Christopher Brooks Email & Phone Number

Johannesburg Area, South Africa

AUTOMATED GL & VENDOR RECONS IN SAPBEST is a SAP Partner that develops SAP Certified Modules with a specific focus on resolving gaps in standard SAP functionality within the Finance area.BEST VENDOR RECONS MODULE: The BEST Vendor Recons Module does away with spreadsheets, inefficient manual processing & integration to non SAP systems to automate supplier.

Johannesburg Area, South Africa

• I joined the MultiChoice SAP Centre of Excellence (COE) as the Finance Team Lead. The SAP COE existed within a MultiChoice business unit called CommerceZone (CZ) and the Finance team within the COE has consisted of.
• Migration to S/4 HANA Finance 1605 in February 2017. This was one of the first migrations to take place locally and involved a proof of concept and numerous dry runs of the migration process. We were actively involved.
• Implementation of MultiChoice Africa Corporate on the S/4 HANA 1605 instance. This was a full implementation from the legacy system (Great Plains) and involved the implementation of full FI functionality, including.
• Implementation of Naspers Corporate on the S/4 HANA 1605 instance. Full implementation of the Naspers Corporate Group. This included the implementation of in excess of 30 Company codes spanning multiple currencies and.
• MultiChoice South Africa
• MNET

Johannesburg Area, South Africa

Assisted JD Group by running the rollout of their Fulcrum project. This was to change the existing interfaces to cater for the sale of the South African Financial Services debtor’s book. This was to change the interface from their loan management system into SAP to post to a separate legal entity from the date of the sale. In addition to the Fulcrum.

Multichoice

• Joined the MCAL project team to assist with the roll out of SAP for Stock and Distribution to the relevant African countries. The project entailed:
• Work shopping the relevant Countries requirements and finalising the Blueprint document.
• Configuration of solution using the following modules and functionality:o flexible general ledger, o accounts payable with extended withholding tax and letters of credit,o accounts receivable,o COPA - forecasting and.
• Finalisation and delivering of all relevant RICEFW items identified during Blueprint and implementations phases.
• Testing of in Country solution using SPROXY and SOAPUI, as well as full integration testing with Point of Sale systems.
• Upgrade of SAP system to Enhancement Pack 7.

JD Group

• During the course of my tenure at the JD group, I have been part of JD achieving the following with SAP:
• The implementation of the following Finance modules: GL (using flexible GL), AR, AP, AM, CM and RE for the entire group in multiple countries.
• Implement SAP POS in over 1200 stores in multiple countries.
• Convert to a new loan management system for financial services and integrate this with SAP POS and SAP ERP.
• The implementation of SAP MM and full merchandise functionality to satisfy the entire group.
• The centralisation of distribution.My involvement in certain areas is discussed in more detail below:

Johannesburg Area, South Africa

• JD Group Pty Ltd - See previous position for detailed JD description. Metcash Pty LtdImplementation of SAP for Metcash Trading Africa and all subsidiaries. Go- live 28 June 2009. Modules implemented: Flex GL, AP, AR.
• Flexible GL functionality and document splitting
• New Flex GL reporting
• Interfaces of GL information from Store point of sale and back office systems to SAP via XI and Idocs. Accounts Payable
• Full procure to pay cycle configured
• Interfaces from several store systems to SAP via XI and Idocs

Johannesburg Area, South Africa

SASOLBASF (Engelhard)Italtile Ceramics LtdCeramic Industries

Johannesburg Area, South Africa

SAPPI

London, United Kingdom

Product Controller

Durban Area, South Africa

Worked as an Audit Clerk at KPMG for 4 years culminating as an Audit Team Lead.

Fi/Co Certification, Sap Certification

Bcompt Degree, Accounting

Matric Exemption