1. Judell Reddy
Certified SAP FICO Consultant
Certified in Finance & Controlling
Proficient in Finance, Controlling, Fixed Assets and CML
Working Knowledge of Materials Management, Project Systems and Workflow
Contact Details:
Cell: 084 699 2217
Tel: +27 31 3642251
E-mail: JudellPadayachee@gmail.com
Personal Details:
First name: Judell
Surname: Reddy nee’ Padayachee
Gender: Female
Marital Status: Divorced
Children: One
Motor Vehicle License: Code 08
Health: Excellent, Non-smoker
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2. Preface
My Aims:
• To deliver value add, efficient IT solutions
• To bridge the gap between Business and IT
Projects worked on
• 2 SAP Implementations - 4.5b and ERP 2005
Modules Implemented:
Finance - General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Fixed Assets,
Banking
Controlling
• Sap .4.6C Upgrade
Modules Upgraded:
General Ledger, Accounts Payables, Accounts Receivable, Fixed Assets, Banking
and Core Mortgage Loans
• Business Representative on Project to Implement Materials Management, Project
Systems & Workflow
• Configuration of SAP Banking
Bank Statement uploads
Define Posting rules for External Transaction Codes
Define Clearing rules
F110 – Incoming and Outgoing Payments
• Introduction of Sub-assets
• USD Reporting
• Vat Compliance
• SAP ERP 2005 Upgrade: Ramp-up client
• BI automation Project
• New General Ledger Impact Analysis and Feasibility Study
• 2 Migration Projects – BOE and Globus
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3. Employment History
February 2011 to date
Nedbank Corporate (Pty) Ltd, SAP Business Solution
Designation: Sap Functional Team Manager
Version: SAP ECC6, EHP5
Modules: Finance, Controlling and CML (Core Mortgage loans)
I manage a team of 10 Functional Consultants and at any one time, between 4 and 5
External Consultants.
Duties:
• Project Resource Planning & Allocation
• Interact with the IT Steering Committee to prioritise projects
• Member of the SAP Business Solutions MANCO and Strategy Team
• Sit on the Change Control Committee signing off on solutions for Production
• Review Business Requirement Specifications
• Review and give input into solution design
• Host monthly feedback meetings with Business Stakeholders
• FI Integration specialist
• Manage Team budget
• Allocate and oversee the work of External Consultants
• Responsible for driving key strategic initiatives – Testing methodology
• Approve transports into Production
• Oversee year-end closing activities
• Due to my background, I am still the lead FI, CO consultant and work on projects as
well as advise on projects
• Staff Administration including but not limited to:
• Performance reviews
• Development Plans
• Coaching and mentoring
• Performance Manage non-performers
• Managing conflict situations
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5. Nov 2005 to Jan 2011
Nedbank Corporate (Pty) Ltd, Group Technology & Support
Services
Designation: Senior SAP FI CO Functional Consultant and Business Analyst
Version: ECC6
Modules: Finance, Controlling and CML (Core Mortgage loans)
Key Projects worked on:
• SAP Upgrade: SAP 4.6C => SAP ERP 2005
o FI and Co
o Fixed Assets
o CML
• New General Ledger Blueprint
• BI Automation
• Recreation of the Standard Hierarchies
• Implementation of a New Client for BOE
• Migration of BOE Division onto Nedbank Corporate Landscape
Duties:
• Analyse business requirements
• Host JAD sessions
• Draw up Blueprints and Functional Specifications
• Blueprint Walkthroughs
• Liaise with Developers
• Perform Unit & Regression testing
• Compile Test Script and coordinate User Acceptance testing
• Re-engineer existing Business Processes
• Design & implement new Business Processes
• System Configuration
• Manage FI & CO integration points
• Manage FI & Loans Integration points
• Post implementation End user support
• Handover new processes to the support and training teams
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6. May 2005 to Nov 2005
AME Africa (Pty.) Ltd. – Health Information Systems
AME is part of the Impilo Consortium and is in a Public, Private Partnership with Inkosi
Albert Luthuli Hospital. I was contracted to support and maintain Inkosi Albert Luthuli
Central Hospital’s Health and Financial Information Systems hosted on SAP.
My duties included interfacing with the client in my capacity as a certified SAP
Consultant for Finance and Controlling. My directive was to provide the client with
solutions and processes that add value and improve performance. This entailed me having
to work on the Procurement module as well as a legacy Debtors Management system for
solution integration.
Designation:
Sap FI & CO Business Analyst
• Client interfacing
• Manage SAP Projects – implementations, upgrades and system customization
• Project Resource Allocation
• Identify Client Requirement – Business Requirement Document Compilation
• Drawing up of Technical specification document
• System Requirement Document Review
• BRD & SRD walkthrough with stakeholders
• System Configuration
• Ongoing User Support
• Compile Test Scripts
• Coordinate User Acceptance Testing
• Obtain Business sign-off
• User Guides
• User Training
• Post Implementation Review
• Marginal configuration of materials management
Projects worked on:
• Implement Pharmacy Stock Management System
• Implement ABC Costing Model for Inkosi Albert Luthuli Hospital
• Reconciliation of Debtors between the Legacy System and SAP System
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8. 2004 – April 2005
MassDiscounters (Pty.) Ltd. – Retail
Designation:
Sap Business Analyst
• SAP Projects – implementations, upgrades and system customization
• Scoping & Planning
• Business Requirement Document Compilation
• System Requirement Document Review
• Implementation
• Test Scripts
• User Acceptance Testing
• User Guides
• User Training
• Post Implementation Review
• Review Enhancements to the Sap General Ledger and Subsidiary Ledgers prior to its
presentation at the MDD IT Forum
1999 – 2004
MassDiscounters (Pty.) LTD. – Retail
• Dual Portfolio
1. SAP Business Process Owner and Super User
• Part of the SAP Implementation Team
• Oversaw the following Modules
o Finance
o Controlling
o Fixed Assets
o Project Systems
o Material Management
• Review and approved Change Requests for submission to the IT Steering Committee
• Responsible for the following day-to-day Activities
o Opening & Closing Posting Periods
o Maintain Currencies in SAP
o Maintenance of all FI and CO Master Data
o Maintenance of Co & PCA Hierarchies
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9. o SAP Support for all users @ MDD
o Chief Liaison between Business and Sap support consultants - UCS
o Assist Business Analysts with the drawing up of Business Requirement
documents & System Requirement Documents
o User Acceptance Testing
o Monitor & Maintain the interface of Legacy systems into the Sap FICO
General Ledger
o Review Sap Customization requests
o Maintenance of FI Account Groups and Financial Statement Versions
o Maintain Authorisation Matrices and User Profiles
o SAP Licenses
o Review Enhancements to the Sap General Ledger and Subsidiary Ledgers
prior to its presentation at the MDD IT Forum
2. Assistant General Ledger Controller
• Preparation of Annual Financial Statements
• Preparation of Finance Pack & Tax Pack Schedules
• Fixed Assets – Assets and Project System Modules in conjunction with Workflow
• Intercompany Accounting
• Review Reconciliations from Payroll, Debtors, Treasury and Accounts Payable
• Finance & Tax Pack Preparation
• Reconciliation of FI to CO
• Responsible for SAP month end and year end closing procedures on SAP
• SAICA Mentor – AAT Level
• Compilation of Sap User Guides
• Host Sap workshops
• Training & supporting new staff
• Mentoring CFA & AGA trainees
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10. 1997–1999
Irvin & Johnson – FMCG
Sub – Accountant
Sap Super User – 4.5b
SAP Finance Controller for the following areas:
o General Ledger
o Accounts Receivable
o Accounts Payable
o Sap Bank reconciliation
o Cheque Register in Sap
SAP Fixed Assets Register
SAP Project Systems – Creating and maintaining WBS elements for projects
SAP Budgeting – Capture and balancing
SAP Clearing Process
Reconciliation of General Ledger Accounts
Trade Creditors Reconciliation & payment
Preparation of EFT documents
Process Foreign travel documents & reconcile foreign currency issued
Administer Senior Managers & Executives Loan Accounts
Oversaw a staff complement of two: Daily Sale Clerk and Admin Assistant
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11. 1993–1997
National Brands Biscuits & Snacks Div. – FMCG
1. Senior Accounts Clerk
Reconciliation of Trade Creditors
Intercompany Balancing
2. Bank Reconciliation Clerk & Fixed Asset Administrator
Cash Book & Bank Reconciliation
Daily Cash Flow
Electronic Banking / Third part payments – CATS in conjunction with Derek Henderson’s Cash
Controller
Accounts Payable & Trade Creditor Reconciliations
Invoice processing
Fixed Assets
Intercompany Accounting
3. Costing Supervisor
Analysis of Daily, Weekly & Monthly Production reports
Investigation of variances between planned & actual production
Costing of new lines
Updating of system stats
Oversaw a staff complement of four costing clerks.
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12. 1990–1993
Amalgamated Financial Services – Accounting & Tax
Consultants
Junior Bookkeeper
Drawing up of Annual Financial Statements from source documents.
Drawing up the Cash Book
Manual Bank Reconciliation
Creditors Reconciliations
Drawing up of cheques and EFT documents
VAT Returns
RSC Levies
Registration of Close Corporations
Transferred Manual accounts onto a computerized accounting system – Pastel
Preparation and distribution of monthly account statements
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13. Education
Southlands Secondary School: Matric Exemption Pass
Accounting (HG)
Mathematics (HG)
Physics (HG)
Biology (HG)
English
Afrikaans
University of South Africa
B.Com. , Bachelor of Commerce
Under Graduate
Subject Majors: Accounting, Internal Auditing
Subjects completed:
o First Year Level
Accounting 1, Economics 1, Business Economics 1, Commercial Law 1, Statistics 1,
o Second Year level
Accounting 2, Business Economics 2, Income tax 1, Internal Audit 2,
o Third Year Level
Accounting 3, Internal Audit 3
Subject Outstanding:
Economics 2
SAP AG
Certification: SAP Finance & Controlling Consultant 2003
TFIN10 Managerial & Financial Accounting 1
TFIN12 Managerial & Financial Accounting 11
TFIN14 Managerial & Financial Accounting 111
British Computer Society – The Chartered Institute for IT
Certification: ISTQB – BCS Certified Tester Foundation Level
Also attended course for:
• Writing Test Plans
• Managing user Acceptance Testing
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14. Middle Management Development Course
Modules Completed:
Management and Management Tasks:- Planning, Leading, Organizing and Controlling
Presentation Skills
Developing Your People
Assertiveness and Conflict Handling
Industrial Relations
Operational Finance
Group Skills
Evaluation and Goal Setting
Business Analyst Courses
Systems Development Life Cycle Workshop
Business Analyst Development Course
Other Training
AC210 – New General Ledger Accounting (in SAP ERP)
SAP Net Weaver
SAP Flexible General Ledger: Migration Tools and Document Splitting
Train-the-trainer
Computer Skills
• Certified in SAP Finance & Controlling
• Sap R/3 4.5B, 4.6C, ECC6 – 16 years of experience
o Finance
o Controlling
o Project Systems & Workflow
o Fixed Assets
o Materials Management
o CML
• MS Office
• MFG Pro
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15. • Derek Henderson’s Cash Controller
• Standard Bank CATS
References:
Debbie Thackray @ AEC
E-mail: debbie@aecsa.co.za
Tel: 082 3706481
Designation: SAP Project Manager
Relationship: Former Line Manager and Project Manager at Nedbank
Michelle Moodley @ Nedbank
E-mail:- MichelleMo@Nedbank.co.za
Tel:- 083 6359850
Designation: SAP Management Consultant
Relationship: Colleague
Sebe Zama @ Nedbank
E-mail: SebeZ@Nedbank.co.za
Tel: 072 809 4058
Designation: SAP Functional Consultant
Relationship: Former Customer and subordinate; Current Colleague
Kuban Archary @ uKuthema IT Solutions
E-mail: kuban@ukuthembait.co.za
Tel: +2784 400 2013
Relationship: Former Manager at Irvin & Johnson
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