André Silva

1. Data Creation and Maintenance:

• Create and maintain master records (e.g., material master, customer master, vendor master, COA).
• Ensure that data is correctly entered, standardized, and consistent across the systems.
• Periodically review and update master data to ensure it is accurate and reflects the latest business requirements.

2. Cross-Module Use:

• Integrates with multiple SAP modules, ensuring consistency and accuracy of data across all processes. For example, a material master is used in Materials Management (MM), Production Planning (PP), Sales and Distribution (SD), and Finance (FI).

3. Data Governance and Quality:

• Establish data governance policies to ensure compliance, consistency, and data quality across the organization.
• Regularly audit and validate the master data to ensure it is not outdated, duplicated, or incorrect.

4. Standardization and Centralization:

• Standardize data formats and naming conventions across the system to ensure smooth operations and communication between departments.
• In large organizations, master data management is often centralized to ensure consistency and reduce errors, using tools like SAP Master Data Governance (MDG).

5. Access Control and Security:

• Set appropriate authorization levels for users who can create, edit, or delete master data S4/H.
• Ensure that sensitive data, such as financial information or personal customer data, is protected according to company policies and regulatory standards.

6. Data Integration:

• Work with data integration tools to ensure that master data is synchronized between SAP systems and external systems (e.g., legacy and divisional systems, third-party applications.)

7. SAP R3 migration towards S4 as key-user

• Participation within the accounting team in articulation with IT in process design and final users requirements.

8. Continuing improvement

• Digitalization and automation initiatives

• Adjustments and Closing Entries: Making closing entries (such as accruals, tax provisions, or adjustments), which are then reflected in the consolidated financial results.
• General Ledger (GL) Entries: Capturing all accounting transactions, including revenues, expenses, asset purchases, and liabilities. This includes journal entries for period-end adjustments, accruals, allocations, and intercompany eliminations.
• These entries can originate from sub-ledgers (like accounts payable, accounts receivable, or fixed assets) or can be manual journal entries entered into the system.
• Ensure audit compliance reporting the same figures in SAP and HFM.
• Interaction with the accounting teams divided in accounts payable and receivable, tax, inter-company and fixed assets in order to analyze their entries, understand and correct numbers for the final closing.

• Accounts receivable.
• Risk management.
• Accounts payable automation project (developing an automatic tool for invoice posting).
• Centralization of accounting activities from Germany to our shared service center in order to have the full control for month end closing activities.

• Support the Senior accountant.
• Accounts Payable for UK, Italy and Spain regions.
• Purchase Orders knowledge within SAP MM.
• ERP migration from SAP to IFS as key-user tester.

• Processing invoices: Help with the input and verification of incoming and outgoing invoices (e.g., purchases, sales, utilities).
• Bank reconciliations: Assist in matching transactions between the company’s bank accounts and the general ledger.
• Posting transactions: Support the entry of daily financial transactions, such as journal entries for expenses, revenues, and other adjustments in the accounting software.
• Maintaining vendor/customer records: Update and maintain vendor and customer details in the accounting system.

• VAT and Income Tax reporting: Help prepare and file VAT returns and assist in preparing corporate income tax reports for the Portuguese tax authorities.
• Withholding taxes: Assist in managing withholding tax processes for payments made to foreign suppliers or contractors.

• Payroll processing: Help with the preparation of payroll entries, including salary calculations, social security contributions (Segurança Social), and tax withholdings.
• Employee benefits: Assist in processing employee benefits like meal vouchers, transport subsidies, or insurance-related expenses.