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S/4HANA Finance, designed by someone who has configured it.
Twenty-five years in SAP Finance, from R/3 4.6C to S/4HANA. Every module on this page has been designed, configured and taken live by Burhan Kunda personally, in banks, telecoms, hospitals, and all three levels of Canadian government.
What we do
The finance core, module by module.
S/4HANA transition and migration
Brownfield conversions and greenfield builds. Readiness checks, simplification items, custom code impact, New GL activation, delta customizing, cutover, and the pre and post migration comparison reports that prove the numbers survived.
Treasury, Cash and Bank Communication
Transaction Manager, securities and portfolios, Bank Account Management, Bank Communication Management, electronic bank statements, lockbox, EFT in Canada and the US, and liquidity forecasting.
Central Finance and Group Reporting
Central Finance architecture for organizations consolidating many ERPs onto one S/4HANA ledger, with mapping, replication, and reconciliation designed for the auditors, not just the project.
Funds Management and public sector finance
Budget entry, supplements, transfers, funds reservations, commitments, availability control, and position budgeting. Fund-based accounting for federal, provincial, health and education clients.
Revenue recognition, IFRS 15 and SAP RAR
Contract combination, performance obligations, contract modification, early termination, suspension and resumption. Designed and supported for telecom mobility contracts at scale.
Global indirect tax with Vertex O Series
Tax matrices for 37 countries, US sales tax, Canadian GST/HST/QST, European VAT, taxability mapping to material groups, recoverable and non-recoverable tax, integrated with S/4HANA.
Procure to Pay with SAP Ariba
One of the first cloud Ariba programs in the Canadian federal government: supplier registration to payment interface, business partner design, payment configuration, SIPM interfaces in and out.
Core banking on SAP
The first SAP core banking implementation in Canada: Loans Management (CML), deposits, Treasury, Bank Analyzer requirements, parallel ledgers for GAAP, IFRS and tax.
Integration and analytics
Finance integration with MM, SD, HR and payroll, PP, Travel, Concur and Treasury. HANA calculation views, BPC standalone and embedded, and SAP BW for the reporting that finance actually reads.
How we run an S/4HANA program
Five phases. Finance owns every one of them.
The sequence below is the order the work actually happens in. Each phase has a named deliverable, and nothing moves to the next phase without it.
Assess
SAP Readiness Check, simplification list, custom code impact, and a finance-specific gap list: New GL status, document splitting, ledgers, asset accounting, and open items.
Design
Ledger and currency design, chart of accounts rationalization, profit and cost center structure, tax and treasury architecture, and the integration points with MM, SD and HR.
Build and test
Configuration, functional specifications for interfaces and forms, unit, string, integration and UAT cycles with finance users, and the BPML that becomes your operating manual.
Migrate and cut over
Data conversion strategy, master data loads, balance transfers, pre-migration reports and post-migration comparison, and a cutover plan the controller has signed.
Run
Hypercare, first month-end close, first year-end, and the knowledge transfer that leaves your team able to run the system without us.
Selected engagements
Proof, by engagement.
- Global indirect tax solution in Vertex O Series across 37 countries
- New GL activation, document splitting, house banks, lockbox, electronic bank statements
- Collections, dispute and credit management; VIM for paperless OTC and P2P
- Detailed design and configuration of SAP RAR for CMO and FMO revenue
- Contract modification, early termination, suspension and resumption scenarios
- FARR_D_POST analysis, HANA SQL investigation, defect and change request cycles
- Procure to pay design from supplier registration to federal payment interfaces
- Business partner mapping and configuration, streamlined payment configuration
- End to end test scripts, SIT, SIPM interface issue resolution
- Securities, bonds, MBS and CMB portfolios reconciled to Bloomberg cash flows
- Consolidated cash position across bank accounts, loans, investments and deposits
- CML loans, parallel ledgers for GAAP, IFRS and tax, foreign currency translation
- MACRS and bonus depreciation, multiple ledgers and calendars for US and Canada
- Cash and tax ledger via special purpose ledger with automated business rules
- Asset conversion strategy and balance transfer via OASV
- Centralized Accounts Payable with invoice scanning and automatic approval workflow
- Electronic bank reconciliation and electronic payments with major banks
- Payment request via portal, intercompany invoicing, FI-MM integration
Credentials
Fourteen SAP certifications. Two degrees. One ITIL.
S/4HANA
- SAP Certified Application Professional, Financials in SAP S/4HANA 1809
- SAP Certified Associate, S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition, Financial Accounting
- SAP Certified Application Associate, S/4HANA for Management Accounting 1909
- SAP Certified Application Associate, S/4HANA Central Finance 1809
- SAP Certified Application Associate, Treasury with S/4HANA
ECC and analytics
- SAP Finance and Controlling ECC 6.0 EhP 6.6
- SAP Business Warehouse 3.1
- SAP Analytics Cloud
- ITIL Foundation
Data and AI
- Georgia Institute of Technology, Computing for Data Science
- Illinois Institute of Technology, PG Program in Generative AI and Machine Learning (in progress)
- QuantInsti EPAT, Quantitative Finance and Machine Learning
- MBA, Banking and Finance · BSc, Computer Science
Next step
Planning an S/4HANA move?
Bring your readiness check, your timeline, or just the question. A 30-minute call will tell you what the finance design decisions are and who should own them.