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Leyla Hasanova

Baku Absheron, Azerbaijan

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  • Looking For: SAP consultant and deployment advisor, Financial Management associate

  • Occupation: Business and Finance

  • Degree: Associate's Degree

  • Career Level: Fully Competent

  • Languages: Russian-mother tongue, English-fluent, Azerbaijani-fluent, French-beginner

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Highlights:I am an Associated Chartered Global Management Accountant (CGMA) with +20 years of finance and oil industry professional experience in various Accounting, Reporting, Internal Control, Performance and Project Management, SAP consultancy roles. Obtained skilful application of competencies in Understanding of Accounts, providing Management Information under multiple GAAP frameworks (IFRS, US/UK GAAP, local PSAs and HGAs), Performance Management, Control and Assurance, External and Internal Reporting, conversion of the data of financial systems in various countries. I was running period end closure for businesses across 4 countries and submission of Group Accounts under IFRS. I have functional/technical/leading proficiency with at least 7+ full lifecycle SAP implementations in 3 regions, 6+ years of SAP consulting experience implementing BPC, FICO, MM, AA, PS, PM, P2P, AFE/FM modules including post implementation support. I have 17+ years of SAP usage and 6+ years of strong SAP project management skills within the data and process areas and can manage and prioritize multiple projects simultaneously. I have excellent leadership, people management and interpersonal multicultural relations skills and demonstrated ability to work with others effectively in multi-cultural and multi-functional teams and under pressure. I can develop and present new ideas and conceptualize new approaches and solutions and I have strong critical thinking, analytical and systematic problem solving skills. I can manage the senior stakeholders and have superior verbal and written communication skills. Developed Python programming skills and Java (beginner) programming skills. Confident in building reports in Power BI, in Excel by using macros in Analysis for Office based on SAP Business Intelligence platform.

Skills:finance, controller, sap, Consultant, Business Planning, Business Analyst, Business Advisor, Management Accountant, Finance Manager, Group Reporting, SAP BPC system Advisor, Power BI report build, Analysis for Office reports build, Accounting, reporting, control, Python programming, Java programming, excel reports build using advanced macros, budget control, cost accounting, planning advisor, business planning manager, SAP ERP ECC 6.0 implementation and system support, SAP BPC implementation and system support, SAP FICO implementation and system support, SAP AAPS implementation and system support, SAP MM implementation and system support, SAP PM implementation and system support, SAP AP and AR implementation and system support, MIDAS system support, HUB system, JDE Edwards system, SAP BPC AFE/FM implementation and system support, XL-Cube, Hyperion, BEX system, ECCS system, data science and artificial intelligence

Goal:To pursue as a SAP Consultant, SAP Deployment Manager, Financial Controller, Planning Advisor, Head of Accounting, Reporting and Control, Data Scientist

Membership:GCMA-Global Charted Management Accountant, ACMA-Associated Charted Management Accountant

Certification:2018-Intro to Data Science in Python and Programming for Everybody (Getting Started with Python) by University of Michigan on Coursera; 2014-Project Management Essentials, Digital Security; 2011-Creating and Managing JVs, Core Oil&Gas accg, Effective Teamworking; 2010-Strategic Planning & Performance Management, Train the Trainer, ARC Essentials course, BSI&Legal provisioning, 2009-Negotiation Skills for Project Managers, Sustainable Internal Control, Managing Productivity, Resources Segment Defined Practice; Pre-2009-Supervisory Skills, Group Accounting Policy, Group Reporting Submitters, ASSET, Internal Control Awareness, First Level Leaders, Advanced PSAs.


Experiences:

Business Planning Advisor in Central Planning Team 07/2017 - current
BP Exploration (Caspian Sea) Ltd, Baku, Azerbaijan
Industry: Oil and Gas
Area of responsibilities: Serve as a Business Planning Advisor and team lead delegate for the Eastern Hemisphere, delivery of SAP BPC and SAP BW 7.5 HANA.
Responsible for: • Super User Community of Practice convener and Common Data Model expert. • Maintain and update Business Plan Element (BPE) process, procedures and system documents and reports • Develop and update other Segment Principles, CDM Principles and Definitions as required. • Provide help to Regions to adapt to simplified QPF process • Investigate, notify, report and correct to senior management concerning any trends that are critical for the correct implementation of business planning/budgeting /forecasting processes. • Determining, implementing, monitoring, reviewing and evaluating budgetary and planning strategies, implementation plans in consultation with other Central Teams • SAP BPC transition support and lead for the regions.--
Global Financial Template (GFT) SAP Data Advisor in Upstream Financial Solution (UFS) team 02/2016 - 06/2017
BP Exploration (Caspian Sea) Ltd, Baku, Azerbaijan
Industry: Oil and Gas
Area of responsibilities: Lead 1 Senior UFS Data Adviser and be responsible of data workstream lead and support , delivery of SAP ERP ECC 6.0 (FICO, MM, PM, P2P, AA, PS) and other system solutions for upstream regions–Australia, Brazilia, Angola, Indonesia and Gulf of Mexico.
Responsible for: • Control delivery of the data work as per project timeline and scope, provide risk inputs and lead on the remediation actions for SAP GFT and data retrofit (AA, PS, MM, P2P, PM, FICO, GTOne-timewriting solution). Challenge existing regional processes and data structure and align with GFT. • Work closely on data transformation and issues resolution with Global Business Solutions (GBS), Process Owners and functional teams (IT&S, projects, wells, operations, PSCM and regional finance). • Deliver standard solutions to Finance by defining and delivering master data (MD) standards and management processes, supporting Backbone program data integration with GFT, effective transitions of MD processes to sustain organization in region. • Support UFS Director and VP with regions’ system, data and process alignment on the UFS initiatives, provide cost/benefits analysis and recommendations for a region. • Run the Data Sustain Community of Practice for GFT, defining data standards. • Proactively manage senior management level stakeholders in the business. • Manage, develop and coach team member, perform people basics: Setting My Plan, Performance conversations, rating, development conversations, etc (applied to all leadership roles below).--
SAP GFT Data Team Leader 07/2012 - 01/2016
BP Exploration (Caspian Sea) Ltd, , Azerbaijan
Industry: Oil and Gas
Lead team of up to 4 senior accountants and be responsible for implementation of SAP GFT data program, standards and changes in the Region spread across 4 countries with 3000 ERP SAP users, transforming the complex and unique data structure of 25 legal entities (4 PSAs and 2 HGAs) to the global data, process and reporting platform.
• Lead development of Region SAP GFT data migration and execution strategies from SAP BKP to SAP PRO (AP/AR, P2P, FICO, MM, AA, PS modules) including but not limited to Work Breakdown Structure (WBS), Profit and Cost Centres, Global Chart of Accounts, Fixed Assets, vendors/customers MD and their bank accounts, bank MD, external and internal Management Information (MI). • Lead regional data set assessment and maturity reviews. • Lead SAP data cleansing and enrichment activities: o 12 Joint Ventures cleansing (17% reduction). o 10k Employee vendors (73% reduction). o 1.3m clearing of Open items (98% reduction). o Enriching 4k vendors and 2.5k of bank MD. • Lead on data transformation, MD development, mapping of legacy to GFT MD and conversion, testing in 5 Data Conversion (DC) cycles, reconciliation and data validation with local stakeholders and sign off: o Gross to net reconciliation for 25 legal entities including cutback and internal/external reporting output validation (BP results submission, partner billing, statutory reports). o Fixed Assets Register and DD&A test output reconciliation and validation. o Validation of BS variances on account level (3k legacy GL’s to 1k GFT GL’s) & PL variances on cost centres (5k) and WBS (8k) including MD and balances and 22k of associated MD MI attributes. • Supporting in the User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and technical cutover, transition to sustain. • Manage senior level stakeholders in the business. • Contributing to Upstream segment in MD governance including development of GFT data standards, Data Quality (DQ) rules definition and DQ tool application. • Development and helping to local finance to establish of Sustain organization after Go Live, gaps and resourcing requirements identification. • Capturing the As-Is finance processes and MI reporting and gaps identification vs GFT standards. • Work on data transformation and issues resolution with global and cross-functional teams.--
Group Reporting Team Leader 07/2008 - 06.2012
BP Exploration (Caspian Sea) Ltd, Baku, Azerbaijan
Industry: Oil and Gas
Lead team of up to 9 senior and junior accountants and being responsible for delivery of internal and external accounting and financial reporting for 5 PSAs and 2 HGAs in the region to meet the obligations to Partners, State and BP Group.
• Lead the robust period end close out process including the SAP processes, BP net books financial results submission for 11 Consolidation Units and strong compliance with IFRS, BP Group Reporting Manual (GRM), financial control and Sarbanes Oxley Act requirements including the Due Diligence and Balance Sheet Integrity processes: o Achieved several times of being the only region of having no adjustments after quarterly BP financial results submission within the Upstream segment. o Developed the system tool to capture in detail the outstanding contractual commitments for BP supplementary information reporting that was recognized by E&Y for transparency. o Lead the complex business projects with the smooth delivery of BP financial results including merger, acquisition, assets swap and disposal ($2-5bln), finance loan activities ($1.5bln) including calculations and booking. • Manage the GRM and Accounting Policies updates review and reflection in local books. • Owner of several Control Evaluation Templates to ensure they address the control gaps. • Manage the update of all Financial Operations Policy and Procedures. • Manage delivery of external MI reporting: o 11 local Profit Tax Returns and reduced E&Y adjustments by 92% (from 60 to 5) despite the challenge of having all my team members changed twice for 4 years. o $100k of annual E&Y fees saving by taking and preparing ~150 E&Y analytical schedules. o Manage delivery of 2 US and 4 UK tax packs analysis and reporting. • Manage the SAP financial system integrity and maintenance including all required system control activities (user access, accounting books close out, SAP training to SAP users): o Segregation of Duties violations reduced by 80% (from 380 to 77). o Optimized the SAP account codes structure and reduced by 25% (~800).--
Shah Deniz Asset Controller 07/2006 - 06/2008
BP Exploration (Caspian Sea) Ltd, Baku, Azerbaijan
Industry: Oil and Gas
Lead a team with 2 people and delivering accounting, financial and management reporting for gas asset during project and operations phases.
• Drive rigor and accuracy in Budgeting and Forecasting. Annual budget $4 billion. • Challenge Functional and Technical Managers and support VP to make sure that activity based realistic budgets are developed and are aligned to cost management strategy, address cost inefficiencies. • Financial statements modeling (P&L, BS, CF) for short- and long-term forecast, cost actualization, variance explanation. • Performance management of approved budget to ensure decisions are made considering value impact. • Lead robust and consistent Investment Governance (IG) process. • Support respective Functional IG processes through development Business Cases and Capital project requests Financial Memorandums in line with approved Business Plan. • Lead accounting, robust management and executive reporting, internal control processes, cost tracking for asset (Delegation of Authority, invoices verification, wells reconciliation, time writing and shared cost allocation correctness, partner audit support, VOWD and accruals). • Develop the financial data reporting structure and cost tracking tool for Operations based on other operating PSAs model, analysis of actual, forecast, budget with variance explanation and intervention.--
Accounts Payable Supervisor 12/2004 - 06/2006
BP Exploration (Caspian Sea) Ltd, Baku, Azerbaijan
Industry: Oil and Gas
Lead a team with 5 people and processing circa 2,100 invoices per month for 5 performance units in region.
• Create excellent working relationships with internal and external stakeholders, address shortfalls, develop action plans and implement them. • Perform final invoice verification checks and “posting” for payment. Achieve>85% of timely payment.--
Senior Cost Analyst 01/2003 - 11/2004
BP Exploration (Caspian Sea) Ltd, Baku, Azerbaijan
Industry: Oil and Gas
Cost analysis
• SAP system booking, accounting internal control and internal and external management reporting for 9 Joint Ventures for the construction of $3.6bln oil pipeline (Joint Interest Billings, cash calls, accruals, cash management, self-verification compliance tests, challenge of timewriting and cost allocation, reconciliation and validation of BS accounts, prepare US GAAP Financial Statements for 2 companies). • Cost forecast and budgeting on oil pipeline construction, BP financial statements forecast (P&L, BS and CF), cost actualization and variance explanation. • Reconciliation and asset data integrity due to change of systems (JD Edwards to SAP and Hyperion to ECCS). • Supporting SAP Fixed Asset (FA) Register implementation, UAT and recording in SAP FA.--
Group Reporting Analyst 09/2000 - 12/2002
BP Exploration (Caspian Sea) Ltdo, Baku , Azerbaijan
Industry: Oil and Gas
See below
• JDE/SUN system booking, accounting, compliance and reporting, issuing invoices and accounts clearing. • Reconciliation and validation, balance confirmation (recovered $1.3m for BP from consortiums). • Group reporting: Hyperion system data input for 17 legal entities under UK GAAP.--
Invoice Processing and Expatriate Payroll Accountant 04/1998 - 08/2000
BP Exploration (Caspian Sea) Ltd, Baku , Azerbaijan
Industry: Oil and Gas
See below
• Processing and verification of invoices, reconciliations. Processing and booking expatriate Payroll of 200 people in JDE system, forecasting annual salary rates for budgeting, booking accruals.--

Education:

Baku Planning and Economic College. 09/1991 - 05/1994
Baku, , Azerbaijan
Degree: Professional Degree
Major:Planning and Economics
Planning and Economics


Azerbaijan State Economic University 09/1994 - 05/1998
Baku, , Azerbaijan
Degree: Bachelor's Degree
Major:Management on business.
Faculty Cybernetics and Management
Charted Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA) 09/1998 - 05/2002
London, , United Kingdom
Degree: Associate's Degree
Major:Management Accounting
Graduated in 2002, association received in 2005

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