Financial Close with SAP S/4HANA (SAP PRESS)

Ready to close your books in SAP S/4HANA? Walk through the end-to-end process, from preclose to year-end close. Review specific activities for period-end close, management accounting close, group reporting, and consolidation. Then streamline your task management with SAP Advanced Financial Closing. Manage tax compliance and reporting, preview future innovations, and more with this complete guide!

Highlights include:

1)Master data

2)Organizational structure

3)Cost objects

4)Upstream activities

5)Month-end close

6)Management accounting close

7)Annual close

8)Group reporting and consolidation

9)SAP Advanced Financial Closing

10)Tax reporting and compliance

11)Analytics

Francisco da Cunha is a leader in the Europe Middle East and Africa Center of Competence and TruQua EMEA, an IBM Company, focused on finance transformation and SAP S/4HANA global sales and delivery. He has a wide range of business consultancy experience, having delivered more than 20 projects and advised on many clients’ SAP S/4HANA scoping and roadmap initiatives. Francisco’s strong finance background, proven project management experience leading large teams, and SAP S/4HANA expertise enables him to ensure clients have the right solutions and business processes that leverage market-leading practices and the most recent technology innovations. Since 2018, Francisco has specialized in SAP S/4HANA and has delivered multiple SAP S/4HANA full-lifecycle projects (greenfield, SAP public cloud, bluefield, brownfield, and Central Finance). His clients consider him a trusted partner with the required experience to shape and deliver any SAP S/4HANA-based initiative.

Piotr Górecki is a program manager and enterprise architect in the IBM Global SAP Center of Competence. He has nearly 30 years of experience in planning and delivering complex business transformation programs enabled by SAP solutions. Piotr has helped deliver large, global SAP projects successfully based on expertise that includes consumer products, life sciences, retail, and telecommunications industries. In his current role, he helps customers define their SAP S/4HANA roadmaps and identify new solutions and technologies that enable them to reach their business goals. Piotr can be reached via www.linkedin.com/in/piotrgorecki/.

Mandar Kashikar is a senior managing consultant with IBM consulting. He has 22 years of experience in financial accounting, revenue accounting and reporting, and enterprise portfolio and project management. He has delivered more than 15 large SAP S/4HANA implementation projects in industries including telecommunications, media and entertainment, energy and utilities, and manufacturing. Mandar is a strategic leader and consultant with deep expertise in SAP S/4HANA Finance, known for blending high-level frameworks with practical solutions. His expertise has made him a sought-after resource within IBM.

Howard A. La Kier assists clients in their digital transformations enabled by SAP ecosystem solutions as the financial transformation go-to-market and delivery leader for TruQua, an IBM Company. He is the co-author of SAP S/4HANA Cloud for Advanced Financial Closing (AFC) and has more than 30 years experience focusing on finance and upstream processes from source to pay, lead to cash, plan to fulfill, acquire to decommission, idea to market, and hire to retire and the solutions that enable them. Howard has worked with some of TruQua and IBM’s largest clients and implementation programs globally in roles such as project executive, program manager, advisor, global integration lead, and global finance lead with SAP ERP products ranging from SAP R/3 to SAP S/4HANA, Central Finance, SAP S/4HANA Public Cloud, group reporting, SAP Concur, and close automation, include SAP S/4HANA Cloud for advanced financial closing. His deep business process and technology expertise affords him a strategic view to uncover business requirements, translate technical topics in business language, simplify complex situations to drive clarity, and facilitate decision-making to yield desired business outcomes. His clients consider him a trusted business partner and coach who enables their professional and business success.

Sonam Pawar is a senior managing consultant with extensive experience running business transformation programs enabled by SAP finance and related solutions. She works with record-to-report and financial planning and analysis executive management and business teams to optimize business processes and drive value for finance organizations. Sonam has expertise in designing and delivering period-end close and close automation projects with SAP and Blackline solutions, including developing and delivering end user training for business and IT teams. She has spoken at SAP events across the world on a wide range of topics, making the latest trends in finance transformation more accessible to business and IT users alike, and breaking down upcoming features of Central Finance and SAP S/4HANA Finance. Sonam’s industry exposure spans professional services, banking, insurance, oil and gas, energy, CPG, and pharmaceuticals and her past SAP S/4HANA implementations cover greenfield, brownfield, and Central Finance.