Profile Gorden Garrits

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SAP Consultant - business analist - business consultant

SAP - Financial accounting - Managerial accounting - integration

Personal summary

Gorden is a multi-skilled, certified SAP consultant and business analyst with good all-round Functional and Technical expertise and clear communication. As SAP FI/CO consultant he worked with many big and small companies and required to have good organizational, analytical and creative skills to fulfill his roles.

One of Gorden's key strengths is the ability to translate between technical and business language - the bridge between business and IT -.

Overview SAP knowledge : Besides the basics within FI and CO also experience with new general ledger, fixed assets, profitability analysis, product costing, integration other modules (MM, purchasing, SD/OTC, Production process, Plant Maintenance, Project systems, Investement management, BW/BI, interfacing via PI/PO) and ABAP

Education/certification

1998 - 2001: HBO Technische bedrijfskunde Hogeschool IJselland / Saxion

1998 - 2001: HBO Bedrijfskundige Informatica Hogeschool IJselland / Saxion

  • Assessment: Management Accounting in SAP S/4HANA for SAP ERP CO Professionals

  • Assessment: Financial Accounting in SAP S/4HANA for SAP ERP FI Professionals

  • Assessment: Business processes in Financial Accounting in SAP S/4HANA

  • Financial accounting in SAP S/4HANA for SAP ERP FI Professionals

  • SAP S/4HANA Finance – Financial and Mgmt Accounting Upskilling

  • SAP Certificating Solution Consultant mySAP Financials – Managerial & Financial Accounting 2003

  • SAP FSC020 Processes in SAP Credit Management, SAP Biller direct, SAP Dispute Management and SAP Collections Management

  • SAP New General Ledger

  • SAPAC805 Cash Management

  • SAP AC505 Product Cost Planning

  • SAP BC400 – ABAP Workbench; Foundations & Concepts

  • SAP TAFI40 – FI & CO Managerial & Financial Accounting 2002

  • EXIN Certificering ITIL Foundation

  • Laboragroep ITIL Foundation

SAP knowledge overview

  • Experience of full lifecycle SAP FI/CO implementations
  • Designing SAP solutions in accordance with customers requests and needs.
  • Implement SAP FI/CO functionality - new general ledger, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Asset accounting, Financial Supply Chain Management, cost center accounting, product costing, profitablity analysis
  • Developing functional and technical specifications for SAP ABAP and interface programs (via PI/PO, also via Informatica)
  • Working together with supporting teams, Business Process Managers and end users in SAP related matters
  • Knowledge of the latest SAP best practices like S/4HANA and SAP implementation techniques
  • Integration knowledge with other parts in SAP: ABAP, FSCM, Material Management, Sales and Distribution (OtC), Purchasing (PtP), Production Process, PI/PO (interfacing from and to SAP)

WORK EXPERIENCE

Gorden is working as a certified SAP consultant since September 2001. He is a consultant with both business as well as IT-background. His experience and knowledge is based on processes and information. The combination of creativity and analytics were the keys of succes related to below assignments.

The 4 previous projects are mentioned below. For more information please contact via LinkedIn or by mail.

Since December 2019 working together with Dimensys on the SAP FICO rollout at Europoolsystem. Responsible for the creation of the SAP FICO template and rollout/migration to SAP for multiple European countries. In October we will go live with the final countries in Central Europe.

FrieslandCampina

September 2014 – current

Role : Senior SAP consultant, business analyst and SME consultant FICO

  • Knowledge sharing and support to teams in The Netherlands, Malysia and India.
  • Responsible for analyzing complex SAP business problems and developing solution within SAP using available tools and technology
  • Coördination, planning, specification and realisation of different small and midsize projects in SAP. Within FI/CO, but also integration with non-SAP applications and other modules in SAP
  • As SME/SAP consultant: solution oriented in relation to performance related problems. Besides this also solving complex incidents and processing of changes/projects in FI and CO

AkzoNobel Functional Chemicals

April 2011 – August 2014

Role : Senior SAP FiCo Consultant, Business Consultant and project lead

  • Worldwide integration with Treasury In-House Cash (payment factory and bank statement processing)
  • As SAP/Business Consultant supported the Credit Control department with the implementation of the collection factory (Add-on for processing bank statements and clearing of Open Items)
  • As SAP consultant implemented multiple legal entity merges. And responsible for different changes and small project within FI and CO. Examples: product costing, COPA and automatic payment process

FrieslandCampina

November 2010 – April 2011

Role : Senior SAP FiCo consultant, lead consultant and project lead

  • Repsonsible for changes and small projects within FI and CO. Examples: product costing, COPA, fixed assets and integration with SD, PP, MM and purchasing.
  • As leadconsultant responsible for roll-out of SAP to other countries (outside NL)
  • Arrange/lead transition from SAP to maintenance department within FrieslandCampina

G-Star

February 2010 – September 2010

Role : Senior SAP FiCo consultant

  • Roll-out of SAP globally. In total 52 company codes created and parts within SAP FI and CO implemented. Examples: new general ledger, FSCM (Financial Supply Chain Management), Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable, Payment Program functionality, Bank statement processing and cost center accounting

Contact us

Only serious requests will be answered. Please check my LinkedIn profile as well.

nl.linkedin.com/in/gorden-garrits-33b9275

info@gsgconsultancy.nl