SUMMARY:

• Confidential is an SAP professional with 16 years of SAP Treasury Management consulting and configuration experience of which the last six have been spent working exclusively with treasury departments that use SAP.
• Overall Confidential 20 years of senior level SAP consulting experience with a focus on SAP Financials (SAP FI) including the management of five successful SAP projects.
• Confidential has provided leadership and SAP expertise for over 25 SAP Projects involving ten end - to-end implementations and a total of 28 SAP “Go-lives”.
• Types of projects: four SAP upgrades, 19 SAP template deployments, leader of one corporate merger (SAP platform), leader of one SAP disaster recovery project, and one SAP reimplementation. Confidential has implemented SAP Financials in 39 different countries and across eight different industries
• Certified Public Accountant and Certified Management Accountant with an excellent understanding of cash management and treasury accounting both from a GAAP and an SAP perspective.
• Former consulting employee of Confidential and Senior Manager with Confidential .
• Experience in SAP’s S4 HANA / SAP Simple Finance demo system
• Successfully Implemented the Financial Supply Chain Management (FSCM) SAP Treasury solutions Treasury and Risk Management (TRM), Banking and Electronic Bank Statement (EBS).
• Successfully Implemented Treasury Risk Management (TRM) Transaction Manager
• Integrated SAP with SunGard’s treasury solution for a California organization.
• Led a fortune 500 company out of a situation where their “live” SAP system had been rendered unusable due to bad configuration by a prior SAP consultant.
• Led the merger of two publicly traded (NASDAQ) American telecommunications companies on the SAP platform.
• Authored an SAP related white paper used by members of the U.S. Congress as well as a book about SAP risk management. Served as SAP expert witness in three litigation cases.

SAP CONSULTING EXPERIENCE IN DETAIL:

SAP Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Created LSMW program to load master and transactional data into the Treasury Risk Management (TRM) Transaction Manager.
• Consulted in the design of the Electronic Bank Statement for 17 bank accounts.
• Designed and configured the Treasury Risk Management module for bond issues, bond purchases, money market activities, and other treasury related transactions.
• Designed and configured SAP FI GL Ledgers (New GL) including split ledger functionality.
• Designed and configured the integration between the SAP Treasury Risk Management module and the SAP General Ledger.
• Designed and configured all aspects of SAP FI, including: company codes, field status variants, account groups, doc types, substitutions, fiscal year variant and period controls,
• Redesigned and implemented a new Chart of Accounts.

Senior SAP Treasury Banking, Treasury Cash Management, and Financials (FI) Consultant

Confidential, San Diego

Responsibilities:

• Designed and implemented Treasury Cash Management and Treasury Electronic Bank Statement.
• Designed and configured SAP FI GL Ledgers (New GL) including split ledger functionality and the Special Ledger.
• Designed and configured all aspects of SAP FI, including: company codes, field status variants, account groups, doc types, substitutions, fiscal year variant and period controls,
• Redesigned and implemented a new Chart of Accounts.
• Integrated SAP FI with SAP CO, SAP MM, and SAP SD (for use with GM). Overcame a major hurdle involving SAP-MM that was resolved using FI-substitutions and FMDerive.
• Served as advisor to a junior SAP Project Systems (PS) consultant. Provided guidance on automatic AUC settlement, the use of PS customer fields, and settlement.
• Configured the year-end roll forward program for SAP FI-GL.
• Assisted in solving revenue recognition problems (using resource related billing).
• Implemented all SAP banking functionality including Electronic Bank Statement.
• Configured integration between SAP FI and SAP CO (Controlling) including the CO-FI reconciliation ledger. Set up the CO cost elements.

SAP Financials and Treasury Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Integrated SAP with Sungard's treasury solution (for investments).
• Redesigned the cash management program.
• Reconfigured the year-end roll forward program for SAP FI-GL. Advised the client in its use. Utilized new general ledger of SAP-FI.
• Configured the SAP screens.
• Utilized LSMW to build update programs to correct bad master data.
• Assisted in helping the client close their financial year for the first time.
• Repaired report painter reports.
• Redesigned the deferred revenue program (part of revenue recognition strategy). Determined a solution to several deferred revenue issues.
• Remediated various integration points between modules impacting treasury management.
• Advised on revenue management.
• Determined cause large out of balances between modules (impacting treasury).
• Reconfigured settlement processes Consulted on various SAP Treasury Module and SAP banking issues.
• Made repairs to the FICA (Contract Accounting) module and corrected integration issues between FICA and the FI General Ledger (FI-GL).

SAP Financial Accounting Specialist/Consultant

Confidential, Salt Lake City

Responsibilities:

• Short-term project to set up their SAP FI financial statement versions. Also liaised with the BPC team.

SAP Financial Accounting Specialist/Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Changed company’s FI system to conform to International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS). Scope of work included FI-AA and FI-GL.
• Scope of work included blueprinting a new solution, configuring and testing, and altering of reports to conform to IFRS format.
• Developed LSMW programs to accommodate all data loads.
• Employed general FI (SAP Financials) and CO (SAP Controlling) consulting skills, knowledge of New GL, as well as advanced FI-AA skills. Developed strategy for conversion to new GL.
• Involved multiple depreciation books, impairment strategies, and countries.

SAP Financials Consultant

Confidential, New York City

Responsibilities:

• Accomplishments: Using PS devised a system to control their world-wide financial programs for Confidential .
• The design included a global strategy to control funding for each country they work in.

SAP Financials Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Designed and configured the SAP system for companies in 38 different countries in the Americas, Europe, and Asia.
• Proposed a solution to product profitability costing that did not compromise the responsibility accounting nature of Profit Center Accounting (PCA) without the use of Controlling Profitability Analysis (COPA).

SAP Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Guided this Fortune 500 Company to overcome a major problem that had rendered the SAP Financials system unusable due to bad testing and erroneous configuration made by a prior consultant in changing the company’s Fiscal Year Variant in the middle of the fiscal year.
• Determined solutions to various foreign currency problems.
• Determined a solution to facilitate the use of the Mid Quarter depreciation method for U.S. Tax purposes.
• Configured the SAP system for the requirements of its new subsidiary in China.
• Dealt with issues resulting from the sale of its Canadian subsidiary.
• Configured the system to support lease requirements in Singapore.
• Configured the system to automate intercompany transfer processing.
• Advised and configured the split of one U.S. company code into two.
• Provided SAP Financials consulting advice to the world’s second largest IT company (FI, PS, AM, CO) in support of their internal systems which handle global operations. Problems included the automation of intercompany postings, foreign currency issues, and reporting using ABAP query and the SQVI tool. Worked in Germany to learn EMEA processes.
• Advised America’s largest telecom on how to consolidate the disparate Chart of Accounts of its many foreign subsidiaries into a single SAP FI GL account structure, and with various foreign currency revaluation issues using ECC 6.0.
• Advised an auto maker concerning how to roll their Brazilian operations onto SAP from a financial perspective.