Cezar Serbanescu, Developer in Montreal, Canada
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Cezar Serbanescu

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SAP Treasury Expert and Developer

Location
Montreal, Canada
Toptal Member Since
March 6, 2023

Cezar specializes in SAP treasury, combining his passions in market finance and IT, specifically ERPs. He is SAP-certified for Treasury on S/4HANA and a Certified Treasury Professional by the Association for Financial Professionals. His expertise range from cash management to financial instruments trading and credit and market risk. Since 2006, Cezar has executed 15 end-to-end SAP treasury implementations, efficiently translating treasury business processes into SAP's specific process flows.

SAP FICOSAP

Availability

Part-time

Preferred Environment

SAP

The most amazing...

...project I've contributed to was about market risk—market data, valuation, mark-to-market, and value-at-risk—which was all standard SAP without enhancements.

Work Experience

SAP Treasury Consultant

2018 - 2023
Bureau De Transport Métropolitain International
  • Assessed the current vs. to-be processes of long-term debts, grants, short-term investments, and borrowings and handled their configuration, conversion, testing, and support.
  • Evaluated the current vs. to-be processes in cash management, electronic bank statements, and municipal accounting and handled their configuration, conversion, testing, and support.
  • Handled post-go-live support, evolution, and change requests.
Technologies: SAP Treasury, Cash Management, SAP, Corporate Treasury

SAP Treasury Consultant

2018 - 2023
Société de Transport de Montréal
  • Assessed the current vs. to-be processes of long-term debts, grants, and swaps and handled their configuration, testing, and support.
  • Evaluated the current vs. to-be processes in municipal accounting and the integration with the Public Sector component, handling their configuration, testing, and support.
  • Provided post-go-live support to end users and handled evolution and change requests.
Technologies: SAP Treasury, SAP, Cash Management, Corporate Treasury

SAP Treasury Consultant

2017 - 2023
exo
  • Assessed the current vs. to-be processes of long-term debts, grants, short-term borrowings, and foreign exchange (FX) and handled their configuration, conversion, testing, and support.
  • Evaluated the current vs. to-be processes in cash management and electronic bank statements and handled their configuration, conversion, testing, and support.
  • Provided post-go-live user support and addressed evolution and change requests.
Technologies: SAP Treasury, Cash Management, SAP, FSCM, Corporate Treasury

SAP Treasury Consultant

2018 - 2018
City of Peterborough
  • Assessed the current vs. to-be processes in cash management and electronic bank statements.
  • Conducted workshops on cash management and electronic bank statements.
  • Developed prototypes of cash management and electronic bank statements.
Technologies: SAP Treasury, SAP, Cash Management, Corporate Treasury

SAP Treasury Consultant

2018 - 2018
Richmond Hill
  • Evaluated the current vs. to-be processes of long-term debts, cash management, and electronic bank statements.
  • Led workshops on long-term debts, cash management, and electronic bank statements.
  • Developed prototypes for long-term debts, cash management, and electronic bank statements.
Technologies: SAP Treasury, Cash Management, SAP, Corporate Treasury

SAP Treasury Consultant

2016 - 2017
The City of Burnaby
  • Configured, tested, and supported the trading functions—including money market and securities—market risk analyzer, and credit risk analyzer.
  • Set up, tested, and supported cash management and the payment program.
  • Handled all the security requirements and testing.
  • Defined functional specifications and tested the custom ECC reports and new correspondence.
Technologies: SAP Treasury, SAP, Cash Management, Securities, Investments, Corporate Treasury

SAP Treasury Consultant

2013 - 2016
TC Energy
  • Configured, tested, and supported trading functions—including money market, FX, FX and interest rate (IR) derivatives, and securities—and the intraday market data interface.
  • Set up, tested, and supported the market risk analyzer—including valuation or mark-to-market and underlying market data, FX exposure, and value-at-risk—intraday, end-of-day, and month-end FX rates, IRs, and FX, IR, and implied volatilities.
  • Oversaw and handled business partner conversion, bank master data, automated payment testing using LSMW, consolidated cash position, security requirements and testing, and batch jobs, variants, and calendars.
  • Defined functional specifications and tested the market risk analyzer characteristics for custom enhancements, market data interface for SAP ECC and PI, and transfer of market data and bank statement transactions from SAP to an external interface.
Technologies: SAP Treasury, Cash Management, Market Risk, Credit Risk, SAP

SAP Treasury Consultant

2012 - 2013
BHP Group
  • Configured, tested, and supported the transaction manager, covering securities and over-the-counter (OTC) markets such as money market, FX, and derivatives.
  • Set up, tested, and supported the credit risk analyzer and market risk analyzer.
  • Defined functional specifications and tested custom ABAP enhancements for the market risk analyzer and the data conversion for treasury-related data objects.
Technologies: SAP Treasury, SAP, Cash Management, Corporate Treasury, Financial Risk Management, Market Risk, Credit Risk, Securities

SAP Treasury Consultant

2011 - 2012
Agence metropolitaine de transport (now exo)
  • Configured, tested, and supported electronic bank statements, cash management, and the transaction manager, including securities and OTC markets such as money market, FX, and derivatives.
  • Set up, tested, and supported the loans management component, credit risk analyzer, and market risk analyzer.
  • Defined functional specifications and tested the custom ABAP reports for loans.
Technologies: SAP Treasury, SAP, Cash Management, Cash Flow Management, Corporate Treasury

SAP Treasury Consultant

2011 - 2011
Otera Capital
  • Configured and tested cash management, credit risk analyzer, and market risk analyzer.
  • Provided user support for the cash management, credit risk analyzer, and market risk analyzer components.
  • Set up, tested, and supported the transaction manager, including securities and OTC markets such as money market, FX, and derivatives.
Technologies: SAP Treasury, SAP, Cash Management, Corporate Treasury

SAP Treasury Consultant

2010 - 2010
NB Power
  • Configured new node essentials for keeping the SAP treasury transaction management platform fully operational in the new release. The transaction management areas included were money market, OTC derivatives, securities, and loans.
  • Implemented substantial changes in position management for securities and derived business transactions.
  • Handled the conversion of over 3,000 existing financial deals, including posting the valuation, accruals, amortization, and profit or loss to the general ledger and the transfer of positions.
  • Executed the conversion of existing business partners from the independently managed TR BP tables to the central SAP BP tables, which was a new requirement in ECC v6.
Technologies: SAP Treasury, SAP, Cash Management, Corporate Treasury, Securities

SAP Treasury Consultant

2009 - 2009
Société de Transport de Montréal
  • Configured new nodes in the transaction management areas, including money market, FX, and securities, with substantial changes in position management for securities and derived business transactions.
  • Handled the conversion of over 2,000 existing financial deals, including posting the valuation, accruals, amortization, and profit or loss to the general ledger and the transfer of positions.
  • Executed the conversion of existing business partners from the independently managed TR BP tables to the central SAP BP tables.
Technologies: SAP Treasury, SAP, Cash Management, Securities, Corporate Treasury

SAP Treasury Consultant

2008 - 2009
CN
  • Configured and tested the SAP TRM transaction manager component, including money market and its facilities, FX, and derivatives.
  • Set up and tested the market risk analyzer and credit risk analyzer, including its limit management component.
  • Installed and tested cash management and electronic bank statements.
Technologies: SAP Treasury, Cash Management, Corporate Treasury

SAP Treasury Consultant

2008 - 2008
Gaz Metro (now Énergir)
  • Configured new nodes essential for keeping the SAP treasury transaction management platform fully operational in the new version. This included substantial changes in the TRM transaction manager.
  • Handled the conversion of over 4,000 existing financial deals or trading history, including posting to the general ledger.
  • Executed the conversion of existing business partners from the independently managed TR BP tables to the central SAP BP tables.
Technologies: SAP Treasury, Corporate Treasury, Cash Management

SAP Treasury Consultant

2008 - 2008
Philip Morris International
  • Configured the following in SAP CFM: transaction manager with money market, credit risk analyzer with limit management, business partner for financial services, and CM with structuring.
  • Handled application and integration tests, conversion of existing financial deals, and business partner data.
  • Supported post-go-live operations by offering on-site help to end users.
Technologies: SAP Treasury, SAP, Cash Management, Cash Flow Management, Corporate Treasury

SAP Treasury Test Lead

2007 - 2007
Nortel Networks
  • Configured four nodes of the cash management submodule and reviewed, validated, and corrected 220 configuration design documents and value sets in SAP CFM.
  • Handled application, integrated, and month-end tests. Tracked the test conditions execution status with all treasury testers and led daily checkpoints to gather status updates from testers.
  • Provided management with up-to-date testing statistics daily. Tracked defects and corrected errors when disconnects occurred between the quality center and the internal tracking sheet.
  • Supported testers through security testing by explaining business processes and providing sample test data.
  • Achieved a 100% pass rate in internal controls audits by demonstrating controls, directly in SAP, to the external auditor.
  • Helped execute business partner scripts, posted differences between month-end bank statements and SAP balances for the respective 400 general ledger accounts, and moved all transactions posted directly to bank accounts to specific clearing accounts.
  • Aided post-go-live operations by offering on-site support to the end users.
Technologies: SAP, SAP Treasury, Cash Management, Corporate Finance

SAP Training Developer

2006 - 2007
TELUS
  • Developed 34 hands-on, detailed courses of 2-24 hours each—including high-level and functional, PowerPoint-based course overviews for training—and delivered on-site training sessions.
  • Created the change management project's official website accessed by thousands of employees, including a dynamic section with a database that allowed each employee to see their customized training curriculum.
  • Supported other teams on the project by executing test scripts for the SAP financial accounting (FI), controlling (CO), project system, plant maintenance, and sales and distribution modules.
  • Translated fields of customized SAP reports and transactions from English to French to help other teams on the project.
  • Aided post-go-live operations by offering on-site support to the end users.
Technologies: SAP, SAP FI, SAP Controlling (CO), SAP FICO, SAP Project System (PS), SAP Plant Maintenance (PM)

Assistant Teacher

2005 - 2006
HEC Montreal
  • Engaged as an assistant teacher at HEC Montreal's SAP Alliance. Facilitated a 3-hour class every week to support students.
  • Supported students by email and on the SharePoint forum.
  • Verified the system for data consistency, handling master data and transactional data. Corrected assignments and exams.
Technologies: SAP, Knowledge Transfer, Knowledge Sharing, University Teaching

SAP FICO Analyst

2005 - 2005
Canadian Academic Accounting Association
  • Created 25 company codes, including all the necessary master data and logistics and business partners.
  • Configured logistics for a make-to-stock process using MRP and implemented the FI and CO modules and profit center accounting.
  • Wrote the knowledge management documentation and participant guide and delivered a one-day, hands-on seminar to accounting university teachers.
Technologies: SAP, SAP FI, SAP Controlling (CO), SAP FICO

SAP FICO Analyst

2005 - 2005
HEC Montreal
  • Engaged as an SAP FICO analyst at HEC Montreal's SAP Alliance. Implemented SAP R/3 based on a business case in the telecom sector.
  • Defined the organizational structure and roles and created the master data.
  • Executed the SAP FI and CO modules and handled the tests, go-live, and presentation before a committee of industry consultants.
Technologies: SAP, SAP FI, SAP Controlling (CO), SAP FICO

SAP Treasury Implementations and Upgrades

Performed 15 end-to-end implementations of the SAP treasury module since 2006, employing expertise from cash management to financial instruments trading, in addition to credit and market risk.

I understood and translated treasury business processes into SAP's specific process flows. I also performed more technical tasks such as debugging, data conversion and validation, security testing, functional specifications for enhancements, and mass-automated testing using scripts.
2003 - 2006

Bachelor of Business Administration Degree in IT (SAP) and Market Finance

HEC Montreal - Montreal, Quebec, Canada

AUGUST 2020 - PRESENT

SAP Certified Application Associate – Treasury with SAP S/4HANA

SAP

JULY 2018 - JUNE 2024

Certified Treasury Professional

Association for Financial Professionals

AUGUST 2007 - PRESENT

Processes in SAP Treasury and Risk Management (FSC010)

SAP

MAY 2005 - PRESENT

SAP ERP Integration of Business Processes (TERP10)

SAP

Libraries/APIs

SAP FIN-FSCM, SAP Project System (PS)

Tools

SAP Controlling (CO), SAP Plant Maintenance (PM), FSCM

Languages

ABAP

Other

SAP, SAP Treasury, Cash Management, Financial Risk Management, Treasury, Treasury & Liquidity Management, Corporate Treasury, SAP FICO, SAP FI, Finance, Card Payments, Global Banking, Fraud Prevention, Corporate Finance, Knowledge Transfer, Knowledge Sharing, University Teaching, Cash Flow Management, Securities, Market Risk, Credit Risk, Investments

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