SUMMARY

• SAP professional Over 5 years of experience in SAP Confidential (v4.6 - 6.0 4 years as SAP Confidential functional consultant.
• Proven track record in successfully handling projects from planning phases through post go live business support.
• Strong knowledge of generally accepted accounting principles and financial performance related analysis to assist with decision making, business planning and financial reporting.
• Cross functional knowledge of overall business processes in telecommunications, electronics, and consumer product manufacturing companies.
• Fundamental accounting (GAAP) knowledge and experience.
• Full life cycle implementation of Confidential applications using ASAP methodology. Good understanding of “As Is” business processes, blue print, realization-configuration,, authorization design for role with security team, end user training, and pre-post go live support.
• Hands on experience and skilled in designing and implementing FI (GL, BA, AP, AR & AA) and CO (CCA, PCA, PA, PC & IO). Used LSMW for data upload.
• Expertise in performing financial analyses, accounting, controls, trend and variance analysis, budgeting & forecasting, correcting, financial modeling and financial report about revenue and expenses (key performance indicator, matrix, measures; data gathering, target setting and preparation of dash board report).
• Skilled in project management and process improvements. Analyzed, enhanced and automated processes and systems for businesses.
• Proficient in SAP- Confidential (v4.6-6.0) ERP; Hyperion Planning; Essbase, MS Windows; MS Office products (Excel, PowerPoint, Word).

CONFIGURATION SKILS:

• Extensive knowledge and experience for skills required in proficiently handling work related to Confidential configuration and implementation.
• Financial Accounting (FI) Enterprise Structure: configuration and customizing company codes, creating GL account codes and chart of accounts, configuration of global settings, configuration of GL automatic clearing, configuration of foreign currency valuation, sales tax/purchase taxes.
• General Ledger: activation of GL accounts, integrating the GL with subcomponents, document splitting, segmentation and parallel accounting, controlling component transfer postings, integration with asset accounting.
• Accounts Receivable: building AR business module, configuring and customizing Customer master data, customer payments, customer invoice processing, order to cash process, finance documents global settings (posting Keys, payment terms), dunning, reporting
• Accounts Payable: building AP business module, configuring and customizing vendor master data, vendor account groups, define sensitive fields for dual control, house banks, Invoice processing, document parking, outgoing payment, reporting.
• Asset Accounting: configuration of asset accounting, structuring fixed asset design, integration with the GL, defining asset classes, depreciation areas, configure (base, balance and multilevel) depreciation methods.
• Cost Element/Center Accounting: creation of primary and secondary cost elements, creation of cost center standard hierarchy, activity types and statistical key figures, assessments, distributions, plan price calculation, periodic allocations in plan.
• Internal Orders: creation of settlement cost element, configuration of the Settlement structure, settlement profile, real and statistical postings, configuration of order planning, Budgeting, defining status profile, defining order types.
• CO-Profitability Analysis: configuring and customizing costing based CO-PA and Account based CO-PA including setting up of the operating concern, characteristics, and value fields.
• Closing and Reporting: run and reconcile all incoming interface, start control and clearing reconciliation, run customer billing and vendor payments, approval of all parked documents, run final sales figure and dunning reports, open new period, close old sales and material periods, run all settlements in CO.
• Integration with MM, PP and SD: Integration of FI with MM, PP and SD modules, inventory movement related account, billing and revenue account determination, Interfaces design and testing.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential - St Louis, MO

SAP Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Involved in blueprinting, business process prototyping and configuration, integration testing, and end user training, worked business control process team to make sure configuration were completed with SOX compliance rules and regulation & set up roles responsibilities according to SOX procedures.
• Handled configuration including creating planned layouts and profiles, integrated planning with FI, Confidential reconciliation, cost center assessment, activity allocations, and report creation using report writer and report painter.
• Designed and implemented settings for profitability analysis, which included configuration including setting up operating concern, creating characteristics and value field for operating concern, characteristic including user defined characteristics, characteristic derivation from derivation table and derivation structure and roles, valuation using SD conditions types, planning layouts and profile, and custom reports such as standard and actual gross margin reports using drilldown reporting tools.
• Provided specification, and configuration of posting rules for processing customer payments via Lockbox. Configured and tested the Lock Box program for Accounts Receivables payments in BAI2 Format
• Reviewed and confirmed accuracy of the integration of FI with MM and SD modules, Fine-tuning interfaces with FI, GL, AP, and AR including validation / substitution rules.
• Prepared training materials for the end users and provided training to empower the client with the skills needed to research and review data efficiently.

Confidential, Meridian, MS

SAP Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Worked on day to day support and implementation related issues which comprised Accounts Payable, Account Receivable, cost center accounting, internal orders and profitability analysis.
• Reviewed the current configuration, implemented changes and worked with the Confidential to successfully implement outbound wire payments (domestic & international), Confidential statements and lockbox processing.
• Supported day to day issues such as, creating new payment terms, creating new banks, and investigating payment program issues.
• Also worked on interfaces for printing checks from third party application and developed functional specs to create interface to provide check status to external legacy system.

Confidential, Hickory, NC

SAP Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Interacted with client for requirement gathering and analysis and assisted with the review and update to the functional design documents for Confidential development and implementation.
• Assisted with the configuration of Accounts Payable starting with purchase requisition, purchase order, goods receipt, invoice verification, vendor credit memos and check clearing sub processes.
• Handled configuration to create Accounts Receivable invoices and posting of manual payments received with differences.
• Setup recurring entries and accounts assignment models to handle the large volume of monthly general ledger entries performed.
• Designed and configured cost center hierarchy to meet local (US) business requirements. Designed internal orders to be used in capturing specific costs with products manufacturing.
• Setup transports between the development client and the configuration master client.
• Coordinated and validated the transport of configuration objects between test, Q&A and production clients. Participated in preparing and performing the string and system tests.
• Developed for the client SOP and BPP, assisted with the end users training and month end close activities after project go live.