Promise Benson

• Making Tax Digital (MTD) for UK Rollout; spearheaded the rollout of MTD for the UK entities, ensuring compliance with HMRC regulations.

• Service Package Releases SIT: Performed and documented test results with cross-functional teams to ensure thorough testing and validation on end-to-end scenarios (MTO, BTO, MTS)

• Treasury Systems: Spearheaded the evaluation of treasury systems vs SAP TRM via workshops, discussions to narrow down options based on cost consideration comparison, value-adds, and POC from demos to drive decision based on business requirement and to meet the timeline before the end of support from as-is treasury solution.

• Cash Box / Cash Tray; implemented changes to enhance our OTC (Over-the-counter) sales solution to streamline cash handling processes and mitigate duplicate entries to improve accuracy and efficiency.

• Electronic Bank Statement (EBS); Enhanced the EBS external transaction mapping setup and seamless integration with the bank to SAP replacing the MT940 with the CAMT053/CAMT054 Extended file format

• Product Costing/Internal Orders; Collaborated with the lead consultant on the proposal of solution and implementation to meet business requirements. Ie Internal order types and external or internal numbering, automation of costing etc.

• Created a SharePoint site to serve as a repository, onboarding and KT for current, new employees and for delegation of recurring daily/monthly/yearly tasks or activities for Finance team. I.e. Standard price updates, Debt recovery schedule, Number ranges, mass creation of CAPEX IO etc.

• Collaborating with the OCM team and BA to record all known and approved process areas by BPO within Nobia, to be published for training new users or IT Finance team as KT.

• ReadSoft Issue Resolution; Acting as the point of contact for resolving issues related to Readsoft/Tungsten Automation.

• SmartForms; authored comprehensive FSDs aligned to business requirements or Smartforms-based outputs, including corporate logos, document headers/footers, group correspondence templates, custom account statements to meet evolving business reporting needs.

• Directed end-to-end design and enhancement of bespoke reports, KPIs, and dashboard analytics to strengthen operational visibility and executive decision making while collaborating with ABAP teams to translate process needs into scalable maintainable technical solution.

• Basware IM Tool; serving as a primary point of contact for issues and enhancements from business requirements related to the Basware ANYERP integration with SAP.

• RPA Automation Expertise: Acting as the functional expert for Robotic Process Automation to automate business user activities and increase operational efficiency.

• IDOCs Error Mitigation; Proactively identified and resolved errors triggered from third party interface (i.e. IFS) via IDOCs into SAP and as part of daily activities enhancing data accuracy and process efficiency.

• Automation: developed an automation for the clearing of GR/IR account, with an approval from business automated the opening and closing of material management, financial accounting, and controlling. Also developed a custom program to mitigate duplicate entries that are posted to the Cash tray from called settlement report files Adyen.

• Customizing and configuring of payment approval workflow as per business requirement for the approval and rejecting of the AP payment proposals which would bring a level of control thereby mitigate inconsistencies.

• Customizing and Configuring Chart of Accounts, Account Groups, Assigning Chart of Accounts to Company Codes, Document Types, Number Ranges, Tolerance Groups, Field Status Groups, Posting Keys, Document Reversals, Invoices and Payments.
• Maintained dunning program, dunning levels, dunning areas and dunning forms for at company code level. Configured payment terms for dunning, for over-due interest calculations, for down payments and automatic clearing of line items.
• Performed FI testing (FI-GL, FI-AR, FI-AP, New GI, CO-CCA., CO-PCA)
• Maintained Number Ranges and Versions for CO as per business requirements
• ABAP Debugging; Performed advanced root-cause analysis within FI/CO, integration points, and programs to resolve complex system defects and performance issues.
• Drive compliance to allow the 3-way match approval for invoices (PO/GR/IR). No-PO-No-Pay policies and Automatic payment functionality which allows clients to take advantage of early payment discounts and rebate.
• Configured automatic payment program, which included creation of house banks, company code payment methods, employee tolerances, terms of payment, and reason codes.
• Material Ledger Costing: executed deep dive analysis, and moving average price variances to ensure accurate inventory valuation across multi-entity environments.
• Data analysis and ETL from FI table per requests.
• Conducted works shops aimed at gathering business requirements for SAP Project Implementations (Assessing the AS-IS and TO-BE) and identifying the gaps.
• OpenText VIM; Served as functional lead/SME for OpenText VIM implementation and enhancements, designing, and configuring Document Processing (DP) document types, BRF+ workflow routing, exception handling, and approval strategies aligned with AP processes. Led end-to-end setup of PO and Non-PO invoice processing, including tax determination, account assignment, duplicate invoice controls, and FI/MM Integration. Authored functional specifications for custom developments and interfaces, collaborating with technical team on OCR validation, workflow automation, and process optimization to increase straight-through invoice processing across multiple entities / company codes.
• Liaise with key stakeholders to determine priorities and solutions for ad hoc queries and issues.
• Maintained Cost centre and Profit centre master data to analyze cost and profit.
• Drive tighter control of controlling gap in procurement policies and streamline payment process.

• Revised and housekeeping of existing COA, MASS Maintenance
• Resolved issues with ACDOCA, identified and analyzed data inconsistencies in leading ledger OL and accounting principles.
• Assigned key users for tighter control and compliance with FI using sensitive field.
• Training and Creation of end user's documentation on new processes and workflow.
• Maintained country specific COA, and tax codes to comply with country's regulations.
• Configured and maintained employee tolerance groups for clearing against customer/Vendor accounts FI-AR, FI-AP.
• Gained hands-on exposure to OpenText VIM, contributing to design discussions on core VIM components including workflow routing (BRF+), exception scenarios, integration; performed SIT to validate end-to-end readiness.
• Performed SIT in areas of GL, AR, AP, BP prior to go live.
• Configured Number ranges for synchronization of data between BP (Internal) and FI (External)
• Performed Data transfer of Master/Transactional data from flat file and legacy system via LSMW Technique.

• Performed month and quarter-end close activities related to areas of responsibility.
• Responsible for all reporting requirements and obligations required for the Accounts Payable process including month-end, quarter-end, and year-end requirements.
• Collected appropriate data for local reports as well as VAT and income tax returns.
• Maintained vendor master data in SAP (create and change vendor details)
• Supported various teams with their requests and projects (Direct Debit implementation and Data medium exchange)
• Maintained and developed new reporting pages in data mining software using PowerBI
• Reviewed and processed high volume AP invoices, ensuring accurate coding and timely payments.
• Prepared reports, presentations, as often as needed for audiences of varying technical expertise and levels of responsibility.

• Maintained financial models/applications (VBA Excel/Access) to automate and streamline business processes and perform financial analysis
• Performed month and quarter-end close activities related to areas of responsibility
• Served as company expert in B2B and B2C advanced payment types, work with business to identify solutions and best service providers to support applications
• Review and audit all accounts payable, cash receipts, payroll, utility billing, and other accounting records and transactions.