SUMMARY:

• Results - driven senior professional with more than 20 years of experience in pioneering solutions which drive business growth, gain a competitive advantage and secure long-term customer relationships.
• Strong expertise in the implementation and support of financial and accounting applications for some of the world’s most widely known Confidential 500 companies.
• Spearheaded the implementation of invoice verification for hydration vendors and Accounts Payable Department at Confidential, resulting in cost savings of $2.5 million over a 12-month period.
• Traced overpayments to water vendors and resolved billing issues which significantly improved Confidential ’s financial position.
• Credited with recovering $3 million.
• Developed and tested a Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) element enhancement at Confidential resulting in 100% accuracy of purchase orders and service entries. Created detailed report for Controls department.
• Willingness to travel with the ability to travel 10-30% of the time. International travel up to 10-20%.

ADDITIONAL AREAS OF EXPERTISE:

• Closing Purchase Orders Shopping Cart Issuance Global Procurement & Purchasing
• Project Development/Setup Invoicing & Processing Global System Conversions
• Change Management Strong Problem-Solving Skills Financial Supply Chain Management
• Accounts Payable Systems SAP Materials Management Business Continuity Planning
• End-User Vendor Invoice Management Best Practices & Risk Analysis
• WBS Elements Evaluated Receipt Settlement Authorization for Expenditures (AFE)

SKILL:

• SAP ECC 6.0, (FI/CO), MM, SRM, SD, FSCM, Kofax, OpenText, ECM Documentum, Open Text Vendor Invoice Management (VIM and Doc Attach, SAP S/4 HANA, ARIBA, Solutions Manager, IDOCs, full-cycle SAP Implementation.
• Microsoft Word, Excel, Visio, PowerPoint, HP Quality Center, Outlook, AS/400, JD Edwards and Net Weaver

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Cleveland, OH

SAP & Open Text Procurement Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Worked on major SAP Purchase-to-Pay projects and enhancements to provide daily production support to internal and external end users to resolve issues.
• Extension knowledge of application and ERP concepts: SAP (R/3 and S4).
• Supported procurement processes in ECC and S4. Processed procurement request for our internal client ensuring their transactions are executed with accuracy and timeliness.
• Assisted vendor records, purchasing information records, purchase requisitions, purchase orders, and incoming invoices.
• Served as contact person for Open Text application for both VIM and Doc Attachments, which required knowledge of technically and functionality of the application.
• Utilized the MM/Procurement processes Vertex and Ariba.
• Experienced in areas of FI and MM invoice entry, Variances, Tolerances, Evaluated Receipt Settlement, payment program, Workflow, Vendor master and vendor classification configuration, prototyping, unit testing/documentation, batch variants setup and define management of change requirements.
• Assisted in the design and development of business processes, data structures and systems.
• Created detailed functional and technical documents for developers and project staff.
• Participated and led business gathering sessions to ensure the technical solution meets business requirement.

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

SAP P2P Project Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Support the Procure to Pay team.
• Responsible for processing procurement request for our internal client ensuring their transactions are executed with accuracy and timeliness.
• Ensure our clients financial transactions remain in balance by conducting regular monitoring of their transactions.
• Collected and analyze data from our clients to report their accruals each month to ensure financial transactions align to company reporting standards.
• Worked with Accounts Payable to clear blocked invoices and resolve issues which delay timely payment of invoices to the vendor.
• Served as initial point of contact for Procure to Pay team in issue resolutions, working with internal and external client to resolve issues.

Confidential, Tucker, GA

SAP AP/AR Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Managed all AP/AR accounting tasks.
• Served as the liaison between Accounts Receivable and Customer Service departments.
• Released and troubleshooted any issues related to billing documents.
• Reconciled GRIRs.
• Supported end-users in processing invoices correctly.
• Served as the sole point person for releasing credit and debit memos.
• Successfully identified and unblocked invoices in the system and brought vendor payments current.
• Instrumental in bringing all credit memos up-to-date along with supporting documentation.

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Budget Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Supported CCNA for direct materials.
• Generated purchase orders and assigned correct allocation transaction codes.
• Served as Budget Analyst for the Confidential ’s group.
• Created POs for projects and ensured vendors received timely payment.
• Performed accounting functions for multiple departments.
• Included final accounting of cash funds, vouchers and encumbrances.
• Reconciled bank accounts, handled credit card charge-backs and deposit corrections.
• Maintained and balanced accounts against accounting records.
• Prepared monthly financial and special reports weekly.
• Reduced returned check refunds from and posted to correct general ledger account.

Confidential, Houston, TX

Senior Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Recruited for deployment of the SAP-based solution: Global Template for the Procure-to-Pay Processes.
• Served as the first line of support for Procurement, Drilling, Logistics and Production.
• Oversaw materials management process.
• Implemented best practices and provided on-going end-user as a Super User.
• Resolved issues and transformed SAP ECC 6.0 into a highly robust system within eight months to a year.
• Collaborated with business partners, development and project teams to evaluate, implement and support new developments and enhancements. Provided guidance on functional specifications, troubleshooting and monitoring.
• Ensured zero defects when testing, developing and executing functional acceptance test plans.
• Instrumental in providing one-on-one production support for materials management processes.
• Trained 20-25 end-users per class. Created new material and maintained regular updates.
• Developed PowerPoint presentations for contracts, purchase requisitions/POs, GRIR and transactions.

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Senior SAP Business / Testing Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Played an integral role in the SAP ECC 6.0 Kofax and SAP Open Text Global Upgrade project.
• Managed a team of seven to research the P2P postings, conduct an analysis and close purchase orders.
• Performed a detailed gap analysis. Led UAT and integration testing, test script and Quality Center test plans, validation, defect tracking/or reporting.
• Coordinated material, Train the Trainer workshops and delivered for all end-users globally.
• Consisted of the following: Creation of shopping cart, requisitions and approval, purchase order generation, and receipt of goods and services.
• Led Open Text collaboratively to support SAP transformation along with Information life-cycle management,
• Led scanning, digitizing, workflow management, central document management and automated retention and archiving.
• Cleaned up procure-to-pay process. Included revamping the billing process and recovered $2.1 million in overpayments. Eliminated input errors, improved payment processing rate and reduced aged receivables to $5K.

Confidential, Alpharetta, GA

Senior SAP FI / Project & Test Analyst / Lead Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Conducted a complex analysis of business objectives and needs of the company’s environment.
• Designed functional and technical specifications along with flowcharts to meet overall goals.
• Planned, designed and enhanced business processes and systems. Included budgeting and ad hoc requests.
• Worked with MIS, Technical Support and Operations in company-wide system conversion of AS/400 to SAP 4.7.

Confidential, Houston, TX

Senior SAP Internal Control / Inventory Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Performed quarterly audits for 13 sales centers with daily shipments and deliveries of vending machines/equipment.
• Oversaw Material Management of purchase goods and services.
• Managed inventory and inspections.
• Maintained complete control of inventory including issuing and transferring, restocking, inventory count and adjustment processes .
• Performed Internal Control self-assessment reviews to identify areas needing improvement prior to audits.
• Implemented internal financial control system to track equipment operations and parts.
• Supervised Parts department and implemented a direct shipment program serving more than 25 technicians.