SUMMARY

Delivering Excellence in Business Systems Analysis, Project Management, and System Development Lifecycles Accomplished SAP MDG & FICO Analyst with 10+ years of experience in Master Data Management & Governance and FICO Analysis. Adept at implementing system improvements and streamlining business processes through full life - cycle system development. Effective in aligning technology with business strategy and goals by gathering requirements and driving best practice business changes. Able to deploy SAP solutions, lead process design and configuration, application design/development, integration, and testing. Expert in QA and UAT methodologies, and test case/plan development.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• SAP (GL ECC 6.0, MDG 7.0/8.0, MDM)
• Crystal Reports
• MS Project
• MS Visio
• MS Access
• SQL
• HPQC

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

• Master Data Governance | Master Data Management Processes | Requirement Gathering | Functional Design
• Data Analysis & Conversion | Application Configuration | Stakeholder Engagement | Technical Documentation | QA/UAT
• SOX Audit & Complaince | Resource Management | Team Leadership | System Implementation & Upgrades | WF Design
• Change Management | Business Analysis | Test/Case Plans | Production Support | Process Improvement | Fit-Gap Analysis

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Berkeley Heights, NJ

SAP Master Data Governance (MDG) Functional Lead

Responsibilities:

• Successfully implemented the MDG HUB Model with five target SAP ECC instances and one Business Planning & Consolidation (BPC) & Business Warehouse (BW) application; configured the Finance ECC and dependent configuration objects.
• Coordinated and delivered business systems analysis workshops on requirements gathering, process flowchart design, and published business requirements documents (BRDs) for multiple business units.
• Leveraged standard functionality to customize and implement the MDG tool for the customer on-time and within budget.
• Spearheaded five key projects including the Green Field MDG 6.0 Implementation, MDG 6.0 to MDG 8.0 Full System Upgrade, Custom Module Implementation for GL, Cost & Profit Center mappings and Global Hierarchies, HANA to AWS Cloud Migration, and Outbound SAP Interfaces to BPC, BW, and Tax systems.
• Led implementation of Auto-CR functionality for Account-to-FSI and FSI-to-Account for Group Account and consolidation.
• Created functional specifications for RICEFW objects; integrated custom functionalities and customized MDG processes.
• Executed fit/gap analysis to determine business requirements and standard MDG tool functionality; developed solutions to reduce custom development and enhance standard entity types to align with custom requirements within 4 months.
• Drove data and process modeling leveraging BRF+ and configuring change request types, reason codes, designing workflows, edition types, key value mapping, establishing approval groups and email notifications, and implementing a custom workflow with parallel and auto-approval features.
• Oversaw initial data load and migration from SAP Client Instances to SAP MDG; leveraged upload/download functionality to manage large datasets.
• Designed multiple reconciliation reports between MDG and target systems to ensure data integrity and SOX compliance.
• Developed custom business unit-specific security roles with menus, personalized features, and landing pages.
• Provided end user training, Hypercare & Production Support, end-to-end/regression testing, and HPQC documentation.
• Ensured compliance with SOX, Internal Audit, and Data Governance policies; collaborated with third-party compliance teams to deliver required artifacts for audits.

Confidential, Berkeley Heights, NJ

SAP GL Functional / SAP MDM Data Steward

Responsibilities:

• Introduced the Master Data Governance process to document financial transactions and accelerate period-end closing.
• Led configuration of the ERP structure and Financial Accounting global settings including company code, company, business area, account charts, account groups, fiscal year and field status variances, posting periods, document types, and document number ranges and validations.
• Configured and tested FI Master Data within the new General Ledger and led the LSMW upload templates and uploads.
• Oversaw the Data Governance process for chart of accounts and coordinated Data Governance Council meetings.
• Transitioned the Master Data Maintenance to the Manila offshore team and realized cost savings by training onsite.
• Successfully managed an onsite/offshore Data Maintainer MDM team for project implementation and production support.

Senior Systems Analyst, Quality Control & Process Innovation

Responsibilities:

• Successfully drove the Non-Machine Journal Entries (NMJE) Web Platform release; conducted functional requirements gathering, unit/regression testing, production issue analysis/resolution, and managed SOX compliance documentation.
• Led system/business requirement development for globalization projects; streamlined the process description template for migration projects, created performance metrics, provided cost-benefit analysis, and developed management reports.
• Implemented the E-Track account reconciliation tool; conducted gap analysis between SAP requirements and reconciliation tool, and validated and reconciled data for the new SAP interface.

Business Systems Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Introduced the new Accounts Receivable Computron (AXS-One) module to retire the MSA, mainframe-based legacy accounting system; created multiple reports via the Computron Ad-Hoc reporting tool.
• Upgraded the Cash Management Module for the Accounts Receivable Computron system.
• Oversaw development of the Confidential WorldSource Claim Interface to the AR Sub-Ledger; designed the mapping matrix for claims extraction from the GOALD database to the Financial Accounting System (FAS) and AR Sub-Ledger.
• Customized management reports in Crystal Reports for the Sybase Data Warehouse.
• Drove the Confidential WorldSource development of a new monthly reconciliation process; achieved SOX compliance and Confidential internal audit readiness, and implemented a workflow with monthly premium, reinsurance, and claims reconciliation.