SUMMARY:

• FI Analyst with 20+ years SAP experience specializing in Intercompany and Finance
• Functional and IT Experience: Functional Accounting and Reporting in a global ERP environment. Hands on implementation, upgrade and support expertise in various components of SAP FI, MM and SD modules. Functioned as liaison with business owners and management during project scoping, functional analysis, design, development, testing, implementation, maintenance and support phases.
• Provide GAP analysis (identification/solution) for business requirements and other issues that might affect the business units. Review business requirements and develop functional and technical design documents to meet business requirements. Coordinate cross - functional teams throughout the organization to identify and assess system issues influencing multiple departments. Lead a team of two subordinates.
• FICO IS Team Lead
• FI-GL, AP, AR
• MADO Project Lead
• Reporting
• FI Implementation Project Lead
• Financial Analysis
• Intercompany AP & AR
• Travel Management
• SIT & UAT in QC
• Tax
• XI interface mapping
• Production Support
• Extended WHT
• ALE - EDI & Workflow
• Project Tracking & Reporting
• Brazil Tax
• ABAP
• & Documentation
• Banking
• Master Data
• Project Lead/Manager
• Netting (ICR)
• Integration (SD/MM)
• EHP/SP upgrade support
• Numerous project implementations in various roles as Analyst, Developer, Technical Lead and Project Lead
• In depth understanding of financial processes and financial close
• Team lead reviewing requirements and prioritizing requests. Balancing workload across the team.
• Ability to multi-task and prioritize projects and deliverables working in a fast paced, time line driven environment with a variety of business and IT work streams.
• Extensive background in Finance and Intercompany Finance with complete understanding of all aspects of financial processes, reporting and close.
• Extensive knowledge of SD, MM, FI and GL modules
• Cross-box purchase/sales and supporting financials: AP, AR, payments, banking, clearing, and netting
• Knowledge of ALE and EDI including non-SAP interfaces
• Knowledge of VAT and WHT legal requirements including reporting and configuration
• Knowledge of complete tax and legal requirements for complex countries such as Brazil, Russia, Taiwan and India
• Knowledge of Banking including bank interfaces, direct debit, SEPA and RIBA (EU)
• Ability to read and understand ABAP code and write technical requirements for development
• Ability to analyze XI and write technical and mapping requirements for interface development including RFC and mapping logic
• Experience in Technical Lead role driving IT to specific requirements and timelines to meet project deliverables
• Completed resource estimates, project estimates, ROI, project plans, contractor interviews and hires, stakeholder reports, test plans, and managed multi-million dollar project
• Managed corporate merger projects and new company start ups

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

FICO IS Team Lead

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Act as team lead for the SAP FI Team.
• Provide guidance and support on any issues the team members may have.
• Conduct 1:1 meetings weekly and Team Meetings monthly to review workload, issues, progress, needs, etc.
• Conduct performance reviews
• Meet with business customers to review change requests and enhancements.
• Prioritize change requests and enhancements for team assignment
• Work as a team to balance work load and assignment.
• Approve time off, expense reports, etc
• Prioritized and assign tickets on a daily basis using the Absolute and BugTrack ticket systems
• Provide day to day support of all aspects of SAP FI module.
• Meet with customers and other teams to scope potential projects
• Work with other teams to determine best solutions across all SAP modules
• Provide solutions and “best path forward” to customers keeping standard SAP as the best choice
• Work with B2B team for interfaces
• Support bolt on systems such as Vertex, GetPaid, Dolphin, ADP, Paymetrics, etc
• Provide day to day support of all aspects of SAP FI module.
• Handle all year end configuration and start/stop activities
• Support semi-annual audits
• Support all MEC activities including translation, revaluation, exchange rates, intercompany reconciliations, tax reporting, and legal reporting
• Support all aspects of AP and AR
• Support all aspects of Travel Management
• Support all aspects of tax
• Support GRIR clearing
• Developed and support statutory reporting model through Financial Statement Version
• Wrote specifications and assisted with development to implement and inventory aging write-down process to reduce the cost of inventory based on age
• Project lead for merger implementation of FI, HCM, MM, FA, PS and Security
• Successfully implemented new Taiwanese company code to support merger
• Performed all aspects of FI configuration
• Navigated Taiwan government invoice requirements (Government Uniform Invoicing)
• Implemented tax procedures
• Trained TW Finance team in all aspects of FI

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Moved Russia and Brazil company codes onto SAP baseline and sunset legacy systems
• Acted as lead delivering projects from cradle to grave
• Russia Project was delivered over 2+ years in multiple phases
• Brazil Project was delivered in 3 months with only one additional IT team member
• Legal, tax and banking requirements for both countries are very complex
• Provide lead role to as many as 25 IT members and managed 5 contractors
• Developed Release to Production build lists and coordinated RTP across multiple SAP and non-SAP systems
• Delivered all aspects of configuration for Intercompany, GL, AP and AR
• Completed SIT, UAT and simulated MEC
• Performed RTP on time to meet deadline
• Supported integration of two of the world’s largest technology companies
• Acted in a “clean room” capacity
• Integrated multiple (25+ SAP and non-SAP systems)
• Consolidated financials within 60 days for legal reporting
• Supported country legal merge as allowed by local legal authorities
• Supported multiple projects after integration to consolidate company codes and eliminate redundant processes and systems
• Integrated newly acquired companies into HP financials for legal reporting and consolidations
• Integrated SAP and non-SAP systems via XI interfaces
• Global Design Initiative targeted moving to standard SAP solutions and sunsetting legacy systems
• Utilized extensive knowledge of Intercompany Finance and business processes to develop a global design solution
• Six month project to analyze, design and deliver prototype model
• Common product platform through replacing multiple legacy systems with integrated real time information thereby improving visibility and consistency for information in addition to increased cost savings
• Unified view and single platform access to information on different functions across multiple legal entities resulting in informed decision making
• Tight integration across modules resulting in data integrity and consistency.