Financial Close with SAP S/4HANA

• 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 extensive business consultancy experience, having delivered over 20 projects and advised on numerous 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 enable 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).

• 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 across the 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.

• 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 over 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.

• 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 over 30 years of 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, including 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 into business language, simplify complex situations to drive clarity, and facilitate decision-making to yield desired business outcomes.

• 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 globally 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.

• Rodney Reed is a senior managing consultant in the SAP practice at IBM Consulting. He has extensive experience delivering solutions for product costing, margin analysis, overhead cost controlling, material ledger/actual costing, and general accounting for complex, global SAP clients, with over 20 years spent working on full lifecycle implementations. Rodney’s deep knowledge of SAP products and business processes enables him to uncover and translate business requirements into value-adding solutions, facilitating his clients’ success across food and beverage, automotive, energy, electronics, and high-tech industries.

• Marc Six is a partner at TruQua, an IBM Company. He has been a featured speaker at worldwide SAP finance conferences, broadcasts, and shows throughout the last decade. He has co-authored the E-Bite “Introducing SAP S/4HANA Cloud for Advanced Financial Closing (AFC)” and other finance thought leadership material focused on business transformation and change. Marc began his career in 2014 as a financials and controlling consultant at SAP, specializing in SAP S/4HANA, Central Finance, and the managerial accounting, period-end close, and consolidation process areas. While he is an SAP functional and technical expert, Marc also has experience in management consulting gained during his time at KPMG as a senior consultant in the advisory practice. Marc has helped dozens of Central Finance customers implement high-value global solutions since the product’s earliest versions, and he continues to be a proven industry leader in project roadmap construction, business case development, and business process optimization and improvement.

• Srinivas Sriram is the Group Reporting North America leader at TruQua, an IBM Company, where he drives business value for clients by implementing strategic technology solutions. His over 20 years of experience covers financial data model design, system integration architecture, financial consolidation and financial planning, data analytics and performance management solutions, and end-to-end close solutions incorporating management and legal requirements using SAP S/4HANA Finance, group reporting, SAP Business Planning and Consolidation, Real-Time Consolidation, SAP Analytics Cloud, BlackLine, and Workiva. Srinivas has diverse experience across multiple industries, including in technology, consumer goods, healthcare, and utilities.

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