: Travel Luxury Retail
- SAP FICO/BPC subject matter expert and a liaison between the business and SAP technical/functional team
- Identify key issues/process improvements then elicit and document requirements from business owners
- Discuss and suggest best practices for business processes with Business Partners
- Validate applications design with a view to ensure functional and non-functional requirements are met
- Facilitate collaboration (e.g
- Stakeholders, team members, etc.) to address issues, support decision-making and ensure common objective understanding
- Ensure compliance with Change Control procedures for on-going changes/enhancements/projects
- Travel Luxury Retail
- Managed the implementation of SAP BPC Consolidation for DFS from blueprint to post go-live support
- Key liaison between business and IT
- As Senior Business Analyst, I facilitated requirement gathering workshops, led KUT/UAT, Go-Live preparation and cutover activities and managed the change requests during post Go-Live support
- Business requirements elicitation/analysis, defined business issues in collaboration with business owners (as is vs
- To-be), validated requirements via cost-benefit analysis, prioritized and negotiated these requirements and communicated changes to stakeholders
- (Consolidation Process, 100 EPM Reports)
- Prepared problem/issue statement documents, diagrams and flowcharts to support change management
- As FICO SME, I have delivered solutions for new GL profit centre balancing, payment requests and supported month end activities/issues and was nominated for IT appreciation awards
Process and Solutions Senior Consultant
NIKE GLOBAL TRADING PTE. LTD
03.2013 - 05.2016
- Company Overview: Sports Apparel, Equipment and Footwear Manufacturing
- Collaborates with Business to translate goals and objectives into projects
- Understand customer's business drivers and changes in priorities
- Consults on issues resolution, triage and troubleshooting
- Gather, validate, and document business requirements across functions
- Refine requirements to include reporting and/or decision support
- Drive the translation of functional requirements into technical solutions with business and IT teams
- Provide specific application or tools support and/or training to business by preparing training materials and conducting trainings
- Develop and manage project plan, schedule, scope and deliverables
- Sports Apparel, Equipment and Footwear Manufacturing
- Facilitated monthly end-user meetings to discuss operational pain points, gather & validate user requirements, define user stories, use-cases, write functional specifications, testing, production release and validation
- I have implemented Buy/Sell Projects for Malaysia, Singapore, SEA (Indo/TH/PH), Australia and Chile as well as Singapore LE Restructuring Project as SAP Finance lead
- I have led requirements gathering for local country invoicing, set up payment terms, intercompany customer/vendor master data, payment processing, performed IDOC document flow testing and validation, validate FI configurations against business requirements, led KUT/UAT and Go live support activities
- I have managed and delivered 40 Finance process improvements that shortened month end closing schedule by 2-3 work days for Trading Finance Operations
Senior SAP FICO Consultant
ATOS INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SINGAPORE PTE. LTD.
12.2010 - 03.2013
- Company Overview: IT Consulting
- Lead end-to-end project delivery as FICO Functional consultant for SAP implementation, upgrades and rollouts
- Application Management support for FICO modules for external clients' operations, SPOC for issues and change requests providing consulting services to improve current business operations
- Develops Functional specifications for ABAP enhancements
- Conduct Key User/End User Trainings/Knowledge Transfers on FICO module, present during pre-sales meeting and product presentations with prospective clients
- Appointed as Quality Manager for Singapore Systems Integration Team and works with Local and Global QM for ISO 9001, ISO 20000 and ISO27000 compliance and certification
- IT Consulting
- I have implemented 4 end-to-end SAP rollout projects owning configuration and customisations for FICO in ECC 6, AMS Support for 3 main clients and participated in pre-sales activities which helped the company secure 2 projects
- I assessed and reviewed project RFP's to provide SAP FICO solutions to business requirements
- Experienced in implementing New GL for ECC 6, creation and configuration of payment files for SAP to bank interface via DMEE, data migration via LSMW script, company code configuration, payment process configurations and CO-PC configurations
- Acquired ITIL V3 Foundation certification
Business Expert/Project Manager – Cost Accounting
PROCTER & GAMBLE ASIA PTE. LTD.
07.2008 - 12.2009
- Company Overview: Consumer Goods Manufacturing
- Lead project to revamp tools used by P&G across the globe for Variance tracking and reporting
- Manage and mentor team of 7 as Lead Costing Business Expert as well as external consultants from HP
- Manage global stakeholders and lead weekly PMO meetings
- Track project documentation, cost, timelines and delivery
- Consumer Goods Manufacturing
- Successfully implemented global project to improve accounting of variances and to keep them up-to-date with current changes in the business with zero impact on Month End closing schedules, 4 project awards and citations from the management
- Led functional system design for ABAP tools and reports
Business Expert/Team leader – Costing & Controlling Profitability Analysis (COPA)
PROCTER & GAMBLE ASIA PTE. LTD.
04.2005 - 04.2008
- Subject matter expert for P&G's standard product costing process for total delivered costs valuation as well as cost components for each SKU/product line
- Perform costing run and upload of additional cost components to ensure accurate costs and minimal variances
- Lead Inventory Initialization/Migration activities
- Gathers requirements and produces product flows and definition of new/modified legal entity model and business processes for CO/COPA
- Provide expertise on costing processes for mergers/acquisition projects while highlighting touch points with FI processes within P&G
- Consult on reporting requirements and process improvements for Costing/COPA Shared Service Operations and Plan Finance team
- Lead mapping and prototyping, system/work process testing, conducting on-site key user training, cutover preparation, actual data load/migration, validating solution set, and post-cutover support; Performed Cost/COPA business expert role during the course of the project while overseeing CO configuration
- Led successful integration of acquired businesses (Wella, Gillette, Colgate-Palmolive Laundry business) into P&G SAP FI-CO System without major issues encountered
- Accomplished 99.96% material master data accuracy for the Gillette project
- Implemented Product Costing, COPA and Variance Analysis for acquired businesses
- Led Inventory Migration and Reconciliation for acquired products for merger/acquisition projects
- Implemented Cost-saving service projects for the company
- Conducted Cost Accounting proficiency trainings for SAP key users and end users
- Acquired Bronze and Silver Certification for Cost Accounting & COPA
- Manages other P&G projects as a team leader for Cost/COPA
Client SAP Security Contact
PROCTER & GAMBLE ASIA PTE. LTD.
09.2002 - 03.2005
- Ongoing support for authorization/log on issues for SAP end users
- Act as Duty Manager for follow the sun support
- Lead Profile localization and generation for SAP Implementation Projects
- Lead semi-annual Control Self-Assessment (CSA's)
- Conducted SAP Security Trainings for SAP Key Users & End Users
- Led SAP Security access clean-up for Logistics/SD module for existing SAP users
- Maintained a Quality Internal Control Rating (QICR) of 8 for base work markets
- Won Excellence Customer Service award for two consecutive years
- Awarded AAI F&A Excellence Award
Education
BACHELOR OF SCIENCE - ACCOUNTANCY
ATENEO DE NAGA UNIVERSITY
03.2000
Skills
- Business Requirements Analysis
- Continuous Improvement Initiatives
- Project Management
- Technical Skills
- Skilled in Microsoft Office Applications
- SAP ECC and S/4 HANA Private Cloud/On-Premise Implementation Skills
- ARIS Process Modeling
- ITIL V3 Certification
- HP Service Desk Operations
- SharePoint Collaboration Tools
Certification
- 12/01/21, Software AG Certified ARIS Modeler Associate, Software AG
- 08/01/21, SAP Certified Application Professional-Financials in SAP S/4 HANA for SAP ERP Finance Experts (SAP S/4 HANA 2020), SAP SE
- 03/01/16, SAP Certified Application Associate – Financial Accounting with SAP ERP 6.0 EHP6, SAP SINGAPORE
- 06/01/12, ITILv3 Foundation Certification, EXIN SINGAPORE
- 05/01/07, SAP CO Bronze/Silver Certification, P&G (PHILIPPINES)
- 05/01/07, SAP COPA Bronze/Silver Certification, P&G (PHILIPPINES)
- 05/01/01, Certified Public Accountant, PRC (PHILIPPINES)
Awards
- 12/01/16, Nomination for People Choice Appreciation Award, DFS Venture Pte. Ltd.
- 10/01/03, Excellence in Customer Service, Procter & Gamble Global Business Services
- 05/01/04, Excellence in Customer Service, Procter & Gamble Global Business Services
- 06/01/05, AAI F&A Stewardship Excellence Award, Procter & Gamble Global Business Services
- 06/01/06, Financial Solutions Special Appreciation Award for Costing, Procter & Gamble Global Business Services
- 10/01/07, Financial Solutions Power of You (Gold) Award, Procter & Gamble Global Business Services
- 05/01/09, Innovation & Best Practices Award – Variance project
Languages
English
Full Professional
Filipino
Native or Bilingual
Interests
- Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning
- Exploring famous landmarks, historical sites, and cultural attractions in a new destination
- Environmental Conservation Projects
- Cooking
- Baking
Timeline
SAP S/4 HANA Finance Consultant
Fonterra Co-operative Group
07.2024 - Current
SAP Functional Consultant – FICO (Contract)
Department of Conservation
12.2021 - 06.2024
Senior Agile Business Analyst
Frucor Suntory NZ Ltd
09.2021 - 11.2021
SAP FICO Specialist
EBOS Group Pty Ltd
01.2019 - 08.2021
Business Analyst
Qual IT Solutions
07.2017 - 12.2018
Senior Business Analyst IT PMO
DFS VENTURE SINGAPORE(PTE) LTD
06.2016 - 05.2017
Process and Solutions Senior Consultant
NIKE GLOBAL TRADING PTE. LTD
03.2013 - 05.2016
Senior SAP FICO Consultant
ATOS INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SINGAPORE PTE. LTD.
12.2010 - 03.2013
Business Expert/Project Manager – Cost Accounting
PROCTER & GAMBLE ASIA PTE. LTD.
07.2008 - 12.2009
Business Expert/Team leader – Costing & Controlling Profitability Analysis (COPA)
PROCTER & GAMBLE ASIA PTE. LTD.
04.2005 - 04.2008
Client SAP Security Contact
PROCTER & GAMBLE ASIA PTE. LTD.
09.2002 - 03.2005
BACHELOR OF SCIENCE - ACCOUNTANCY
ATENEO DE NAGA UNIVERSITY
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