Pedro Filipe De Ramos Morais

Hired by one of the biggest CH insurance groups for SAP Rollout to acquisition of Caser in Spain and work on Payment / Bank Accounting / Cash Management / AR and AP topics across all country Market Units (CH, ES, DE, AT, ES, FR, IT).

Worked on convergence and concept topics to S/4 HANA transformation on SAP Cash Management and eInvoicing and eReporting.

Led Implementation of SAP for Caser spanish companies in Helvetia SAP for the E2E process for FI-AP, FI-AR, payments, bank reconciliation and localisation for taxes. (Dec 2020-Mar 2022)

Key Milestones:

◾️ Redesigned HV FI bank statement incoming payments integration in FSCD from custom to standard solution

◾️ Retired old customer payment trees and introduced SAP standard CGI payment trees and implemented the move from ISO20022 from 2009 to 2019 Version.

◾️ Implemented concept of 1 GL account per bank House Bank (HBKID) with multiple bank account IDs (HKTID), reducing the nr of bank GL accounts by more than 90%

◾️ Spanish localization: Implemented spanish Direct & Indirect Method Cash Flow Statements for Insurance & Noninsurance Companies respectively, fully reconciled. Implemented spanish tax reporting, namely Mod 180, 190, 347, 349 and SII Reporting for both Spain and Canary Islands using SAP eDocument solution (SAP DRC) and SAP BTP Webservice for 2M invoices a year.

◾️ Used SAP AIF to migrate AR/AP Master data & Open items, SEPA Mandates & full GL postings for multiple company code merges for hundreds of thousands of OI and master data records. Used Microsoft Power BI (Power Query) for transformation.

◾️ Achieved over 60% automatic bank reconciliation for MU ES, CH and DE, using spanish format CSB43, MT940 and CAMT.053/054 using a variety of standard algorythms & custom improvements (finding customer/vendor based on tax number, fuzzy search, etc) and co-implemented bank statement interface cockpit in SAP AIF. Integrated MX Camt from Swift Finplus and made transition from ISO20022 v2009 to v2019.

SAP S/4HANA FI CO Team Lead | INAPA (June 2019 – November 2020) Led the FI CO team in a greenfield S/4HANA implementation for INAPA, a multinational paper logistics company, with the first rollout in Germany.

Workshops: Conducted AS-IS and TO-BE workshops across Portugal, Spain, France, and Germany.

Business Blueprint: Developed a global FI CO and Credit Management blueprint for the Inapa group, incorporating country-specific needs.

Key Implementations:

CO Modules: CO-CCA, CO-OPA, PCA, and accounts-based CO-PA. P&L by destination in CO-PA, and then also in CO-PCA with only primary cost elements fully reconcilable

Cash Management: Classic Cash Management.

Local German Requirements: Z4, Z5a Blatt 2, ZM Meldung, GDPDU, E-Bilanz, HGB statement, Umsatzsteuervoranmeldung, Lowest Value Principle for Inventory Valuation.

Complex VAT Functionality: Implemented SD VAT derivation for plants abroad (11 VAT registrations) and managed complex chain transactions.

Rebates & Settlements: Condition Contract Management for purchase and sales accrual and rebate settlement.

Document Splitting: Set up for Profit Center and Segment.

Payments & Debits: Configured CGI single payment files for SEPA and Non-SEPA credit transfers and SEPA direct debits.

Invoice Processing: Managed invoice lists with delcredere.

CAPEX: Created budgeting and actuals reporting based on statistical CO investment orders (mapped in a CAPEX order hierarchy) assigned to asset master data.

Month-End Closing: Led monthly closing processes.

FI-AR: Guided Individual and flat rate value adjustments, dunning and correspondence

FI-GL: Accrual Engine including Purchase Order Accruals

Regrouping of Receivables and Payables

Team Support: Guided and supported team members in FI-AR, FI-AP, FI-AA, FI-GL, and Credit Management modules.

◾️ Executed the SAP carve-out of 2 business areas sold on site;

◾️ Managed the creation of 2 SAP Company Codes for energy production and distribution to meet ENWG energy law accounting & controlling requirements;

◾️ Local Key User for intercompany invoicing SAP project with billing WBS elements;

◾️ Supported Business Controller in all SAP CO allocations and production variance analysis, planning and forecasting;

◾️ Coordinated all accounting activities at the Rheinberg site;

◾️ Plausibility checks of the P/L and performed corrections;

◾️ Performed Reporting & calculation of power/ grid fees, energy audits;

◾️ Ensured compliance with the specifications of the Solvay Group and all national and international accounting rules (HGB, IFRS, tax law);

◾️ In charge of service invoicing with external partner companies;

◾️ In charge of reconciliation and justification of accounts;

◾️ Cooperated in creating monthly, quarterly and annual statements in accordance with the German code of commercial law (HGB) and IFRS;

◾️ Account assignment and entry of business transactions, creation of reports for internal and external reporting purposes;

◾️ Acted as contact for Internal Revision, Auditors, and internal business units;

◾️ Participated in the continuous improvement of the department's internal procedures and interdepartmental processes (proposed & introduced freight cost selfbilling in Solvay, controlled cash discount loss);

◾️ Managed accruals;

◾️ Responsible for Petty Cash on site;

◾️ Performed manual payments.