SUMMARY:

• Over 10 years professional experience in technology including 5 years in ERP systems such as SAP, Epicor, and Agile. SAP configuration experience includes implementation via ASAP Methodology: project preparation, business blueprint, realization, final prep and Go - Live as well as QA testing, customization, end-user training, BPP documentation and production support.
• Proficiency in FICO includes: Procure to Pay, Order to Cash, Cash Management, General Ledger and Product Costing.
• Hands-on experience in manufacturing, project management, field service and sales in industries including semiconductor, medical devices, telecommunication and software development. Strong passion for helping others and a proven track record in providing high customer satisfaction.
• Excellent communication skills include technical writing and technical training.

SKILLS:

Process: ASAP, RICEFW, ITIL

SAP: FICO - RTR: G/L, AP, AR, Cash Management, Fixed Assets, Cost Center Acctg

People: Customer training, Customer support, Team-oriented

Languages: Portuguese (Limited Working Proficiency - ILR Level 2)

SELECTED PROJECT EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Milwaukee, WI

Sr. SAP FICO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Performed unit testing per enhancement requirements in AP/Banking for Confidential release.
• Conducted mock cutover activities to ensure 100% accuracy and error free configuration of AP/Banking requirements for Confidential release.
• Provided Hypercare production support after Go-Live of Confidential
• Assist in development of new enhancements for next Confidential implementation: EDI troubleshooting and testing, updating of functional specification documents.
• Successful Go-Live of Accounts Payable and Banking submodules for Confidential release. Performed redbook entries during cutover.
• Configuration Rationale documents for both Accounts Payable and Banking submodules.
• Conducted Knowledge Transfer workshops of Confidential related AP and Banking enhancements to Confidential Application Management Support (AMS) team (production support group). Included itemizing parking lot issues and provided resolutions/recommendations to address those issues. Provided follow up sessions to ensure that production support team was comfortable with handoff of support of new system after Go Live and Hypercare period
• Provided System Overview Documents to AMS team that would allow them to update their runbooks and use as reference documents.

Confidential, Raritan, NJ

Sr. FICO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• As part of Blueprinting team, conducted requirements gathering for all Confidential needed within Confidential Finance’s R2R workstream.
• Created functional specification documents for all R2R RICEFW strategies (in particular, interfaces, workflows, enhancements and conversions) based on blueprinting workshops, requirements gathering, Project Design Documents (PDD) and User Requirements Specifications (URS).
• Developed data mapping as required for all conversions and interfaces within the R2R workstream. This was particularly critical for cross platform interfaces between SAP and JDE ERP systems as well as third party SaaS systems such as Reval, Concur and Workday.
• Served as lead consultant for all functional specification documentation - managed workload schedule for both onsite and offshore (Bangalore) teams; reviewed initial drafts of functional specifications and developed process flow diagrams for each functional specification document.
• All R2R Interface functional specification documents developed, revised and then approved by Solution Architect and delivered to Confidential IT management team for final approval within the scheduled due dates. A total of 44 interfaces, one workflow (Journal Entry workflow) and two enhancements were involved in the R2R workstream.
• Configured both the Group and Operational Charts of Accounts for the Conference Room Pilot development box. This was a greenfield configuration of a demo box to showcase the basic features of SAP Finance module to future Confidential finance users.

Confidential, Lawrenceville, GA

Sr. FICO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• SAP FICO Onsite Consultant/Business Analyst
• Acted as liaison between Business and Offshore Development Team in ensuring information such as business requirements and functional specifications are clear between both stakeholders. Developed functional specification document, UAT test scripts and business process procedures (BPP)
• Assisted Business with requirement documents to allow initiation of enhancement projects
• Organized internal documents such as Service Request (SR) Notifications in SAP, SR Estimation sheets, SR Tracker and Change Request submittals to document and close projects
• Managed Change Requests (CR) for FICO team. Created and maintained service requests (SR) in SAP, maintained CR scheduling in Service Now (service management software), represented FICO team in Change Advisory Board (CAB meetings and ensured transports were moved to production upon CAB approval of change requests.
• Provided Cost Accounting team with SQVI query setup to allow them to submit audit reports
• AP invoice scanning process which required barcode functionality for customer’s third party service to perform scanning of AP invoices. This project allowed Confidential to integrate information from SAP AP invoices into their Enterprise One legacy platform. nhancement project which sends a nightly report of all general ledger transactions that occur in SAP so that Finance can confirm that SAP transaction can be recorded on their legacy ERP system for corporate reporting
• Confidential mandate required for all electronic payments between business entities within the Confidential to be in standardized XML file format.

Confidential, Middlebury, CT

SAP FICO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Provided production support as part of the AMS FICO team
• Maintained Vertex tax codes via Sales Tax Q Series program
• Managed Run Books and Change Requests for Record To Report process

Confidential, Boston, MA

SAP FICO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Performed LSMW of fixed assets and account receivable information for SAP Migration
• Created cost center grouping and cost centers for newly added Sales Goup and product line. Updated activity rates to properly maintain cost center accounting values.
• Developed process of identifying revenue and costs of billable service contracts via COPA reporting of cost elements. This involved identifying cost objects and splitting cost elements as separate value fields in COPA reporting of Time (Labor) and Material ( Confidential )
• Provide customer training for accounts payable team new to SAP
• COPA report that shows Revenue process flow in Service Contracts with billable PM parts

Confidential, Houston, TX/Stephenville, TX

SAP FICO Functional Developer

Responsibilities:

• Lead role in supporting CO/PS Year-End Close including: Updating Overhead rates for Project Controllers and Cost Accounting groups.
• Assisted in developing BI drill-down reports for Project Controllers and Sales Team based on PCA data.
• Configured Project Coding Mask and Results Analysis (RA) keys for settlement to WBS.
• Provided production support for Accounts Payable’s Vendor Invoice Management (VIM) program (ReadSoft Invoice Cockpit)
• Configured costing sheets and burden rates for annual cost roll of updated material pricing.
• Developed BPP of cost roll for client’s 3 main product lines.
• Created test scripts for contra testing and validation for newly launched SAP releases. Applied SAP Test Acceleration and Optimization (TAO) methodology.
• Configured and supported Cost Accounting team in 2013 material burden overhead rates for annual cost roll and updated pricing. Overhead rates included freight, procurement and origin groups.
• Provided production support of post Go-Live implementation of Taxware Enterprise ( Confidential ) in AP, AR and integration with SD billing. Maintained tax jurisdiction codes as received from Confidential