SUMMARY:

• Over 12 years of Professional experience with Eight years of SAP FICO configuration, production support, project management, and testing of SAP R/3 4.6B ~ ECC 7.2.
• SAP implementation experience includes business process/gap analysis, blue print, functional specs, FICO and FICA configuration, master/transactional data mapping, data loads, Validations, Transport management, support of cut over activities, and post go - live support.
• SAP Configuration includes GL, AA, AP, AR, CO, PC, COPA, Lockbox, and Account Assignments for SD/MM/PS/Payroll and integration in SD, PS, MM, and PP.
• Experience in Project Management using Agile methodologies, Waterfall, and ASAP for small to mid-size projects and Product owner for multiple projects including Cloud Solutions.
• Expert in mapping business processes including Order to Cash ( Confidential ) and Procure to Pay ( Confidential ).
• Supported Ariba Implantation, Egencia cloud solution travel tool implementation, and FSCM.
• Excellent experience collaborating and coordinating with developers, PMO team, Functional teams, upper management, and third party vendors for successful implementation of products to SAP.
• Expert in gathering Business Requirements, analyzing upstream/downstream impacts related to enhancements/projects, creating Project Deployment Plans, Org Readiness Plans, and Test Plans.
• Expert in Unit Testing, Functional Testing, User Acceptance Testing (UAT), and Integration Testing.
• Strong understanding of SAP security, GRC Role changes, T&E, HCM, Vertex, and EMEA Tax Logic.
• Building cost-benefit analysis formulas, financial analysis, and forecasting using Excel and SAP.

OTHER SKILLS:

• Excellent communication, analytical, time management, and problem solving skills.
• Proven success in contributing to a fast-paced team-oriented environment and ability to work creatively and analytically.
• Good understanding of US GAAP Standards and SOX Compliance.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Business systems: Ariba, HPQC, Salesforce, CRM, ATAQ risk management, BMC/HEAT/CADRE/Clarity, PWC

Microsoft/Other: Project Pro, Visio, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Access, Outlook, Share File, SharePoint

EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, York, PA

Current SAP Specialist, SAP Functional Support

Responsibilities:

• Created profit center structures, cost center structures, account assignment for all profit centers to technical cost centers.
• Supported end to end roll out for Czech republic and Netherlands including integration of work centers, confirmations, FICO, SD, MM assignments, and etc.
• Special G/L indicators for down payment requests and integration of Billing plan and Milestone billing.
• Bank account config and payment file and format settings including SEPA.
• Internal order setup for AUC and support of AA settlement from AUC to fixed asset.
• Year-end and month end support for all FICO related modules.
• SAP security - role assignment and production support for security related issues.
• Gathered business requirements and provided solutions for various customized requests.
• Automated correspondence statement to allow generation of statement and send to customers via Email directly from FBL5N.
• Project systems support includes cost center structure setup, work center and activity type structure setup to be in line with company specific business process.
• Created distributions cycles, allocations using cycle-segment method for periodic reposting.
• Created Internal Orders for various project implementations, assigned the costs incurred by internal orders from different cost centers, distributed the costs incurred by internal order to the respective cost centers.

Confidential, Atlanta, Georgia

Responsibilities:

• Review Finance requirements and assess impacts based on new platform rollout.
• Meet with key AP AR AA GL users to gather requirements and create functional specs.
• Provided guidelines for FICO related migration data and supported LSMW developments.
• Overseen and advised various implementation and cut over support.
• Worked with ABAP team to review transports, tests, and apply OSS fixes.

Confidential, Fort Lauderdale, FL

Senior SAP Business Analyst/Production support

Responsibilities:

• Extensive UAT testing for payment runs, GL reporting, T&E, and FI.
• Production support using BMC ticking system for FICO, AR, AP, Treasury, and vendor management.
• Reported to the Director of Global Accounting Systems to support various SAP projects.
• Product Owner: managed the end-to-end implementation of a third party system Egencia (travel tool) which included collaborating with the Integration team, Security, Basis, ABAP, and business owners for successful completion.
• Supported the Entity Simplification Project (Company Code Merger) in which 8 legal reporting Entities consolidated to 4 Reporting Entities. Primary responsibilities included: creating BRDs, Conversion of AR/AP open items; Mass customer/vendor extension, plant mapping, Profit center mapping, Pre & Post Go-live support and UAT for all activities.
• Supported the end-to-end implementation of Ariba to SAP. Gathered Business requirements, created functional specs, mapped Key fields (PSA to Plant), Procurement Fields, created test Plan for EMEA, Tax support/UAT/Validations, and much more.
• Product Owner: end-to-end implementation of Tangoe (Telecommunication Vendor Management System) to SAP.
• Supported the implementation of HR Workday that included identifying the downstream impacts of custom/standard programs that use key fields in FICO.
• Responsible for identifying bottle necks in business/system processes and identified solutions using both out of box functionality and customization.
• Responsible for gathering business requirements, UAT, and Production Support.
• Worked with various high level executives to give project updates and gather new requirements.
• Reviewed various approval processes for SOX compliance and supported various requirements for SOX compliance audits.
• Performed Tax Updates during the Tax changes and provided production support to business users with Tax related issues.
• Conducted all UAT for requirements for Internal Audit which includes testing more than 70 different reports.
• Customized email notification sent to Vendor/Customer/Employee after payment run execution.

Confidential, Southfield, MI

SAP FICO Consultant, Production Support

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for handling various high level tickets from manufacturing plants and business users.
• Responsible for FICO Configuration that stem from Tickets and Mini-projects.
• Hands on configuration includes: creation of GL accounts, creation of custom document types, Bank accounts, account determination in OBYC and VKOA, tax GL account assignment, and etc.
• Responsible for Disaster Recovery Testing for all FI interfaces for both source sub-system and destination sub-system.
• Uploaded Data using LSMW for updating company code specific customer credit limits.
• Responsible for year-end FICO closing activities using Fire Fighter.
• Configuration changes and customization working with ABAP team for small projects.
• Created new activity types and assigned it to variable costs expenses of indirect labor (payroll).
• Assigned cost centers to splitting structures.
• Supported MM team for account assignments and movement types.
• Worked with SD team to make changes in customer master data for withholding tax changes.
• Created exchange rates for EUR/GBP and included the ratios in currency exchange tables.
• Worked with managers from various sites both national and international for business support.

Confidential, Bolingbrook, IL

SAP FI/CO Archiving Lead

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed and reviewed all processes, user procedures, and system requirements.
• Coordinated with client's Finance department, Tax department, and Legal department to discuss the change efforts of current financial retention policy and overall archiving strategy.
• Participated in meetings and collaborate with internal audit team to ensure full compliance with audit requirements.
• Created Blue Print for FI info structures that needed changes to be able to retrieve archived data quicker and allowed using standard tcodes.
• Maintained weekly status reports from both onsite and off shore team and communicated status updates and progresses to the client.
• Created Blue Prints for new info structures, reduction of online residence time for FI documents.
• Created config specs, functional specs, test scripts, and UAT for various developments.
• Tested the company's current tax reporting and identified gaps that allowed the client's tax and finance team to efficiently retrieve data for reporting.
• Prepared user documentation and conducted user training in general ledger, accounts payable, and accounts receivable.
• Tested the company's current tax reporting and identified gaps that allowed a change in tcode FBL*N allowing the client's Tax and Finance team to retrieve archived data directly through FBL3N.
• Provide program management and project oversight to deliver high quality blueprint that streamlined business processes and leverage maximum SAP standard functionality.
• Managed the execution and verified output of blueprint activities including SAP high level solution design, custom development, fit gap analysis and RICEF document creation.
• Responsible for status updates of assigned projects including presentations to IT and Senior Executives.
• Responsible for the analyses of the business compatibility, feasibility for advance developments in SAP, and proposed the most efficient way to approach the same.
• Broke down complex business processes into easy, understandable components to international audiences.
• Prepared user documentation and conducted user training in General Ledger, Accounts Payable, and Accounts Receivable and Treasury modules.
• Assigned SD condition types to value fields and Performed Value flow analysis between FI, SD and COPA.

Confidential, Northville, MI

SAP FI/CO Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Conducted workshops and collaborated with clients to share information on new change efforts and gathered business process information.
• Configured integration of FI with MM and SD through Automatic Account Assignment.
• Involved with Confidential and Confidential from accounting to business process analysis.
• Configured Company Code, Chart of Accounts, defined account groups for customer and vendor accounts with respective number ranges, created additional G/L accounts, defined field status variants, defined tolerance groups, created cost center hierarchies, copied and assigned chart of depreciation to company code.
• Validate that the invoices stated amount of tax is correct based on the classification of what is being purchased.
• Assigned movement types to T-keys and condition types to G/L accounts (FI-MM/SD integration).
• Configured automatic payment program for outgoing payments, defined house banks, bank accounts, bank directory, check lots, and checks printing.
• Loaded data for updating vendor master records using LSMW.
• FI A/P: Created vendor account groups and extended vendor master records.
• FI A/R: Created customer account groups, tolerance groups, performed credit management, and account assignments.
• Conducted various FICO Config changes which were a result from Production issues.
• Performed end user training and documented training materials.
• Helped in End-to-End testing and Integration Testing of Configurations.

Confidential, Lisle IL

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Coordinate well with clients to achieve end results by explaining technical process in a manner that clients understand allowing the achievement of deadlines.
• Created functional Specs, Test Plans, Project Deployment plan, and Org Readiness Document.
• Collaborated with finance and procurement users for the creation of new house bank, lock box, and key-in instructions.
• Configuration of House Banks, Bank Accounts, GL structure for Bank Accounts, automatic account assignment and GL Master data settings.
• Payment Program configuration: Company code data, paying company code, Country payment methods, wire transfer settings, and ACH payments.
• Accounts Receivable and Credit Management: Created FI-AR customer groups, overall Receivables and employee tolerances.
• Configured Dunning and helped client to print Dunning notices.
• Performed end user training and documented training materials.
• Worked with Foreign Currency Transactions, Valuation, and maintained Exchange rates.
• Contributed in various roles during the full life cycle implementation.

Confidential, New Century, KS

SAP FICO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for analyzing business specification documents to develop test plans, test strategies, test scope, defining test cases, and automating test scripts.
• Used HPQC for Defect Tracking, organizing, managing, planning and executing.
• Coordinated with Test Analysts to develop Testing scenarios, String testing, UAT and Functional Testing, Regression Testing, and Interface Testing.
• Uploading the Test Cases, Requirements, Test Plan, Test Data into Quality Center.
• Monitoring Test Progress and communicating status and issues to the Manager.
• Reviewed the Test Cases, end-to-end test Scenarios, and completeness of Test results.
• Assisted Functional Team leads, Technical Team leads in coordination of test activities
• Created GL Accounts in the chart of accounts and set the account groups.
• Configure recurring entries in GL postings, number ranges, tolerance groups, posting keys, document reversals, invoices and payments.
• Created primary and secondary cost elements, assigned the cost elements to various cost centers, activating the reconciliation ledger and maintaining accounts for automatic reconciliation posting.

Confidential, Pensacola, FL

Financial Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Prepared and delivered formal presentations of analytic findings and suggested action plans to service directors and front line managers.
• Assisted with financial analysis, risk assessment, and forecasting for investments.
• Identified future trends, assessed risk associated with capital expenditures and acquisitions.
• Developed comprehensive reports and charts to present data to guide investment strategies.
• Analyzed monthly budgeting and accounting reports to maintain expenditure controls.
• Involved with the annual budget preparation process and provided metrics comparing budget to actual performance over various timelines.
• Develop monthly business reviews that included variance analyses and Industry trends.
• Researched and prepare evaluations on a variety of diverse and complex projects/problems (financial, statistical, and operational, along with cost/benefit analyses).

Confidential, Fremont, CA

Financial Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Gained valuable information of whole sale banking, loan programs, and identifying potential clients.
• Financed loans through various lenders which accumulated to more than $10 million.
• Assessed client credit profiles that led to loans being accepted by participating banks.
• Prepared presentations and organized meetings with participating bank executives.
• Drafted credit reports and letters of credit for loan participants.
• Liaised with the credit department and First NLC Bank’s external clients.
• Prepared ratio analysis including Loan to Value ratios and Debt ratios.

Confidential, Fremont, CA

Associate Financial analyst

Responsibilities:

• Conducted meetings with brokers and wholesale bankers discussing various loan packages offered by various banks and financial institutes.
• Reviewed over $20 million worth of loans for the company during closing period of mortgages of commercial and residential properties.
• Dealt with title companies, banks, and brokers to support closing deals in a timely manner.
• Conducted credit analysis using financial ratios such as loan to value and liquid ratios.
• Submitted applications for credit analysis for verification and recommendation.
• Reviewed loan agreements to ensure they are accurate.
• Explained to customers the different types of loan packages and credit options that are available.
• Worked with clients to identify their financial goals and assessed the feasibility.