SUMMARY:

I am a Certified Public Accountant with several years of hands of Finance, Accounting and SAP experience.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Finance/Accounting Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for migrating fixed assets of a newly acquired company into Total’s books.
• This responsibility includes data mapping to SAP, determining asset classes, depreciation keys and carrying out mock runs and analysis to ensure completeness and accuracy of the data.
• Liaise with the Business and IT groups to ensure business requirements are properly translated into function and technical design documents.

Finance Process Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Documented the current Fixed Assets, Accounts Receivable and Accounts Payable processes and identified existing gaps and areas for cleansing and data enrichment.
• Assisted in preparing the to - be design documents (Process Design Documents) for Fixed Assets, Accounts Receivable and Accounts Payable for the new SAP implementation
• Led workshop sessions for mapping legacy data fields to SAP for Fixed Assets, Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable; and documented the source to target mapping in the FastTrack tool.
• As part of the central data team, led the successful conversion of Fixed Assets, Accounts Payable and Accounts receivable from 5 legacy systems to SAP. This was done as part of the Release 1 roll out.

Contractor: Investment Management Accounting

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Review completed AFE forms for compliance with company policy. Create, maintain and release AFEs in SAP.
• Settlement of and creation of final assets in SAP for leasehold, vehicle, seismic and well AFE’s and begin depreciation.
• Coordinate and record monthly capex accruals, record and manage all US lease acquisitions. Prepare and maintain acquisition schedules to track acreage/costs. Transfer leasehold from undeveloped to developed retirement of expired leases and lease relinquishments.
• Perform DDA and leasehold spend variance analysis.
• Complete leasehold reporting and ad hoc analysis. Perform Balance Sheet account reconciliations.
• Calculate and book Asset Retirement Obligations (ARO) entries

SAP Close & Reporting Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Provide first line functional SAP FICO support to the project team.
• Carry out configuration changes in the test environment. This is with a view to recommending actual change requests in the live system.
• Document changes, and produce materials for the end user community.

SAP Finance Analyst

Confidential, Houston

Responsibilities:

• I acted as a primary interface between the Finance users globally and the technical support team overseas.
• This involved being the first line of support for the users on any SAP FICO issue.
• I was also responsible for documenting the design and carrying out testing of various configuration changes to the FICO module.
• This included hot pack testing before patches are applied to the system.
• I was responsible for assigning roles to new users, updating users’ profiles to meet business requirements, implementing mitigating controls for segregation of duty risks, running routine control reports for audit purposes globally for all finance users.
• I provided support for the Master Data design team based on the business reporting structure, to ensure proper alignment with SAP upgrade alignment.
• I was involved in the execution plan to review, edit and cleanse master data.
• This ensured that excess, erroneous and obsolete master data was minimized during data migration
• I carried out master data UAT for a number of processes. This included work break down structures, cost centers and bank accounts.
• I was also involved in data conversion of existing data, to align them with the template approved at the group level, and the reconciliation of data from legacy to gold client, after migration.

Confidential, Houston

Responsibilities:

• My duties included, but were not limited to the following:
• Gathering and documenting clients’ requirements for SAP Asset Accounting implementation as part of the project’s blue print phase.
• Carried out a fit gap analysis of the clients’ requirements, relative to standard SAP.
• Provided work around solutions for gaps identified
• Facilitated design workshops for Fixed Assets and document ensure proper documentation of work process.
• Configured (Built) the system to meet the Clients’ Fixed Assets requirements.
• Prepared test scripts and helped resolved issues in the client’s user acceptance testing
• Oversaw the conversion process for fixed asset, by ensuring that data from Legacy has been correctly loaded to SAP. This process involved data cleansing and mapping of legacy fields to SAP fields.

Confidential, Houston, TX

Contractor: Governance, Risk, Assurance & Compliance

Responsibilities:

• Drive effectiveness and efficiency of controls framework through redesigning controls into smarter less actual controls, including Sox testing and Green light tracking
• Ensure assurance processes and procedures compliance per the Global EP Business Management System.
• Implement transfer of certain assurance processes to Shell Service Center - Manila
• Produced various RICEF documentation relating to the project.
• This included function design specification, dorm layout and process flow diagrams.
• I was also involved in the actual migration process which involved performing a monthly download of transactions of over 90 projects in the various legacy systems, ensuring and ensuring the validity of the data in line with the SAP layout.
• Recoded transactions from legacy to SAP.
• Ran an excel macro to ensure that the SAP codes are correctly mapped to their source and meet specific criteria
• Investigated and corrected instances of kickouts from SAP of these new codes.
• Resolved issues and rendered assistance to project controls and accounting staff, on the re-posting process.

Confidential, Houston

SAP/SOX Implementation

Responsibilities:

• Participated in the following SAP configurations:
• Global Settings: Configuration of organizational structures, chart of accounts, G/L master data, Field status groups, Fiscal year variants, posting periods, document number ranges. Setting up of document types and posting keys for business transactions, Foreign Exchange Management.
• General Ledger: Grouping G/L accounts into various account groups, Creation of reconciliation accounts for accounts receivables and accounts payables, cross company transaction.
• Accounts Receivables and Payables: Configuration of customer master and vendor master data in FI, number ranges, posting keys, and document types for posting /validation of business transactions.
• Configuration of customer master and vendor master data in FI, number ranges, Posting keys, and document types for posting /validation of business transactions. Integration with S&D and MM modules Closing:
• Defining financial statement version, reports using financial information system. Controlling Enterprise Structure in Controlling: Setting up of controlling area, assigning company codes and creating standard hierarchy, creating CO version and defining control indicators. Cost Centre Planning:
• Configured cost center planning, Configuration of Profit centers accounting
• Produce reports on trends, variances and exceptions on over 3,000 accounts to management.
• Provide information, advice and resolve disputes from front end users regarding end of month account reconciliations.
• Update system master records to ensure information is up to date and is SOX compliant.
• Carried out monthly review and analysis of the General Ledger to ensure the integrity of the various account balances.
• Carried out reconciliation and variance analysis of key ledger accounts on a monthly basis.
• Prepared monthly cost reporting analysis and strategic information to budget holders.
• Collated monthly Value of Work Done (VOWD) and reviewed accruals generated to ensure reasonableness.
• Provided budget clearance for all proposed contracts.
• Reviewed and analyzed cost ledger balances against VOWD reported and obtain Sponsors’ confirmation. Pass adjustments where necessary.
• Provided financial analysis and strategic advice to budget holders on start up project in line with budget availability and company long-term goals.
• Analyzed on going projects on a quarterly basis to ensure compliance with budgeted estimates. Identified and investigated variances where applicable.
• Involved in the design process and implementation of accounting policies and procedures for several community development projects.
• Maintained the functional fixed assets register. Ensured proper allocation of depreciation charge. Ensured proper write offs of obsolete items. Carried out periodic physical verification of fixed assets items in the register.