SUMMARY:

• Over 24 years of SAP implementation experience, as a former Confidential employee and an independent consultant. Experience encompasses Financial Accounting (FI) and Controlling (CO) areas and all phases of an Implementation, from Blueprinting thru to Post Production Support. Releases 2.1C to S4/HANA 1503.
• Expertise in FI/CO modules (AA, AP, AR, GL, CCA, IO, IM, PCA, PS). In addition, FI/CO Integration with MM, SRM, SCM, PM and HR.
• Proven Track record with Asset Accounting and US Tax Reporting, General Ledger, both Classic GL and New GL functionality, Accounts Receivable and Accounts Payable including standard processing and external interfaces, ACH Direct Debits, positive pay, ACH, encashment, credit card processing. Also supported interfaces such as OTM (Oracle Transportation Management), Vertex, Sabrix, Sales Tax Office, etc.
• Fifteen full life cycle Global Implementations
• Comprehensive experience in Business Analysis, GAP Analysis, Requirement Gathering , D esigning and testing system improvements and Solution Delivery. Identify GAPS in early stages for an ahead of the schedule project delivery.
• Expert trainer for business and end users in SAP FI/CO
• Developed functional and technical specifications and work closely with ABAP programmers
• Experience in working with both Onsite/ Offshore Models
• Ability to take on challenges and driven by strong determination to provide solutions
• Excellent communication, presentation and interpersonal skills, a total team player. Self - driven with excellent problem-solving skills, business minded and the ability to focus on high level business-oriented objectives.

SAP CONFIGURATION SKILLS:

Fixed Assets: Expertise in creating Charts of Depreciation, Fiscal Year Variants, Asset Classes, Depreciation Keys, Period Controls, Multilevel Methods, Bonus Depreciation, Sort Variants, Asset History Versions, Asset Reporting.

Internal Orders, Project Systems, Investment Management: Setting up Internal Orders, Settlement rules for internal orders, planning for internal orders, budgeting and availability control. Built additional reporting using Report Painter. Configuring Project Systems, work breakdown structures, planning, budgeting, settlements and availability control. Experience in Investment Management, hierarchy, investment positions, planning, budgeting, investment profiles and reporting.

AR, AP, MM: Configuring all business transactions to support operations in AR and AP including ensuring 3-way match of AP invoices, for both Indirect and Direct PO’s, Purchase Order Material Groups and their account assignment, invoice tolerances, freight charges, duplicate invoice check etc. Also building external interfaces outbound AP files in IDOCs or other formats, and inbound AR files. Extensive experience with GR/IR reconciliation. Exposure to OCR, Esker and Onbase.

Banking: Very well experienced in building both outbound and inbound payments files for Accounts Receivable including ACH Direct Debits and EDI 820, for Accounts Payable, ACH, Positive Pay file format, IDOC, Vendor Credit Card Payments, and Encashment. Wrote a process that assists reconciliation and clearing of credit card payments, EBS configuration.

General Ledger: Expertise in creating organizational structure to facilitate financial reporting and legal and managerial entity representation such as Chart of Accounts, Company Code, Controlling Area, Operating Concern, Credit Control Area, Functional Area, Fiscal Year Variant for calendar and non-calendar fiscal year, Financial Statement Versions, Posting Period variants etc.

Profit Center Accounting: Configuring the basic settings, maintaining Profit Center Hierarchy, Profit Center Groups, Distribution and Assessment of costs, and zero balancing mandatory profit center on each FI document line.

Cost Element/Cost Center Accounting: Configuring Cost Elements using appropriate cost element category, Costing sheets, Reconciliation Ledgers, Standard hierarchy, Cost Centers Groups, Cost Element Groups used in FI-COPA integration, Activity Types, Statistical key figures, Master data groups, Validations and Substitutions. Cost center Assessments, Distributions and Reposting, Allocation cycle and segment. Configuring and Customizing Cost Center Planning include defining versions, Planning layouts, Planner profiles and Activity planning.

Interfaces, User Exits, BAPIs etc;: Designing customized solutions for interfaces or report formats that are outside of standard SAP functionality. Expert in writing detailed and easy-to-understand functional spec documents and work with the technical ABAP resources to deliver these objects.

COPA: Proficient level with business process transactions/reporting and medium level at configurations. Exposure to Account based COPA in S4/Hana

SELECTED PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Kansas City, MO

FI/CO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Supported greenfield implemetation of S4/Hana 1503 for FICO
• Configured and tested functionality needed to support multiple US locations Worked on custom solutions when standard SAP did not meet business needs.
• Researched and provide solutions for long standing open issues.
• Educated and trained customer through the transfer of knowledge.
• Data Conversion Support and Reconciliation
• Ad hoc Reporting Creation using SAP Query/Quickviewer and Report Painter
• Wrote Functional Specifications and Technical Specifications for ABAP reports and custom Enhancements, which included a Custom Trial Balance and a program to automate the Cost Center Distribution process.
• Assisted with implementing a procees for Order error resolution and created reports to assist with reconcillation
• Wrote LSMW to load legacy GR/IR
• Extensive script writing and testing in HPLM.
• Addressed post-implementation issues by providing ongoing system support.
• Provided knowledge transfer and specialized training to offshore resources that will now provide support.

Confidential, Jackson, MI

FI GL, AA, AR, AP, Banking Consultant

Responsibilities:

• FICO configuration for Banking, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Asset Accounting, GL, and Internal Orders, in ECC 6.0.
• Configured and tested functionality needed to support multiple US locations and Mexico.
• Worked on custom solutions when standard SAP did not meet business needs.
• Researched and provide solutions for long standing open issues.
• Educated and trained customer through the transfer of knowledge.
• Automatic Payment Processing configuration including House Bank set-up, payment methods, payment advices and Remittances.
• Implemented Encashment Process.
• Internal Order Configuration and Settlements
• Data Conversion Support and Reconciliation
• Ad hoc Reporting Creation using SAP Query/Quickviewer
• Wrote Functional Specifications and Technical Specifications for ABAP reports and custom Enhancements.
• Extended Withholding Tax-1099 Set-up and produced forms at year-end.
• Assist with Error Resolution when issues arose in external Tax Software (STO).
• Error resolution for Document Splitting.
• Configuration for New Company Codes and all associated tasks.
• OTM- Process design, validation and error resolution
• Configured and implemented ACH Direct Debit functionality. Acted as liaison between the business and the bank to ensure our files meet the bank standard. Used a BTE to trigger email notification to the ACH Direct Debit customers.
• EDI 820 Automated Cash Receipts using Payment Advices-Worked with EDI technical resources to assist with set-up and mapping of IDOC, research solutions and helped troubleshoot
• Configured functionality for Vendor Credit Card Payment. Created functional specification and worked with ABAP to develop custom program to produce file format required by Credit Card Processing Company. This custom program is used with standard SAP Payment Program. Once file is generated it is then uploaded into Bank Portal.
• Developed layouts to assist AR in Cash Application.
• Review of AR Process Improvements to determine efficiencies and implement functionality that will help alleviate the amount of manual tasks.
• Assisted in upgrade to latest Enhancement Pack (EHP7).
• Involved as additional support for European BPC project .
• Created new value fields/characteristics and derivation rules in CO/PA.
• Acted as a liaison with Bank of Montreal to determine the requirements from both the client and bank for all outgoing payments and ACH Direct Debits
• Initial bank issued Idocs for transmission. Switched to new Bank which included House bank creation using classic payment programs for ACH and Checks. Files transmitted from SAP Directory via SFTP using PI Middleware.
• Worked with the Treasury and AP to develop functional specification for BI. Collaborated with Treasury and AP, along with BI to get these reports deigned, tested and implemented.
• Involved in Data Conversion in loading AP open items, GL balances and Assets into SAP.
• Implemented multiple fixes in Asset Accouting to fix incorrect set-up.
• Responsible for the Post Go-Live Support of the US and Mexico. This includes defect research and resolution.
• Support Shared Services during Month-end/Year end processes

Confidential, Camden, NJ

FI AA, IO, CCA Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Configured Asset Accounting, Internal Orders, Cost Center Accounting through multiple roll- outs,throughout US and Confidential .
• Wrote functional and technical specifications for the Asset Accounting, Internal Orders and Cost Center Accounting to provide enhancements essential to the business.
• Extensive involvement in technical upgrade, from 4.7 to ECC 6.0. Implemented new functionality that was contained in Asset Accounting. Reworked configuration, rewrote user exits that no longer worked in the new release and resolved issues pertaining to the new release.
• Designed a custom solution to add a new depreciation area, for Canada and Australia, based on Tax Department specifications and requirements.
• Provided guidance for data conversion efforts by assisting with requirements and specifications.
• Assessed the trade-offs between business needs, technology requirements and costs.
• Wrote numerous reports using SAP Query, SAP Quickviewer and Report Painters to satisfy business requirements.
• Conducted training classes.
• Educated and trained customer and other consultants through the transfer of knowledge.
• Wrote a Confidential script to quickly load data, for one of the smaller companies.
• Demonstrated an ability to analyze and breakdown ABAP code, when necessary, to assist with error resolution or provide clarity, for technical specifications.
• Addressed post-implementation issues by providing ongoing system support.
• Provided knowledge transfer and specialized training to offshore resources that will now provide support.

Confidential, Wilmington, DE

Senior FI/CO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Supported Investment Management module on a spot consulting basis.
• Resolved technical and business process issues.
• Provided knowledge transfer and assisted in design and error analysis.