Sorina Manzicu

• Collaborate closely with Product Owners, business users, and development teams to define specifications for building effective systems that meet user requirements
• Gather business requirements for accounting processes and translate them into detailed functional specifications
• Conduct thorough research, analysis, and evaluation of information technology system requirements, procedures, and challenges
• Develop and implement proposals, recommendations, and plans to enhance current and future information systems using Agile Scrum Methodology
• Partner with cross-functional teams to deliver process documentation, training materials, and official business communications
• Coordinate with system testing departments to ensure proper testing protocols are followed Technical Expertise
• SAP Systems: Support for SAP R/3 tools and processes across Financial Accounting (SD, MM, FI modules), Treasury (FI module), and Controlling departments (CO module)
• SAP S/4 HANA: Support for implementation projects and migration initiatives
• SAP Security: Serve as SAP Security Expert managing user provisioning and role management while ensuring Segregation of Duties compliance
• Project Management: Track project lifecycle using Jira and Confluence platforms
• Project Management: Identify, evaluate, and handle project risks and opportunities, proposing mitigation strategies when necessary
• Project Management: ensure project successful in terms of budgets, timeline, scope.

SAP Security

Serve as SAP Security Expert managing user provisioning and role management while ensuring Segregation of Duties compliance: Creation and modifications of roles: single, derived, composites (PFCG)

• Role modifications: single, derived, composites. (PFCG)
• Verification of where single roles are contained
• User group creation
• Troubleshooting user access (SU53, SUIM, ST01)
• Transport request, including importing between different systems - STMS, SCC1N
• User creation/ update user/inactivating users from CUA system - SU01/SU10
• Audit support activities based on the ITCG files.
• Involved in SAP GRC Implementation

Project Experience

• Designed and implemented RTS Reversed Sales flow for vendor return processing
• Established integration with Citi Bank for automatic payments and statements transmission
• Enabled SWAP flow functionality within the SAP environment
• Led SAP system implementation for three new companies within the group, including one implementation in SAP S/4 HANA
• Developed new invoicing flow through interface with internal applications
• Managed SAP Ariba solution Roll-out for multiple companies within the group

Career Break for Maternity Leave: April/December 2024

• In depth financial analysis of P&L, BS and other non-financial metrics accounts for multiple projects within NSAM Area for OSS line.
• Manage Month End Close period activities to enable timely reporting of results: revenues, costs, cash, reporting EAC, cash tracker, revenue tracker.
• Monthly and quarterly project financial status reports.
• Lead and deliver the Power BI reporting and SAP capabilities in the Project Accounting department;
• Act as Business Partner in finance initiatives for system enhancement within Project Accounting area related to Revenue Recognition process in accordance with US GAAP;
• Engage with IT (Continuous Improvement and SAP teams) on the design of solutions to implement financial and business processes and systems requirements globally;
• Gather business requirements for the accounting processes and translate them into functional specifications;
• Training, troubleshooting and general guidance on setting up procedures;
• Standard Work Instructions for SAP Structure documentation;
• Assistance with EcoSys system that will push and pull data from SAP.

Projects:

• AutoBlend postings - posting the Blended Margin for Revenues at the settlement time in SAP.
• Revenue Recognition and Cost Accrual RPA
• DSO Power BI Dashboard.
• Revenue Tracker Power BI Dashboard.
• Greenlight PowerApps
• SOAF (Sales Order Amendment Form) Sharepoint
• Audit VBA

• Working closely with Product Owner, Business users, development team in order to define specifications for building effective systems, capable to meet user requirements;
• Gather business requirements for the accounting processes and translate them into functional specifications;
• Collaborate with other teams to deliver content relevant process documentation, training materials and official communication of the business;
• Support SAP R/3 tools and processes of Financial Accounting (SD, MM, FI modules), Treasury(FI module) and Controlling departments(CO module);
• Collaborate with the system testing department in order to coordinate the testing process;
• Ensure projects lifecycle tracking using Jira and Confluence.
• Projects:
• SAP / Finance area: Accounts Receivable projects (SD / FI AR)
• New Company Code Release for Bulgaria and Hungary

• Provide direction and expert knowledge on design, construction and maintenance of financial WBS (Work Breakdown Structure) project structures in SAP ERP;
• Provide support to end-users in SAP and guide them with training and courses with regards to all technical financial processes in SAP;
• Extensive use of SAP ERP in ensure proper alignment of revenues and costs to appropriate service offering;
• Integrate opportunities from Sales Force (SFDC) into SAP ERP;
• Accountable for Global SAP WBS project structures approval flow;
• Advice the requestors on how to best apply the Global WBS Design principles and standards;
• Interpret Master Services Agreements and Statements of Work in terms of revenues, billing volumes, costs, profitability, project accounting and relationship to AFM policy and translate into WBS Design in order to facilitate compliance in financial transactions and reporting;
• Identify any gaps that may exist between the needs of the contract and the developed available procedures and principles.
• Perform testing in the WBS Workflow Tool when SAP Implementation changes occur.

Extra-projects:

• Project Member of Divestiture Management Office Program – Spin-off of ES Business;
• Project Member and Workflow UAT tester for Asset Recovery Services project;
• Project Member for Horizon data quality improvement;
• Project Member for ICEQuate enhancement project;
• Project Member for a USA Commercial Company Code enablement.

• Coordinate Automation/Virtualization projects in the financial environment, complex projects impacting multiple business finance areas: Supply Chain, Services, Tax, Controllership, Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable, Payroll, Credit & Collection and overall Finance Processes in SAP FI & LH;
• Lead initial project assessments, resource engagement and planning;
• Assist general project management activities throughout the entire lifecycle of the project: development, scoping, analysis, design, construction, testing, implementation;
• Coordinate cross-functional teams for the successful implementation of Finance & IT Optimization Projects;
• Responsible for communicating project key objectives, critical path milestones, and overall project status to management and stakeholders through Steering Committee meetings;
• Management of resources, metrics, risks, issues, dependencies, timelines;

• Understand business processes and priorities; identify, define, and validates complex business requirements, inter dependencies, potential risks and issues;
• Translate the business requirements into functional specifications and manage changes to such specifications;
• Document business (user) requirements (in conjunction with or on behalf of customer);
• Assist in the business process design or redesign and documentation as needed;
• Ensure alignment of proposed changes with business and IT strategy;
• Coordinate User Acceptance Testing;
• Provide applications knowledge.
• Extra-tasks:
• Successfully lead the migration to the CIT platform for 2 major accounts in Italy and Spain;
• Responsible for migration project dashboard bi-weekly update, including lessons learned documentation.

• Execute Finance Month End Close processes (revenue recognition & cost accounting, checking of data quality - overall responsibility for the quality of the data, journal voucher adjustments);
• Management and financial reporting (financial reports analysis, forecast, variances to forecast, plan or previous performance, ad-hoc reporting);
• Monitor and analyze P&L and Balance Sheet transactions and their correctness;
• Order Management & Deal set-up & administration (WBS structure, sales order management, contract master management);
• Invoicing;
• 3rd Party Cost Management (cost tracking, invoices checks);
• E3T tool for order booking and reforecast;
• Interact with cross functional teams: Project Managers, Account Delivery Managers, F&O Manager, Financial Analysts, 3rd party Procurement, Account Payable, Account Receivables issue escalation;
• Participation in project status meetings.

Awards:

• 2012- Q3 FY12- Process Champion for FAM CMS Ops- Hewlett-Packard Enterprise
• In recognition for a valuable contribution in CMS FAM team - Iberia region and constant support to Germany team;
• 2011- Customer Service Excellence – Annual Award 2011- SW ECO Ops- Hewlett-Packard Enterprise
• Awarded for providing outstanding service to internal/external customers and demonstration of true commitment to my profession.

Extra-projects:

• SAP Desktop Automation Testing – FAM CMS Ops Hewlett-Packard

• Overall management financial reporting of an engagement (provides the end to end administration services, financial information and analysis, at the engagement level, from receipt of the customer order through to project close);
• Responsible for deal set-up & administration, order management, assets management, engagement accounting, project tracking (maintaining and tracking project financials);
• 3rd party purchasing process
• Month end closing process (revenue recognition & cost accounting, checking of data quality - overall responsibility for the quality of the data), management and financial reporting (financial reports analysis, forecasting, ad-hoc reporting);
• Maintain project documentation in accordance to HP’s policies (deal handbook, country specifics, job aids);
• Interact with cross functional teams: Project Managers, Account Delivery Managers, F&O Manager, Financial Analysts, 3rd party Procurement, Account Payables, Account Receivables issue escalation;
• Participation in project status meetings.
• Extra-projects:
• EDS SAP Project Migration for Italy deals – EngCO Hewlett-Packard